Rick Flay of Belvoir Sheffield endorses Nigel Havers advice for all tenants to only use regulated letting agency. Havers said that;
“his experience made him realise that the lettings industry is unregulated, with anyone being able to set up as a letting agent without experience or qualifications.”
He also found that membership of a redress scheme is – “for the time being – purely voluntary.”
See Nigel Havers talk to BBC Watchdog about his money losing experience. A really useful section for consumers can be found on the BBC website How to Protect Yourself from Cowboy letting agents
Belvoir Sheffield are members of the Property Ombudsmen Scheme, National Association of Lettings Agents (Propertymark) and the SAFE Agent scheme. They also offer full client money protection, unlike many other lettings agents.
To contact Rick Flay please call 08452 60 40 90 or via email [email protected]
