Letting Agent
Our Landlord Services
As an ARLA licensed and registered SAFE agent, Owen Lyons is able to provide a full range of professional services to Landlords both in the UK and also those living abroad. We can tailor a service from a simple finding a tenant, right up to our popular premier fully managed service. With our premier service we can provide an important rental guarantee, as well as an official end of year tax return for your property portfolio. With our Chelmsford office open 7 days a week, we believe the service we can offer is unbeatable value.
Get In Touch
Safe Agent Fully Endorsed (SAFE) – is a mark denoting firms that protect landlords and tenants money through client money protection schemes. From 27 May 2015, under the requirements set out in the Consumer Rights Act, it became compulsory for all agents to display in their offices and on their websites whether or not they are part of a Client Money Protection Scheme. At Owen Lyons we are registered with a recognised client money protection scheme which means your money is sage with us.
Our Landlord Services
Appraisal
We will carry out an appraisal of your property taking into account all relevant factors which could affect the market value.
Read More
We will consider everything from location, transport links, condition and current market trends, to provide you with a professional and realistic market value. We are experienced with dealing with tenants so can account for the property being tenanted.
Marketing Plan
Our marketing plan will be targeted at finding the type of tenant suitable to for your property and your own requirements.
Read More
We have an extensive marketing tool box, and can offer two office locations, local press and media, property portals, social media, our own website as well as a database of proceedable tenants. Being open 7 days a week and offering late appointments, we are committed to ensure we don’t miss your ideal tenant. We take care in ensuring we understand the type of tenant, whether pets are allowed etc, so we can secure a suitable tenant for you. Timescales are also a significant factor as there may be an outgoing tenant or the property may be vacant. We will ensure any void period is kept to a minimum to protect your investment.
Tenant Find
We can offer a tenant find only service, which will include full marketing of your property.
Read More
This service includes securing a suitable tenant, carrying out full referencing, producing a tenancy agreement, and ensuring all required documents are available, including gas certificates and smoke/ CO2 alarm check sheets. We prepare everything needed to the point of check in and then hand over to the landlord.
We can offer other services for extra charge, such as deposit registration, tenant evict cover, inventory.
Rent Collection
For a small monthly outlay we offer a rent collection service which can include a rental guarantee.
Read More
With this service we monitor the rent payments, produce monthly invoices, keep an audit trail of rent. If the tenant falls behind we have a procedure for chasing for the rent, keeping strict records of actions. If the rent guarantee is required we will have the appropriate audit trail in place to enable recovery of the rent. With this service we will normally hold and register the deposit.
Fully Managed
Our most popular service which takes the stress and pressure away from the Landlord.
Read More
This comprehensive service includes everything from the tenant find and rent collection. In addition we take over the management of your property, including regular inspections, advising tenants where necessary, dealing with maintenance issues, liaising between tenant and contractors, ensuring issues are resolved. We hold the deposit, ensure all required certification is required for items such as gas, smoke & CO2 detector, fire regulations etc. If the tenant fails to pay the rent, we manage the process of recovery, with any court costs covered by the rental guarantee. As a Landlord you can sit back and enjoy your investment.
Recent Properties
