Independent Bristol Property Management Agency Warns About Online Letting Agents

As a leading and award-winning independent lettings agency in Bristol, Intire Letting Agents maintains a vigilant eye on the developments in the lettings market to ensure that the company’s offerings to buy-to-let property owners and investors as well as professional tenants is competitive and the best in the market for helping client landlords in and around Bristol.

There has been an advent of virtual letting agents with purely online presence in the UK market with television and internet ads touting the cost savings offered by such internet-based property services.

There has been an emergence of internet estate agents as well. Their television ads promise to save over £5,000 per property sale transaction for property investors, buy-to-let landlords, private house buyers and house sellers in the South-West of England. The savings come about when compared with the fees charged by regional, office-based brick and mortar estate and property agents.

Whereas cost savings generated by purely online property services can be understood, provided the property owners are willing to chip in with their time and effort for certain activities, such as property viewings, many questions arise about the quality of the services offered by the internet-based property management services.

There are several competencies and benefits that a virtual letting agency would find very difficult to provide when compared with award-winning local letting agents like Intire. These include:

Decades of Bristol specific letting agency expertise and knowledge of neighbourhoods. Knowledge about the peculiarities of the lettings sector in Bristol. Huge network of property service providers and associated contacts that client landlords can utilise. Providing face-to-face in-person services for finding and keeping good tenants.

For obvious reasons, a virtual internet-only property service that is based far away from Bristol will find it rather difficult to provide the above stated benefits.

Despite the savings that come with an online service, the question arises, if property owners should rely on online service providers for taking care of their property. Property is one of the most capital-intensive asset and the generally acceptable margin for error is not high for such assets.

Atif Javid, the Director at Intire Letting Agents Bristol, believes that landlords are best served by well-established, reputed, professional and well-networked local letting agents.

Landlords wishing to learn more about Intire Letting Agents can visit the following website: https://intire.co.uk/letting-agent-bristol

Videos published by Intire are available for view on their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzYLQuXRpwA7yWP3TpmwAhQ

Intire offers local, real people-based property management services. Whilst Atif has concerns about purely online letting agents and property management services, he does believe in the power of property portals such as Rightmove, Zoopla and PrimeLocation.

Intire has accounts with all the big UK property portals and every property under Intire’s management is advertised on all the major portals for finding quality tenants.

Intire’s profile page on Zoopla can be viewed here: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/find-agents/branch/intire-letting-agents-bristol-22900/

Intire believes in providing quality service to client landlords as well as tenants. Lynn placed the following review on Google:

“People are very quick to write a review when they are complaining about something; so it is so nice to be able to feedback on how extremely satisfied we have been with the staff at Intire. From the application process through to being handed the keys to our lovely house everyone at Intire have been very friendly and helpful. I have sent several e-mails with questions or advice and these have been answered promptly, I have never experienced such an efficient team! It is a very stressful time when moving home. We were dreading it, but I had nothing to worry about as Intire have made the process so much easier and taken a lot of pressure off any worries we had. I have previously worked in a 4-star hotel front of house dealing with guests and I'm a bit of a customer service snob so I know when I receive great service. I would like to thank everyone at Intire, Downend, for their help. Thank you!”

Landlords wishing to work with a Bristol-based professional property management and lettings services provider are welcome to visit the links for Intire provided above and to call and book an appointment for an initial no-obligation meeting.