For the first time, Estates Gazette has brought together its annual Top Agents Survey and Salary Survey to create a comprehensive overview of the health of the property industry.
With a booming investment market and a recovering occupational market, it is no surprise that the fortunes of the UK’s top agents have increased by more than 50% and catapulted a new leader to the top of our league. Salaries too are up, as are bonuses.
But despite the fanfare, discrimination and diversity remain big issues. Delve deeper into the results below by clicking on the links. By Samantha McClary and Emily Wright
Top Agents 2015
• There’s a new top agent in town
For the first time in the 18-year history of Estates Gazette’s Top Agents Survey CBRE has taken the number one spot.
• Ready to flip the switch?
Diversity has been a buzzword across the industry this year, but has there been the action to support the intent, or are agents still operating in the dark ages?
• How the numbers stack up
Big is not always better as it is niche agencies that provide the biggest spoils per partner, with Mayfair businesses Beauchamp and Lorenz leading 2015’s fee-earners league
• All together now
The feeding frenzy of consolidation, as agencies swallow each other up to gain market share and access to more clients, is changing the way that surviving firms operate
Salary Survey 2015
• It’s not all about the money
Questions around discrimination in the workplace reveal a major headline figure
• Who’s putting on the pounds?
Money talks, but certain sectors, organisations and regions are shouting louder than others
• More than bean counting
From bean-to-cup coffee machines to a big, fat bonus, this year’s salary survey reveals there are benefits at both ends of the work/life spectrum
