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Berrys With a team of forward-thinking chartered surveyors, town planners, architects, business consultants, heritage consultants and engineers, we offer all your property-related services under one roof. By working together, we deliver results. Whether our clients are from the commercial, residential or rural sectors, drawing on experience across all areas allows us to see the full picture. With a clear understanding of the challenges our clients face, and attention to detail that we apply to every aspect of a project, we can find solutions that maximise the potential of your land, property and business, from outset to completion.

With four offices across the UK and a strong reputation both locally and regionally of providing high quality professional advice, we are dedicated to helping our clients navigate the ever-changing landscape of property.

Residential and Rural Property Agent role

You will work out of a professional office, with no high street presence, based in Kettering. The Kettering agency principally involves residential properties, and you will work immediately with an agency administrator and a graduate agency practitioner. You will have responsibility for the residential agency with a brief to raise the profile, grow and develop this part of our business.

The business has a broader agency service involved in the agency of farms, residences, developments and commercial property. The work is principally for private clients and the role is office based.

Residential and Rural Property Agent Responsibilities

The role will require the development of the Kettering residential and small residential plots agency mentioned in the introduction, making us an agency of choice when vendors are considering sales. You will be responsible for ensuring excellence in the sale of residential property in this area of Northamptonshire.

Common work activities carried out will typically include:

Visiting clients to advise them on their properties

Providing marketing reports and guide prices for sales

Obtaining instructions

Writing particulars of sale

Discharging the instruction in a timely and well communicated manner

Ensuring completion of sales with solicitors, and the payment of fees

Generating articles on the residential agency market, writing advisory leaflets, technical notes and press releases

Briefing and communicating effectively to potential and existing clients, professional introducers of work, and all staff within the practice

Marketing and promoting the organisation to new clients and other professions, whilst maintaining existing client relationships

Researching and keeping up to date with any relevant property developments

General administrative duties, being responsible for the Kettering agency budget, managing fee targets, updating sales information and processes and preparing reports

Understanding the business of Berrys and cross-selling opportunities to practitioners in other core areas of our business

Managing agency staff and standards

Managing marketing strategies

Maintaining your training and knowledge to current RICS /NAEA standards for residential agency

Personal Qualities of the Residential and Rural Property Agent

You will be a positive and confident self starter who will work with a small team to obtain, generate and complete instructions. The job requires a personable, friendly and assertive ability to communicate well at all levels in changing and sometimes challenging situations. You should have the ability to initiate relationships with existing and new clients, and take decisions and instructions through from the start to a timely completion. The position requires a results orientated approach. You will be working with and achieving objectives through enthusiastic perseverance, communication and teamwork in a fast-moving environment.

Residential and Rural Property Agent Skills and Training 

The position requires an existing knowledge and proven ability as a negotiator and residential agency manager with excellent communication skills.

An ability to manage people, financial management, including an agency budget and act unsupervised.

To manage and mentor trainees. 

Professional subscriptions and CPD training will be provided by Berrys. The training requirements for the agency faculty of the RICS or NAEA will be complied with. Appropriate experience in agency is required if these qualifications are not currently held.

Hours:  37.5 hours per week, to be worked flexibly Monday-Friday.

Residential and Rural Property Agent Benefits

The role sits within a friendly and supportive team with opportunities to develop.

We will offer an excellent salary for the right candidate reflective of your skills, qualifications and experience

We will pay all the appropriate professional memberships and fund your attendance at relevant CPD events and time off for approved training

We provide Private Healthcare scheme for all

We have an Employee Assistance Programme, including a health plan and annual flu jab

We have an agile working philosophy allowing for a mix of remote and office working

We provide an entitlement of 35 days holiday per annum (pro rata to working hours) inclusive of bank holidays

An additional day off to celebrate your Birthday

We also give an additional day of holiday for every 3 years of service

Potential for discretionary bonus

We provide an enhanced workplace pension scheme operated through The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

Following successful probation period, access to employee loan and employee discount on Berrys services

We offer salary sacrifice schemes for Electric Vehicles and Cycle to Work schemes

Closing Date: 20th January 2025

*Please note that we may close this role early, if sufficient applications are received, therefore it is recommended to apply early if you match the criteria