Countrywide won the best large agency group at Friday’s ESTAS, beating off Andrews Property Group.
Nottingham independent Royston & Lund won the title of best agent office in the UK, with silver going to Staffordshire firm Dourish & Day, and bronze to Norfolk agent Minors & Brady.
In the online category, HouseSimple took gold, with House Network awarded silver and sellmyhome bronze.
Winning suppliers to the industry were Agency Express, Tenant Shop and Rent4Sure.
The gongs were handed out at the bash which was hosted by Phil Spencer and attended by 1,000 people.
The full list of winners is here:
Comments (7)
Shame not to see the lettings winners listed here along with agency winners.
Doubtless something has been achieved to win an award, but these are hardly independent. To start with it is £300 to enter for the awards plus an additional £150 for an extra discipline or an extra office. Then, if you are interested in attending the awards ceremony you are invited to do so for a cost …. I can’t remember now if it was another £300 per head or per table.
I did not elect to pay these rather high fees for being part of Estas and yet, somehow or another, in last years Estas our office was still awarded a bronze apparently. This seems rather strange seeing I had not entered our office in the first place.
Call me cynical but they do rather smell a bit similar to purchasing a degree from a university that only exists as an address.
For awards to be worthwhile surely agents should not be paying the award organisers significant amounts of money? They need to be truly independent.
£300 per branch for the first category entered£150 for the second and subsequent categories.Group discounts for entering 2 offices or more (details on application).Online agents please contact us directly regarding your entry.AGENCY CATEGORIES
Best Estate Agent (rated by sellers & buyers)Best Letting Agent (rated by landlords)Best Letting Agent (rated by tenants)
What a day!!
Not saying the awards are rigged for one moment. BUT How can CW win an award? Its laughable, lost market share, lost good staff and desperately trying to claw back to where they were 5 years ago.
Made me raise an eyebrow. Perhaps judging based on volume of client votes?
Yes, talented,.hardworking staff amongst the brands under the CWD umbrella winning awards despite the best efforts by the hapless set of BODS scuttling the ship
Winning Best Disappearing Turnover award Fastest entry and exit into hybrid sales .Award Best CEO Award
Congratulations to all the winners