Rouen real estate: When passion ends up rhyme with reconversion …
For 15 years, Nicolas Capon was a sales engineer at SFR Entreprise. Having started investing in stone at the age of 20, he decided in 2016 to change direction and worked for 5 years as a real estate agent. Now wishing to stand on his own feet, he opened his own agency in Rouen.
Originally from Rouen, Nicolas Capon 42 years old graduated from a BAC Pro Commerce. For 15 years, he was a sales engineer at SFR Entreprise. Concurrently interested in real estate, he began to invest in stone at the age of 20.
In 2016, his discussions with the real estate agent through which he will acquire his future home will mark a turning point in his career. He then decides to change lanes and will work for 5 years as a real estate agent. Now wishing to stand on his own feet, he opened his own agency in Rouen.
“Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and having an appetite for real estate since my youngest age, my retraining is part of a logical sequence,” he explains. I also chose to join the ERA Immobilier network for its dynamism as well as for the support and accompaniment to franchisees. “
Focus on the Rouen real estate market
Composed of more than 110,000 inhabitants, Rouen is the second most populous city in Normandy. While the owners were mostly natives of the region, the situation has changed with the development of teleworking. Indeed, the outfit “city of a hundred spiers” more and more households coming from outside, and in particular Parisians who can return to the capital in just 1h20 by train. This enthusiasm is felt in real estate prices, which have increased by more than 20% in one year. “Sales times have been halved over the same period, going from 30 days to 15 days”, observes Nicolas Capon.
New recruitments are soon planned within the agency TIME OLD MARKETS. In addition to its buying-selling services, the agency includes a whole range of concrete and original services that make the brand’s success: multi-expertise, marketing action plans, etc.