Property valuation requests peak outside traditional office hours📈⌚

Property valuation requests peak outside traditional office hours📈⌚

The ValPal Network has called on agents to have the tools by which to react to and nurture leads outside of traditional office hours, as this is when most valuation requests are made.

The platform found that 07:00-07:59 is consistently the most popular hour for valuation requests – with over 20,000 coming in during this hour in January 2022. The next most popular hours are usually 18:00-19:59, also just outside traditional agent office opening times. To continue reading, please Click Here


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