Increased access to property and related services can only make our lives easier. No doubt technology will continue to improve and the level of services will get better and better and the online market consolidates and shakes out the weaker players, leaving the best sites with the best services and deepest portfolios of property. At least we now have the option to buy or sell ourselves, if we are willing to take the risk and added pressure. As for estate agents, it seems we likely to be dealing with them for some time longer. Whether they will survive in their present form is debatable.
Many customers already insist that their property is displayed online.
In which case it is quite possible that the agent will no longer need the high street presence they rely on so heavily at present.