Estate Agency Closures

pizzagirl

fatpig wrote: »

The only good Estate Agent is one with a P45

Harsh but true IMHO. We should employ the Scottish system and do away with the whole lot of them

Davesnave

pizzagirl wrote: »

Harsh but true IMHO. We should employ the Scottish system and do away with the whole lot of them

It is news to me that there are no EAs in Scotland. Please elucidate.

baby_boomer

V property - properties in Montenegro and the Balkans

Have just closed their Granby Street, Leicester branch.

But that still leaves the whole area awash with estate agents who are busily advertising "new instructions" .

chrisandanne

I heard the other day that Halifax are closing a lot of their northern offices...don't know how true this is. A x

fatpig_2

It's all good. You can't get enough good news

justpurchased

fatpig wrote: »

It's all good. You can't get enough good news

How is any of this relevant to you?
I struggle to find a reason why you are here, Other than to make stupid statements!
What is your position?

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

fatpig wrote: »

It's all good. You can't get enough good news

Some people get much joy out of winding people up. This is one of them.

I bet his father wishes he'd bought a condom.

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I think what fatpig is saying is that what goes around comes around, while people in the last few years struggled to get on the ladder or who couldn't get their at all, people with families, small children etc, EA's were swanning around in their BM's and Audis not giving a flying f**k for the people I have mentioned.

Earning huge sums of money for doing very little or nothing at all, if property was still on the "up" in 2008, EA's would still be ramping it up, still manipulating buyers and sellers for their own ends, I could go on.

A little gloating that the EA's are now suffering, is, in my opinion justified.

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax

The EAs may have made a load of money, but the receptionist, the guy who does the viewings, the cleaner, the Mortgage Adviser, all these didn't but it's them who will lose their jobs while the EA owner might be able to sit back on (in some cases) a pot of savings, waiting to open up again in a couple of years time.

I don't like most EAs due to the way they underhandedly operate and somehow manage to avoid regulation, but it's the rest of the staff who will suffer.

Davesnave

Ian_Griffiths_Halifax wrote: »

Some people get much joy out of winding people up. This is one of them.

I bet his father wishes he'd bought a condom.

Perhaps he did, and this was just another piece of bad luck!

OK, so estate agents aren't most people's flavour of the month, but there are few people on this forum who will escape the fall out from the events which we're discussing. Presumably most of the HPC cheerleaders have jobs, investments etc. The current situation might seem amusing, but it may yet turn round and bite the @rses of those who are laughing loudest.