Online agency shares offer – in for a pound…

Some £1.25million worth of equity in EstatesDirect.com is live on the crowd funding website CrowdCube. EstatesDirect.com’s previous listing on the site in 2014 generated £660,000 in just 10 days breaking records in the process. Since then, the company has grown at a raid rate to hit a projected value of £175 million in just 36 months, according to the company. The firm, which is headed-up by Steve Smith, Poundland Founder, and Darren Richards, Founder of DatingDirect.com, want to use the funds to expand nationally. Investors can acquire shares by going to www.estatesdirect.com/crowdcube Smith, Chairman of EstatesDirect.com, said, “I don’t like feeling I’ve been ripped off. The British public feel the same way I do about commission-based estate agents and that’s one of the reasons they invested in the company so enthusiastically the first time. When we listed on CrowdCube we wanted to open EstatesDirect.com up to the public to allow them to be part of it and let everyone know that we think you should be able to sell a home for as little as £295 plus VAT. “Together with initial capital from the board we were able to build the company up across the UK. This time CrowdCube will…

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