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  • The fantasy of an estate agent's car and the reality of a desk-bound job seen through the office window.
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  • In the window of a London estate agency, we see many properties in various styles and ages for sale. A sales executive swaps some of the pictures as some sell or perhaps, are taken off the market by their vendors.
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  • Four estate agent's property boards advertise their names and numbers in a London housing estate, each representing vendors selling their houses and flats for a set commission in the housing market. Above the signs is the pink blossom from a cherry tree whose branches hang over the temporary information boards. The term originally referred to a person responsible for managing a landed estate, while those engaged in the buying and selling of homes were "House Agents", and those selling land were "Land Agents". However, in the 20th century, "Estate Agent" started to be used as a generic term, perhaps because it was thought to sound more impressive. Estate agent is roughly synonymous in the United States with the term real estate broker.
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  • Homes and properties for sale, as seen in the window of south-west London estate agents Hawes & Co, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
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  • Homes and properties for sale, as seen in the window of south-west London estate agents Hawes & Co, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
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  • Local London Estate Agent Hunters, advertises a school Chrostmas fete with a mention on their housing placard.
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  • Local London Estate Agent Hunters, advertises a school Chrostmas fete with a mention on their housing placard.
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  • A placard belonging to estate agent Barnard Marcus, in front of a property for sale in south-west London, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
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  • A young family walk gloomily past property Sold signs in a street at Grays, Essex England. Passing the prominent signs that bear the name of Quirk Deakin, a local estate agent in the industrial towns of south Essex and the Thames Gateway, is the location for dramatic increases of new housing developments. Both the parents and their daughter look depressed in this time of economic recession, when families are having their homes repossessed after defaulting on mortgage repayments. It is a bright summer day in Grays, east of the capital, just outside of the M25 orbital motorway and on the Thames river.
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  • A placard belonging to estate agent Barnard Marcus, in front of a property for sale in south-west London, on 7th November 2019, in Surbiton, London, England
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  • Property estate agent's billboard showing old street scene under railway bridge in Herne Hill, South London SE24.
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  • Property estate agent's billboard showing old street scene under railway bridge in Herne Hill, South London SE24.
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  • Property estate agent's billboard showing old street scene under railway bridge in Herne Hill, South London SE24.
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  • Cracked glass and smeared emulsion paint on the window of estate agent Bushells, Streatham, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • The closed door and smeared emulsion paint on the window of estate agent Bushells, Streatham, a victim of the UK recession.
    closed_businesses35-11-01_2009.jpg
  • Housing properties are displayed in a South London estate agent's window with surrounding steet and houses reflected in window
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  • Property estate agent's billboard showing old street scene under railway bridge in Herne Hill, South London SE24.
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  • On day 2 of the annual lawn tennis championships, an unknown tennis player looks at property prices in the window of an estate agent in the south London suburb. The Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world, have been held at the nearby All England Club since 1877.
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  • Graffiti has been sprayed in red with aerosol on the wall of an estate agent in Herne Hill, South London England. "Homes for the Homeless, not Yuppies" it reads along with the Anarchists' Circle-A symbol, meaning that housing should be made available for families needing a roof over their heads, rather than overpricing properties for the middle-classes buying for profit and investment. We see the writing on the wall beneath pictures in windows of houses and flats in the SE24 area where prices are posted along with details of the buildings. The house-buying market climbs according to demand in areas of the city such as this, forcing up values which are out of reach to ordinary, working people unable to climb the property ladder.
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  • An assortment of properties are displayed in a Sevenoaks estate agent's high street window.
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  • A derelict building lies vacant after many years but is now for sale by a local estate agent, on 17th July, at Aveira, Portugal. Across the country, and even at important tourist landmarks, both fine and modest buildings sit vacant and often collapsing. Sometimes it is because a previous generation have passed away to leave properties in the hands of arguing families. Beautiful buildings are therefore left to collapse in town centre. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Images of properties on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London.
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  • Images of properties on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London.
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  • Images of properties on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London.
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  • Images of properties on view in the window of Hampton's International in Clapham High Street, south London.
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  • Trunk of an Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, London.<br />
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A limited edition (6 of 6) Lambda digital framed print created for the Werk Nu (Work Now) exhibition at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium and including specially selected text by Alain de Botton from his 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work' book (Hamish Hamilton, 2009). <br />
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The photograph is the copyright Richard Baker. The text is the copyright Alain de Botton.<br />
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For print sales enquiries email: richard(at)bakerpictures.com
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  • Cracked glass and emulsion painted window of a Leicester Permanent Building Society branch in Bromley High Street, London.
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  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
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  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees and Westminster and city behind, SE24
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  • Early evening lights glow from windows of Edwardian era semi-detached houses with 100 year-old mature ash trees Westminster and city behind, SE24
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  • Looking up towards majestically tall 100 year-old mature Ash trees and blue skies, the sun glints off a window pane in an Edwardian age semi-detached house on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 (its post code) South London England. It is a beauitiful winter afternoon in this inner-city suburban district of Britain's capital, approximately 5 miles south from the River Thames. A couple are walking their dogs past an elegant line of period homes that were completed in 1908, the age of innovative building in the new 20th Century. The properties overlook the borough park named after John Ruskin, the renowned artist and commentator who lived in nearby Herne Hill. It looks an affluent area, a prosperous location to invest in a mortgage in uncertain times with market prices falling during the credit crunch and recession.
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  • A Sold sign outside a property on Royal Circus in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • A Sold sign outside a property on Royal Circus in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • For sale sign for Kinleigh Folkard & Haywood outside property in Fawnbrake Road, London SE24.
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  • Smeared emulsion paint and the remains of credit card stickers seen in the doorway of a former furniture business, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • Cracked glass and emulsion painted window of a Leicester Permanent Building Society branch in Bromley High Street, London.
    closed_business55-15-02_2009.jpg
  • Bent rubbish bins in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors67-09-02-2008...jpg
  • Trunk of a  100 year-old mature Ash tree in front of Edwardian era semi-detached houses on Ruskin Park, Denmark Hill, SE24 London
    ernst+young_counsillors68-09-02-2008...jpg
  • An individual is selling their flat privately for £10,000 + cash on the A202 Peckham Road. Without using an established high street estate agent (realtor) the owner called Nathan has left his own sign attached to railings outside a block of flats on this main road between Camberwell and Peckham in south London. He describes the property as a 2 bed apartment and unusually for London, complete with garage space.
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  • Possessions and rubbish collects outside a repossessed Victorian terraced house in south London. In the foreground we see a For Sale sign strapped on the brick wall by local estate agents Burnet Ware & Graves in Herne Hill, Lambeth SE24. The front bay window has been sealed up with plyboard to stop squatters gaining entrance and the domestic remnants of evicted owners who have perhaps defaulted on their mortgage is thrown on the path - a scene of domestic poverty. As a result of the 1987 a stock market collapse, the UK economy experienced a downturn resulting in public services suffering a reduction, including the loss of owners' homes. The recession of the early 1990s describes the period of economic downturn affecting much of the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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