Watson
J H Watson Property Management Ltd Trading as Watson. Registered in England & Wales No. 1883919.
Residential Management
Ask anyone, we love what we do. We’re passionate about our craft and we’ve proven our ability to generate real results, helping clients to grow, attract and retain customers.
Experts in property management
Separate to the Block Management side of the business, Watson manage and let properties for the Freeholders and Leaseholders of individual apartments and houses right through to large housing estates. We are experts in marketing residential properties, and are committed to providing a prompt, professional service to any prospective tenants. Watson offer both a Full Management as well as a Let-only service should you be keen to look after your own assets. As part of our Let-only service we:
- Advise on Market Rent and legal requirements for letting
- Advertise online using award winning marketing platforms such as Zoopla and OnTheMarket
- Respond to enquiries and carry out viewings
- Negotiating on your behalf and agreeing terms
- Comprehensively assess and credit check prospective tenants (including Right to Rent)
- Draft in-house tenancy agreements.
- Ensure deposits are lodged with the Deposit Protection Service
- Deal with key handover
If you instruct us to fully manage your property then, in addition to the services above, your property investment will benefit from:
- Rent Collection including invoicing, accounting and credit-control
- Vacant property inspections
- Coordinating Maintenance whether for planned or reactive works
- 24/7 occupier emergency helpline
- Deal with rent review and renewal negotiations on your behalf
Here at Watson we pride ourselves on building strong relationships with our clients – the same team deals with both the lettings and the management, so you will always know who to speak to. With 200 years of experience Watson understands the importance of maximising your income stream, whilst ensuring your property is properly managed. If you would like discuss how we might help you with your investment property, then please get in touch.
Complete transparency, so you know exactly what it's going to cost whether you're a landlord or tenant
Landlord
Let only: 60% of first month’s rent (plus VAT)
Let & Full Management: 40% of first month’s rent (plus VAT) and 10% of monthly rent (plus VAT) collected throughout the tenancy
- Let only: 60% of first month’s rent (plus VAT)
- Let & Full Management: 40% of first month’s rent (plus VAT) and 10% of monthly rent (plus VAT) collected throughout the tenancy
- Additional property inspections £80 per visit (plus VAT)
- One-off preparation of photographic inventory £100 (plus VAT)
- Court Attendance £80 (plus VAT) per hour
- Major works supervision 8% (plus VAT) of total cost of works over £1000
- Landlord withdrawing following let agreed £250 (plus VAT)
- Renewal tenancy agreement £80 (plus vat)
Tenant
We comply with the provisions of the Tenant Fees Act 2019. To that end:
- No referencing fees
- No admin, inventory or check-out fees
- Deposits strictly equivalent to 5 weeks’ rent
- Holding deposits equivalent to 1 week’s rent will be requested before we commence referencing – this can be offset against the deposit above though
- Holding deposits equivalent to 1 week’s rent will be requested before we commence referencing – this can be offset against the deposit above though
- Change to a tenancy (e.g. add/remove a person, pet to be kept in property) £40 (plus VAT)
- Late payment interest for rents over 14 days late may be charged pro-rata at 3% above the Bank of England base rate
- Reasonable costs for replacement security devices (keys, fobs, passes) may be recharged