estate agents

Estate agents securing a buyer 14.7 days faster in 2022

The latest gauge of property market performance by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , has revealed that so far in 2022, the nation’s estate agent’s are securing a buyer in an average of 84.7 days, 14.7 days quicker than they were in 2021.

GetAgent tracks the average time to sell a home across the market in England and Wales based on the point at which a property is listed...

Estate agents

Nation’s busiest cities to be an estate agent revealed

The latest property market analysis by estate agent comparison site, GetAgent.co.uk , has revealed that estate agents are currently at their busiest in Liverpool, with 21 homes listed for every agent in the city.

GetAgent analysed the number of current property listings across 25 major UK cities and what this equates to in terms of listings per agent to reveal where the nation’s...

This is how homebuyers are searching in the current market

The latest property industry insight from YourBusinessNumber suggests that while digital continues to dominate the way we purchase properties, homebuyers still find value in some traditional methods.

Technology has transformed the way we buy and sell properties with the advent of the property portal perhaps the biggest change in recent times.

In fact, when surveying over 1,...

The Seven professions most in need of a digital off switch off property

The Seven professions most in need of a digital off switch

Estate Agents named as the profession most in need of a digital off switch

YourBusinessNumber has revealed the 7 professions that are most in need of a digital off switch, in a world where we struggle to switch off from work even when at home.

Instant messaging platforms have made us better able to communicate than ever before and 90% of us now prefer messaging to a phone...

Nine reasons why your property transaction might fall through

Property purchasing specialist, HBB Solutions , has looked at the most common contributing factors that lead to a property sale falling through.

Fall-throughs are commonplace in the UK housing market and It’s thought that one in ten property purchases fails before completion . However, with the market booming in recent months, it’s estimated that fall-throughs have been as common as...

One Third Of Corporate Employees Miss Out ‘On Life’ property

One Third Of Corporate Employees Miss Out ‘On Life’ property

David Lee is the small but perfectly formed hybrid estate agency that supports a team of self-employed agents to earn lucrative sums but whilst enjoying working flexibility and a proper work-life balance.

The quest for founders Lee O’Brien and David Kirby is not one of ‘chasing every dollar’ not do they advocate that their agent associates do so. Rather, quality of life and working...

Estate agent salaries amongst the worst in the sales profession

Research by Nested , the modern estate agent, has revealed that estate agents earn one of the lowest basic salaries of all sales professions, with just insurance, retail and telesales seeing a lower level of guaranteed pay.

Nested analysed the base salary, excluding commission, of 12 of the most common sales professions and found that on average, the basic take-home pay is £26,338...

Estate agents spent £188.4m conducting physical viewings

Research by the next-generation, virtual property viewings platform, U-See Homes, has found that the property viewings process costs UK estate agents an estimated £188.4m a year.

U-See Homes found that based on the average earnings of £34,583, the average estate agent takes home an hourly rate of £16.63.

With the average viewing taking approximately one hour and with an...

Newcastle upon Tyne

Estate agents busiest battling the market backlog in these cities

The UK’s busiest agents can currently be found in Aberdeen, a city where each individual estate agency branch currently has an average of 29 sales listings on its books.

Second on the list is Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, where each branch currently has an average of 28 for-sale properties listed.

Next is Newport with 27 properties per branch, and then Liverpool and London round off...

Roderick Thomas

Roderick Thomas Reveals Soaring Property Sales as Demand from Overseas Buyers Escalates

Somerset-based Roderick Thomas Estate Agents reported a continuing surge in sales since the start of the year, with demand from overseas buyers booming.

Roderick Thomas explained, “In the past week alone our Wells office has sold property to buyers from Hong Kong, Spain and the USA, had several further enquiries from the USA and also New Zealand.”

“We’ve seen a significant...

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