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Being a member of one of the following accredited bodies also helps as it indicates that the agent strives to provide high standards of service: Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, National Association of Estate Agents, Association of Residential Letting Agents, National Approved Lettings Scheme, Safeagent and The Property Ombudsman.

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2. Every time an agent is rated they are notified by email. They are informed of the address of the property they have been rated for and year of transaction, but they do not know the score at this point. This is so that they can confirm or deny that they have dealt with the property transaction in question. This stops competitor agents leaving fake ratings.

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Our "verified" ratings carry more weight in our algorithm, making it increasingly difficult for agents without high "verified" ratings to appear in the top four results; so even if fake positive ratings have slipped our other security checks, over time those dishonest agents become obsolete in our results.

Which Property Agent rewards agents who provide our users with a consistently high standard of service.

Landlord lists attract landlords to letting agents but are no longer needed if the agent provides a high standard of service

It used to be that if a letting agent or property management company needed more properties to manage or let they had to attract landlords by purchasing landlord lists for their chosen geographical areas and then spend the time and effort to contact that list of landlords via telephone or email. Often the quality of the data wasn't always that accurate and the landlords whose details were correct had already been contacted by a competitor who had purchased the same list just a few days beforehand.

How can Which Property Agent bring letting agents new landlords?

In 2011 Which Property Agent was launched: the first ever comparison site of estate and letting agents. It finally allows landlords and vendors to enter the address of the property they wish to let or sell, and be presented with the four best letting agents or estate agents to do the job for that particular property.

In turn it means that landlords and vendors are only contacting the best agents, the ones who consistently provided their customers with the highest standard of service. This means that letting agents who act professionally and honestly, all of the time, are rewarded with new business enquiries from landlords and vendors who have been recommended their service by past customers of that agency.

Register your letting agency and receive a free enquiry from a landlord at no obligation.

If you are a letting agent who consistently provides your existing landlords with a high standard of customer care at a reasonable price and in a reasonable time frame, then register your branch with Which Property Agent here: http://www.WhichPropertyAgent.co.uk/agent/register or click Agent Sign Up tab in the top menu above. We will send your branch a free landlord enquiry and there is no need to give any payment details for your free lead. You genuinely can try our service at no risk or cost to your branch and decide if it's something you want to continue with once we have sent you a lead.

Thanks to Which Property Agent it is now possible to attract landlords to your agency purely down to the quality of your service, without the need to purchase landlord lists.