The most popular epithets for a real estate agent in England are “parasite”, “worm”, “two-faced swindler”

Due to the worsening economic climate, the profession of a real estate agent in the UK is becoming increasingly unpopular.

"Robber". "Parasite". "Worm". "Leech". "Scammer". "Two-faced swindler." These now popular epithets among the British public, addressed to the collective figure of a real estate agent, were collected and published by the British publication The Times .

By the way, few people in the British Isles pay attention to the fact that the agencies themselves have also suffered from the crisis (according to experts, at least 4,000 real estate firms will close by the end of the year). Society is eager to find the culprit, because “disasters do not happen by themselves: someone must bear responsibility for them,” the publication comments on the emergence of a new phobia. And now “the crisis... is very British, it is the agents who are being blamed,” reports Prian.ru .

Ed Mead, director of Douglas & Gordon, trying to justify his colleagues, makes the following argument: “They are not rocket scientists. They answer to the client, to the seller. Yes, they have been saying for too long that everything will be fine. But this is one of their major professional problems, salespeople simply don’t want to hear bad news until it’s too late.”

The wave of negativity towards local agents has reached the point that almost no one remembers the true culprit of what is happening: “the Americans and their controversial transactions in the sub-prime mortgage market,” the source recalls.