Apprentice Estate Agent
ORNELLA'S ESTATES LTD
Leeds (LS20 9JB)
Closes on Sunday 9 November 2025
Posted on 6 October 2025
Contents
Summary
Start a successful career in estate agency by joining us as an apprentice. You will work directly with our Director for your day to day mentoring, who has been successfully selling houses in our area for over 25years. Earn while you learn and kick-start your property career in a local, friendly, thriving, independent agency. Apply today!
- Wage
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£14,526.20 to £23,492.04, depending on your age
National Minimum Wage
- Training course
- Junior estate agent (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, between 9.00am to 5.00pm. Alternate Saturdays, 9.30am to 2.00pm.
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- 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
- Customer contact via; face to face, telephone and e-mail
- Register new Clients on our CRM system
- Booking viewings, valuations and mortgage appointments
- Accompany colleagues on viewings, valuations and property inspections
- Sales progression
- Use of Company social media channels
Where you'll work
1A
Town Gate, Guiseley
Leeds
LS20 9JB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
CRAVEN COLLEGE
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
Training will take place through a combination of on-the-job learning and a structured workplace college apprentice course.
Your on-the-job training will be daily and weekly apprentice course modules, with end point assessment.
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
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Empathy
- Social Media Literate
- Literacy Skills
Other requirements
Full drivers licence.
About this employer
A boutique, proudly independent estate agent, offering a bespoke service, successfully selling local property.
http://www.ornellasestates.com (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
Bonus payments for appointment generation and fee discount for qualifying family/friends referrals.
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
- Sales Negotiator
- Valuer
- Partner
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
ORNELLA'S ESTATES LTD
Ornella Davies
ornella@ornellasestates.com
01943 661506
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000345240.
Apply now
Closes on Sunday 9 November 2025
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