Let’s be clear; this is an advertisement promoting the self-employed estate agency route to riches via the Newman Property Experts platform.

But it is somewhat different to the usual type of ‘franchise puff’ and is an interesting insight into one person’s career journey: from £100k a year as MD of an independent agency to over £100k IN A MONTH in his own business.

Watch well known industry figure Sean Newman in conversation with the highly successful, self-employed, Brendan Petticrew.

For us the key takeaway from the conversation is the line from Petticrew about why being self employed worked for him: “I knew I was a good estate agent and I know how to source market appraisals.”

As any successful agent knows – fill the top of the funnel with market appraisals and the sales fall out at the bottom. Petticrew knows very well how to fill the funnel.