Self Employed Property Agent - South Yorkshire Manchester, England
Job description
Property Agent – Self Employed
1. The Insight Group Background
The Insight Group is a group of three companies with a head office in Scarborough, looking after clients and their property investments across the UK.
The company is market leading in property in the UK:
a. Largest property portfolio building company in the UK
b. Amongst the top three companies in property education in the UK
c. Leading property sourcing company
d. Fastest growing letting agency in Yorkshire
The group manages over £50,000,000 of client’s invested money and we have over £1,500,000 more invested every month. See https://theinsightgroup.co.uk/ for more info
2. The Insight businesses in brief:
Insight Portfolio – sourcing great value buy-to-let property investments across the UK and providing a ‘done for you’ service to our clients to build their property portfolios.
Insight Education – Aran Curry (CEO) educates people in property through face to face events and online webinars
Insight Lettings – letting agent based in Scarborough but operating for properties from Northampton up to Carlisle, and East Coast to West Coast.
3. Insight Lettings
We provide tenant find services and property management services for the Insight Group clients (our Landlords). It is important as a letting agent that we provide the best service to our landlords from the initial tenant find and throughout the tenancy. We aim to:
· Provide good quality tenants
· Provide excellent management services to tenants and landlords
· Facilitate and arrange maintenance works, including full refurbishments for newly purchased properties, re-let maintenance work and maintenance requirements from tenants
The Job Role
The role is a carried out on a self employed basis and covers the area of Manchester/Lancashire covering Blackpool, Fleetwood, Preston, Chorley, Blackburn, Burnley, Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham, Stockport, Stretford, Lancaster, Morecambe, Barrow-in-Furness and surrounding areas.
You will be joining a team of six other agents, that cover the rest of our portfolio area. You will be supporting activity from both Insight Lettings and Insight Portfolio, with the main responsibilities being:
· Property visits/inspections
o Pre-purchase and valuation visits – attending a property that we are considering purchasing to assess the investment for our client and report back
o Completion – reviewing the property after purchase to report back on potential work needed
o Maintenance sign off visit – assessing work carried out by contractors to ensure all complete and to a suitable standard
o Viewings – attend the property with a potential new tenant to explain the features and answer any questions – this may be in person or virtually
o Move in meeting – attend with the new tenant to hand over the property and ensure all documentation complete and necessary checks carried out
o In-tenancy inspections – general property inspections as well as rent chasing visits
o Move out inspections – assessing any work needed before the tenant leaves and feeding back
o Ad-hoc activity – attending with a contractor to allow for access, inspections with the property is empty
o General admin – topping up utility meters, fitting key safes, collecting and cutting keys
· Attend meetings with key stakeholders, where necessary, to keep up to date with business change
· Represent the Insight Group in a professional and efficient manner
· Interact with the wider Insight Group employees to ensure that any issues are flagged quickly and to share knowledge
Key skills:
- Good communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Strong IT skills
- The ability to create good first impressions and interact with new people
- You need to be able to work under your own initiative and have a problem solving ‘can do’ attitude
- As the eyes and ears of our business, you need a great attention to detail
- Committed to doing a ‘great’ job
How it works
- Although, it is hard to predict how many hours per week we need your services, on average 16-30 hours per month.
- We will create a google calendar that you will have access to, to manage your time as well as notifying us of any restrictions
- Full training will be provided as well as ongoing support, regular team meetings and invites to business updates
- All kit needed to carry out the role e.g. camera, light etc will be provided
Qualifications and Experience
- Full UK driving licence and own car
- Ideally experience in the same or similar role/property management role
Remuneration
Competitive hourly rate, paid travel time and mileage.
Part-time hours, Flexible working
Work remotely
- Yes
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Licence/Certification:
- Driving License (preferred)
Work Location: In person
