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Lettings

We let and manage high quality properties to attract good tenants. We strive to achieve the best possible letting for you. We will actively market your property using the methods that put the property in the places people are looking.

 

Our service will also focus on the tenant to ensure that when they rent one of our properties they feel "at home ". It is not our intention just to collect the rent and hand over the keys. We will ensure that the tenant receives and understands the information we give.

 

Our standard letting service is detailed below but as each property and client is an individual  the service can be adapted accordingly whether it is Tenant Find only or Full Management.

 

  • Providing a rental valuation of the property and giving advice as required.
  • Inspecting the property, taking photographs and drawing up marketing particulars.
  • Actively marketing the property, using the best of resources both offline and online.
  • The property would be displayed on our own website and a number of other property portals/social media to maximise exposure.
  • Contacting known applicants looking for property to rent of that type.
  • A letting board would be supplied and erected at no additional cost.
  • Arrange for Energy Performance Certificate
  • Conducting Viewings, if required. Whether you conduct viewing or we do, we will ensure that feedback after each viewing is obtained and notify you of each prospective applicant’s response
  • Thorough Tenant’s Credit Checks and Referencing
  • Draft a Tenancy Agreement
  • Prepare a very detailed Inventory and Photographic Schedule of Condition.
  • Contacting Utility companies and Business Rates/Council Tax to notify them of a new tenant.
  • Collection of first month’s/quarter’s Rent and Deposit. Securing the Deposit in one of The Deposit Scheme in accordance with the legislation for Residential Property
  • Arranging Landlord’s Gas Safety Checks and Electrical checks if required.
  • Completion of the standing order mandate for the future rental payments by the Tenant(s)
  • EPC’s

 

Government legislation now requires all “buildings” being built, rented or sold to have and Energy Performance Certificate. A building is defined as a structure with a roof and walls which uses energy to ‘condition an indoor climate’. This means it has heating, air conditioning or mechanical ventilation.

 

The building can either be a whole building or part of a building that has been designed or altered to be used separately. If a building is made up of separate units, each with its own heating system, each unit will need an EPC.

 

The certificate displays the building’s energy rating in a simple graded format, together with carbon emissions and technical data.

 

A separate report lists the ways in which improvements can be made to boost the building’s energy efficiency. Details of the person who carried out the EPC assessment. Who to contact if you want to make a complaint

 

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCS) give information on how to make your “building” more energy efficient and reduce your energy costs.

Buildings that do need an EPC: The following buildings don’t need an EPC when they are built, rented or sold:

 

  • Places of worship
  • Temporary buildings that will be used for less than two years
  • Standalone buildings with total useful floor area of less than 50 square metres that aren’t used to provide living accommodation for a single household
  • Industrial sites, workshops and non-residential agricultural buildings that don't use a lot of energy
  • Holiday accommodation that's rented out for less than 4 months a year or is let under a licence to occupy
  • Unless a building is later modified, EPC's and their recommendation reports are valid for ten years from the date of issue
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