Real Estate Professional Services: find professionals

Real estate professional services covers residential and commercial estate agents, letting agents, property managers, surveyors and valuers.

An agent represents you when you buy, sell or let property. Property managers look after rental property for landlords: finding tenants, collecting rent and arranging maintenance. Surveyors and valuers give an independent report on a property’s condition or value, often for a lender.

Estate agency businesses are covered by the money laundering regulations and must be registered for anti-money-laundering supervision, generally with HMRC, and carrying on a business covered by those regulations without registering with a supervisory authority is against the law. Ask which supervisory authority a firm is registered with, how the agent is paid and which services that covers, and read any agency agreement carefully before you sign it. LokalMatch doesn’t recommend any agent or firm.