Cars that scream Estate Agent?

[bristolracer]

Theres a firm in London who use Renault Twizys

Seen a few Smarts as well

[treeroy]

don't know any estate agents and will probably never be able to afford to buy a house, so I can't say I can invent a stereotype for what car they might drive.

[warch]

Depends on the financial climate. An estate agent I know drives an Aston Martin at the moment, but was driving an elderly Beemer 318 convertible in 2008-09.

[Aids0G]

jogger1976 said:

I don't think it really matters what car an estate agent drives.
They'll still be a smarmy, deceitful and shallow piece of st that commands my absolute contempt.

What a pleasant assessment to make, I do hope if we ever meet you may be able to put aside your opinion as you never know we might even get on, you may even not think me worthy of your 'absolute contempt'. Cheers

[classicyanktanks]

Aids0G said:

jogger1976 said:

I don't think it really matters what car an estate agent drives.
They'll still be a smarmy, deceitful and shallow piece of st that commands my absolute contempt.

What a pleasant assessment to make, I do hope if we ever meet you may be able to put aside your opinion as you never know we might even get on, you may even not think me worthy of your 'absolute contempt'. Cheers

To be fair, Estate agents on the whole are cool.

[Olly1979]

yonex said:

What do estate agents actually do?

Worthless creatures.

The vast majority of estate agents are just trying to get their bills paid, the same as you. Whether they are unfortunate enough to work for one of the horrible Corporates, or they work for one of the decent independent, local agents, 'worthless' is a horrible way of describing people.

If you've only ever had bad experiences, perhaps it's because you're one of those people that always seeks out the lowest possible fee. You get what you pay for in with estate agency, the same as you do in every single area of life.

[Olly1979]

jogger1976 said:

I don't think it really matters what car an estate agent drives.
They'll still be a smarmy, deceitful and shallow piece of st that commands my absolute contempt.

But we really want to be your friend, you sound so nice!

[thesmurfs]

Shark on four wheels.

[Agent XXX]

I think any agent that works for any of the Countrywide companies will be going around on pushbikes if their share price continues to freefall like it is!

£6/share in Sept 2015 to £0.98 today!

[Thankyou4calling]

Whenever estatevagents are mentioned they are always referred to in their shiny suits, a term made without doubt to make out the suits are cheap, man made fabric.

I’ve dealt with a decent number of estate agents and in comparison to most customer facing roles I’ve always felt they were extremely smart.

I just think it’s a bit below the belt to use the shiny suit term. Says more about the poster than the agent in my opinion.

[CS Garth]

Olly1979 said:

You get what you pay for in with estate agency, the same as you do in every single area of life.

A colleague of mine checked on his brother's Shad Thames penthouse which was on the market whilst the latter was overseas.

I'm not certain but I'm fairly sure his brother hadn't paid for 2 estate agents to be spitroasting a hooker on his sofa.

[anonymous-user]

Olly1979 said:

The vast majority of estate agents are just trying to get their bills paid, the same as you. Whether they are unfortunate enough to work for one of the horrible Corporates, or they work for one of the decent independent, local agents, 'worthless' is a horrible way of describing people.

If you've only ever had bad experiences, perhaps it's because you're one of those people that always seeks out the lowest possible fee. You get what you pay for in with estate agency, the same as you do in every single area of life.

I have dealt with a few. It mostly goes like this. You view the property, after finding it yourself, and then are presented with some sales pitch about 'aspects' and 'areas'. Then you put an offer in and have to go through the 'used car technique'. It's worse when you are selling. Take a few pictures, talk a bit of changing rooms and then put the charges on with a 'new street record price'. Only when property crashes do the useless ones get found out. I really don't like dealing with them and would happily sell through another way and split the savings onto the buyer, they are the ones funding the housing market after all, not these commission chasing cheap suits.

[vikingaero]

My friend is an estate agent for a national chain. He's also a fking retard, but a lovable fking retard, and he talks st all the time which makes estate agency the perfect job for him.

[Kuji]

classicyanktanks said:

Just for fun and as we all love Estate agents. Im thinking:

Mini for City Estate agent - Big Graphics a must.
Land rover discovery for Country Estate Agent - Tweed suited, probably failed stock broker
Golf R for "urban" agent - wide boy city wannabe.
Fiat 500 for out of town companies - Fit blonde girl with low cut top (sometimes)

Ftfy

[culpz]

lufbramatt said:

Lots of estate agents round here use BMW 118Ds. Invariably with huge graphics that cover up most of the back windows.

My mate, who's an estate agent, told me he's supposed to be getting a new 1-Series company car. Saying that, he drives a boggo 2007 Corsa with wheel trims, so he's typically over the moon about it.

[Agent XXX]

Thankyou4calling said:

Whenever estatevagents are mentioned they are always referred to in their shiny suits, a term made without doubt to make out the suits are cheap, man made fabric.

I’ve dealt with a decent number of estate agents and in comparison to most customer facing roles I’ve always felt they were extremely smart.

I just think it’s a bit below the belt to use the shiny suit term. Says more about the poster than the agent in my opinion.

My suits come from a highly respected tailor and are definitely not shiny. Neither are my shoes pointy.

[Tim bo]

Had an estate agent come to value a flat I was selling in South London a good few years ago show up in a lovely old 635i. Was a beauty. We had a great conversation about motoring.

Looked rather like this ...

[Djtemeka]

I work for loads of agents.

Some of the comments are correct.

City agents. Mini/Audi
Outer city agents (green which) golf R estates

[Ninja59]

Agent XXX said:

I think any agent that works for any of the Countrywide companies will be going around on pushbikes if their share price continues to freefall like it is!

£6/share in Sept 2015 to £0.98 today!

To be fair they were fairly screwed last year.

[soxboy]

Don’t think there is a stereotype (here oop North). There are probably 50 people in our firm with a mix of company cars and those who have opted out. With the possible exception of quite a few Land Rovers (a lot of rural folk) there isn’t one type of car that stands out as most popular, with I think the same variety of cars as you may find in any other profession. I can’t think of any mainstream manufacturer that isn’t represented, although there aren’t many Japanese cars for some reason.

We had a lad join who stipulated in his terms that he had to have a white Skoda Octavia vRS estate. He left after 6 months and nobody wanted that car, it was passed round and round and round.