{"id":9671,"date":"2021-01-28T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2021-01-28T11:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:25:42","slug":"online-lettings-covid-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/online-lettings-covid-high-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Lettings During COVID-19: Lessons for the High Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, what about 2020, eh? I think we can all agree when I say &#8220;good riddance&#8221; to that one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, when I told my friends I was joining an online agency,  they warned me that my year ahead would be unlike anything I&#8217;d experienced as a former high-street owner. None of us realised just <em>how<\/em> true that would be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A year like no other<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Not even two months into my new role, a national lockdown was announced and in-person viewings were banned until Spring. As an online agency, we were certainly well-equipped for these changes. With all our &#8216;paperwork&#8217; being securely sent and signed online and the majority of our processes being carried out digitally, our methods were already somewhat &#8216;pandemic-proof&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the temporary ban of in-person viewings was not something we were accustomed to \u2013 but we quickly adapted by making&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/virtual-viewings\/\">video uploads and virtual viewings<\/a>&nbsp;available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I think back to this, I am so proud of how well our team adapted to early on. But it also has me thinking, would my former high-street business have coped so well during a pandemic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cta\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/letting-property-lockdown\/\">Lockdown at LettingaProperty.com: How We Kept Our Rent Claim Below 2%<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no denying that so many high-street agencies have suffered this past year. After such a devastating loss of income &#8211; some have sadly had no choice but to close-up shop for good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be easy for me to carry on with the &#8216;doom-and-gloom bandwagon&#8217; and harp on about how many high-street shops have gone by the wayside.&nbsp; However, after speaking with a few of my old muckers in the industry, it seems that many agents have managed to pull through. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how have some high-street agents survived and others not? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">High time for high-street changes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer is simple: technology!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know that some high-street agencies have a reputation of being &#8220;stuck in the past&#8221; on the tech front. I suspect that my own agency could have been considered one of them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when the global pandemic began, any letting agency that wanted to survive had no choice but to adapt. The agents that were a bit slow out the traps seem to be the ones who have suffered.  Yet the progressive-thinking company principals, who were quick to embrace technology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/virtual-viewings\/\">virtual viewings<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">online valuations<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/legal-landlord-documents\/\">digital paperwork<\/a>), are the ones who have made it through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I&#8217;m not saying technology is the answer to everything. Although we&#8217;re an online agency, dealing with COVID-19 and all the havoc it&#8217;s wrought has been an enormous challenge. It doesn&#8217;t matter how high-tech your systems are, living through a pandemic has taken an emotional toll on us all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the reality is, we were ahead of the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LettingaP<\/a>roperty.com has been operating &#8216;remotely&#8217; since 2008. We didn&#8217;t need to completely reinvent our processes, because they were <em>already<\/em> built with flexibility and adaptability in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We process all our paperwork digitally, so both landlords and tenants can sign from wherever they are &#8211; with no travelling needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, with all this in mind, and thinking back to my former high-street agency, I wonder would we have got by?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cta\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/online-lettings-and-the-high-street\/\">Online Lettings As Told By A Former Owner of A High-Street Agent<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Surviving or thriving? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We were a resilient and adaptable bunch, so I like to think we&#8217;d have made it through. But there&#8217;s no denying it would have taken valuable time for us to get up to speed &#8211; and likely some redundancies along the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at LettingaProperty.com, not only have we survived, we&#8217;ve flourished.&nbsp;Despite the multiple lockdowns, emergency legislation and a three-month team furlough &#8211; 2020 has been a record year for us. We&#8217;ve welcomed more landlords to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/lettings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our plans<\/a> than ever before, and our team is bigger than it&#8217;s ever been &#8211; and growing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cta\">Read more: Online Letting Agents \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/online-letting-agents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Are They And Should I Use One To Let Out My Property?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Silver linings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If the property industry has gained <em>anything<\/em> from 2020, it&#8217;s that high-street agents have been pushed into the 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pandemic has forced traditional agents to rethink their methods: trade their piles of paperwork for PDFs, swap viewings for virtual tours and upgrade their Rolodex to an online CRM. Okay, that last one may be a <em>bit<\/em> of an exaggeration, but the bottom line is that the pandemic has forced us <em>all<\/em> into a different way of work &#8211; and mostly for the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also shown that despite the age-old rivalry between <a style=\"user-select: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lettingaproperty.com\/landlord\/blog\/why-high-street-agents-dislike-online-lettings\/\">high-street and online<\/a>, the &#8216;old boys&#8217; could do with borrowing a thing or two from their tech-savvy counterparts. I still maintain that there&#8217;s room in the marketplace for both traditional and online agents. 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