Ed Mead, of Douglas & Gordon, and Russell Quirk of eMoov, debate the pros and cons of online versus high street agents in a video on the Daily Telegraph website.
Unfortunately, we are unable to report that horns were locked, blood was shed or screams were curdled.
The two sit side by side on a sofa, minus body armour (and of course ties).
The owner of a house quizzes them. Which agent should she instruct in the sale of her home?
After extolling their different methods they end up agreeing. “Both of us,” they chorus.
Anyway, it’s worth watching – and it gives Eye a possible taster of the round table we are hosting early next month on behalf of VTUK when the debate will be continued.
PS Mind you, the Telegraph rather let themselves down this morning in a piece by Harry Mount on the “overpriced” world of estate agents. “Why pay someone £20,000 to sell you a million-pound house in London; but pay him £2,000 to sell you a similar £100,000 house in Burnley?”
When the paper doesn’t seem to know who pays the agent, it makes it rather hard for it to put forward much in the way of a credible argument.
I have had a lot of respect for some of the things Ed has said over the years, but in this interview I was embarrassed for him. It was unprepared and he came across as irritated by his protagonist. If the only argument is that a high street estate agent will produce a bidding war, then one is playing right into the hands of these online property shops.
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You cant really explain everything in 3 minutes though between them.
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Well done for having a swipe at Harry Mount. You don't mention that he starts his attack on Estate Agents with the observation that Estate Agents need no qualifications – as if Journalists do! He could also be reminded that if an Estate Agent makes a statement that is 100% incorrect to one person, they face a criminal conviction, but Harry can make it to the Telegraph readership without recourse. Funny old world
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