ROEA is a registry of real estate agents in UK, with the purpose to offer consumers the possibility to comment on firms and individual agents. Reading other people’s reviews should advise you on which agent to choose and whom to avoid. Here is an example of an agent’s profile with a comment. Joining the registry is free and they say they have over 8000 agents and 2000 firms listed already. The boss of ROEA is a former estate agent Henry Pryor, the man who is also behind TheHIPExchange.com & Primemove.

RoR review: Well, it’s an interesting site … with a lot of potential. We like the map search, and the visual result – looking at where the estate agents are situated. Great for locating an agent in your area, no doubt. Unfortunately, this is also what kills the usability for us – it is difficult to get the comments on agents from the map. It does not show whether the agent has been commented or not. I have to click on it before I can find out. Perhaps a full list of the results with the marks, commented or not, under the map would be helpful? Also, especially for the first time users, it would be great to see some shortcuts on the first page – most commented agents, most commented firms, latest comments, etc. At the moment it is just too time consuming to find the comments from the website. Hopefully they are working on improvements as we speak.

Screenshot from ROAE (The North London results).

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