Letting agents in Bournemouth

Flexie Estate Agents lets and manages flats and houses for landlords across Bournemouth from an office on Charminster Road. The same group runs 130 properties in the town, so the people marketing your property, referencing the tenant and checking the inventory do this every day. You choose tenant find, rent collection or fully managed, and the fee is agreed in writing before anything goes live.

This page is the Bournemouth detail behind our letting agents service: what lets, who rents it and what the town asks of a landlord.

What lets in Bournemouth

The town is seven miles long and each part has its own tenant.

• Town centre and the Lansdowne. Purpose-built flats a walk from the station, the shops and the BIC. Professionals, hospital staff and people relocating take them, often furnished.
• West Cliff and East Cliff. Converted villas and mansion blocks on quiet avenues above the beach. Couples and older tenants stay for years; many leases need checking before a let.
• Westbourne and Alum Chine. Flats around the Victorian arcade and the chine. Tenants want the independent shops and the walk to the sand, and pay for a parking space.
• Winton and Charminster. Terraced and semi-detached houses near the Talbot campus. Students in groups from September, young professionals and families the rest of the year. Licensing applies to larger shares.
• Boscombe and Southbourne. Flats near Boscombe pier and family houses towards Southbourne Grove. Southbourne lets to families and dog owners who want the beach and the schools.
• Moordown, Kinson and Queens Park. Houses with gardens and driveways, a bus ride from the centre. Families and longer tenancies.

There is more on each area in our pages for Winton, Southbourne and Westbourne.

How we let your property

Valuation. We visit, read the lease and the EPC, and give you a rent range with the reasons: position, parking, condition, furnished or not, and who the likely tenant is. The instant rent estimate gives a first figure online.

Marketing. Professional photographs, a floor plan and a listing on the portals, on flexiestays.com and to our list of registered tenants, which includes hospital staff, university staff and relocating households who contacted us before the property was ready.

Viewings and referencing. We show the property, take holding deposits within the Tenant Fees Act limit of one week's rent, and reference every adult: identity, Right to Rent, credit, income and a landlord reference, with a guarantor where needed.

Move in. A tenancy agreement written to the Renters' Rights Act, the deposit protected within 30 days, the prescribed information served, the How to Rent guide and the certificates handed over, and a photographed inventory on the day.

After that. With rent collection we collect, chase and report monthly. With full management we also inspect, arrange repairs with local contractors, renew the gas and electrical certificates and handle every call from the tenant. Property management in Bournemouth covers that service.

The checks every Bournemouth let needs

Before a tenant moves in the property needs a gas safety certificate if it has gas, an electrical installation condition report no more than five years old, smoke alarms on every floor, a carbon monoxide alarm where there is a fixed combustion appliance, an EPC of band E or better, and Right to Rent checks on every adult. A house let to sharers may need an HMO licence from BCP Council. We organise all of it, and the landlord legal checklist lists every item.

Furnished lets, winter lets and management

A furnished flat near the beach, the hospital or the BIC does not have to be let on a twelve-month tenancy. Through the Flexiestays platform, Bournemouth's number one for winter and long stays, it can be let to contractors, relocations and visiting staff for a month or more at a time. Winter lets in Bournemouth explains how a landlord's flat earns from November to March, and long term lets shows what a furnished stay with bills included looks like to the person renting it.

We let on the same terms in Poole and Christchurch, and our fees page sets out the three service levels.