Become a Hortons partner

Estate agency is changing.

Join the movement with Hortons and seize the opportunity to transform your life and career.

Stay on the high street

They keep the fee.

  • A salary and a slice of commission
  • A patch you share with the office
  • Their targets, their rota

Same skills. Same clients. A fraction of what you bill.

Go self-employed with Hortons

You win the instruction.
You do the work.

You keep 75%.

  • 75% of every fee you earn
  • An exclusive territory, yours to build
  • Your goals, your diary

Same job. A completely different deal.

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One sale. One fee. Two outcomes.

A £500,000 home, sold at 1.25%, earns a fee of £6,250.

On the high street, you keep

£625

Yes, the high street pays a basic salary on top. The calculator compares the whole year, salary included.

Step one

Earn more than £100,000. Here's how.

For most employed agents, a six-figure income isn't a realistic goal, even for the best performers. Here, it's arithmetic.

You keep £4,688 of an average £6,250 fee. Add around £165 in conveyancing, mortgage and survey referrals, which are 100% yours. That's £4,853 a sale.

Twenty-one completions a year. Fewer than two a month. Using the skills you already have.

That's only the first step. In years two to four, with the momentum of your brand behind you, partners completing six to eight a month earn dramatically more.

£102,000after 21 sales, one year in
21completions a year
1.75a month, on average
£4,853kept from each one

Each bar is one completed sale. Hover or tap one to see where you'd be by then.

Illustration: £500,000 average sale, 1.25% fee, 75% to the partner, plus typical referral income. Before the licence fee, your own business costs and tax.

Side by side

What actually changes when you leave.

The high streetSelf-employed with Hortons

What you keep

A basic salary and a small slice of the fees you generate.

75% of every fee. 100% of your referral and lettings income.

Your clients

Passed from valuer to negotiator to progressor. People they've never met.

One person from valuation to completion. You.

Your patch

Shared with colleagues, and the branch down the road.

An exclusive territory. No other Hortons agent competes with you in it.

Your name

You build the company's reputation. It stays when you leave.

You become the known local agent, with an established brand behind you.

Your time

Branch hours, a rota and Saturdays.

You decide where and when you work.

Your advice

Shaped by listing targets set above you.

Straight advice to clients, even when it costs you the listing.

Your support

A manager, and whoever is in the office that day.

Head office, a compliance team and more than 40 partners who want you to win.

Your risk

A steady salary every month.

No salary. Expect four to eight months before your first completions land.

The honest bit

We're not trying to attract everyone.

Adam Horton, founder
  • 4–8

    Months to your first completions

    You're leaving a salary behind. Most partners fund the gap from several places at once, and we'll show you how.

  • 2–4

    Completions a month, early on

    If you can't see yourself reaching that level fairly quickly, self-employment probably isn't for you. If you can, most people earn more than they did employed.

  • 1

    Person responsible

    Valuations one minute, sales progression the next, then your marketing. Hard work, in an industry you already know inside out.

The film

Watch: Everything you need to know

Adam Horton explains the whole partnership in one sitting. Watch it through, or jump straight to the part you care about.

Next step

You are about six months away from a completely different reality.

Territories are exclusive, so each one can only go once. Check yours, or book a call with Adam and talk it through.