letting agent
Letting agents schedule appointments with clients in order to show and lease real estate to prospective residents. They assist in marketing the property for rent through advertising and community out-reach. They are also involved in daily communication and administrative tasks.
letting agent letting agents schedule appointments with clients in order to show and lease real estate to prospective residents. They assist in marketing the property for rent through advertising and community out-reach. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include office administration, real estate market, advertising techniques, property law, collect property financial information.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £43,365 a year for Property, housing and estate managers (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £33,185 to £59,643 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 1251). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Technicians and associate professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only letting agent, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 3. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Sales and Marketing
- Customer and Personal Service
- English Language
- Law and Government
- Administration and Management
- Economics and Accounting
- Computers and Electronics
- Mathematics
What you'd actually do
- Sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others.
- Obtain agreements from property owners to place properties for sale with real estate firms.
- Act as an intermediary in negotiations between buyers and sellers over property prices and settlement details and during the closing of sales.
- Generate lists of properties for sale, their locations, descriptions, and available financing options, using computers.
- Manage or operate real estate offices, handling associated business details.
- Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold to determine its competitive market price.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does letting agent do?
Letting agents schedule appointments with clients in order to show and lease real estate to prospective residents. They assist in marketing the property for rent through advertising and community out-reach. They are also involved in daily communication and administrative tasks.
What skills does letting agent need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include office administration, real estate market, advertising techniques, property law, collect property financial information, coordinate events. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace letting agent?
Our AI-durability model gives letting agent a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.