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Leighton Williams

Managing Director & Author of The Neath Property News

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About Me

I'm the MD of Alison George Sales & Lettings Specialists, I'm also the author The Neath Property News.

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over 10 years experience in sales and lettings, portfolio management, property management.

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Unless I'm miles off (and I don't think I am) technology hasn't lowered costs because regardless of whether your online or traditional, the technology is the same. There's nothing an online agent does in terms of technology that a traditional agent doesn't do (rightmove, zoopla, OTM, back office software etc etc) and therefore those costs are largely the same (and i'm not including corporate agencies in this conversation as the vast majority of agents are small privately owned concerns) Most online agents tout the line of "we don't have an expensive high street office so we can pass these cost savings on" but really? I would say that if the average provincial high street agent were to apportion the total cost of their high street office across a years sales it'd most likely be around 150-200 quid "office cost" per sale. So if technology is comparable and premises costs are relatively small on a percentage-of-sale basis where do these apparently massive cost savings actually come from?

From: Leighton Williams 20 April 2016 13:49 PM

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