Energy Conservation Checks

Landlords You must make an Energy Performance Certificate available to all prospective tenants the first time you let a property after the 1st October, 2008. Contact the team at the Wrexham office for advice and we can also quickly arrange the provision of an EPC having partnered with Inspexs, a Local Provider and we can commission an assessment and provision of a certificate on your behalf at modest cost.

Tenants If you are interested in renting a property then an Energy Performance Certificate will be made available to you free of charge if you take a tenancy on or after the 1st October 2008. This will help you to compare the likely running costs of different properties and do your bit for the environment.

N. B. An EPC is only required for a property which is self-contained and is valid for 10 years.

Thursday, 25 September 2008

Eagles Meadow Development

The new Eagles Meadow fringe of town centre retail and leisure scheme is due to open in six weeks time to bring a new standard of shopping and leisure provision to Wrexham including a multiplex cinema and bowling alley and an apartment scheme. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/7625447.stm for more information.

Saturday, 20 September 2008

Re-launch

Martin & Co (Wrexham) will formally re-launch their office in Wrexham in mid October. The business run by Chartered Surveyors Lee Bruce MRICS and Michael Edwards FRICS, IRRV has been trading for three years as one of the few Home Rental Specialists in the area and have now joined forces with the UK’s No 1 Letting Agents. The Wrexham office can offer full professional advice in relation to the expanding Private Rental Sector from Investment and Management to Letting and Tenant Find services. We can assist with mortgage advice, arranging contractors to refurbish your properties or fit them out, compliance with Safety and Deposit Regulations and protecting you with Professional Credit Referencing and “free” rental guarantees (not at 29% commission as some agents do) and proper Landlords insurance cover. You will need an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) if you let your property after the 1st October 2008 and we can arrange all this for you.

Lee and Mike have extensive local knowledge and experience of the Wrexham property market and now have the support of Martin & Co UK wide and the ability to market properties across the network of 130 offices stretching from Truro in the South to Aberdeen in the North. The Wrexham office works closely with the Martin & Co offices in Chester, Crewe, Nantwich and the Wirral to provide unrivaled coverage of the region.

Properties are widely marketed on www.martinco.com and www.rightmove.co.uk the UK’s No1 Property Portal where Wrexham has Brand Plus Status and the Showcase feature which enables properties to be highlighted as “Property of the Week” to produce or boost enquiries from prospective tenants. So Landlords make sure you are “fishing in the right pool” and attracting applicants relocating from within and into the area.

Applicants countrywide can call an 0800 number at rightmove and have the call transferred direct to trained staff at Wrexham able to fully assist in fulfilling the applicant needs. We offer a friendly and highly professional service and a unique knowledge of Wrexham, Llangollen and Oswestry and the attractive villages in North East Wales and the Border Counties.

We offer “free” comprehensive property appraisals and a “No Let No Fee” service and can provide concessionary fee packages for portfolio transfers – so what are you waiting for ring Mike or Lee for advice – 01978 316790.

Saturday, 13 September 2008