A serious letting trade occasion introduced company house owners, suppliers and sector specialists collectively for 2 days of debate, coaching and networking as Agent Rainmaker Reside 2025 happened on the Marriott Heathrow.
Hosted by Sally Lawson, the occasion featured audio system together with NRLA chief govt Ben Beadle, together with authors and motivational audio system Nigel Risner and Jim Lawless, who addressed present trade challenges and alternatives anticipated in 2026 and past.
This yr’s theme, “DDWADDWD – Don’t Do What a Dodo Would Do,” targeted on how letting company house owners can put together, optimise, outsource and upsell to stay resilient in a altering market.
The theme prompted conversations all through the occasion about adaptability, consciousness and the necessity for companies to contemplate new approaches to working.
“We’ve hosted AR Reside for seven years now and yearly it’s at all times greater and higher than the final,” defined Lawson. “This yr it was all about how letting brokers can keep away from extinction by setting up methods and methods to enhance their revenue margins, cease doing issues without spending a dime, and charging for what they’re value. From expertise and automation to staffing and pricing buildings, we lined all of it.”
Delegates mentioned present challenges, shared sensible options and in contrast approaches to frequent points.
A panel that includes trade figures, together with the NRLA’s Ben Beadle, examined the forthcoming Renters’ Rights Act, which comes into power on 1 Might 2026. Key factors included the necessity to steadiness funding in workers with value pressures, and the expectation that companies with sturdy experience in compliance and tenancy evictions could also be higher positioned to handle the modifications forward.
Lawson added: “This yr was all about highlighting the true alternative that letting brokers have to guide, to information their landlords, and to embrace instruments and methods that liberate time and create higher outcomes for everybody. And the room was stuffed with geared-up brokers able to tackle that problem.”
A number of the key takeaways for brokers included:
+ Figuring out methods to transform let solely shoppers to totally managed
+ Upselling and sideselling with a various vary of providers – going from simply two (let solely and totally managed) to as much as 53, with providers resembling property staging, referral networks, high-end images and outsourcing low-value duties
+ Charging for inspections
+ Growing charges to cowl the price of extra compliance obligations.
