A guest expert article from Tim Main
Agents are regularly bombarded with solutions for issues that don’t exist. Picking and choosing what might genuinely be useful is difficult – not least because for many smaller agents the wrong choice could be an existential threat.
Many agents live in dread of having something they’ve done wrong exposed on social media – the vast majority operate a clean and decent operation, but these days even doing what we think is right can often result in a financial hit through a misjudgement.
What appears to be increasingly happening, and it’s why training is so important to keep abreast of changes, is compliance and the potential biggie – upfront information.
Now we’ve all been told about this and instinctively know it’s the way to quicker transactions – but getting agents and conveyancers to agree to anything universal is difficult, not least because they all have their own systems.
“We’ve been providing upfront information for years for the auction industry, and after some tweaking can now offer the datarooms used for auctions for free, but with the added benefit of digital Property Information Forms and automatic Land Registry Title collection if preferred.” David Sandeman of EIG and PIP Ltd
It’s such a simple, platform agnostic, solution and is an opportunity for forward thinking agents to show Trading Standards, as well as clients, that they’re making the right noises and makes it less likely they’ll be in the crosshairs.
It works for auctions – now it can work for you too.
Have a read here https://thenegotiator.co.uk/news/proptech/auctions-upfront-information-initiative-rolled-out-for-estate-agents/