Friday, Nov 28, 2008
Survival of the fittest
BBC news: What is it like to be an estate agent?
The real problem facing estate agents who have never worked through a downturn is that the methods they used to use are no longer enough.
"Back in the old days..." Mr Smith begins, before realising that he is talking about last year.
"It used to just be a question of throwing properties out there and seeing who catches them."
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1. davecrash said...
Really sad news to here only 10% of estate agents have gone out of business. I was hoping it would be at least 25% by now!
I don't wish them any harm really, just hope they all manage to find a real job soon, so they can start contributing to society instead of creaming off fat profits from it for doing very little.
2. it_is_going_with_a_bang said...
The fact was that far too many people have ended up starting business or getting jobs in this country just based soley on unsustainable house price increases.
3 Estate agents every hundred yards or so was never ever going to last. Unfortunately the same can be said for about 500,000 other jobs also based on the House Price Cashpoint.
That is a very sad reality. Not one I am happy about either. Since 1970 t number of manufacturing jobs in this country has gone down from well over 30% to under 15%.
So I wonder where the employment is going to come from now .....