Yes, it’s YOPA!

Hybrid estate agency YOPA is gearing up for a national roll-out this month. The estate agency is launching across England and Wales after reporting successful pre-Christmas pilots in the Granada and Meridian regions. YOPA says its combination of Local Property Managers (LPMs) and cutting-edge industry technology is proving a hit with vendors. One LPM operating in the North West sold three properties in three days before Christmas. YOPA had been marketing all three for less than two weeks and two of them had previously been on the market with traditional high street agents. YOPA – www.yopa.co.uk – says that it is regularly saving its customers an average of £5,348 on estate agent fees by charging vendors a flat fee of just £780. The firm, which has its head office in London, has so far hired over 100 LPMs and will have a further 60 in place by the summer. A number of them have previously worked for some of the biggest names in the estate agency industry. YOPA’s four founders – Joint Managing Directors Daniel Attia and Andrew Barclay, Finance Director Alistair Barclay and Chief Marketing Officer David Jacobs, say that its national roll-out will include a major advertising campaign…