The pool of candidates for jobs in the estate agency sector appears to be shrinking. It comes after official figures showed overall...
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26 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agencies must adapt to compete with self-employed lifestyle - claim](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading industry personnel expert says agencies must do more to attract new staff, including adapting how they work to compete...
21 July 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agents changing work priorities because of Covid says personnel guru](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of one of the industry’s foremost recruitment organisations says the pandemic has caused people to re-evaluate priorities and change...
10 March 2021
From: Breaking News
![Agency new recruits given just three or six month contracts](/img/default/eat.png)
An agency recruitment firm says there’s been a big rise in short-term vacancies being offered since lockdown restrictions were lifted in the...
27 October 2020
From: Breaking News
![Ex-Spicerhaart MD bounces back with key industry Personnel role](/img/default/eat.png)
Russell Jervis, who spent 33 years at Spicerhaart rising to managing director before quitting late last year, has re-emerged this morning...
08 June 2020
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter – doing our bit to help the industry through this crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
We are still living in highly extraordinary times, perhaps evidenced best by the fact that the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, was...
11 April 2020
From: Features
![It’s 2024: what will the industry look like, post-Coronavirus?](/img/default/eat.png)
There’s a sense that we really are on the verge of a huge change in the industry. It’s too early to be...
04 April 2020
From: Features
![Poorly-treated agents will change firms after the virus - forecast](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading human resources expert predicts that agents who are poorly treated by their employers now will wreak revenge and move...
03 April 2020
From: Breaking News
![Artificial Intelligence to recruit estate agents? Forget it...](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of the longest-established agency personnel consultancy in the UK says caution should be exercised over the use of Artificial...
20 March 2020
From: Breaking News
![Shock data shows UK agents amongst the worst paid in the world](/img/default/eat.png)
UK estate agents are amongst the worst paid in any country in the world according to new data. Digital marketing firm Yell...
13 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agency staffing crisis is worst in a generation says recruitment guru](/img/default/eat.png)
A leading industry recruitment expert says our industry is facing its worst personnel shortage in a generation. Anthony Hesse, managing director of...
07 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![Agent recruitment: experience isn’t key, says personnel guru](/img/default/eat.png)
The head of the UK’s longest-established agency recruitment consultancy says experience and qualifications are not key when looking for new staff. Property...
13 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Compulsory agents’ qualifications will help recruit better people](/img/default/eat.png)
New compulsory qualifications for estate agents will not only offer more transparency for customers but will help recruit better staff into...
20 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Brexit chaos causing estate agency staffing problems](/img/default/eat.png)
The estate agency industry is in a staffing dilemma because of the continuing uncertainty over Brexit and its effect on the...
15 April 2019
From: Breaking News
![Job-sharing agents? The idea could work says personnel guru](/img/default/eat.png)
The Property Personnel recruitment consultancy says more job-sharing could be introduced in the industry, preventing talent going to waste. Managing director Anthony...
11 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Utter Madness! - recruitment chief slams inflexible agencies](/img/default/eat.png)
The chief of the UK’s longest-established estate agency recruitment consultancy has described the inflexibility of the industry towards people returning to...
15 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Estate agency industry faces worst staffing crisis for a generation](/img/default/eat.png)
The estate agency sector “is experiencing the worst staff shortages in a generation at a point when the property market is...
24 April 2018
From: Breaking News
![Work-life balance increasingly important to agents, says recruitment firm](/img/default/eat.png)
A survey by an industry recruitment consultancy indicates that work-life balance is increasingly important to agency job applicants, second in importance...
09 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Very few estate agencies take on apprentices, figures suggest](/img/default/eat.png)
Latest figures suggest there are only 1,850 apprentices employed in the entire property sector, suggesting an even smaller number in the...
07 February 2018
From: Breaking News
![Agencies round-up: Purplebricks, Harrison Murray, Heaton, and more](/img/default/eat.png)
The aftermath of Easter and shock announcement of a snap General Election have done little to stop the industry making plenty...
21 April 2017
From: Breaking News
![Doesn't anyone want to be an estate agent these days?](/img/default/eat.png)
The number of residential sales vacancies registered with one industry personnel firm in the first quarter of 2017 has more than...
22 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Brexit: estate agent recruitment guru slams anti-migration report](/img/default/eat.png)
The managing director of the UK’s oldest estate agent recruitment consultancy has slammed a report which claims a cap on skilled...
09 January 2017
From: Breaking News
![Anger over Chancellor ignoring industry's pleas on stamp duty](/img/default/eat.png)
The industry has reacted angrily to the Chancellor declining to change stamp duty despite pleas from agents and suppliers ahead of the Autumn...
24 November 2016
From: Breaking News
![Brexit silence is creating 'vacuum of vulnerability' for recruiting agents](/img/default/eat.png)
The government needs to provide more details of what could happen to European Union employees after the UK leaves the EU,...
13 September 2016
From: Breaking News
![Agents Do Charity - at home and abroad](/img/default/eat.png)
While we as a country salute our paralympic heroes in Rio, our industry does the same for those agents and other...