Estate Agent CV Examples & Writing Guide

This sample is for a residential sales negotiator with five years in estate agency who is applying for a senior or valuer role at another agency. The name, agencies and numbers are made up but sized to a real mid-market agent in the South East. If you are new to the industry, keep the layout and use the no-experience section further down.

Most UK estate agents are employed on a basic salary plus commission, so the CV goes to a branch manager, an area director or an estate agency recruitment consultant. Some agents are self-employed on hybrid or franchise models, and the same CV is used for related salaried jobs: lettings negotiator, sales progressor, valuer, or new homes sales adviser for a housebuilder. In every case the reader wants the same few facts up front.

• Qualifications and compliance. No licence is needed to work as an estate agent in the UK, but a Propertymark qualification, Propertymark membership and up-to-date AML training show you know the rules. If you are studying for one, say where you are: "Propertymark Level 3 Award in Residential Sales, exam booked for November 2026".
• Results. Sales agreed, completions and fee income per year, ideally for the last two or three years so they can see the trend. Valuer and lister roles add market appraisals, instructions won and conversion rate, because a branch with no stock has nothing to sell.
• Source of business. Referrals and repeat clients, canvassing, portal valuation leads (Rightmove, Zoopla), the branch's applicant list or a relocation contract. This tells a manager whether you can win instructions as well as sell them.
• Systems. The CRM, the portals and how you market listings. A branch that runs on Reapit or Alto wants to know your ramp-up time.
• Markets and property types. Residential sales, new homes, prime and country homes, auctions, lettings, commercial. Name the towns, postcodes or areas you cover.

“Show me sales and fee income by year and tell me where the business came from. If a third of your business is referrals after three years, you are running a real business and I want you here. If the CV just says 'helped clients buy and sell homes', it tells me nothing.”

Three to four lines under your name. Role and years first, then results, then source of business or specialty, then tools. Skip the career objective format even as a new agent; a short personal statement that names your qualification progress and what you bring from your last job works better.

The typical estate agent job description on a CV lists duties: carry out viewings, negotiate offers, market properties. Managers already know the duties. Rewrite each one with a number that shows your scale or your result. Seven common lines, before and after.

Keep the list to 10 to 14 items and make them the words a branch manager or recruiter uses. Split them mentally into three groups: the work of the job, the tools, and the way you generate business.

Core estate agency skills:

• Market appraisals and valuations using comparable evidence (Land Registry sold prices, Rightmove Plus)
• Winning instructions: valuation presentations, fee negotiation and sole agency agreements
• Offer negotiation and buyer qualification (mortgage in principle, proof of deposit, chain position)
• Sales progression: memorandum of sale, solicitors or conveyancers, surveys and searches, through to exchange and completion
• Accompanied viewings, open-house days and applicant management
• Lead generation and follow-up: referrals, canvassing, portal valuation leads, past clients, withdrawn and expired listings
• Compliance: AML ID checks, material information in listings, the Estate Agents Act 1979, consumer protection law (the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 replaced the 2008 unfair trading regulations) and redress scheme complaints
• New homes, prime, auctions, lettings or investor specialties, if you have them

Tools and software estate agency managers recognise:

• CRM: Reapit, Alto, Expert Agent, Street, Jupix, Dezrez
• Sales progression and paperwork: the CRM's progression module, DocuSign or Adobe Sign, online ID and AML check tools
• Portals and data: Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket, Rightmove Plus, HM Land Registry price paid data
• Marketing: Canva, Matterport, floorplan apps, Facebook and Instagram ads
• Commercial: CoStar, Argus

Soft skills count only when shown: "answered every valuation lead inside five minutes" beats "excellent communication". A second language is a real skill in many UK towns; list it with your level. Add a full driving licence, because most branches ask for one.

There is no licence to work as an estate agent in the UK. Anyone can work in the job, but estate agency businesses must belong to a government-approved redress scheme (The Property Ombudsman or the Property Redress Scheme) and register with HMRC for anti-money laundering supervision, and individuals can be banned under the Estate Agents Act 1979. Propertymark, which includes the NAEA, offers regulated qualifications and membership grades that many employers ask for. List each with the awarding body and year.

Propertymark members must complete CPD every year; check your grade's requirements. Skip routine in-house training, but a course that supports your niche (new homes, auctions, prime marketing) is worth a line. Working in Scotland? Name your Home Report experience; many Scottish sales are handled by solicitor estate agents.

Agencies hire trainee negotiators all the time, and first-year agents have no sales to show. What a branch manager wants instead is evidence you can win business, cope with pressure and keep going through a slow first year. Your past work has that evidence. Build the CV around it.

1. 1Put the job you want at the top, "Trainee Sales Negotiator", and any qualification in progress just under it: "Propertymark Level 3 Award in Residential Sales, studying".
2. 2Write a personal statement that names your local network (people who know you locally), your sales or customer-facing background, your availability (Saturdays and some evenings are standard) and your driving licence.
3. 3Translate previous jobs into estate agency terms: sales targets met, customers served per day, paperwork handled, retention, upsells, referrals earned.
4. 4Add a Property Experience section if you have anything: viewings carried out for an agent, work experience in a branch, lettings or block management admin, even buying your own home or managing a rental.
5. 5List any property qualification by name in Education; it shows you know the law and the sales process even without a sale.
6. 6Keep it to one page and send it with a short cover letter about why you chose this agency.

• One page is enough for trainees and most negotiators. Two pages are normal for experienced negotiators, valuers, branch managers and commercial agents with long track records.
• Order: header, personal statement, results highlights (optional 3-line box with completions, instructions and fee income by year), experience, skills, qualifications and memberships, education.
• No photo and no date of birth on a UK CV, even though your face is on the agency website. Keep headshots for your marketing.
• Layout: a clean template such as cvplex sales-professional. Large agency groups and recruiters take CVs through job boards and applicant tracking systems (ATS), which read text and ignore graphics and skill bars.
• Words to mirror from the advert when true for you: sales negotiator, valuer, market appraisals, instructions, viewings, offers, sales progression, exchange and completion, fee income, targets, Rightmove, Zoopla, the CRM the agency uses, and full UK driving licence.
• Send a PDF named Firstname-Lastname-Estate-Agent-CV.pdf, with your LinkedIn profile in the header.
• US guides tell agents to put a licence number in the header. UK estate agents have no licence number, so leave that line out and use the space for your best year's figures.