The $hyters of UK Estate Agency
With their ...
🙁 £700 to £1,000+ kickbacks for conveyancing leads the client never asked for.
🙁 Forcing buyers into bogus mortgage “appointments” before they’re “allowed” to offer.
🙁 Lying to win instructions.
🙁 Sole Agency Agreements of 26 weeks
🙁 Overvaluing by tens of thousands, just to stick a board up.
🙁 Waving around market share pie charts like they mean something—while failing to sell nearly half the homes listed.
(UK Estate Agents only exchange and complete on 53% of the homes they list)
It’s not service. It’s not sales. It’s smoke and mirrors.
Those Estate Agencys built on bullsh*t targets & KPIs, toxic pipelines, FS targets, conveyancing targets and fragile egos.
And the public?
They get strung along. Burnt out. Let down.
Because those estate agents didn't have the guts to tell them the truth or do the job properly.
We’ve let greed, vanity, ego, KPIs and laziness replace honesty, effort, and care.
This isn’t a broken system.
It’s a rigged one.
And unless we tear it down, and rebuild it, one vendor at a time, we deserve every ounce of the reputation we’ve earned.
Thank you for reading
Christopher
P.S. This is a message for the silent majority—the agents who don’t overvalue, don’t manipulate buyers, and don’t rely on solicitor kickbacks to prop up their income. You know who you are. It’s time to rise up, challenge the culture, and teach ourselves better ways to win business—ways that don’t involve lies, tricks, or desperation. We can charge a proper fee. We can beat overvaluing with honesty and skill. And we can give every seller and buyer the cracking service they deserve. I know most of you reading this want to do the job the right way. So let’s stop whispering about it—and start leading.
With their ...
🙁 £700 to £1,000+ kickbacks for conveyancing leads the client never asked for.
🙁 Forcing buyers into bogus mortgage “appointments” before they’re “allowed” to offer.
🙁 Lying to win instructions.
🙁 Sole Agency Agreements of 26 weeks
🙁 Overvaluing by tens of thousands, just to stick a board up.
🙁 Waving around market share pie charts like they mean something—while failing to sell nearly half the homes listed.
(UK Estate Agents only exchange and complete on 53% of the homes they list)
It’s not service. It’s not sales. It’s smoke and mirrors.
Those Estate Agencys built on bullsh*t targets & KPIs, toxic pipelines, FS targets, conveyancing targets and fragile egos.
And the public?
They get strung along. Burnt out. Let down.
Because those estate agents didn't have the guts to tell them the truth or do the job properly.
We’ve let greed, vanity, ego, KPIs and laziness replace honesty, effort, and care.
This isn’t a broken system.
It’s a rigged one.
And unless we tear it down, and rebuild it, one vendor at a time, we deserve every ounce of the reputation we’ve earned.
Thank you for reading
Christopher
P.S. This is a message for the silent majority—the agents who don’t overvalue, don’t manipulate buyers, and don’t rely on solicitor kickbacks to prop up their income. You know who you are. It’s time to rise up, challenge the culture, and teach ourselves better ways to win business—ways that don’t involve lies, tricks, or desperation. We can charge a proper fee. We can beat overvaluing with honesty and skill. And we can give every seller and buyer the cracking service they deserve. I know most of you reading this want to do the job the right way. So let’s stop whispering about it—and start leading.
