Estate agents ponder high street exodus

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94% of estate agents surveyed by movewithus will be focusing on their web offering in the next decade, and a number are looking to move out of the high street.

The survey, which questioned estate agents from across the country, reported that in the next 10 years 66% of agents will be likely to focus on their web offering, with a further 28% seeing it as a possibility.

Also, 20% of those surveyed believed that a move from the high street to the home would be possible or likely while 33% believed that they would move out of the high street to an alternative location.

Robin King, movewithus director, said: “With the average high street office costing an estate agent anything from £50

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