Role Overview

We are seeking a Property Manager to join our Lincoln team on a maternity cover basis for 15 months. This role will involve overseeing a diverse portfolio of residential properties in the East Midlands.  

Key Responsibilities

• Carrying out property inspections.

• Proactively planning and managing repairs and annual maintenance work.

• Preparing specifications, obtaining quotations and instructing contractors to undertake minor works and liaising with colleagues and external consultants team for larger scale works.

• Monitoring quality of contractor works.

• Checking, coding/allocating and arranging for approval of invoices, and ensuring timely payment.

• Monitoring property compliances and arranging compliance work.

• Updating and recording of tenancy information on the Savills database.

• Providing client reports, and reporting into the Savills team for client updates.

• Checking properties prior to new lettings to ensure compliance

• Marketing properties to let, including dealing with the marketing, viewings and lettings of properties.

• Ensuring new lettings are legally compliant, including dealing with tenant referencing, Right to Rent checks, tenancy deposits, and How to Rent documentation.

• Carrying out new tenancy check ins, and arranging inventories.

• Carrying out end of tenancy checks, and dealing with deposit returns.

• Serving notices and attending court proceedings where required.

• Negotiating and documenting rent reviews.

• Assisting with the management of estate budgets and cashflows.

• Liaising with Client Accounting to ensure rents are correctly demanded and collected, payments are made correctly and in a timely fashion.

• Monitoring rent arrears and initiating first stage discussions, ensuring the timely payment of rents and collection of arrears in collaboration with the Credit Control team.

• Respond to emails and phone calls promptly, ensuring communication is clear and professional at all times.

Key Skills
Technical Experience:

Qualifications: ARLA Property mark qualifications (or equivalent) are desirable, but not essential.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Excellent relationship builder.

• Focussed - committed to challenging goals and delivers consistently against these.

• Continuous improvement, delivers efficiency in addition to effectiveness.

• Self-starter, who relishes challenges and strives for the best.

• Strong team player, builds relationships and consults with others, quickly establishes trust and credibility.

• Diplomatic and challenging with the ability to influence others.

• Confident with a positive outlook.

• Strong decision maker who gives assurance.

• Ethical with strong integrity.

• Someone who has curiosity and is eager to experiment and push the boundaries of what is possible.

Team Overview

A friendly team made up of one Director, two Associate Directors, three graduate surveyors, a Property Manager and an Administrator. The team sits within the larger Lincoln rural team of 25.

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