Taylors Estate Agents

What Taylors Estate Agents does

Taylors Estate Agents is a privately held, full-service residential estate agency operating across the West Midlands of England. The firm is anchored in Stourbridge (head office at 85 High Street) and operates five physical branch locations — Stourbridge, Sedgley, Kingswinford, Halesowen, and Brierley Hill — supplemented by dedicated Kingswinford Lettings and Halesowen Lettings sub-branches. It is structured under two registered legal entities, Taylors Estate Agents and Surveyors Limited (Company No. 02920920) and Taylors Sedgley Limited (Company No. 14605897), both incorporated in England, and is regulated by RICS with members registered with Propertymark. The company employs 101–250 staff, has been operating for over 35 years (founded c. 1989), and provides service across both consumer ends of the residential property market: sellers, buyers, landlords, and tenants.

The core product set comprises residential property sales, residential lettings and management, property valuations (both instant computer-generated at ~80% accuracy and full in-person at 100% accuracy), RICS-aligned surveys, new homes assistance, and landlord/tenant services. Supporting technology includes a property listing and management platform with CRM integration, MadeSnappy-powered 360-degree virtual tours for featured listings, and an online self-service valuation tool. Distribution relies on a sales-led, branch-and-portal hybrid model: physical offices handle local relationships, viewings, and valuations, while the company website functions as a property search and enquiry portal alongside a Cognito Forms-powered tenant application flow. No public API, SDK, mobile app, or AI/ML capability is documented.

Revenue is generated through three streams: commission-based fees on residential sales transactions, recurring lettings management and tenant-finding fees from landlords, and professional-service fees from surveys and valuations. Property listing prices observed on the site range from approximately £200,000 to over £795,000, with rentals advertised in the £1,450–£2,000 PCM range; specific commission rates and management fees are not publicly disclosed. Customer concentration is fundamentally de-risked by the retail, consumer-facing, transaction-based nature of the business, which carries no enterprise anchor dependencies.

Name

Taylors Estate Agents

Legal name

Taylors Estate Agents and Surveyors Limited

Website

https://taylors-estateagents.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1989

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Taylors Estate Agents is a privately held residential estate agency operating five branches across the West Midlands of England, providing sales, lettings, valuations, and surveying services to home sellers, buyers, landlords, and tenants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Real Estate Agency Services

NAICS

Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (5312), Residential Property Managers (531311), Offices of Real Estate Appraisers (531320)

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Seller Representation & Listing Services (BPAJAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Buyer Representation Services (BPAJAAAJ), Residential Real Estate Teams & Agent Networks (Team-Based Brokerage) (BPAJAAAL)

Keywords

• Residential estate agency
• Property sales services
• Property lettings management
• Property valuations surveys
• Landlord tenant services

Headquarters

HQ city

Dudley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Property Sales Commission: Commission-based fees from residential property sales transactions
2. Lettings Fees: Ongoing fees from property lettings and management services for landlords
3. Surveys and Valuations: Property survey and valuation services for buyers, sellers, and mortgage purposes

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Taylors Estate Agents is a traditional West Midlands estate and letting agency that facilitates residential property sales, residential lettings and property management, property valuations and surveys, and assistance with new build homes. Services are delivered through five physical branch offices (Stourbridge, Kingswinford, Halesowen, Sedgley, and Brierley Hill) supported by an online property portal for listings and viewing requests.

Product overview

Taylors Estate Agents is a traditional estate and letting agency operating across the West Midlands, offering a unified service model rather than a modular software platform. The core offering comprises residential property sales and lettings services, supplemented by property valuations, surveys, and new homes assistance. The company operates through multiple physical branch locations and an online property portal for property search, viewing requests, and tenancy applications. No distinct software products, SaaS modules, or API offerings are documented.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kingswinford Lettings: Dedicated lettings branch for Kingswinford area
• Halesowen Lettings

Products and services

• Residential Property Sales

Quantifiable outcome

• Instant valuation achieves approximately 80% accuracy compared to in-person valuations

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Connells Group: The UK's largest estate agency and property services group, operating multiple high-street brands and a mortgage services arm. A broad incumbent that competes with Taylors in suburban sales and lettings, but at vastly greater scale and with national reach.
• Savills: Global real estate services firm with UK residential agency operations. A broad incumbent providing a comparable service offering at the upper end, though typically serving higher-value properties than Taylors' West Midlands core.
• Countrywide (now part of Connells): Formerly independent large UK estate agency group with extensive high-street branch network. A broad incumbent offering overlapping services (sales, lettings, surveys, mortgages) and historically a direct competitor in regional markets.
• Spicerhaart: One of the UK's largest independent estate agency groups, operating multiple consumer-facing brands (haart, Felicity J Lord, Darlow Huxley). A broad incumbent with regional branch presence and a similar full-service model to Taylors.
• Knight Frank: Global real estate consultancy with UK residential sales and lettings arms. A broad incumbent offering full-service residential agency, comparable in service breadth but operating at a different price point and market segment.

Direct peers

• Purplebricks: Pioneer of the UK online/hybrid estate agency model offering fixed-fee sales. Direct competitor on the seller-representation side, competing for the same West Midlands customers with a fundamentally different cost structure and pricing.
• Foxtons: London-centric estate agency with a strong branch-based sales and lettings model. A direct peer in the high-street agency category, though its core market is London rather than the West Midlands, making it more of a comparable model than a direct local competitor.
• Belvoir: UK lettings-focused property franchise group. A direct peer in the residential lettings and property management category, competing with Taylors' lettings arm for landlord mandates across the UK.
• Hunters Property Group: UK national estate agency network of franchise and corporate branches offering sales, lettings, and property management. A direct peer operating a similar high-street multi-branch model and competing for the same residential customers.

Others

• Rightmove: UK's largest property portal and a critical distribution channel for estate agencies. An enabler/platform rather than a competitor, but central to Taylors' customer acquisition strategy alongside Zoopla and OnTheMarket.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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