Property Management

Correctly managing your properties is a fundamental part of any landlord’s business. We have set up our own lettings and management company to look after our own properties and bridge the gap to provide landlords with the level of service that we believe was missing from the market.

We fully understand the market and the challenges that we as landlords can face. Agents play such a vital role in our businesses and for too long we believe they have been able to get away with giving a sub-standard service which leaves cashflow negatively affected and ourselves as landlords exposed if they are not ensuring our properties are kept in good condition and compliance regulations adhered to through regular inspections and having proper systems in place.

Why William Joyce Lettings?

We are committed to providing a high quality service, at reasonable costs and we do what we say we will do, without fail.

We do not believe in high set up costs – we charge a one-off fee of £150 to set up your property. If we take on a fully-let property, we will waive the set up fee altogether. If you are under ‘full management’ then we do not charge for things such as tenancy renewals as we believe this should be included as part of our full management service. HMO tenants tend to change over more regularly than single lets so charging additionally for things such as tenancy set ups/renewals could see your cashflow impacted by hundreds per property, per year!

We pride ourselves on the service that we have created and we are so confident in our set up that we do not tie our landlords into any fixed term contracts. Our contracts are rolling one-monthly so if for whatever reason you no longer needed our management, you are free to leave. This flexibility gets rid of the ‘sales’ element where agents are good at the start to sign new clients up and then a significant drop off in service one you are tied in and cannot leave.

Our full property management includes the following:

• Full marketing on all major property portals including SpareRoom, Zoopla, Open Market and more.
• Full rental appraisal upon taking over the property.
• Viewings for potential new tenants.
• Referencing and credit checks for potential new tenants – reports available for you to view.
• AST and relevant lettings paperwork for check in.
• Full inventory on tenant check in.
• Take and register tenant’s deposit with The Deposit Protection Scheme.
• Rent collection and monthly statements for the landlord.
• Periodic inspections (agreed with the landlord) and subsequent reports.
• Deal with certificates and renewals.
• Organise maintenance of the property. Pre-agreed budgets to be confirmed by the landlord.
• Check out service on tenancy completion.
• Service of required notices to regain possession of the property if necessary.