How to Get the Best Deal on a Flat for Rent in London

How to Get the Best Deal on a Flat for Rent in London

How do you get the best deal on a flat for rent in London? By best deal we're talking about best price, best location, best rental agreement, best service from your agents. The answer, inevitably, is to go to a lettings agent that has the experience, the branches and the power to give you what you want. With a proviso though forget the big time, all over the city, branches everywhere agencies. When we say the right number of branches, we mean the right number of branches. That's two or three, not one on every high street corner.

Here's why. London, though huge and at first glance almost impossible to define, actually has a very limited number of types of accommodation available to the renter. In basic terms, your flat for rent in London falls into the following categories: a flat close to the City (that's Central London and Docklands); a flat in the "villages" that surround Central London; or a flat right on the outskirts of the city's post code areas. Within these categories, you'll be looking at two basic subcategories flats for permanent living, and pied a terre flats for workers. Within these categories, you've got your actual types, which are, basically: a studio flat; a full flat; a professional flat; a mews flat. And that's it.

What have types of flat for rent in London got to do with the number of branches an agency has? Simple. You don't need that many branches to adequately serve the quality rental needs of the three areas of the city central, peripheral and outskirts. Agencies that operate with huge numbers of branches tend to have portfolios stuffed with less than adequate accommodation and they won't be able to give the personal service that sets a good let apart from a standard one.

A good agent, or a great agent, does one thing that those all over the place agencies never can (nor would ever try to). A good agent for a flat for rent in London will follow every stage of the leasing process for you from finding the place, to viewing it, to agreeing the terms of the lease, to filling out a checklist and conducting a private examination, to handing over the keys. A good agent will remind you what you need to do at the start of a let to make sure that everything goes smoothly at the end of the let. A good agent, in other words, cares.

Finding a flat in London is a trying experience at the best of times. Doing it through papers is so annoying as to make it, for all practical purposes, impossible. Doing it through branches everywhere agency is so impersonal it can be heart breaking. Doing it through a respected agency (like Spencer James), with a good list of properties, can get you a flat for rent in London that you'll never want to leave: the perfect location, the perfect price, the perfect everything. It can be an amazing city if you do it right: and doing it right starts with finding the right agency.

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