A New Kind of Estate Agency is Now Open

Taylor Ross launches residential sales across Lincoln and the surrounding areas. Managing Partner Marcus Askam-Yates explains what that means, and why he built it the way he did.

 

There are plenty of estate agencies in Lincolnshire. What there has not always been is enough of the right kind.

Taylor Ross was founded on a straightforward belief: that buying and selling a home should be a better experience than it too often is. That sellers deserve more than a board, a Rightmove listing, and silence. That the difference between a good agent and a poor one is not just a matter of service. It is a matter of outcome.

Today, that belief becomes a sales service.

Built From Experience, Not Just Ambition

Marcus Askam-Yates has spent more than a decade working in Lincolnshire property, covering lettings, investment and residential sales. Over those years, he has seen the full range of how estate agency can operate. The best of it, and a great deal of the worst.

The decision to launch Taylor Ross Sales was not a sudden one.

“Launching sales has been a long time coming. Over the years I have bought and sold a number of properties myself, and I have experienced first-hand what it feels like to be on the receiving end of poor agency service. The missed calls, the lack of updates, the sense that once the board went up, you were on your own.

I have also seen it from the other side, working alongside agents through investment and lettings work, watching how the best ones operate and how much difference the right representation makes to the outcome.”

Marcus Askam-Yates, Managing Partner

That accumulated experience is the foundation everything at Taylor Ross is built on. Not a franchise model. Not a volume target. A considered, personal approach to selling homes, shaped by years of watching what works and what does not.

Why Lincolnshire?

Taylor Ross Sales covers Lincoln and the surrounding areas, and the county itself is central to what makes this launch feel meaningful.

“Lincolnshire is a special place to work in property. The range of homes here, from city centre flats to rural smallholdings, means no two instructions are ever the same. That variety is something I genuinely love, and it is what makes this launch feel so right.”

Marcus Askam-Yates, Managing Partner

From the cathedral quarter to the Wolds, from Victorian terraces in Lincoln to period farmhouses in the south of the county, the breadth of Lincolnshire’s housing stock demands an agent who understands it properly. One who can approach each instruction on its own terms, and present it to the right buyers in the right way.

A sales service built around the seller

The experience of being let down by an estate agent is one that an uncomfortable number of sellers share. The initial enthusiasm. The valuation that felt a little too flattering. The slow drift into silence once the instruction was won.

Marcus founded Taylor Ross because he had seen that pattern from both sides, and he wanted to do something different.

“Too many sellers are let down by agents who win the instruction and then go quiet. I wanted to build something different. A sales service that operates the way I believe an estate agency should, with honesty, care, and a genuine commitment to the result, wherever in the county your home happens to be.”

Marcus Askam-Yates, Managing Partner

At Taylor Ross, that commitment means honest pricing advice from the outset. Professional photography and considered presentation as standard. Proactive communication throughout the process, not updates only when pushed for. And genuine negotiation on your behalf when offers come in.

It means working with a focused portfolio of properties rather than chasing volume, so that every instruction receives the time and attention it deserves.

Trust, Tradition, Transparency

The values that Taylor Ross was built on are not complicated, but they are not common either.


Trust
Everything in a property transaction depends on it. The advice you receive on price, the information you are given about the market, the feedback after every viewing.

Tradition

Personal service. Local knowledge. A genuine relationship between agent and client, not a transaction managed by algorithm.

Transparency
Sellers deserve to understand what is happening with their sale at every stage. Even when the honest picture is not what they were hoping for.

These are not marketing words at Taylor Ross. They are the practical standard by which every instruction is handled.

If you are thinking about selling

Marcus would be glad to have a conversation. No obligation and no pressure. Just an honest assessment of your property and a clear explanation of how Taylor Ross can help you achieve the best possible result.

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