Junior Estate Agent Apprentice
Hunters Estate Agents
DARWEN (BB3 1AU)
Closes in 27 days (Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 1 July 2025
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Summary
Hunters Estate Agents in Darwen, Lancs have an amazing opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join their team as a Junior Estate Agent. This role requires a confident individual, who can converse easily with people and is ambitious to succeed.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Junior estate agent (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday: 8:45 AM – 5.30PM
Saturday: 9:30 AM – 2:00 PM (1 in 3)
1 hour unpaid lunch break.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Friday 1 August 2025
- Duration
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1 year 1 month
- 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
What you’ll do at work
- Booking property viewings and evaluations.
- Learn how to conduct property valuations and understand client needs.
- Shadow experienced estate agents during property viewings.
- Provide exceptional customer service to clients in person and over the phone.
- Assist in listing properties by gathering key details and photos for marketing.
- Support the sales team with administrative tasks and client inquiries.
- Dealing with telephone enquiries and email leads.
- Registering enquiries and arranging appointments.
- Closing deals.
- Follow-up enquiries.
Where you'll work
207-209 DUCKWORTH STREET
DARWEN
BB3 1AU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
CROWN VOCATIONAL TRAINING LIMITED
Your 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).
Your training plan
- Upon completion of the apprenticeship, you will achieve Level 2 Junior Estate Agent. You will be able to register as an Associate with ARLA, at your own cost.
- Delivery is 100% remote via Teams and a series of live workshops. This will facilitate your "off-the-job" learning, along with an online learning platform which you will use for assignments and feedback within your working time.
- Functional Skills in maths and English (if required).
- Candidates will work towards an End Point Assessment over the duration of the apprenticeship.
- 20% off-the-job learning is required.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Full UK Driving Licence
Other requirements
Full UK driving licence and own transport are essential due to the nature of the role & visiting properties.
About this company
Hunters Estate Agents and Letting Agents Darwen are independently owned and part of the fastest-growing estate agency network in the country. This gives our customers the perfect balance of service, you can instruct us knowing that your local branch has hard-working owners that combine their expert local knowledge with the support of a forward-thinking national company. This combination means we can provide the highest quality creative marketing, the latest industry technology changes and a first-class training academy to provide our staff with important industry qualifications and necessary skills required to deliver the premium service you expect. We have highly successful teams covering Darwen & Blackburn for all your property sales and lettings requirements.
After this apprenticeship
There may be the opportunity for the candidate to be taken on full-time following the duration of the apprenticeship, however, this is not guaranteed.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
CROWN VOCATIONAL TRAINING LIMITED
Katie
kbarton@crownvt.co.uk
01702411924
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329124.
Apply now
Closes in 27 days (Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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