Job Description

Senior Valuer

Grafton are recruiting on behalf of a leading Estate Agent for a Senior Valuer. This is a fantastic opportunity to further and develop your career with a forward thinking company. You will have excellent Customer Service skills and a motivated and team orientated attitude.

Responsibilities:

· Administer all aspects of property valuations - sales and rentals

· Self-generate new business via canvassing

· Collect information about a property; take photographs and measurements; advertise; and conduct viewings

· Liaise with potential sellers, buyers, landlords and tenants

· Estimate the sale or rental value of a property

· Register new applicants

· Arrange and attend sales and lettings viewings

· Market and promote properties for sale and to let

· Send out details of new properties on the market to people on your database

· Prepare Sales and Lettings brochures and promotional information

· Monitor sales and lettings progress

· Represent sellers in negotiation with prospective buyers

· Find buyers in a position to proceed with purchase and willing to pay an acceptable price

· Monitor sales as they proceed, and liaise with all interested parties -including mortgage brokers, solicitors, surveyors and other estate agents

· Deal with the public, showing strong levels of customer service

· Make sure that the price agreed is acceptable to both buyer and seller

· Keep up to date with trends in the relevant property market

· Vet prospective tenants by collecting references and carrying out credit checks

· Ensure properties meet legal and health and safety requirements, e.g. gas safety certificates

· Act as a property negotiator and resolve any issues that arise with properties

· Use online media to market properties and communicate with clients

· Research and plan marketing goals

· Provide excellent customer service

· Carry out any reasonable instruction from the management team


Person Specification:

· Excellent communication skills

· Excellent telephone and interpersonal skills

· Excellent team working skills

· Excellent sales and negotiation skills

· A strong business sense, with ability to meet targets

· An exemplary record in behaviour, attendance and trustworthiness

· Excellent organisational and time-keeping skills

· Outstanding skill with figures and ability to be well organised

· A confident and outgoing manner to gain trust and give reassurance

· Commercial awareness and the ability to work under pressure to achieve sales targets

· A customer service focus to keep clients happy

· Determination, perseverance and patience

· An understanding of marketing techniques to help market the properties

· A friendly, trustworthy and professional attitude

· An interest in property and the housing market

· The ability to deal with people from all backgrounds

· Excellent IT skills

· Flexibility in relation to overtime, travel and holiday working arrangements

· Full driving licence