Lettings Service

A Very Personal Service

At O’Connor Bowden we pride ourselves on providing a personal service. Our directors and our highly experienced management team work in the business each day and are always available to speak with you.

You will have direct telephone and email access to key members of our lettings team both during the day and outside of office hours. Our all-access software systems means our dedicated team can quickly respond to enquiries when mobile, on-site, in the office or even at home.

PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION & ADVICE is also essential to our landlords. We do not just “Let” a property, we make sure our clients are aware of important information relating to: compliance, health & safety, landlord liabilities, rental consents, landlord licensing, money protection and financial matters.

Rental Guarantee & Tenancy Legal Protection

In today’s economy, rent arrears remain a continual concern, that’s why it’s never been more important to protect your investment.

In the event of your tenant not paying the rent due, we can provide a comprehensive rent protection service to our landlords designed to provide peace of mind if a tenant defaults on the rent and/or breaches the tenancy agreement.

• Guaranteed Rent for the duration of the tenancy;
• Free Legal & Court Action costs;

Download our Rent Guarantee Leaflet

Written details available on request

Regional Experience and Knowledge

We are a highly experienced company with knowledge of residential rent values and tenant demand in the regional rental markets.

We manage hundreds of properties in Greater Manchester, Cheshire & Stockport, from studio apartments to executive homes.

Rental Valuation

We assess the rental values for thousands of properties each year for market listing and annual rent reviews.

To help you consider your options, O’Connor Bowden provides a FREE, no obligation confidential valuation service. Discreet desktop valuations also available.

How much rent could your property achieve?…Call us NOW 0161 808 0010

Effective Marketing

We provide a comprehensive marketing package for all properties offered for rent including property staging, photo-shoots with high-definition photography and video footage. Colour coded measured floor plans and comprehensive, informative, downloadable letting particulars are always produced to showcase the property and its benefits.

Intensive social media advertising and internet marketing is undertaken with property portal advertisements included on the UK’s largest agent portal, Rightmove and many of our own websites.

Rightmove

Your property will be advertised by O’Connor Bowden on Rightmove – the UK’s largest property portal, reaching 1,000’s of potential tenants each day on Britain’s most popular property portal.

Our advertisements on Rightmove often generate high volumes of potential tenant enquiries, helping us to let our clients property with great efficiency and success.

Property Alerts

When your property ‘hits the market’, thousands of potential tenants receive our property ‘To Let’ alerts through our in-house subscribed Text, What’s App and Email alert system, as well as notifications through our social media pages.

Twitter @ OCBNorthWest
Facebook @ O’Connor Bowden Greater Manchester

Postal service also available – on request!

Social Media

Showcasing your property on favourite social media sites such as our Facebook and Twitter pages helps to promote local and national awareness of your property as well as providing a communication platform for potential tenants.

Twitter @OCBNorthWest
Facebook @O’Connor Bowden

Letting Particulars

An Absolute Must…We provide downloadable Letting Brochures for your property

Promoting your property, instantly, to as many potential tenants as possible, helps maximise interest. Our downloadable letting brochures are available from our portal and website advertisements.

We are often complemented for our comprehensive, easy to read and informative letting brochures, supported by multiple photographs, measured floor plans and a summary of all relevant rental information.

Our Website

Our highly optimized mobile-friendly website www.oconnorbowden.uk, promotes your property alongside dedicated portal advertisements and social media advertising.

For some of our residential developments we also operate dedicated websites and social media pages to enhance promotion.

Our advertisements are designed with multi-room photography, video display, measured colour coded floor plans, comprehensive property description, specification summary, accommodation schedules and amenities information.

Photography

“A picture is often worth a thousand words”

This why we take as many pictures of your property as possible, for use on our websites, property portal advertisements, social media accounts, letting particulars, in-house digital displays and promotional brochures.

Floor Plans

After considering the asking rent, most tenants try to visualize the appearance and layout of the property. We believe, our measured colour coded floor plans with complementary ‘room by room’ photography, helps to create a detailed image of the property, increases enquiries and viewing appointments.

Our floor plans help tenants to get a clear perspective of your property and their future home.

Viewing Appointments

We offer flexible, daytime and evening viewing appointments to all perspective tenants.

Our team always accompany potential new tenants, ensuring every element of the home is considered, confirm the specification and discuss the full terms of the tenancy and obligations before negotiating a new letting.

Tenant Qualification for Rental

With no shortage of tenant enquiries our efficient tenant pre-qualification process helps to ensure potential applicants are likely to meet our ‘professional third-party tenant referencing’ criteria from the outset.

Before committing to a property viewing, we verify the proposed occupancy levels, the applicants have the ‘right to rent’, the financial means to support the tenancy and hold a suitable credit score or record.

From To Let to LET

Let us help you eliminate void periods and maximize your income by keeping your investment property fully occupied.

Market your property TO LET with O’Connor Bowden today!

Set up by Landlords 4 Landlords

Our services are driven towards the needs of the Landlord and the asset management of their properties. With many of our directors, managers and staff being landlords too, we fully understand the needs, challenges and aspects of owning investment property.

We are Corporate Members of The National Residential Landlords Association.

PRS Property Redress Scheme

O’Connor Bowden have chosen membership with the PRS Property Redress Scheme, open to Property Professionals who wish to provide added peace of mind to their clients and customers

Click here to view our PRS Membership Certificate

Client Money Protection

YOUR MONEY IS SAFE.

Rent is protected by O’Connor Bowden with our segregated client accounts and our membership with Client Money Protect.

Click Here to view our CMP Membership Certificate

Complaints Procedure

We always strive to provide the best possible service to our Landlords and our Tenants and sincerely hope there is never a need to raise a complaint, but should you have any complaints about the service you have received from O’Connor Bowden we want you to tell us, so we can try to resolve the problem and continually improve our service.

All complaints are dealt with at a senior level and you will have access to a Director at all times if required – just ask!

Please see below, details of our Complaints Procedure as well as the membership details of our Authorised Redress Scheme.

Download our Complaint Procedure & Form

Download the Property Redress Scheme Complainant Leaflet