March 2016

Check out our news piece on Kent Online:- http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/commercial-estate-agent-or-residential-91804/

Barnstaple gas engineer prosecuted following unsafe asbestos removal at a tenants’ home Date: 10 March 2016 A gas engineer removed potentially dangerous asbestos material during a gas boiler replacement putting himself and others at risk from exposure to asbestos fibres. Brian Hockin, aged 58, was removing an old warm air heating system at a residential

LED Lights We may be property managers and not electricians but we are also members of the ECA as we get important updates and information through from this trusted association. I have just read with interest one of their case studies about LED lighting and the impact is so good that I wanted to share

First agent to use digital advert on Medway City Estate in Kent We are really excited to be the first property agent to use the digital advertising board on Medway City Estate. We are even using it to advertise property to let on the estate. Michael Parkes Surveyors Ltd think this is really exciting and

We are very pleased to have just completed a rent review in Medway saving our client (the tenant) £23,324 per year!! If you need rent review advice, please read through the guidance on our website at https://michaelparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rent-Review.pdf or contact Emma Catterall to discuss further.

Self Employment Just last month, in February 2016 Julie Deane OBE from The Cambridge Satchel Company gave an independent report to the Prime Minister about her findings regarding self employment. I read this with interest as the report shows that the number of self-employed in the UK currently stands at 4.6m, an all-time high. This