Do estate agents write up the house descriptions after they have visited the house in person?

[Maya331]

Or do they just go off pictures in the office?

The reason I'm asking this is because I often struggle to put things into my own words. I know you need to be good at writing to be an estate agent, but I'm thinking of copying and pasting other descriptions and making it specific to my house.

The thing is I'm too scared to do this in the office in case the manager sees or is able to track your activity on google.

So I thought maybe I could quickly write up the copied description while I was outside viewing the house, away from the manager.

If you do usually visit the house in person, do you visit the house the same day you're told about it? Or would you make the appointment a few days afterwards? (This way I could prepare something from looking at the pictures at home).

This is a bit confusing. Are you an estate agent?

I used to have the job of writing descriptions of houses for the website and would just go off the photos. If we’d sold a similar house eg on the same road I might use the description for that house as a template.

I don't understand, sorry.
If you're an estate agent, shouldn't they tell you the process?

I think this is the second thread you've started on being an estate agent OP. There is lots of information on the processes of selling and buying houses online and you should receive training if you are completely new to any job. As for the descriptions - there is likely to be a house style and ime most of what agents write is total shite full of clichés and not helpful to anyone. Factual information that helps people understand the property is needed. Bonus points for never using phrases such as 'deceptively spacious' which many EAs use to mean 'bigger than you think', but which actually means 'smaller than you think'!

I’m sure your manager would encourage you to look at other descriptions for inspiration.

OP is thinking about becoming an estate agent and had questions about it. No one answered her first couple of threads, so she’s started to ask more specific questions in her third and fourth threads.

Oh my word I wouldn't be employing an agent who was happy to write up a 'copied description quickly outside the house' Even though a lot of the spiel is often generic I dont see how you can do it without being at your office PC.

Do you actually have a job with an establish agents lined up?

If so they will have processes and training in place to advise you how they work.

If you don't have a job currently and want to be an estate agent I would research abit into the whole house buying / selling process to gain more understanding as a whole.

You do not need to be good at writing to be an estate agent. Most are terrible.

You will be given training if taken on for an EA role.

Ours walked round with a dicta phone then wrote it up when he got back to the office

There are very few occasions ime where any written material is prepared completely from scratch - most reports, etc are simply updated using an existing document as a template. In the office people find examples of things online and adapt them for their own purposes. Why reinvent the wheel every time? I imagine most EAs have a template description they will fill in. Most probably cut and paste popular phrases as there's a limit to just how creative you can be with descriptions of houses and flats for sales particulars.

The key thing I would say is getting the property on the market as soon as possible after receiving the customer's instruction. Most sellers will ask a number of EAs round to take a look at their property and give a valuation figure. They'll then pick the one they prefer to market the place. We have sold twice and chose the EA we thought would actually sell the house on both occasions.

As a potential buyer, there was one EA near us which would put new properties online as 'coming soon' with the briefest of descriptions and no photos. I always found that extremely irritating as I wasn't going to view something I couldn't see photos of first.

If you are trying to get into estate agency and have never done it before you would go in as a junior who would just show houses to begin with and ring round applicants trying to get viewings for the properties. Most agents have senior negotiators and managers who go round to value properties and when they receive the instruction they will also go round to get contracts signed and at that pointcwoukd walk round the house making notes or recording their comments and taking photos. Most offices then have an administrator who puts the brochures together and loads all this infirmation on to the database so it uploads to rightmove etc. With no knowledge of this you would not be expected to do any of this.