How We Compare Estate Agents: Our Method

The method

Where the numbers come from

Listings, matched to each office. Every home an agent puts on the market, from the portals, is matched to the branch that listed it. The lists and figures are rebuilt every week.
Sales agreed, not completions. A sale counts on the day the home first went sold subject to contract. Completion comes later, once the legal work is done, so time to sell runs from listing to sale agreed.
High-street offices only. Online agents that sell across the country from one office aren't listed, because their sales can't be placed in a town. Nor are auction houses or new homes desks.
Who sells there. A town's list is every office inside the town's boundary, or within 3 km of its centre where a town has no boundary of its own. Offices are ordered by sales agreed in the last 12 months, then by homes for sale now.
One office, one vote. Town and county figures are medians across offices with 20 or more sales, so a big chain doesn't drown out a small independent.
Price achieved uses Land Registry. The price recorded at the Land Registry against the first asking price, for offices with 20 or more sales on the register.
Price cuts. The share of the homes an office put on the market whose asking price was lowered at least once. Town figures are the median across offices.
Partners are marked, never ranked. Some agents take valuation requests through Homemove. Their card says so. It never moves them up the list: the order comes from the listings.

FAQ

Questions about the figures

Do agents pay to appear on these pages?

No. Every office selling in a town is listed, ordered by the sales it agreed. Agents who take valuation requests through Homemove are marked, and that never changes the order.

Why can't I see each agent's time to sell on the town page?

Each agent's time to sell, price achieved and price cuts are in your free Homemove account, next to the town figures, where you can book valuations with the agents you pick.

How often are the figures updated?

Every week. Each page shows the date its figures were last rebuilt.

Why isn't my agent listed?

Online agents selling nationally from one office, auction houses and new homes desks aren't listed. A town page names its busiest 48 offices; your free account shows every agent near your home.

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