Agencies & People
News covering the businesses, activities, people and personalities in estate agency and letting agency and wider residential property industry.
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‘Under Offer: Estate Agents On The Job’ hits the screens
A NEW SHOW for BBC Two will unlock the doors to the estate agency profession by giving viewers exclusive access to the working lives of 11 estate agents from across the whole country as they help their clients in their efforts to become home owners. Under Offer: Estate Agents On The Job, a new six-part weekly series, airs this week, and will feature a wide range of personalities working within the estate agency sector, all sharing the same goal: to get their clients what they want. This major new series follows the highs and lows of the people that broker property purchases, with the various fortunes of estate agents across the UK put in the spotlight. Estate agent to the wealthy, Gary Hersham, operates in some of the UK’s most expensive postcodes. His latest instruction, a £39 million town-house complete with eight-bathrooms, private gym and cinema, is up for grabs in Mayfair W1 – the heart of prime central London. It is a very different world for Lynne Blaney in Spennymoor, County Durham – where houses start at auction for £1. Exeter, Devon, one of the UK’s most desirable places to live, sees rookie estate agent Lewis Rossiter juggling two deadlines…
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New year… New job?
As midnight approached and the final minutes of 2013 ticked away, what did you pledge to achieve in 2014? Whether it was losing weight, joining the gym or giving up smoking, many people aim to make a fresh start when the clocks strike on the 31st December. In addition to some of these most popular New Year’s resolutions, many people will have vowed to improve their professional lives this year by finding a new job that better suits their career ambitions and salary dreams or expectations. Thankfully, especially for those seeking a job-related change, unemployment is falling, with the latest figures showing that it declined from 7.8 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 to 7.6 per cent in the three months to the end of September – its lowest level in four years. 40% of all agency jobs are now filled by rookies or trainees as there aren’t enough experienced staff. The latest data from the O nce for National Statistics showed that the recovery in the economy generated a significant increase in job creation during the summer with an extra 177,000 people in work. The UK’s increasing population means that a record number of people – 29.95 million – are currently in work with the employment rate now lower than it was before the severe recession of…
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