Tenant Fees
We DO NOT charge fees to tenants moving into our properties.
Our landlords require a one-off security deposit which is normally an amount of 5-weeks rent and this gets secured in one of the government recommended schemes for security purposes and upon vacating the property this is refunded, so long as the property is handed back in the condition it is found in (you will be advised on the exact protection scheme when you move in).
Fees that CAN BE charged are:
Variation of Contract:
£50 (including VAT) per agreed variation at the tenant’s request to include the cost of the preparation and execution of new documentation.
£50 (including VAT) per agreed variation at the tenant’s request to keep a pet at the property.
Reasonable Charges for Breach of Contract:
Unauthorised late payment of rent after 14 days: 3% above Bank of England base rate.
£50 (including VAT) per agreed replacement tenant at the tenant’s request to include the cos of Right to Rent checks, deposit registration and the preparation and execution of new legal documents.
Reasonable charges for lost keys or security fobs.
Reasonable charges for de-fleaing a property as a result of tenants having pets.
Reasonable charges for gardening or grounds maintenance.
Early Termination
If the tenant wishes to leave the contract early and there is no brea clause, the tenant shall pay the rent until the start date of any replacement tenancy together with the landlord’s re-letting costs (in accordance with our published landlord letting fees); such costs to be no more that the maximum amount of rent outstanding on the tenancy.
Ask us about our FlatFair scheme should you not have or not want to pay the full 5-week deposit.
We are members of The Property Ombudsman (TPO) and Propertymark for our client money protection (CMP) scheme
Last updated at 18/07/2019, 5:30 PM by Kelly Powell
In a buoyant market the fairest way to showcase a property is via an open day. We invite as many interested applicants as possible to view at a designated time and then we generally get many offers. The fairest way is to request full and final offers from all interested viewers and there is always disappointment which is always going to be the case when multiple offers are put forward. We then put all offers to the vendors and they make the final decision as to their preferred purchaser based on price and position. We can only mediate and guide the situation.
With much frustration a fellow competitive estate agent then calls the vendor telling them that they would be able to get a much higher bid for their property if they had been instructed and the vendor believes them and so the vendor tells us they want more money and therefore to decline all offers and to put the property back on the market for a realistic price!
It would be unprofessional of me to make any comment about this practice but I can see why agents get a bad name for themselves when this type of sharp practice happens. Sadly some corporate agents make this common practice when they are not the instructed agent after they conduct a valuation!
I sincerely feel for purchasers at the moment but the market is not our doing. Believe it or not we are a moral business and the sharp practices are from fellow agents and not us and it really frustrates us!
MD