Letting & Estate Agent Podcast

I recently sat down with solicitor Ryan Heaven to explore whether guaranteed rent models can survive the Renters’ Rights Act. We uncover the risks of rogue operators, unlicensed HMOs and dubious subletting schemes, and what estate agents need to know to protect their clients.

In this episode, I sit down with Doncaster estate agent Sanjay Gandhi to explore resilience, mindset and personal responsibility. Sanjay shares powerful lessons from his father, his battle with cancer, and why taking action, rejecting entitlement and grasping the nettle are essential for success.

AI won’t replace agents, but it will replace those who don’t adapt. In this episode, lettings expert Sally Lawson explains how forward thinking agencies embed affordable AI teammates into their workflows to handle repetitive admin and future proof their business. Tune in now.

The UK Property Market Is Dead. Doom. Gloom. Another headline telling us how bad the property market is. Read enough of them and you would wonder why any estate agent bothers opening the office. Yet homes are still selling. Buyers are still buying. People are still moving. So what are the headlines missing? In this week’s UK Property Market Stats Show on YouTube, Dan Marsden & myself get underneath the noise and into the numbers and as you might expect, the property market statistics very quickly turn into many hard hitting home truths for estate agents when we talk about overvaluing, cheap fees & why agents leave price reductions too late & why getting the listing is pointless if the strategy afterwards does not actually help the homeowner move. In the second part of the show, we head to Burnley and put the local Burnley estate agents under the microscope. Not simply who lists the most homes, but who actually gives homeowners the strongest chance of moving, who achieves the better prices and who appears to be gaining ground locally. If you are an estate agent anywhere in the UK, the way we analyse Burnley might give you a few ideas about how you could prove your own value too. 🟩   Listings Week 41 .. 32.2k new listings this week, (33k last week). Weekly 2026 average : 35.9k.  10 year week 40 average : 32.8k  Year to Date 1.471m new listings YTD, which is … 0.3% below 2025 YTD (1.475m) 1.6% higher of 2024 YTD (1.447m) 9.4% higher of 2023 YTD (1.338m) 9.4% higher than the 2017–19 average YTD (1.336m).       8.4% higher than last decade YTD average - 1.361m 🟩  UK Gross Resi Sales Week 41 .. 22.4k homes sold stc this week 40 (22.6k last week)  10 year week 41 average : 24.4k 2026 weekly average : 24.1k. Year to Date for house sales  989k UK homes sold stc YTD, which is … 7.5% lower than 2025 YTD (1.068m) 3% lower to 2024 YTD (1.019m) 10.9% higher than 2023 YTD (891k) 4.5% higher above pre Covid 2017-19 years (946k). 1.5% lower than the last decade YTD average (1.004m) 🟩 UK Net Resi Sales YTD  (Net Sales being Gross Sales less Sale Fall Thrus).  Week 41 16.6k Net Sales (16.8k last week)  10 year Week 41 average: 18.1k. Weekly average for 2026: 18.6k.  Year to Date 761k UK net home sales YTD, which is …   6.4% lower than 2025 (814k),  2.6% lower than 2024 (782k),  14% ahead of 2023 (668k) 2.7% above the 2017/18/19 average 741k).      🟩   Exchanges & Withdrawals  •          86.8k Exchanges in Sept 2026  •          73.8k Withdrawals in Sept 2026  (Note these numbers will change as more exchanges/ withdrawals from September come in during the first few weeks of October) •           Therefore, in September 2026, just 54% of homes that left agents’ books exchanged & completed in September (the rest - 46% withdrew, unsold) •     57.6% is the 7 year average exchange to listings ratio  (which includes the crazy years post lockdown 18 months).  🟥 Want more in-depth analysis on these stats ?? Watch this week’s episode (week 41) of the ‘UK Property Market Stats Show’  with Dan Marsden on YouTube here … https://youtu.be/2wEZ16bEd0c

Is AI in estate agency a genuine game changer or pure bunkum? I chat with Shuttle’s Jaimie Beers about PropTech reality: avoiding fragile inhouse tools, smart WhatsApp lead nurturing, and using your own proprietary data to beat portal reliance. Tune in now.