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How the internet can – and should – destroy estate agents

If ever there was a business model ripe for disruption, it’s theirs

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

28 June 2014

9:00 AM

Whatever you think about the internet, it does bring one great benefit to mankind — the gradual death of the old-fashioned estate agent. The funeral is still some way off. At the moment, only 5.5 per cent of UK house sales are carried out through the new, ultra-cheap, online estate agents.

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