{"id":475,"date":"2014-08-01T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidtapley.co.uk\/wp_blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2014-08-01T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T11:16:05","slug":"wouldnt-want-estate-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidtapley.co.uk\/wp_blog\/wouldnt-want-estate-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"I wouldn’t want to be an Estate Agent."},"content":{"rendered":"

Dead men walking….. ?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pace of change in business continues to accelerate with markets being born and killed at an ever faster rate.<\/p>\n

One of my own businesses, media duplication, started out based on copying 5.25″ floppy disks and evolved through 3.5″ disks through CDs and finally DVDs. I spent a considerable time worrying that the market would die yet we adapted to new formats as old formats died. At about the time I concluded that we’d be OK and there would always be a demand for physical media broadband internet was rolled out, digital downloads took off and the demand for physical media started to die and our most recent format, Blu-Ray failed to launch.<\/p>\n

Over the years we’ve seen clients with businesses in markets which simply ceased to exist. Who now would buy a spell checking utility or the last time a software company posted you a demo disc ?<\/p>\n

Which leads me to Estate Agents. Dead men walking ?\u00a0 I’ve pondered the future of the traditional Estate agent for a while and don’t see how the business can survive. Sites such as Right Move, Prime Location and Zoopla are key drivers for property sales,\u00a0 where do estate agents add value, and is that value really worth 1% of the value of your home ?<\/p>\n

New ventures such as Estates Direct along with other start ups are offering pure online alternatives and lower fees to go with it. However the real game changer will be when one of the key players, think Rightmove, Prime Location or Zoopla open up their service to the public.<\/p>\n

When that happens I wouldn’t want to be an Estate agent.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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