Student Advantages
Award winning Leeds landlord
Pickard Properties are fast becoming the landlord of choice for students studying in Leeds and surrounding areas. With 44 years of experience in lettings in the city the family run business is well positioned to provide professional and student properties alike.
The high standards provided by Pickard Properties have in fact been recently recognised with the landlord winning an award for 'Best Large Landlord' in the Leeds University Union Landlord Awards 2012. Our popularity is further reflected in a recent survey where 88% of respondents stated that they would recommend us to other students!
The 'Best Large Landlord' award is described as"An award for managing agents who have been exceptional in their services to tenants. Have you had a great experience, from the initial signing of the house all the way through to how they've dealt with your concerns? Nominate your agent if you think they've treated you fantastically"
With our recent success among the students of Leeds University the future is looking very bright indeed for Pickard Properties as we strive to continue to offer the best service to Leeds students
Bills inclusive
Pickard understand that providing warmer homes will improve health and comfort and ultimately customer satisfaction. This is why they offer Bills inclusive of rent on their student properties. Our aim is to eradicate students continually worrying about fuel bills and under-heating their home as they think it will cost them too much to heat.
Our bills inclusive scheme cushions students from steep price rises for gas and electric from the major suppiers. We are committed not to pass on steep price rises and our scheme is still unlimited usuage unlike other schemes. It is very popular with our tenants and they have defintely been feeling the benefit with the snow fall last two winters. Also our tenants are benefitting from not spending time on paying bills and all the other headaches associated with bill paying.
Rents inclusive of Rent from as little as £73.75 pppw.
'Thank you so much for your input on the phone the other day. It seems as if there are very few letting agents in the area who are concerned about the worries of their tenants, particulary when it comes to their utilities. Your buisness definitely appears to have the best interests of the tenants in mind. We appreciate your feedbacka great dealand will keep you updated on our findings' Student @LeedsBuisnessSchool-LeedsMet
24 Hour Maintenance Emergency Line
After 44 years experience Pickard have a finely tuned maintenance team of which some members have been with them since they began in 1967.
Pickard only manage their own properties, and can therefore provide excellent service with a dedicated, friendly staff and a full time, experienced and reliable property maintenance team.
"After speaking to friends who rent through private Landlords I know how much trouble they have with problems that don't get fixed. They are constantly chasing their landlords but nothing ever gets done! All the staff at Pickard's are so friendly and helpful, I would recommend renting a house with Pickard Properties to anyone." tenant in their second year with Pickard
"Anything we ask for gets done the very next day - even something as small as the bathroom lock being stiff, it was mended straight away!" tenant at Pickard
Voted No.1 by the students of Leeds - An independent survey carried out by the Leeds University Union.
Pickard was ranked top by the students who completed the survey, one of the key things to come out of this research was to pinpoint good landlords and Pickard were survey winners.
One of the key things to come out of the LUU housing research was that students wanted a list of good landlords to rent from. So in November 2006, we asked students to rate their landlord. Over 2000 responded and from this we have compiled a list of good landlords and noted the ones that students would not recommend.
Over 2000 University of Leeds students responded to the survey.
The table below shows the landlords who came out well or reasonable well in the Rate Your Landlord survey that over 2000 students responded to. The list shows those who received 55% or more tenants recommending them. Those that received less than 55% are not listed.
' It is very satisfying that all our hard work has paid off. We are genuine concerned Landlords and therefore are pleased that our efforts over the past 40 years have been recognized through this survey. It is important there is a healthy respect between students and landlords which we have always striven for - to be leaders in providing a service that acheives this, alongside providing safe and well maintened properties. We have a good product, providing good accommodation, exemplary service, a 24 hour maintenance line, an excellent post sign up service, the option of bills inclusive and of course complying with the codes of standards set out by governing bodies. We want students, especially students new to letting private accommodation, to be educated in what are acceptable standards of property - there are many sub standard landlords who do not carry out repairs but still manage to let their properties. It is all too often a student rents substandard property which does not fair well for responsible landlords such as ourselves. As a company we continaually push to raise the standards of accommodation in Leeds and therefore welcome any measures to enforce this even more. We hold student's wellbeing in high regard and this is probally why we were voted No.1' Miles Pickard