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Estate agents

Estate agent boards in Northern Ireland

For sale and to let boards for 140 branches across Northern Ireland. Branches order through their own online system, orders placed before 3.30pm go up the next day, and our 12 vans erect, change and remove every board with our own crews.

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branches supplied across NI
140
branches supplied across NI
liveried vans on set routes
12
liveried vans on set routes
order cut-off for next-day erection
3.30pm
order cut-off for next-day erection
making boards and signs since
1989
making boards and signs since

The board service

What the board service covers

Agencies rarely want to buy boards. They want a board to appear when a property is listed and to disappear when it completes, without a branch manager chasing it. That is what we sell, and it is why branches stay with us for years rather than moving on price.

Racked estate agent for sale boards ready for the next day's delivery run

What the service covers

  • For sale and to let boards made up with post, slips and fittings, in your own artwork.
  • Erecting by our own crews, on scheduled routes rather than ad hoc call-outs.
  • Sold and Let slips added on request, usually on the next run through that area.
  • Removal raised as its own job, so a board is lifted after completion instead of being forgotten.
  • Stock control on your boards, so returned boards are reused rather than reprinted.
  • Window display systems and branch signage from the same workshop.

How ordering works

The journey starts here

  1. Estate agency branch front in Belfast

    Step 1

    Log in

    Branch staff sign in through the Estate Agents Login at the top of every page. No phone call, no email, and no waiting on someone in the office to raise it.

  2. Racks of estate agent boards in the Mallusk workshop

    Step 2

    Choose the product

    Pick the board, the slip or the window display you need from your own artwork, already held on file. Nothing is redesigned and nothing is re-approved.

  3. Barrett Group staff at work in the Mallusk workshop

    Step 3

    Stock counted and assembled

    Your returned boards are counted back into stock first, so a reusable board is reused rather than reprinted. The rest are made up with post, slips and fittings.

  4. Barrett Group vans in the yard at Mallusk

    Step 4

    Out on the next van

    The job is loaded onto the delivery run for your area. Order before 3.30pm and it goes out the next day, because your town is already on a route.

Estate Agents Login

Ordering, and why branches use it

Branch staff log in, choose what they need, and the job is raised. Stock is counted, the boards are assembled, and they go out on the next van. Order before 3.30pm and we aim to deliver the next day.

The system matters more than it sounds. It means a branch can see what is outstanding without ringing anyone, and it means the removal gets scheduled by the same process that scheduled the erection. Boards overstaying outside sold properties is nearly always a process failure rather than a supplier failure, and this is the fix.

Why the vans are the business

Anyone with a printer can make a board. The hard part is twelve vans, set routes, crews who know the estates, and enough volume on each run that a single board in Ballymena is not a special trip. That is thirty seven years of route building, and it is the reason we can be quick without being expensive.

Estate agent signs, boards and branch signage

Estate agent signs cover more than the board in the garden. The same artwork runs across the for sale board, the To Let board, the branch fascia, the window display and the negotiator's car, and we make all of it. Agencies who buy estate agent signs from one supplier stop having three versions of their own logo in circulation.

If you are pricing estate agent signs against a printer, the difference is the erecting and the removal. A printed board is a product. An estate agent sign that appears the day a property lists and disappears the week it completes is a service, and that is what the twelve vans are for.

Board rules in Northern Ireland

A sale or letting board has deemed consent in Northern Ireland as long as it stays inside Class 3 of the advertisement regulations: one board per property, on the property itself, no larger than 2 square metres, unlit, and removed within 14 days of completion. Removal is the condition branches get caught on, which is why ours is raised as a job automatically. We have set out the full rules in our guide to estate agent board rules in Northern Ireland.

Recent work

Estate agency work

  • Pinpoint estate agency shop front signage on the Lisburn Road, Belfast

    Pinpoint

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  • Simon Brien estate agency branch signage in Belfast

    Simon Brien Belfast

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  • Campbell and Co shop front fascia signage

    Campbell & Co

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  • AM PM estate agency illuminated shop front signage

    AM PM

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  • Dougan Residential estate agency office signage

    Dougan Residential

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  • PropertyPal branded vehicle graphics

    PropertyPal

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  • Williams Estate Agents shop front signage and mortgage centre sign

    Williams Estate Agents

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  • Forsythe estate agency branch signage

    Forsythe

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  • Simon Brien estate agency signage in Newtownards

    Simon Brien Estate Agents Newtownards

    Estate Agents

  • GOC Estate Agents illuminated shop front signage

    GOC Estate Agents

    Estate Agents

  • Ulster Property Sales Newtownards branch signage

    UPS Estate Agents Newtownards

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  • Crawford Mulholland estate agency shop front

    Crawford Mulholland

    Estate Agents

  • Armstrong Gordon estate agency signage in Portstewart

    Armstrong Gordon Portstewart

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  • McGeown Estate Agents shop front signage

    McGeown Estate Agents

    Estate Agents

  • McClearys estate agency premises signage

    McClearys

    Estate Agents

  • Philip Tweedie estate agency signage in Portstewart

    Philip Tweedie Portstewart

    Estate Agents

  • Cross Group office signage

    Cross Group

    Estate Agents

  • HMK Property estate agency signage

    HMK Property

    Estate Agents

  • Reeds Rains estate agency branch signage

    Reeds Rains

    Estate Agents

  • Ulster Property Sales branch signage

    Ulster Property Sales

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  • Rodgers Residential estate agency shop front

    Rodgers Residential

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Common questions

What are the rules for estate agent boards in Northern Ireland?
Under Class 3 of the Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015, a sale or letting board has deemed consent if it is on the property being marketed, there is only one board (or two joined boards), it is no bigger than 2 square metres (2.5 square metres for two joined boards), it is not illuminated, no part is more than 5 metres above ground, and it comes down within 14 days of the sale completing or the tenancy being granted.
How much do estate agent boards cost?
Most agencies buy a managed board service rather than individual boards, so the useful number is the cost per property listed: the board, post and fittings, erecting it, adding the Sold or Let slip and removing it. That depends mostly on your listing volume and where the properties are, which is why we price the whole service for a branch rather than quoting per board.
How quickly can a board go up?
Order through the branch system before 3.30pm and it goes out on the next day's van run for your area. Most boards are up within twenty four hours of the order.
Do you remove boards as well as erect them?
Yes, and it is the part that matters most. Removal is raised as its own job and goes on the same van route, so boards do not sit outside sold properties for weeks.
How many branches do you supply?
140 estate agent branches across Northern Ireland, which makes Barrett Group the largest estate agents supplier in Northern Ireland.
Can we get our own board design?
Yes. We hold your artwork and board specification on file, so every board matches and a new branch gets the same board as the rest without a design conversation.
What areas do you cover?
All of Northern Ireland, from twelve liveried vans running set routes out of Mallusk. Belfast, Lisburn, Newtownards, Bangor, Ballymena, Coleraine, Newry and Derry are all on scheduled runs.

Boards and signage by town

Belfast Lisburn Newtownards Bangor Ballymena Coleraine Newry Derry

Estate agent boards by town: Lisburn , Belfast , Newtownards , Coleraine

Open a branch account

Tell us how many properties you list a month and where, and we will price the whole service rather than a board.

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