This is great news for all our customers as it really demonstrates that the future of estate agency is the House Revolution concept. A concept which disrupts the traditional, expensive, low service high street model by offering great customer service and amazing value for money.

Being part of the ‘Future 50′ (as its known) is a real honour as we join a group of successful and like minded entrepreneurs who challenge and change the norm. Exciting times ahead.

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Chris Sargisson
Founder
House Revolution Ltd

It always feels good to have a plan, especially a new and really really good one like mine (that I’m not going to tell you about just yet). It feels good because unlike the tired, old, expensive high street estate agents who to their credit also have plans just tired old expensive ones, mine is about offering great service at the right cost.  £999 + VAT to be exact.  The high street estate agents’ plan is always the same. Open more offices till we go bust or better still, spent a fortune revamping the old office and then go bust.

In my little town alone 4 different estate agents are opening new offices this month. Recession anyone?

“Why are they doing this” you ask? “Shops cost a lot of money and no one ever goes in an estate agents office to buy a house anymore – they go online. Quite frankly I would like something useful on my high street like a lovely vegetable shop or a really nice shop that sells drum kits”.  Sorry that last bit was just me.

Well its simple really, the fees charged are so high they can afford to do so. In summary you pay for it, they do it !

Rather than doing what smart customer friendly businesses do, i.e. find ways to reduce costs to consumers by embracing technology and modern business practice, the old estate agents use old ideas to maintain (sniff) the old days and their justification for having an office is “so we can place your home in our high street window.” Get out of here. Aside from the fact that a tiny tiny proportion of buyers look in a window, if it was genuinely the case tell me why major estate agents are now removing house photos from their windows in favour of big expensive plasma screens used to advertise, ready for this …. themselves!

The truth is it’s a needless and expensive way to market themselves that keeps their fees high!

So get ready for my plan …

Anyway, it struck me. We at house revolution are all working flat out to try and get message to the UK that for the first time there is a company out there that will work with you to sell your house and charge the right amount for doing it whilst not telling lie’s or talk nonsense as well but boy is it tough

In some respects I think most people really struggle to believe that we will do what it says on our tin. I can’t blame them. Estate agency has such a reputation for telling lies, why should we be any different? Throw in the fact that we only charge such a small fee seems to only add to the problem challange.

But the biggest problem is many people are just not listening to us.

Its a re-education I suppose and will take time. The people who have used us cant stop thanking us and saying they will tell all their friends. I just hope they are all very popular people.

Anyway, we finally got our new home page redesigned last week and live. It looks so much better and has comments from real people who have used us and think we are great. I hope people read them and listen.