Estate Agency Closures

Conrad

Some harsh words about EA's lack of skill / qualifications I notice, but having worked around them a long time I would observe it's far harder to be a succesful EA compared to say an IT programmer which is just a process job.
Many can learn a process, few can sell succesfully, and before you say houses sell themselves (yawn) keep in mind that within any EA, individual negs have differing sales results. The most sucesful EA I ever met would make the rest of seem lazy - few of us could match his stamina and business skill.

Qualifications are not the be all and end all, indeed I recall a group of kids at my school that went into medicine but they were not particularly intelligent, just suited to learning a pipline of stuff parrot fashion. Thier cultural background seemed to prepare them for robotic learning.

baby_boomer

Not quite a closure, but South East London Properties, the newest agent in Sydenham, has suddenly devoted 3/5 of its window space to pictures of happy families and capital letters to say that "Landlords are required".

It used to be all property ads :rolleyes:

mewbie_2

Don't despair, today's estate agent can be tomorrow's debt advisor.

lynzpower

Bit of a fringe one here, but "Equity- Property Investment Consultants" shop front now totally deserted, in NOrbury High St, Croydon/ SW London Area.

the worst of it is that the great british high st butchers bakers & candlestick maters have well ands truly priced out of trading by the property trade and its ilk :rolleyes:

ManAtHome

Conrad wrote: »

Some harsh words about EA's lack of skill / qualifications I notice, but having worked around them a long time I would observe it's far harder to be a succesful EA compared to say an IT programmer which is just a process job.

Well, I suppose we'll see....

As a freelance "process job"ber since the late seventies, no doubt all the highly-skilled EAs will survive this downturn, just like I and presumably they managed to work through the sticky patches over the last 30 years. No need for further waste of taxpayer's money to try prop things up then.?

ad44downey

Get them sweeping the streets I say

lynzpower

ad44downey wrote: »

Get them sweeping the streets I say

street sweepers wre getting 25k plus in LB camden last year - seems a bit generous? :A

ad44downey

flipping burgers in mcdonalds then. just so they're doing something useful for once in their lives

annie123

baby_boomer wrote: »

Not quite a closure, but South East London Properties, the newest agent in Sydenham, has suddenly devoted 3/5 of its window space to pictures of happy families and capital letters to say that "Landlords are required".

It used to be all property ads :rolleyes:

where in sydenham are they? cant say I've noticed them

me_jane

Two estate agents in Mid Beds town recently 'merged' their offices. Now we have a town with marginally less estate agents than charity shops. Given the current market perhaps the charity shops will expand and take over the vacant space.

We have recently sold our house (sale going through) and are buying another. The buying agent's pitch was that 'buyers are liars'. Catchy, but didn't win my vote when choosing a selling agent!