My Vision of Estate Agency In The UK
My typical day as a UK Real Estate Professional
I wake up in my dream home with my beautiful family and we get breakfast on the go. I’m looking at today’s diary of appointments over a hot cup of coffee.
I drop my kids to school and I head to the gym for a workout. Whilst winding down after an endorphin boosting HIT class, I’m chatting to some other members in the sauna about house prices. I’m known in my gym as the local property expert.
I get back home, put the kettle on and get everything I need for the day (keys, property details and information about the people I’ll be meeting that day).
I pop out for a couple of hours to host an Open House where I meet lots of lovely people. I chat with one particular couple about them putting in an offer and we got on so well that they invited me over to their place to give them a valuation of their own property.
After a couple more viewings that day, I arrive back home and start making some calls to deliver the good news to my clients about offers that I’ve generated. I’ve also got a new listing to put on the market, so I have photographs to upload and a floor plan to create. My favourite part is writing the property description, hoping to entice prospective buyers to come and view my clients homes, even without photographs!
I’m now off to pick up the kids from school!
Fabulous news! I’ve just had word from a solicitor that one of my clients sales has completed. I call to give them the good news and they are ecstatic! I’m also looking forward to seeing a few thousand pounds of well deserved commission hit my account later that evening. I make a call to the buyers to let them know of the same exciting news and to congratulate them on the purchase of their new home. I jump back in the car to meet them down at the property so I can personally hand them their new set of keys and a little moving in gift from me. That’s a photo opportunity for my social media page!
I get back home, ask Alexa to play my favourite play list and I start making the family dinner. We’re all sat around our big table and each of us chat about what kind of day we’ve had. From our dining room window we have the most stunning view over Broadstone Golf Course, another one of those “pinch me” moments.
No day is the same in this game, but as a real estate professional, I’ll be meeting new people, looking at more homes, eating well, working out and spending as much time with my family as I wish.
I’m taking home six figures per year.
I have the perfect work/lifestyle balance.
I live in my dream home.
I’m well respected.
This is UK Estate Agency as it should be, but why is this not the case for most? Estate agents in the UK work long hours, most of them earn between £18,000 and £25,000 pa, they have no work/lifestyle balance and the the public have a very low opinion of them.
It took me over 20 years to discover why estate agency is broken in the UK. Drop me a line and I’ll tell you why it’s broken and exactly what you can do to live the dream life of a Realtor, or as I call, “A Real Estate Professional”.
“Success is not a given, it’s for the taking.”
David Giles “The Property Guy