North Oxford Property Services
Oxford, OX2
1.5/5, 78 reviews
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Feb 28,2012
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By: 'Bloodclaat'
Feb 28,2012
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I wrote a review on their places page but someone at the company deleted it! I asked Google if this was allowed and it is, because they 'run' the google page.

Like other reviewers I am very unhappy with their service. The main problems are that:
The contract is hugely in their favour, with several hidden charges, yet they don't even adhere to their paltry commitments. Further they are truly awful at responding to calls and emails. For example:

a) I was told the house would be 'professionally cleaned' ( I almost laughed aloud when the girl told me this while showing me it. My pessimism was right). Instead when I moved in at the long-agreed time there was still a couple of cleaners giving the house a desperate wipe around. All the rooms were dirty and the bathroom was horrendous. I will have to pay a 'charge' of £50 to get the house cleaned when I leave. Clearly they hire a couple of minimum wage cleaners for a couple of hours and pocket the rest.

b) Several vital appliances were broken upon moving in. When i complained about this they didn't respond to the email for ages then gave me a vague promise it'd be sorted. Now repairmen turn up without us being giving the requisite notice, and one even let himself in! Recurring problems have met the same response: long delay without response, then surprise visit from repairman.

c) They NEVER answer the office phone.

d) Despite the inadequate number of bike racks around the apartment blocks, they leave rude notices around forbidding bikes being locked to anything but an official rack.

e)No locks on the doors in our 3 bedroom apartment.

f) anyone can get into apartment blocks by pressing 'tradesmen' button. We were never told about this!
What agent could do to change your mind?
They mislead prospective tenants about the quality the home will be in on arrival, don't adhere to agreed move-in times, hide rip-off clauses in the contract, monopolize North Oxford, and use that to mark up rents, don't respond to customer contact-which is a key responsibility of theirs, for which they take money from both landlords and tenants!, invade homes without giving the required notice. They shouldn't have done any of this. Their monopoly will remain, and their student tenants are here for such little time that few will bother making complaints. But perhaps, if some tenants read this review, they too will complain and NOPS will provide better service to their overcharged customers.
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By: Debbie
Jun 25, 2014
The contracts set out clearly your rights and obligations and our own rights and obligations. These all comply with the latest Landlord and Tenant legislation and we cannot create contracts that are in our favour.

As mentioned elsewhere, we provide all new tenants with an inventory when they move into their property. This has to be returned within 7 days and you are able to annotate it with details of any problems you have found in the property.

We always aim to be polite to people and to respond promptly. We are sorry if our service didn't meet your expectations.

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  • Friday: 09:00 - 17:30
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North Oxford Property Services
47 Walton Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX2 6AD
01865 311745

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Liza showed us round a couple of properties of interest to us and the properties were nice and tidy and the locations were good for easy access to Oxford Brooke’s University. Liza was very professional and knowledgable and we felt in safe hands with ...
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Anyone reading this should ignore this review and refer to all the others, this is plainly written by one of their members of staff, NOPS have a poor reputation for a reason, and that is that they treat tenants like garbage. They rent properties belonging to one of the worst slum landlords operating in Oxford, a bumsplat by the name of Oliver Cohen who also calls himself the "Rent Guru" (look him up, he is a real piece of work). If you're a student at University and you want to avoid awful prope ...

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Terrible Service in the past where twice at the end of the tenancy agreement keptpart oor all the deposit. Be aware!...
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“The truth about NOPS Agency...”

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Nov 19,2022
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I never write reviews but I think this can help many people. Especially students, which in most cases are treated with much insignificance. NOPS it's a complete scam. We had many problems with the house in September. The house did not cover the furnished criteria ...
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“I can't say we weren't warned against NOPS.......”

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Dec 20,2021
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I can't say we weren't warned against NOPS. Six months ago some friends and I were (desperately) searching for a new house. In our search for new housemates, we met a wise old Oxford grad student, who told us: there is one rule of renting ...
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“STAY AWAY FROL NOPS!!!!!...”

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Sep 07,2021
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Sep 07,2021
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I don’t usually write reviews but I’m trying to help other people waste as much money and time and sadness as me. WORST experience of my life dealing with an agent, and in general , I haven’t been this mistreated in my life ...
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“My year living in a property from NOPS was ho......”

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Aug 25,2021
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Aug 25,2021
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My year living in a property from NOPS was horrific and stays with me years on. Shocking. Times without a stair case. Mouldy. Electric shocks from shower. Flooding. Leaks… the list goes on. The impact was visible on everyone’s health of living in such ...
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“their treatment of tenants is appalling. They......”

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Jun 12,2021
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their treatment of tenants is appalling. They lie to them, humiliate them, and seemingly try to prevent them from securing basic housing. This appalling treatment of tenants is often rooted in prejudice against tenants on universal credit and manifests as unlawful discrimination....
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“Damp mouldy house, deposit nightmare, unhelpful service....”

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Nov 30,2020
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By: 'Josh'
Nov 30,2020
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Ridiculously damp house, made most of the tenants ill. Clothes wouldn't dry when hung up and were left with a stale smell on them. The old dehumidifier present in my bedroom should've been a sign of things to come, as well as the broken shelves ...
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“I've been through many many estate agents in my lifetime. ......”

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Nov 25,2020
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Nov 25,2020
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I've been through many many estate agents in my lifetime. Of all of them, these are by far the worst. I thought the experience was below average already until they tried to charge me for my deposit. Things like £60 to change a light bulb, £300 for ...
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“The worst letting agent/ property manager eve......”

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Oct 27,2020
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By: 'zel'
Oct 27,2020
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The worst letting agent/ property manager ever. We moved into a student house in Oxford in early October 2020 and since then we have been dealing with a half functioning house. Not only was furniture missing or broken when we moved in, NOPS have been unreasonable ...
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“The worst people I have ever dealt with in my......”

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Sep 16,2020
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By: 'Christine'
Sep 16,2020
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The worst people I have ever dealt with in my life. Both, NOPS, and Rentguru are low-life scums. They don't give a shit about anything. They never gave my deposit back even though I left the room better than how I found it when I ...
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“Literally the worst agents EVERRRR. Bunch of ......”

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Sep 02,2020
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Sep 02,2020
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Literally the worst agents EVERRRR. Bunch of crooks constantly maniupilating you for payments after payments while providing less than average service. In fact the poorest service ever...
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“First off I'd like to point out that the majo......”

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Jun 30,2020
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Jun 30,2020
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First off I'd like to point out that the majority of this review will be directed at the rent guru who work in partnership with NOPS who I found to be worse than NOPS themselves, hence only 2 stars. What limited communication I did have with ...
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“Yet another negative review for NOPS. I shoul......”

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Oct 07,2019
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Oct 07,2019
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Yet another negative review for NOPS. I should have read the reviews before renting from them, but given the time of year -sep- there were very few agency options left on the market (The real reviews ). When I moved to the flat, it had a ...
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By: Leila
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I should have read the comments as well... there were not a lot of options left so I had to deal with them. I visited beforehand a flat. When I was about to pay they told me it was not available anymore but another one in the same building was available. And here I am in a old and dirty place when the other was renovated. The word? I am paying 50£ more than the other one for a flat in very poor condition... ...

“This is not a reputable company at all , in m......”

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Sep 12,2019
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By: 'Susan'
Sep 12,2019
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This is not a reputable company at all , in my opinion. Although the house that was rented for my son plus 3 other students was OK, it was not professionally cleaned when they arrived yet they wanted to charge for professional cleaners once the lease was ...
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“AWFUL! Avoid at all costs!...”

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Aug 20,2019
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By: 'Lilly'
Aug 20,2019
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AWFUL! I have put a number of complaints in about the property I am renting which is far to small and way over priced! For them to put off ever coming to fix the issues I have raised! I rarely get 24 hours notice of when ...
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“AVOID AT ALL COST...”

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Aug 07,2019
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By: 'Vulcania'
Aug 07,2019
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After a year of renting with NOPS, there are too many individual instances of frustration for me to fit into this Google Review. The gist is: NOPS exploits the oligopolized structure and lack of accomodation on the Oxford Student letting market by renting out low-quality ...
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“Con Artists...”

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Dec 11,2018
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By: 'Student'
Dec 11,2018
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These people enjoy the exploitation of ill-informed student tenants, which turns out to be their shiny business model in an oligopoly. They will rinse and charge you extremely disproportionate fees where they can, particularly on insignificant and nuanced issues allowing them to keep students in ...
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Bad, dispraportionate costs.
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“NOPS = HELL MONGERS...”

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Sep 17,2018
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By: 'Down'
Sep 17,2018
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Where to begin. I rented from these con artists for three years, and only stayed with them because I was too poor to afford the fees to put down on another place and was able to transfer my deposit from one flat to another. They ...
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All a rip off
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“Please DO NOT USE NOPs...”

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Sep 13,2018
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By: 'Claire'
Sep 13,2018
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We used NOPs to rent a property in Jericho last year. They were generally unhelpful, disorganised and unprofessional. When we complained about various maintenance issues, they often would ignore our emails or when they did respond it would take weeks, even months, to get the ...
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Extortionate
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“Appalling experience...”

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Jun 25,2018
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By: 'A'
Jun 25,2018
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Shortly after moving in, we realised that there were RATS in the house (located near Abingdon Road). After one extenuating month the property manager and the landlord finally decided to move some of the kitchen furniture, revealing a large crack in the floor from where ...
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Nasty contract termination fee
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There are rats holes in the flat when I moved in, and I complaint to them for eight times, they do not take any actions to deal with it. ...

“Clean, modern apartment...”

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Mar 19,2018
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By: 'Sarah'
Mar 19,2018
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We stayed in one of the apartments close to the city centre and were very pleased with accommodation and services. A modern, clean apartment. Pretty good customer service, no better or worse than the other letting agents we've dealt with. While we stayed there was ...
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“Rude, arrogant and condescending rip off merchants. They tried to ......”

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Jan 03,2018
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By: 'Got'
Jan 03,2018
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Rude, arrogant and condescending rip off merchants. They tried to charge an extremely over inflated cleaning bill from Colleen the cleaner. 23 hours to clean a house. When I questioned the time and asked for a breakdown she said we do move the chairs. We got ...
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Extortionate
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“Crooks. Moved into a disgusting house which they dared claim ......”

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Oct 23,2017
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By: 'student'
Oct 23,2017
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Crooks. Moved into a disgusting house which they dared claim had been cleaned. Washing machine was already broken and yet they charged us for it. Make sure you read the tenancy agreement fully and see how shady it is before you sign. For example, if ...
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“Never use this bunch of cowboys - they lie they ......”

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Oct 12,2017
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By: 'V'
Oct 12,2017
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Never use this bunch of cowboys - they lie they cheat and they do NOT return deposits! They let sub standard property and then have the cheek to demand money for cleaning - £300??? When 3 students had cleaned the property - they are a bunch of ...
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Do NOT rent a property from them - simple they are cheats and liars.
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“NOPS has been the least professional and most unethical rental ......”

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Sep 27,2017
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By: 'Cheated'
Sep 27,2017
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NOPS has been the least professional and most unethical rental company we have ever interacted with. There with problems while we were in the unit (including unaddressed excessive mold) as well as while trying to get our deposit back. Avoid at all costs....
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“We have been renting a student property with NOPS for ......”

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Sep 20,2017
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By: 'helen'
Sep 20,2017
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We have been renting a student property with NOPS for my daughter and her two friends, Hannah George, has always been really helpful and quick to respond to any questions, it's very precieus for Foreigner ....
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it's correct
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“NOPS is an incredibly scammy company. They have a dodgy ......”

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Sep 14,2017
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By: 'Aidan'
Sep 14,2017
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NOPS is an incredibly scammy company. They have a dodgy connection with a local cleaning company and will try and charge you a £600 'cleaning fee' even after professional cleaning has been done at the end of a tenancy. When reporting a creaky and clearly broken ...
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“The absolute worst. Some things:- They mistyped four out ......”

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Sep 13,2017
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By: 'Betteredge'
Sep 13,2017
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The absolute worst. Some things: - They mistyped four out of five of our email addresses when sending out the tenancy paperwork, so once we figured this out we had to scramble to get everything ready in the final few days before the tenancy started. (...
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Bad. See above: the fee for sending a checkout report to the landlord was subtracted from our deposit.
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“Mould ridden, damp and electrically unsafe house. NOPS response was ......”

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Sep 02,2017
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By: 'Dr'
Sep 02,2017
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Mould ridden, damp and electrically unsafe house. NOPS response was to blame student lifestyle.....even prior to tenancy. Poor quality standard at huge cost. Constant requests for rectification of issues were poorly dealt with or ignored. A very expensive lesson learned!...
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Tenant Fees

Holding Deposit (per tenancy)

1 weeks rent

Last updated on 04/06/2019, 3:49 PM by Buddy Swailes

Tenancy Deposit

5 Weeks Rent

Last updated on 04/06/2019, 3:55 PM by Buddy Swailes

Lost Keys

Lost Key Replacement or Change of Lock or Locks

Last updated on 04/06/2019, 3:56 PM by Buddy Swailes

Early Termination

Early Termination Charge For Vacating Tenant £50.00 inc VAT

Last updated on 04/06/2019, 3:54 PM by Buddy Swailes

Kindly note that legally, letting agents need to publish information about their tenancy fees, government-approved redress schemes and client money protection schemes on their website and on third party websites (on which agents are listed). For properties to lease/rent in England, agents need to keep this information up to date and precise on allAgents or specify within the property description.

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