SAFE AGENT Awareness Week 1st to 5th June 2015

Next week is ‘SAFEagent Awareness Week’ and at Belvoir we are celebrating this as we were one of the founding members of SAFEagent, when it launched in 2011.

The SAFEagent scheme allows firms who are regulated by bodies such as NALS and ARLA to show to both landlords and tenants that they are part of a Client Money Protection Scheme.

Landlords and tenants need to ensure their funds are protected by dealing with a SAFEagent, this will ensure the agent meets the following criteria:

·        To have professional indemnity insurance

·        To have a defined accounting standards relating to clients’ money

·        To have a customer complaints procedure

·        To have membership of an ombudsman scheme

Irrespective of which agent you choose to manage and let your property please do insist that they are a SAFEagent. We here too many accounts of rent being paid over late by agents or funds not being paid at all! A SAFEagent will ensure your funds are safe.