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The Agency Playbook 2027 · Edition 01 · 47 pages · Free
Your listings are on show. Your agents aren’t.
A 47-page plan for independent agencies that want to be the name a buyer already trusts before they ring. Brand, photography, film and the agents themselves, held to one standard for 2027. Yours in full, free.
142
homes listed at £1m+ by 14 independent agencies in one corner of the North West: south Manchester and north Cheshire.
46
of those 142 carry any film or virtual tour. The other 96 are sold on stills alone.
1
shoot day a month on a retainer, planned around what the branch needs at the time.
Source: Rightmove listings, 5 November 2026. Method Haus research.
01 / The 2027 shift
Buyers decide on the agent long before they ring.
01
The house is on show
Stills, a floor plan and more often a film. Every agency in town can show the home well enough. It no longer tells a buyer who to trust.
02
The agent is missing
The person who knows the street, the schools and the price that will hold rarely appears anywhere a buyer or seller is looking.
03
Trust goes to whoever shows up
The agent someone has watched for months is the one they ring first, as a buyer and later as a seller.
02 / Inside Edition 01
Six chapters. Six tools. One plan for the year.
Read it in order or go straight to the chapter you need. Every chapter ends with a one-page tool your team can use the same week.
Intro
Before we start
p. 03
Intro
The 2027 shift
p. 04
01
One brand, every touchpoint
p. 06
02
Editorial photography
p. 12
03
The brochure
p. 18
04
Every agent, on brand
p. 24
05
The series
p. 35
06
From views to valuations
p. 41
Plan
Your 2027 plan
p. 45
p. 04
p. 07
p. 13
p. 25
03 / The toolkit
A tool at the end of every chapter, ready to use on Monday.
Tool 01
Touchpoint Audit
Every place a buyer or seller meets your agency, listed and scored on one page.
Tool 02
Fourteen-Shot List
The fourteen photographs every listing needs, in the order a buyer reads them.
Tool 03
Brochure Spec
Size, paper, layout and copy rules for a brochure sellers keep on the table.
Tool 04
Agent Kit
A portrait, a short bio and the first three posts for every agent in the office.
Tool 05
Season Planner
A year of content planned around the local calendar, not the property calendar.
Tool 06
Fifteen-Point Checklist
Score your agency in ten minutes and see exactly where to start.
04 / Working with Method Haus
The playbook shows you what to do. We do it with you, every month.
One shoot day a month, planned around your patch. Your agents on camera as the people who know the area, your listings shot to the standard in Chapter 02, and every post scheduled for you.
01
Your agents, as local guides
A monthly film with your agents in the streets they sell: the schools, the cafés, the walk to the station. The faces buyers know before they ring.
02
The cuts
Short films from the same shoot day, cut for your agency account and each agent’s own, scheduled and posted for you.
03
Your listings, shot properly
Photography and film for your instructions to the standard in the playbook, booked as you need them.
Six months, or lock your rate for twelve.
Every agency starts on a six-month term. Sign for twelve and your monthly rate is fixed for the whole year, whatever happens to our prices in between.
Term 01
Six months
·
Your place held while the retainer runs
·
Every edition of the playbook library included
·
Rate reviewed at month six
Term 02 · Rate locked
Twelve months
·
Your place held for the full year
·
Every edition of the playbook library included
·
Your monthly rate fixed for all twelve months
A small number of agencies at a time.
That way every shoot day is planned properly and you work with Oli directly. Based in Manchester, working across the North West and beyond.
Ask about availability
Greater Manchester
Available
Cheshire
Available
Merseyside
Available
Lancashire
Available
Cumbria
Available
Further afield
On request
05 / The library
Edition 01 is free. The rest of the library comes with the work.
Four more editions, each taking one part of the playbook all the way through. Clients get every edition as it’s published.
Edition 02
The Visual Standard
A listing is a feature
What it covers
The full photography and film standard for every listing: the shot list, light, grade, captions and the brief your photographer works to.
Why it matters
Buyers judge the agency by the listing before they see the house. One standard makes every instruction look like it came from the same place.
Included for retainer clients
Edition 03
The Agent
The personal brand as a channel
What it covers
Each agent’s profile, portrait and bio, and a posting plan built around the patch they sell, so their account works as a channel for the agency.
Why it matters
Vendors choose a person before they choose an agency. The agent they already follow is the one they ring for a valuation.
Included for retainer clients
Edition 04
The Issue
The agency as local publisher
What it covers
Running the agency like a local magazine: the weekly patch, the long walk, the market note, partners and a quarterly printed issue, planned around the local calendar.
Why it matters
Most people who see your posts aren’t moving this year. Give them a reason to follow, and your name is the one they know when they are.
Included for retainer clients
Edition 05
Views to Valuations
Flywheel, funnel and compliance
What it covers
Turning views into valuation requests: the follow-up, the lead capture, the numbers worth tracking, and the consent and advertising rules that apply.
Why it matters
Views only matter if they turn into valuations, and every step has to hold up on data and property advertising rules.
Included for retainer clients
06 / Who writes it
Written by the person who shoots it.
Oliver Craven, founder of Method Haus. Camera operator on fashion campaigns for Levi’s, Umbro and GQ, then five years filming for businesses that sell on trust: agents, architects, brokers and makers. You work with me directly. No account managers, no hand-offs.
See the work on method.haus ↗
The Agency Playbook 2027 · Edition 01
Read it this week. Use it on Monday.
Get the playbook
Free, in full. 47 pages.
Method Haus Ltd
86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE
Registered in England and Wales, no. 17110293
Contact
info@method.hausBased in
Manchester, UK.
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00 / The playbook
The Agency Playbook 2027 · Edition 01 · 47 pages · Free
Your listings are on show. Your agents aren’t.
A 47-page plan for independent agencies that want to be the name a buyer already trusts before they ring. Brand, photography, film and the agents themselves, held to one standard for 2027. Yours in full, free.
142
homes listed at £1m+ by 14 independent agencies in one corner of the North West: south Manchester and north Cheshire.
46
of those 142 carry any film or virtual tour. The other 96 are sold on stills alone.
1
shoot day a month on a retainer, planned around what the branch needs at the time.
Source: Rightmove listings, 5 November 2026. Method Haus research.
01 / The 2027 shift
01 / The 2027 shift
Buyers decide on the agent long before they ring.
01
The house is on show
Stills, a floor plan and more often a film. Every agency in town can show the home well enough. It no longer tells a buyer who to trust.
02
The agent is missing
The person who knows the street, the schools and the price that will hold rarely appears anywhere a buyer or seller is looking.
03
Trust goes to whoever shows up
The agent someone has watched for months is the one they ring first, as a buyer and later as a seller.
02 / Inside
02 / Inside Edition 01
Six chapters. Six tools. One plan for the year.
Read it in order or go straight to the chapter you need. Every chapter ends with a one-page tool your team can use the same week.
Intro
Before we start
p. 03
Intro
The 2027 shift
p. 04
01
One brand, every touchpoint
p. 06
02
Editorial photography
p. 12
03
The brochure
p. 18
04
Every agent, on brand
p. 24
05
The series
p. 35
06
From views to valuations
p. 41
Plan
Your 2027 plan
p. 45
p. 04
p. 07
p. 13
p. 25
p. 46
03 / The toolkit
03 / The toolkit
A tool at the end of every chapter, ready to use on Monday.
Tool 01
Touchpoint Audit
Every place a buyer or seller meets your agency, listed and scored on one page.
Tool 02
Fourteen-Shot List
The fourteen photographs every listing needs, in the order a buyer reads them.
Tool 03
Brochure Spec
Size, paper, layout and copy rules for a brochure sellers keep on the table.
Tool 04
Agent Kit
A portrait, a short bio and the first three posts for every agent in the office.
Tool 05
Season Planner
A year of content planned around the local calendar, not the property calendar.
Tool 06
Fifteen-Point Checklist
Score your agency in ten minutes and see exactly where to start.
04 / Working with us
04 / Working with Method Haus
The playbook shows you what to do. We do it with you, every month.
One shoot day a month, planned around your patch. Your agents on camera as the people who know the area, your listings shot to the standard in Chapter 02, and every post scheduled for you.
01
Your agents, as local guides
A monthly film with your agents in the streets they sell: the schools, the cafés, the walk to the station. The faces buyers know before they ring.
02
The cuts
Short films from the same shoot day, cut for your agency account and each agent’s own, scheduled and posted for you.
03
Your listings, shot properly
Photography and film for your instructions to the standard in the playbook, booked as you need them.
Six months, or lock your rate for twelve.
Every agency starts on a six-month term. Sign for twelve and your monthly rate is fixed for the whole year, whatever happens to our prices in between.
Term 01
Six months
·
Your place held while the retainer runs
·
Every edition of the playbook library included
·
Rate reviewed at month six
Term 02 · Rate locked
Twelve months
·
Your place held for the full year
·
Every edition of the playbook library included
·
Your monthly rate fixed for all twelve months
A small number of agencies at a time.
That way every shoot day is planned properly and you work with Oli directly. Based in Manchester, working across the North West and beyond.
Ask about availability
Greater Manchester
Available
Cheshire
Available
Merseyside
Available
Lancashire
Available
Cumbria
Available
Further afield
On request
05 / The library
05 / The library
Edition 01 is free. The rest of the library comes with the work.
Four more editions, each taking one part of the playbook all the way through. Clients get every edition as it’s published.
Edition 02
The Visual Standard
A listing is a feature
What it covers
The full photography and film standard for every listing: the shot list, light, grade, captions and the brief your photographer works to.
Why it matters
Buyers judge the agency by the listing before they see the house. One standard makes every instruction look like it came from the same place.
Included for retainer clients
Edition 03
The Agent
The personal brand as a channel
What it covers
Each agent’s profile, portrait and bio, and a posting plan built around the patch they sell, so their account works as a channel for the agency.
Why it matters
Vendors choose a person before they choose an agency. The agent they already follow is the one they ring for a valuation.
Included for retainer clients
Edition 04
The Issue
The agency as local publisher
What it covers
Running the agency like a local magazine: the weekly patch, the long walk, the market note, partners and a quarterly printed issue, planned around the local calendar.
Why it matters
Most people who see your posts aren’t moving this year. Give them a reason to follow, and your name is the one they know when they are.
Included for retainer clients
Edition 05
Views to Valuations
Flywheel, funnel and compliance
What it covers
Turning views into valuation requests: the follow-up, the lead capture, the numbers worth tracking, and the consent and advertising rules that apply.
Why it matters
Views only matter if they turn into valuations, and every step has to hold up on data and property advertising rules.
Included for retainer clients
06 / Who writes it
06 / Who writes it
Written by the person who shoots it.
Oliver Craven, founder of Method Haus. Camera operator on fashion campaigns for Levi’s, Umbro and GQ, then five years filming for businesses that sell on trust: agents, architects, brokers and makers. You work with me directly. No account managers, no hand-offs.
See the work on method.haus ↗
The Agency Playbook 2027 · Edition 01
Read it this week. Use it on Monday.
Get the playbook
Free, in full. 47 pages.
Method Haus Ltd
86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE
Registered in England and Wales, no. 17110293
Contact
info@method.hausBased in
Manchester, UK.
Portfolio
method.haus ↗Privacy
Privacy notice