Press Release: Agents meeting Wed 22nd Oct: How “No Valuations” process doubled turnover in 1 year
Summary: A chance for leading independent estate agents to learn how Carringtons doubled their turnover in under a year with BestAgent’s transparent ‘No Valuations’ process, creating competing buyer markets for every property. Join us in Oxfordshire on 22nd October. Email 22oct@bestagent.co.uk by 15th October with your agency details to apply for your free seat and explore our selective 2-year programme. Act now—first-registered get priority if places are over subscribed.
22nd October: BestAgent Process Onboarding Day – How BestAgent’s ‘No Valuations’ process doubles agents turnover in under a year.
What it is: A free, informal, confidential 10am-2pm in-person, invite-only event at a Central England location (Oxfordshire), for owner-managed independent agents anywhere in England or Wales.
Charlie Lamdin will show how Carringtons (Kingston) have doubled their turnover in under a year, and are on target to quadruple it within 2 years, by adopting the BestAgent ‘No Valuation’ Process taught by Charlie himself.
The ‘No Valuations’ process results in much faster transactions at higher fees, as unsuitable clients self-deselect themselves, leaving cooperative clients willing to pay a higher fee.
Overvaluing is widely recognised as a destructive industry habit, clogging up the marketplace with unsaleable properties, reducing transaction volumes and threatening estate agency businesses. This is particularly acute as we face sharp falls in activity due to budget uncertainty and economic decline.
Learn how Carringtons uses this process to consistently create a market of competing buyers for every property they launch, ensuring a choice of buyers and fast deal times.
A representative of Carringtons will attend in person to share their experience of adopting the ‘No Valuation’ process, and how it’s changed their business. They’ll also be taking questions about how they implemented the changes, and the surprises along the way.
Sales times halved, fees up 50%, almost no fall-throughs.
Carringtons’ Key achievements since Feb 2025:
- Average fee up by over 50%, continues to rise.
- Time on market down from 100+ days to 25.
- Time to exchange down from 115 days to under 70 days
- Fall-through rate currently remains at zero for all new instructions taken on under the new approach.
- Appraisal to instruction rate is now over 90% (for accepted clients, others are rejected as unrealistic)
Starting in December 2025, BestAgent is launching a new 2-year programme for a limited number of suitable candidate businesses who wish to escape the overvaluing problem and achieve their full potential.
The purpose of this exercise is to show that Carringtons’ success is not a one-off, and that this process works in any market, any location, and at any mainstream market price level. Therefore it is in BestAgents’ own interests that every agent who joins the course succeeds in at least doubling their turnover, but ideally hitting the 4x target at the end of the 2 year programme.
The biggest surprise
A spokesperson for Carringtons said “Until we began this process, the big overvaluing corporates were making things impossible and killing our pipeline, and the local market. Six months in and we’re selling everything faster at higher fees. Once you get used to the differences, you realise the strategy of transparency really appeals to sellers and buyers alike, and the markets natural forces take over and people can move. The biggest and most welcome surprise is the number of new business opportunities falling into our lap on the back of this process.”
Charlie Lamdin said “This process came from working with hundreds of different agents over 25 years, and combining the best ideas from all of them into one strategy. Good agents who deliver great results, deserve to make a great living, and you can’t do that unless you’re charging at least 2%. Sellers will pay that, provided they’re sure you’ll deliver. It’s a win, win, win.”
Who should apply: Owners of above-average quality, independent estate agencies anywhere in England and Wales, where overvaluing is affecting your business and your local market.
How to get your invite:
Email 22oct@bestagent.co.uk as soon as possible, no later than 15th October, with basic details of your estate agency (name, location, website). Please comment about how overvaluing is currently affecting your market or business.
You will get a response within a few days confirming your invitation, with full details of the location and agenda for the day.
If places are oversubscribed, they will be allocated to qualifying agents on a first-registered basis.
Note: This event focuses on helping established independent agencies; future sessions may include startups and self-employed agents.
Watch this livestream with Charlie and Carringtons reviewing progress 6 months into the process.
