BestAgent

BestAgent

Real Estate

Exeter, UK 265 followers

BestAgents are community-minded compassionate professional agents. If you work in resi agency join our YouTube community

About us

April 2024: Charlie is on a fact finding tour of England and Wales, preparing for his BestAgent Meet Ups in May and June. If you'd like to come along to meet him for an informal chat about BestAgent's plans to radically reform the estate agency industy for the benefit of honest agents, fill in the form at the link below. BestAgent is the UK's only virtual high street where movers can meet agents in person by video before booking valuation appointments. It lists all available homes for sale and to let in the UK, updated daily. Serious movers can book a viewing online for any property with any agent in 4 taps once registered, while maintaining total privacy.

Website
https://forms.gle/6NjjqD13rFz7ueUL9
Industry
Real Estate
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Exeter, UK
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2017
Specialties
moving home, estate agents, lettings agents, residential agents, homemovers, property search, property, and book online

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  • Agents. Talking the market up is talking transactions down. Talk transactions and the challenges of getting them done. This sets you apart from price-puffing, overvaluing competition and highlights the real challenges sellers should be thinking about. And, if you're a good agent (higher than average success rate of instructed to sold) you will have more case studies, stories and anecdotes) you will have a more interesting and more valuable storyline in your social media content. Jack Terry does this extremely well and to great effect. He just talks to his local market about the challenges, successes and failures of getting homes sold. This is highly valuable (as well as entertaining) content for his local market. And it sets him apart from all the "house prices!" parrots who are making themselves look like also-ran, average sheep by comparison. Tell sellers what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. The motivated, realistic sellers will recognise you and thank you for it.

  • We’re still putting finishing touches to the registration process for BestAgent day on 27th June. Agents who register early, attend and participate in the full day, will bank £1,500 of bonus credit with no spend or contract necessary to redeem it. Follow BestAgent here or on your preferred social platform for updates.

  • 2024 Spring Budget Boost for Affordable Housing The lack of help for first time buyers or other government stimulus is the best thing that could have happened. What goes up, must come down. Except house prices, it would seem. The chances of buying a home have continued to escape more and more would-be home buyers. The average age of a first time buyer continues to climb. The earnings-to-house-price ratio is at it's highest/worst in over 100 years, and that's even after allowing for inflation. The problem with rising house prices is that they leave people behind. The poorest people. And this is very bad for society, both in the short and long term. It's demoralising to work a full time job, especially as a couple, and still not be able to afford a home, or save a deposit to buy one. It reduces the motivation to have a family, so the country's birth rate falls. As the birth rate falls, the government has to increase inward migration to prop up the economy, which would collapse with the birth rate if left unaddressed. Too much immigration creates social division, as well as extra demand for housing especially rented. Poor quality housing affects the health and life chances of children raised there, meaning we end up with a generation of kids who aren't skilled enough to do the unfilled, high-paying job vacancies we have. All the government's housing market interference, such as Help to Buy, has made this worse. Artificially low (lower than inflation) interest rates made the problem worse by making it so cheap to borrow money (and not worth saving) that everyone put their savings into housing, and borrowed money at low rates to buy homes, that they now can't afford at the new, normal rate. In his March 2024 budget, the Chancellor was expected (by some) to create a new help to buy scheme, or a new government backed mortgage scheme, or some other taxpayer-funded financial boost to the housing market. But there was nothing. Especially for First Time Buyers. Nothing for first time buyers? Which is the best possible news first time buyers could have wished for. Because this will allow the housing market to return to it's natural, unfettered, un-boosted state. It will allow prices to fall. And falling prices will improve affordability for ALL first time buyers, not just the ones who qualify for assistance. That's the best thing that could possibly happen for the housing market. It means people won't get left behind. It means housing affordability will improve. https://lnkd.in/efFMjrzx

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  • The Week It All Changed. 5 Fact Friday - 16 Feb 2024 ONS December House Price Index continues to be confuseless.  https://lnkd.in/ep2tr5tN January Inflation Unchanged Again at 4.2%: https://lnkd.in/e_KfpPJy GDP - We’re officially in Recession: https://lnkd.in/e5tZZ2gD GDP Per Capita - We’ve been in recession for 2 years already: https://lnkd.in/eG2wY4fr Commercial Property Debt Time-bomb close to detonating: https://lnkd.in/eNJTTGJ9 Bonus fact, for a laugh! Telegraph reports New House Price Boom! https://lnkd.in/eGkcYQjx https://lnkd.in/eJqUtKw6

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