Things You Never Knew Estate Agents Did (In Celebration of National Estate Agent Day)
Buy the party poppers, blow up the balloons, and put the champagne on ice. Because this Thursday, the 26th, is the first-ever National Estate Agent Day.
Now, it might not rival your birthday. Or your wedding day. Or even your dog’s birthday.
But it's a date for the diary, well, to us anyway. It’s been created by the property software company iamproperty.
It’s a chance to celebrate the work good estate agents do, much of it unseen.
Are we using this as an excuse to sell you something?
Of course not.
As the only locally approved member of the Ethical Agent Network (EAN), we wouldn’t dream of it.
Instead, we’d like to share a few true stories from our network that show what estate agency looks like when it’s done properly and personally.
A Moving Story
An EAN agent in East Sussex received a frantic call on the morning of a client’s move. The removal company hadn’t turned up.
Rather than offer sympathy and wish her luck, they hired a van, closed the office for the day, and moved the pensioner into her new home themselves.
No fuss. No fanfare. Just the right thing to do.
A Fresh Start, A Lasting Memory
One of our fellow EAN members in Rayleigh, Essex, helped a family through an incredibly emotional move.
Their young son, around ten years old, had battled cancer. Thankfully, he beat it.
After everything they’d endured, the family chose to start again overseas. Exciting, yes. But deeply emotional too. Their home had been their safe place during the hardest chapter of their lives.
As the sale progressed, their son became anxious about leaving it behind. To him, it wasn’t just a house. It was where he’d recovered, where he’d felt secure.
So, the agency owner quietly arranged for a local artist to paint a picture of the house and had it professionally framed so that the boy could take a piece of home across the world.
On completion day, they handed it to him.
The entire family cried.
First class estate agency isn’t really about property at all. It’s about looking after people.
Estate Agents for Good
We know agents who’ve helped tenants in financial difficulty find furniture and access support services.
Others have bought Christmas presents for children in care, raised funds for local hospices and delivered flowers to residents in care homes on Random Acts of Kindness Day.
And those are just the stories we can share. Every week, quiet acts of care happen that never make a press release or a blog.
If National Estate Agent Day stands for anything, we hope it stands for this: good agents care.
We’re not just here to list homes and count completions.
Yes, we oil the wheels of the moving process. But we also show up when it matters.
And we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves.
We may not always be able to commission an artist or personally carry every box on moving day.
What we can promise is this: we’ll show up, we’ll care, and we’ll do things properly.
Wishing all our colleagues across the UK, especially our Ethical Agent Network colleagues, a very happy National Estate Agent Day.
Estate Agency Done Ethically
We are proud members of the Ethical Agent Network.
A national group of independent agents who have passed a rigorous independent assessment to prove we meet strict standards of honesty, service, and professionalism.
To find out more about what we do and why we’re the only local agency in the network, get in touch today. Www.ethicalagentnetwork.co.uk
