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Every three months during a letting period, we will conduct a routine visit of your property. Following each visit, a written report will be produced and sent to you.

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When the property is vacant, we can offer a gardening service, including lawn mowing. Keeping the garden tidy during vacant periods improves the experience of viewers and can also deter burglary and vandalism.

Over 1 Million More Buy-To-Let Properties Needed In UK By 2016

The UK may need an extra 1.1 Million private sector rental properties within the next 4 Years as 1 in 5 Households could be in PRS properties.

The number of people renting homes in the UK Private Rented Sector (PRS) has almost doubled over the last ten years, increasing from 2.5 Million tenants in PRS properties in 2002 to 4.8 million tenants today.

‘Rental Britain’ – A new report from Savills estate agency and the property portal Rightmove, predicts that one in five households could be in Private Rented Sector (PRS) property by the year 2016.

That would require an additional 1.1 Million rental properties to be made available for rent to new tenants.

The report may be gloomy reading for the UK Government but it is great news for thousands UK landlords who have already secured their rental incomes using specialist products and services for landlords, such as, Rent Guarantee insurance.

The ‘Rental Britain’ report forecasts that £200 Billion (GBP) investment in property will be needed, but says that only £50 Billion (GBP) of this is expected to come from buy-to let-funding, with the gap filled by institutional investment in new purpose built rental accommodation, but the report says that this needs to be recognised by the planning system.

The report also states that a shortage in supply is making some regions of the UK unaffordable, with PRS rent rises averaging 5.2% across the UK during 2011.

The report estimates that during 2011, working tenants paid around £48 Billion (GBP) in rent to private landlords, and this is expected to rise to around £70 Billion within the next five years.

Lucian Cook, director of Savills residential research, said: “Meeting the growing demand for private renting and the changing profile of tenant demand are perhaps the greatest challenges facing both the housing industry and policy makers. The dynamics of supply and demand make a great case for investment in this sector, and rising rents and lower capital values have begun to attract private investors back into the market. Investment returns relative to other asset classes will dictate the pace of investor entry to this sector.”

As we DO NOT deal with property sales and mortgages, our loyalties lie exclusively with Landlords and Tenants.

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Why Seek Property Letting Agents

The task of finding the right house or property to rent can prove to be very difficult, especially for individuals who are looking for the properties in new neighbourhoods with which they are not very familiar. For the home and property owners, the task of finding the right tenants for their properties is normally just as daunting. Home and property letting agents are a special group of professionals whose main task is to bridge the gap between the owners of properties looking for the right tenants and prospective tenants who are looking for the right houses or properties to rent. In effect, they act as middlemen who connect and bring together the two separate groups.

Most homeowners looking for tenants as well as prospective tenants looking for properties often do not seek the services of letting agents, in spite of the kind of benefits that they stand to gain from doing. One of the greatest reasons for this is the fact that they are not fully aware of the kind of services that are normally provided by the letting agents as well as the benefits that they stand to gain by procuring their services. As such, the subsequent parts of this article will discuss some of the most significant of the services that are normally provided by real estate property letting agents around the world and how these could prove to be of benefit.

For the home and property owners looking for the right tenants to occupy their properties, the first of the services that real estate letting agents normally provide is access to the same. The letting agents Eastbourne undertake to find the right tenants for the properties on behalf of the owners. To this end, most of the agents advertise the availability of the properties in question in order to reach more prospective tenants with the information. After attracting the prospective tenants, the letting agents then evaluate all of them in order to determine the most suitable. In addition to helping property owners find tenants for their properties, most letting agents also provide landlord services. These services, as their title suggests, cover activities that would normally be carried out by the property owner, who is the actual landlord. The most common landlord services that are provided by the agents include the administration of the property. This means that they collect rent on behalf of the owners of the properties and cover the maintenance of the property.

For prospective tenants looking for property to let, procuring the services of a real estate letting agency Eastbourne would make the search relatively a lot easier. This is because the letting agents are normally familiar with properties available for rent in their areas operation and will be able to find you the right house in a much shorter time than you would on your own. In addition, some agents also undertake negotiations over the rent amounts to be paid for the properties and, given their familiarity with the prevailing market rates, are in a much better position to strike the best bargain on your behalf.