Estate Agent Talk
7 top tips for post-sale success!
You’ve made a sale! Great! Now there’s more work to do as you don’t want to lose it. We’ve come up with 7 top tips on how to make sure your post-sale service achieves the results you need to get your sales to a successful completion. Manage timescale expectations It’s easy in the excitement of…
Estate Agency Fees Debunked.
The world’s oldest profession is prostitution. Similarly, the world’s second oldest profession is probably estate agency. People have sought housing since the days that we clambered around in huts made of animal skin and phlegm and therefore it follows that there would commensurately have been purveyors of said dwellings from an early stage in our existence….
Reasons to Hire a Real Estate Agent.
There are quite a few ways you can work on handling your real estate sales and purchase needs, but you will likely face a lot of difficulties if you don’t work with a professional real estate agent. Although you can still handle quite a bit of the job by yourself, there are many benefits to…
How much time should you be spending on post-sale?
Imagine you’ve just tied up a sale. As an estate agent, you want that sale to get to completion as soon as possible because until then, in the majority of cases, you won’t be receiving your income. So how much time do you put in to making that happen vs time spent winning the next…
Get a grip on property maintenance.
Experienced property managers understand that there are many aspects of the job that takes too much time, way more than required. Today’s health and safety requirements have driven this industry to save time and invest in multiple, non-related systems to overcome the burden of the required administration; for example, reminder lists, on-line forms, website guides,…
Have you considered the outsourcing option?
With fees increasingly being squeezed, a rising number of online estate agents and the ever present fight to win valuations ahead of all competitors, it’s a tough market out there. The list of skills you need to succeed just keeps growing – sales, negotiation, administration, customer service, marketing, etc and then added to that you…
The Cornerstones of any House Sale
Whether it’s the television, magazines, property portals, online forums, search engines, friends or family, there is an abundance of readily available free advice out there when it comes to selling your home. However if you are looking to sell, it can often be completely overwhelming with all this information, putting your head in a spin…
The UK ‘digital divide’: Are you one of the lucky ones with fibre broadband?
Telecoms regulator Ofcom has just published the results of its strategic review of UK digital communications and it makes for interesting reading for BT. It proposes large-scale investment to roll out more ‘fibre to the premise’ networks to homes and businesses, and a reduction in the UK’s reliance on BT Openreach. Ofcom also says that…
How to Compare Estate Agents.
Choosing an Estate Agent…It’s a minefield. Literally. If you take a step in the wrong direction you may find your wallet being blown into a million pieces and being left with pennies scattered at your feet and a hefty bill. Fear not my home owning friends. Comparing Estate Agents has previously been related to comparing…
Would the First Time Sellers….. Please stand up!
Move over first time buyers, you’ve had the lime light for far too long… now its the “First Time Sellers” turn! With ample tips and tricks for first time buyers, even seminars and free (yes, thats not a typo… FREE) advice workshops available, first time sellers do not have the same prelividges as first time buyers,…
A conveyancer is a conveyancer is a conveyancer – aren’t they all the same?
Understandably choosing the right Estate Agent for you to sell with is paramount, or, if buying, the agents you choose to ‘stalk’ and build relationships with, as well as the property portals you choose to wake up with and drop off to sleep with, are essential! Choosing a lawyer to handle your conveyancing is however often…
You got to be in it to win it!
Have you entered the Estate Agent Networking Social Media Awards 2016 yet? Are you considering it but asking the perfectly sensible question – What’s in it for me and mine? Well let me have a go at answering that mi amigo. Now there are loads of ways to publicise your estate agency. There are the…
Japanese Knotweed – Yes, No or Knot Known – The Big Question.
Anyone buying or selling a house will come across a TA6 Property Information form. The 3rd edition of this Law Society document must be completed by anyone selling a property; at 16 pages long with 14 sections to fill in, it can be an onerous task. The seller is obliged to answer a long list…
Estate Agent Networking London – Where the Industry Professionals meet.
Following the rapid success of Estate Agent Networking online, we want to take the concept of bringing Estate Agents and Industry Service Providers closer together with regular social events in London. In association with Anastasia Fox-Cavendish, founder of Orsopolis, we invite Estate / Letting Agents and Industry Service Providers to attend our relaxed evening of networking with a…
Christopher Walkey
How To Grab The Attention Of Property Owners Online.
Many estate agents will probably feel there was something unique about them and their business, which if their competitors’ clients knew about, will cause them to leave the competition and hire them. How could you go about ethically stealing your competitors’ clients ? Or ensure more of them are aware of your strengths? Many of…
Alex Evans