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‘Treat your clients like they’re your mum’ advises agency founder
Comment is made by Steve Wayne, founder of London estate agency Benjamin Stevens as firm celebrates 25th anniversary today.
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Estate agent launches property industry recruitment firm
London senior Steven Wayne says Agent Recruit will initially be a regional player in the Capital but will later branch out further afield.
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Romanian celebrity gives it all up to become London estate agent
Rocsana Marku is a well-known TV presenter and popstar in her home country, but says she always wanted to be a UK agent.
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Independent London estate agency launches training academy
Firm Benjamin Stevens says students will get on the job training as well as classroom instruction for sales and letting agents.
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‘Independent estate agencies are better places for women to work’
Our column by Ellie Rees yesterday prompted one female London agent to put pen to paper on the benefits of smaller rather than corporate teams.
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Are opportunities for women within property industry improving?
Three agents from London firm Benjamin Stevens with many years working in the industry reveal their experiences of being women in property.
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Covid diaries: How my estate agency survived the pandemic
The fact is that 2020 has been an extraordinary year for everyone. No one has escaped or been untouched by the effects of corona virus in some way shape or form. I’ve decided to take a look back at the last 12 months, how it affected my agency, the housing market in general and why I truly believe that lockdown had done estate agency a huge favour that can only make things better and more profitable for the coming year and for years to come. January to February I remember starting 2019 with a sigh of relief, full of positivity and enthusiasm. Finally, after years of uncertainty, a [Brexit] agreement had been made, a date had been set, and we were leaving the EU. All the waiting, all the anticipation and all the hesitation from people looking to buy or sell their property seem to vanish overnight. I’d been telling people for months that Brexit wasn’t going to hugely affect the property market. At the end of the day the things that always keeps the market moving are births, death, marriages and divorce – little did I know how this theory would ring true a few months down the line!…
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Guest blog: ‘Has the latest lockdown finally cooled the market?’
Steve Wayne has seen a significant dip in activity in recent days and wonders if the Covid downturn has begun tempering the recent boom.
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Instruction to portal listing in 46 minutes on a smartphone? London agent throws down the gauntlet
MD of Benjamin Stevens says the video it's not really about promoting speed but showing clients how mobile tech can deliver quality listings on the go.
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Hub model triples in size in lockdown
Benjamin Stevens Estate Agency, based in North West London, has seen its hub model develop at speed over the last 16 weeks – despite lockdown!
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