Why the internet hasn’t killed estate agents (and what might)

I don’t like to make business predictions, but — barring some apocalypse — I suspect there will be plenty of estate agents around in 2065, and occupying prominent high-street shopfronts just as they do now.

This may seem an absurd prediction: after all, almost no one now uses an estate agent to find a house: we go to property websites instead.

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Rory Sutherland is vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK.

TaggedBehavioural economics, driverless cars, Economics, Elon Musk, estate agents, Internet, London, Predictions, Property, Psychology

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Why the internet hasn’t killed estate agents (and what might)

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