About us
Manchester property people since 1986.
We have been letting and managing property in Manchester since 1986.
We started with a handful of houses in north Manchester. Four decades later we look after more than a thousand properties, from terraced homes to industrial estates, for landlords who mostly came to us because someone told them to. We have never been the biggest agency in the city. We have been around longer than nearly all of them.
The job is straightforward to describe and hard to do consistently: keep good tenants in good buildings, and keep the owner informed. Most of what we do is the unglamorous half of that sentence.
1986
Established
1,000+
Properties managed
600+
Commercial
500+
Residential
What we do
Three sides of the same business
Residential
Finding tenants, collecting rent, handling repairs, and keeping every certificate current. Around 500 homes, and the paperwork that comes with them.
Residential servicesCommercial
Industrial units, workshops and offices, including seven multi-let sites we run ourselves. Rent reviews, lease renewals and service charge included.
Commercial servicesInvestment
We own property as well as manage it, so when we say a deal does or does not stack up, it is not a theory. We will tell you when to walk away.
Investing with usHow we work
What you can hold us to
- You get a person, not a portal
- You will know your property manager by name and be able to ring them. Nothing about this business works well when it goes through a ticket queue.
- We would rather fix it than report it
- Small problems get dealt with and you hear about it afterwards. You should not have to authorise a washer.
- Bad news early
- Arrears, a tenant leaving, a roof that will not last another winter. You are told while there is still time to do something about it.
- We have seen this before
- Four decades covers two property crashes, a pandemic and every kind of tenant. Very little we run into now is new.
Where we work
Manchester, and wherever the building is
We know the North West, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber best, because that is where most of the portfolio sits. We manage further afield when it makes sense, and we will say so when it does not — a building nobody can get to quickly is a building that gets managed badly.
Property is a people business, and you will be dealing with ours.
Have a look at who you would actually be working with, or just pick up the phone and ask us something.