Apprentice Junior Estate Agent
CHALK STREET ESTATES LTD
HORNCHURCH (RM12 6JU)
Closes in 26 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 August 2025
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Summary
An exciting and progressive opportunity with a renowned Estate Agents and Property Lettings Management. You will be ambitious to start your career in the growing sector of residential sales and learn with a team who holds a wealth of knowledge and understanding about the industry.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
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Apprenticeship wage for first 12 months and then to national minimum wage for age.
- Training course
- Junior estate agent (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 8.30am- 5.30pm (1 hour lunch)
Saturday 9am- 5pm
Day off in lieu during the week when working the Saturday
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
The main functions will be the following, although they are not definitive:
- To register applicants onto the database
- To manage the database with regular contact to purge redundant applicants
- To book viewings by calling the database and property matching, as well as downloading email and web leads, requesting viewings
- Obtaining regular feedback from viewings
- Conduct property viewings
- Prospecting- by calling database of local property owners with potential property to sell and booking in valuations
- Prospecting- generate a tout list obtained by tracking properties that have been on the market with other agents for a period and not sold. Generate tout list by obtaining addresses of the tracked properties and send letters periodically to the property owners to gain their instruction
- Prospecting- by dropping door to door leaflets in specific areas, in roads where we have recently sold and to properties that have been on the market with other agents or withdrawn from the market
- Various administrative tasks to support the sales team, including printing and franking letters for posting, archiving, filing
- Front office- to meet and greet potential clients who come into the office and register their details on the system for sale or let. Print and hand out brochures to applicants visiting the office
- Take part in the morning sales meetings and diary management for the day
- Adhere to company policies and procedures and use of company systems on the pc and paper forms including any requirements for money laundering and GDPR
- Preferable, candidates must hold a full UK driving licence as they will be required to attend property viewings and complete canvassing in the surrounding area. But company will consider someone who does not have this criteria
Where you'll work
63 STATION LANE
HORNCHURCH
RM12 6JU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CROWN VOCATIONAL TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Junior estate agent (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- To demonstrate an understanding of the competitive market-place and commerciality of Estate Agency, Innovation, recognising opportunities and referrals.
- To be able to organise and plan work in a flexible manner to ensure tasks are prioritised and completed within agreed timescales. Show effective decision making in order to ensure work and tasks are completed in line with instruction and on time, including the principles of productivity, diary management, prioritising, targets/objectives and to understand task setting.
- To be able to work effectively with internal colleagues and external partners to achieve individual, team and business targets, identify solutions to problems, appreciate the importance of team working, and understand job roles and where they fit within the team. To use appropriate communication and interpersonal skills such as active listening, engagement and managing ambition.
- Know how to manage the relationship with the customer. Know the importance of written, verbal and non-verbal communication (including body language), email, letter, telephone and personal etiquette.
- Appropriate use of social media sites, ie. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and smartphone applications.
- Effective use of IT equipment and software, including specific sales and lettings packages, phone systems, use of mobile phones, measuring devices, dictation machines, damp meters, touch typing, cameras, PCs/laptops/tablets, multifunction copiers, cloud data systems (and data compliance), safety devices.
- To be able to demonstrate presentation skills, viewing and selling properties, cross selling, lettings and referrals. Standard methods of concluding sales; understanding needs.
- To have an understanding of active listening, active questioning, empathy, handling difficult people and situations, objection handling, public relations and research. To be inquisitive, respectful, polite and know how to take control of a negotiation conversation.
- Be able to apply a range of administrative skills in order to support the range of estate agency activities and related services. An understanding of the importance and use of digital and hardcopy records, including appropriate software packages. Diary management, filing, making and receiving telephone calls.
- Demonstrate both spoken and written ‘business English’ and the difference between internal and external communications etiquette (email, letter, telephone) and numeracy (use of percentages).
Training schedule
Remote learning
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
Other requirements
Ideally, for someone who drives and has their own access to a vehicle. But will consider someone not at that stage yet.
About this employer
Organisation based in Hornchurch
After this apprenticeship
- Previous apprentices have been retained within the company, however, this is not guaranteed and will depend on performance and progress both on programme and in the work place
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CROWN VOCATIONAL TRAINING LIMITED
Sophie CHowdhury
01702 963475
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000335128.
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Closes in 26 days (Friday 29 August 2025 at 11:59pm)
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