Welcome to my sixth article discussing the hot topic of residential property investment, letting, management and sale in the United Kingdom.
My name is Rupert Smith and I am the founding director of Complete Residential Property Investments Ltd (hereinafter CRPI). We are a specialist property investment company offering a unique and results-orientated commercial approach to UK property investment. Established in April 2001, CRPI is a far cry from your traditional estate agency business.
Following on from last month’s article I wish to cover the portfolio management of UK residential property from either a letting or sales perspective.
Whether you own one or multiple properties it is vitally important that a commercial approach is applied to the day-to-day management of the asset.
We at CRPI treat the property as an asset class and monitor the performance of return on investment closely. Active asset management is vital to performance, whether reducing soft costs such as maintenance or increasing rental levels.
Typically in the UK one (the investor) would appoint an estate agent closest to the property or be guided in the right direction to an agency who may well have an affiliation with the property developer, which forgive me for saying may well have a slight conflict of interest.
At CRPI our business model is fundamentally different and we offer much more of a strategic all-of-market approach, and I will explain how this works.
As we remain totally independent we have the ability to reach out to the entire market place offering our clients maximum exposure to both the sales and letting market nationwide. Many of our clients own more than one property or wish to acquire further investment opportunities, which will need to be serviced in different locations across the UK.
