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Matt Williams

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About Me

Redbrick Properties was established back in 2002 and since then has gone from strength to strength building up a fine portfolio of residential properties along the way.

We could never be accused of being a faceless agency as both Mark and I still work front-line in the office along side our experienced and capable staff.

my expertise in the industry

20 Years in the Lettings Industry. 3 Industry awards under my belt in hoping for a fourth this year.

Matt's Recent Activity

I'm not sure we'll see agents going out of business due to the fee ban as fee generate approx 15% of profit. What we have seen is smaller agents cashing in and selling up to the larger agents.

From: Matt Williams 29 May 2019 09:50 AM

Hi Bayo. As of the 1st June 2019 you are not allowed to charge tenants anything at all to cover referencing.

From: Matt Williams 29 May 2019 09:46 AM

As the owner of a letting Agent, the tenant fee ban has been a very positive step in the right direction. It has made us look at every corner of our business and tighten up. The majority of agents have never charged high fees in the first place, more a minority of greedy southern agents. They may take a small hit to profits but they have known about this for so long and have had ample time to make improvements and replace that income. Since we have been preparing for the ban for a few years we are now a more efficient business and looking forward to providing a first class value based service.

From: Matt Williams 29 May 2019 09:45 AM

We have this every year in our student HMO's. We ask them to do the obvious as Steve above states. But, too often we hear the same excuses. "We don't want to use the dryer because it costs too much to run", "we were seeing how long we could go before we had to put the heating on" (usually around October/November), "We only need to heat the rooms we use the most". Too often we will have a house that suddenly develops "damp" even though the previous tenancies have not even had a whisper of condensation over the years, and the tenants will say it's down to the house. Sometimes the house does play a part, but I would also say its 80% down to lifestyle.

From: Matt Williams 11 July 2017 09:45 AM

'taking huge chunks of business away from agents' David?

From: Matt Williams 09 February 2017 09:47 AM

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