Our Services

Block & Estate Management

We work with you to come up with the very best solutions for your challenges!

01

Financial Management

From budget preparation to service charge collection and instructing solicitors/debt recovery on arrears if required, we can help with all financial matters.

Each site has their own protected client accounts meaning we can confirm the exact balance held for a site at any time.

02

Insurance

We can arrange building insurance as well as any engineering, public liability or directors insurance required through independent brokers as well as administering any insurance claim. Unlike many agents we earn no commission.

03

Legal and regulatory management

We offer regular site visits at mutually agreed times to show management presence, attend the annual general meeting and directors meetings are requested, ensure compliance with health & safety requirements and ensure compliance with company legilsation.

04

Emergency Support 24/7

We're here for you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with a dedicated emergency phone number. We use locally based contractors to ensure prompt repairs and value for money.

Professional residential block & estate management that makes your life easier.

As you know, the responsibilities of Block & Estate Management are immense. Whether you’re an investment freeholder with a variety of residential blocks in your portfolio, a Residents Management Company or Right To Manage company seeking to appoint a managing agent, professional Block & Estate Management can make a huge difference to your development.

Hiring a professional residential block management company will take away the stress and hassle of handling complex property management matters on your own, giving you more time to focus on everything else. From leaseholder liaison to debt collection to regular service maintenance checks, Kent Property Management will provide you with experienced residential block management giving you the confidence in the management of the property.

At Kent Property Management, we always provide a fully comprehensive property management service to all our clients, so you’ll always be fully covered, whatever your property needs. You’ll no longer have to manage each responsibility separately as we’ll do it all for you. In addition, unlike many other managing agents, our fee's are always agreed upfront and totally inclusive, so you’ll never have any surprise costs.

We understand that there are some key differences between estate management and block management that requires a managing agent who is pro-active and experienced. These differences can include managing a larger physical location, boundary issues and use of outdoor communal areas such as playgrounds.

In addition, Kent Property Management have experience with other estate management matters such as parking issues, disposal of rubbish, street-lighting, road maintenance, fly-tipping and anti-social behaviour.

We have dealt with these matters and many more for estates that range from period manor house conversions to modern day mixed developments of flats, houses, and commercial property.

Services we offer as part of our fully inclusive block management fees include :

Proposing realistic budgets based on either known or comparable costs.
Prepare a reserve fund based on the capital expenditure plan with future major expenses in mind.
Budgets set well in advance and provided to residents with explanations.
Collecting service charge monies in the manner the lease dictates and instructing solicitors/debt recovery on arrears if required.
Arranging building insurance and any engineering, public liability or directors insurance required through independent brokers.
Administering any insurance claims.
Regular site visits as mutually agreed to show management presence.
To re-tender existing contracts to ensure value for money.
To use locally based contractors to ensure prompt repairs and value for money.
Attendance at the annual general meeting and regular directors meetings as agreed.
Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements.
Ensure compliance with company legislation including filing of accounts.
Protecting your money by holding all client funds in ring fenced, dedicated client account.
Provide itemised expenditure breakdown which can be compared to the budget.
Service charge accounts published promptly by certified accountant.
Emergency support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Switching to Kent Property Management is easy...

Directors are led to believe that changing their management agent is a difficult, complex and time consuming task. Fortunately this is not the case with Kent Property Management - we are experienced at bringing properties on board in a timely and seamless manner so there are no interruptions to service.

Switching management agent is really an easy process - get in touch with us and we will do all of the work for you.

Kent Property Management will handle all correspondence with your outgoing management agent and we will ensure all existing balances, credits, invoices and maintenance issues are handed over to us. If you have a valued, dependable contractor then we will respect your existing relations and can continue to use their services, however we will carry out a review of all contracts (such as insurance, cleaning, utilities etc) to ensure that you are not paying too much and the services you receive offer you value for money.

We are here to help work with you to plan and agree this, and ensure the very best for your property.