Estate Agent Apprentice
Roger Hemming Estate Agents
HONITON (EX14 1HA)
Closes in 21 days (Sunday 4 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 12 December 2025
Contents
Summary
We are looking for someone to join a long-established family-run residential estate agency. You’ll learn all aspects of buying and selling homes including property valuations and sales negotiations. There’s the opportunity to progress through the company into agency management.
- Wage
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£16,088 a year
- Training course
- Junior estate agent (level 2)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday
9.00am- 4.30pm
38 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 19 January 2026
- 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
- Answering the telephone
- Welcoming visitors
- Reception duties
- Arranging property viewings
- Qualifying potential buyers and sellers
- Accompanying prospective buyers on house viewings
- Valuing properties
- Photographing and creating floorplans
- Uploading information onto the internet
- Creating property brochures
- Negotiating property sales
Where you'll work
13B NEW STREET
HONITON
EX14 1HA
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 Apprenticeship Standard
- Training will be delivered by Weston College
- Assessor visits to the workplace once the workshops have finished to prepare you for your End Point Assessment
- If you have not already achieved a GCSE C/4 + in both maths and English (or equivalent) and cannot provide evidence in the form of a certificate, you will also need to achieve Functional skills at Level 2, in both Numeracy and Literacy. This will include sitting an exam
- You will be given some of your working week dedicated to your apprentice studies, or off the job training, to carry out self-supported study, compiling your portfolio or completing work set by your assessor
- End point assessment to achieve your final apprenticeship grade
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4 and above (or Level 2 equiv))
- Maths (grade 4 and above (or Level 2 equiv))
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Telephone Manner
About this employer
We want to get you the best possible price for your home with the minimum of fuss and bother. That’s what you really want too isn’t it? All estate agents are not the same. If you sell with us you’ll quickly realise you’re in very safe hands. We’re a family firm and we combine the very latest technology with extensive use of social media and great personal service. We’ve been working in Honiton for well over 20 years and we’ve successfully moved thousands of people just like you. We’re obsessed with what we do. We’re totally customer focused and we have a brilliant reputation for getting sales through to the exchange of contracts, which is what our clients want.
After this apprenticeship
- Potential for future management roles for the right candidate
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
WESTON COLLEGE OF FURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005005.
Apply now
Closes in 21 days (Sunday 4 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
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