Christie & Co
Real Estate Agent - Pubs & Restaurants Sector
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Real Estate Agent - Pubs & Restaurants Sector
About Us We are the leading specialist advisor for buying and selling businesses in our sectors - convenience retail, leisure, medical, pubs, restaurants, childcare, healthcare, and hotels. With 90 years of experience, we offer professional brokerage, valuation and advisory services, through our UK wide team. We pride ourselves in our high standards, providing a client centric experience and building business around our clients through tailoring our services.
Purpose of the Role We are looking for an experienced property or business agent to join our Pubs & Restaurants team, based in our Birmingham office.
This role will focus on the West Midlands, with responsibility for sourcing, marketing, and transacting pubs and restaurant businesses and property. You will be responsible for generating new business, winning instructions, and managing sales through to completion. As a key client-facing representative, you will build and maintain relationships with vendors and buyers, acting as the main point of contact throughout the sales process. You will also identify, engage, and qualify potential purchasers, ensuring a high level of service is delivered at all stages.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual with strong communication skills and a proactive approach to develop their career within a specialist and competitive sector.
About the team Our dedicated pubs and restaurants team, which operates across 11 UK offices and represents the largest specialist hospitality advisory group in the country, continues to support clients with unrivalled local market knowledge and national sector insight. Despite substantial cost pressures throughout 2025, transaction activity in the pubs and restaurants sector remained resilient. Across the year, our team advised on, valued, or sold more than 5,000 properties, with an aggregate value of £7.5 billion, with freehold restaurant sales alone accounting for 44% of all restaurant transactions, exceeding £12 million in value.
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The role will report directly to our Regional Director and ultimately to the Sector Managing Director. However, you will also work closely with existing regional fee earners, finance and insurance brokers, support staff and a wider central support team of IT and Marketing personnel.
Duties and Responsibilities Focus on growing our brokerage activity in the pubs & restaurants market across the West Midlands area. Generate relationships and develop new business, winning agency mandates across these markets, through various prospecting methods. Register and maintain client requirements on our Salesforce CRM system. Liaise closely with sector team colleagues in securing, listing, marketing and managing opportunities for sale. Negotiate and agree deals and manage the sales process. Provide regular client updates on instruction activity.
Person Specification Skills and Experience Experience in a client-facing sales role (commercial or residential), ideally within property or a related sector; Essential Strong verbal and written communication skills; Essential Highly organised and self-motivated; Essential UK Driver’s licence and confidence driving long distances; Essential. Experience in property or business sales, or a clear motivation to build a career in this area.
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Personal Characteristics Strong team player with excellent communication skills Self-motivated, proactive, and able to use initiative. Polite and professional Flexible, adaptable, and responsive to change. Organised, meticulous, and able to prioritise workload effectively.
What we offer A competitive commission structure Car allowance and Insurance for you plus one Mileage Allowance Relief Fuel card 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Holiday carryover & additional Christmas leave Life assurance Employee wellbeing assistance via Plumm “Recommend a Friend” employee referral bonus. Enhanced family friendly leave Cycle to work scheme. Eyecare vouchers
Our Values Adaptable, Collaborative, Innovative, Personal and Trusted, you can learn more about life at Christie & Co here: https://www.linkedin.com/company/christie---co/life/lifeatcco
Please apply today, or for more information, contact: careersuk@christie.com
Christie & Co is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or sexual orientation.
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