Apprentice Estate Agent

Greenslade Taylor Hunt

Chard (TA20 1QF)

Closes in 19 days (Monday 1 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 11 August 2025

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Summary

This is a customer-facing role with responsibility for providing the administrative support needed to secure successful property sales. You'll also learn how to value properties, prepare particulars, negotiate sales and conduct viewings.

Wage

£14,526.20 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Junior estate agent (level 2)
Hours
Tuesday - Friday, 8.45am - 5.30pm and Saturday, 8.45am - 4.00pm.

37 hours 15 minutes a week

Start date

Monday 15 September 2025

Duration

1 year

Positions available

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

  • Prepare particulars using MS Publisher
  • Liase with vendors and prospective purchasers using telephone and emails
  • Arrange and conduct viewings

Where you'll work

1 High Street
Chard
TA20 1QF

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

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

  • Junior Estate Agent Level 2 Apprenticehip Standard
  • Functional skills in maths and English if required
  • Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade 5)

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths (grade 5)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Customer care skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Initiative

Other requirements

You must have a full UK driving licence and have daily access to a car.

About this employer

Greenslade Taylor Hunt is one of the largest firms of Chartered Surveyors, auctioneers and estate agents in the West Country, with a wide range of roles and career opportunities. High quality service and professional advice are central to the firm’s continuing success as a leading property specialist in the area, combined with the personal touch and friendliness that characterises our firm and helps us retain staff for many years.

http://www.gth.net (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

  • Become a fully fledged member of the team.. Negotiator, Valuer and then Branch Manager
  • The sky's the limit

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

Greenslade Taylor Hunt

James Waterman

James.waterman@gth.net

01460238282

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000336574.

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Closes in 19 days (Monday 1 September 2025 at 11:59pm)

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