A very merry Christmas. Weeks of staff sickies ahead

For some estate and lettings agents, Christmas is just a bit too merry and new research shows that the next few weeks, as we count down until Christmas Day, will be full of employees calling in with the infamous _dodgy tummy_. To give you an illustration of what lies ahead, tech start-up company The Attest…

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Are you an Estate Agent or a Marketer?

An estate agent friend of mine asked me the other day, “Sam, give me a better term for a grade II listed cottage than ‘Superb kerb appeal’, please?!” I offered a few adjectives, like ‘fairytale’, ‘captivating’ and ‘a slice of English history’, and he eventually settled on “Oozing charm and character”, which is pretty good…

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Sales progression is not for the faint hearted!

Estate Agents unfairly judged

Sales progression is definitely not for the shy and retiring types! You have to think on your feet, outside the box and be forever optimistic. There is no problem; only a hurdle to overcome, a challenge to be won! We love those challenges! That’s our job. It’s not easy, but it’s certainly not dull! This…

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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…

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Property maintenance: weathering winter storms.

Abigail, Barney, Clodagh and Desmond – what the first four severe storms were called following the Met Office’s decision to give bad weather names. It’s another reminder of how our little island gets battered and bruised by Mother Nature. Inclement weather shouldn’t take us by surprise but as we enter the season of gales, snow, sub…

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