New Tenants Claim Thornley Groves, Northern Quarter, are Head and Shoulders above other Manchester Lettings Agents.

If you’re a tenant looking to rent a flat, house or apartment in and around Manchester City Centre and you are not sure which rental agents to turn to, then read the letter we’ve received below from a satisfied tenant and call Thornley Groves on 0161 245 1111 now for a service you can trust:

“Dear Mr Groves

Re  104 T H

I wish to draw your attention to two of your members of staff at the Northern Quarter Branch, Lucy Raines and Daniel Castille.

We have recently moved into one of your properties and have dealt primarily with Lucy and Daniel. As first time tenants we were naturally apprehensive and we literally pestered both Lucy and Daniel for over two weeks! Yet still they remained professional and completely patient with us. They succeeded in achieving our desired moving in date and were totally accommodating in meeting with us to sign the contracts.

Lucy – Has been a real star! We have dealt with her on numerous occasions and the level of service she provided was unrivalled in comparison to other agents we have dealt with. She made the process as stress free as possible, and fun! Lucy made sure everything went through in time for us to move in, and her organisation ensured that there were no hurdles in our way.

Daniel – Again, he was worked really hard to ensure we moved in on the date we wanted. He responded to our questions and emails way beyond normal office hours. (10PM) This level of customer care was way beyond our expectations and was such a breath of fresh air! It saved us evenings of worrying and made sure the process was as enjoyable as possible.

It is worth mentioning that from the outset Thornley Groves were head and shoulders above other letting agents in Manchester, you showed up to viewings, were knowledgeable about your properties and the letting procedure and informed us of alternative apartments which may have suited our requirements. It may sound as if that is an obvious requirement of a letting agent but it certainly wasn’t the case in our experience, you were the only ones who did this!

Please pass on our thanks to both Lucy and Daniel, we are extremely grateful! We look forward to dealing with yourselves over the course of our tenancy.

Richard G”

Those familiar with the city of Manchester and its surrounding suburbs will know that the area has done much to achieve its growing status as the “Capital of the North” in recent years. Thornley Groves – Manchester’s leading Estate Agents – are well aware of the city’s increasing popularity and recently opened up a brand new state of the art office in the heart of the city centre to cope with this growing demand.

Across the board we are seeing increased activity in the Manchester property market, which is showing signs of a return to liquidity after a difficult period experienced by the entire U.K. property market following the onset of the world recession in late 2007.

Thornley Groves maintains a large database of registered purchasers and this pool of applicants has increased by 13 percent during the past year alone. The number of sales stock available is also up 25 percent on this time last year, while perhaps most significantly of all, the number of sales stock under offer with Thornley Groves has increased 33 percent during the same period. In short, we are seeing huge increases in Manchester property market activity across the board – and this is of course fantastic news for home-sellers and purchasers alike!

Michael Groves, Managing Director of Thornley Groves Estate Agents in Manchester, said “All the evidence we are seeing points to a strong return to activity in the Manchester property market. While it is fair to say that one swallow does not a summer make, the combination of quantitative growth and qualitative performance indicators that we are seeing such as swift sales, seller-confidence, and increased property search activity, are positive signs. Home-sellers should certainly be more confident now of achieving sales in what is looking to be an increasingly buoyant market once again.”

In addition to growth in registered purchasers, sales stock available and stock under offer over the previous year, we have also seen a sharp increase in market interest in recent months, and our Open House events are attracting not only high attendance levels but also numerous offers being made for showcased properties on the day of these events.

All of this makes for an extremely positive and pro-active property market here in Manchester and the surrounding suburbs of Sale, Hale and Altrincham, and Thornley Groves is proud to be playing our part in helping find the right homes for you!

Want to know how much your home is worth? Book a Free no obligation valuation and marketing consultation today with Manchester’s leading Estate Agent at http://www.thornleygroves.co.uk/valuation-request/

Thornley Groves are  just days away from opening our ground breaking new office in Central Manchester and have already had vendors and landlords clambering to be amongst the first to take advantage of our brand new marketing initiative to make their property stand out from the crowd.

 “What exactly is it?” you ask, that will enable us to do things differently……..it’s a video wall over 3 meters tall and a meter wide that will play day and night to the thousands of passersby on John Dalton Street, one of Manchester City Centres busiest thoroughfares featuring the superb developments that exist in and around the city centre.

 Flat screen marketing for property has been around a long time; agents all over the world have used plasma screens to showcase their stock for some years now but we believe TGTV is entirely different and really lends itself to the type of residential property available to buy or rent in Manchester city centre.

 In the suburbs there are streets and streets of houses – Terraced, Semis, Detached, old and new, they’re all different and you need to see photos both inside and out to understand if you’re going to like them.

 In the City the buildings themselves are Brands and we want to showcase them and their unique features to open them up to all those people who pass them without ever understanding what they have to offer. What does the building itself stand for? What type of people live there?

 Manchester has some wonderful Iconic Developments, buildings like the Hacienda, Number One Deansgate, LeftBank and Beetham Tower standing proud alongside the Grand Old Dames of the city like Smithfield Buildings, Chepstow House, Century Buildings and Chorlton Mill.

 Trend setting schemes like Timber Wharf in Castlefield, Chips in Ancoats and Express Networks alongside the Northern Quarter have proved fertile enough to allow whole communities to spring up around them with shops, bars and leisure facilities.

 Our Video wall will enable us to show case the buildings and the unique facets of their little corner of town, it will help us to demonstrate why life in the city has attracted so many people, both young and old, escaping suburbia to enjoy all that the city has to offer.

 Buyers and Tenants want to express their personalities by the building they live in, they want to emulate the admirable, they want to be gregarious, sociable and hospitable and we can show them how to achieve all those things through the home they choose to live in.  

 Our new office won’t have A4 sheets of paper in the window with pictures of the same buildings with different kitchens featuring tea towels on ovens and bikes on balconies. We want to show Buyers and Tenants the best that Manchester has to offer, it is the buildings themselves and what’s around them that attracts people and not a photograph of someone else’s double bed.

 The best way to market City Centre property is to highlight the appealing features of the developments themselves instead of blandly describing the accommodation. At Thornley Groves we will achieve this by pulling together all of the property we market through our FOUR city centre offices and feature them on the big screen in our new office in John Dalton Street.

 If you own and want to rent or sell a property in one of Manchester’s Iconic Residential Developments, you need an agent that’s going to demonstrate to buyers and tenants why it’s great to live there, why you bought it, after all you thought about your decision long and hard, you made a choice and you now need an agent that understands Manchester Property to highlight those advantages to the next occupier.

 Make your property stand out from the crowd, list it now with Manchester’s most innovative and high Profile Estate Agent call 0161 245 1111 or  click www.thornleygroves.co.uk/valuation-request to book a FREE valuation and receive effective marketing advice.

 View a VIDEO presentation of our Sales and Lettings service at www.youtube.co.uk/thornleygroves

 We think you’ll notice the difference !

Make the right choice visit www.youtube.co.uk/thornleygroves to find out why you should trust Thornley Groves to handle your Sale or Rental.

Thornley Groves Estate Agents, one of City Centre and South Manchester’s most successful Estate Agency groups, has launched their own YouTube Channel so that busy people considering marketing their property can view a presentation of the firm’s services over the internet.

The firm retained the services of a specialist TV production company to showcase the company’s services in three HD films which have already been viewed almost a thousand times since they went live earlier this month.

The Directors of Thornley Groves, Michael Groves and Jason Watkin, each set out the reasons why choosing Thornley Groves to handle the Sale or Rental of your property is the right choice and quite convincing they are too.

I doubt that many home sellers or landlords appreciate just how professional and well run this business is, but after viewing their short video presentations, potential customers of the business who need to find buyers or tenants for their properties, will be left impressed and confident that Thornley Groves can and will deliver the goods.

Thornley Groves has developed a reputation for embracing new technology and innovative marketing techniques. Since it was established over 18 years ago, it has achieved a number of firsts, from the obvious and non technology related late night and all day Sunday extended opening hours , to marketing by text message, incorporating floor plans on sales particulars as standard, listing their stock on National property portals such as Rightmove and Primelocation along with cutting edge criteria matching software systems.

Visit www.youtube.co.uk/thornleygroves to see for yourself and if you want to request a FREE valuation and marketing advice, you’ll get an immediate appointment by going to their web site and filling out a short form – just click http://www.thornleygroves.co.uk/valuation-request/

Do you have a property to rent or need a reliable Managing agent?

Thornley Groves Residential Lettings and Property Management department have developed an enviable reputation that over 2000 landlords rely upon.

Through our network of offices we have one of the widest selections of quality homes to rent in City centre and South Manchester, we attract hundreds of enquiries every week from fully referenced reliable tenants who you would be more than happy to rent your property to.

After providing our landlords with honest and achievable advice on likely rental values and then providing our landlords with ongoing feedback, everything we do is designed to provide the best possible service to prospective tenants and ensure they find the accommodation they are looking for and fast.

Some letting agents try and claim that they have tenants that others don’t, in this day and age that’s simply not true the Internet has made sure of that.

Thornley Groves home rentals are featured on all of the major property portals including Rightmove, findaproperty, Globrix, Primelocation and Zoopla.

Tenants consider every property with every letting agent because they’re frightened of missing something, the biggest difference between letting agents is how the agent handles enquiries from tenants and that’s something every landlord should investigate before instructing a letting agent to market their property.

Do the agents you are considering have the resources, the knowledge and experience as well as the quality of staff that you want to rent your home?

Thornley Groves letting agents have a higher staff to property ratio than other agents, the team are uniformed, they know and understand their stock, they earn commission and they’re enthusiastic – they are our most important marketing tool and we choose them carefully.

We equip them with sophisticated criteria matching software, we allow them to go out and meet tenants to show them property, we don’t use part time viewing reps or rely on landlords to do all of the viewings – the more we interact with the tenant the better we’ll understand their needs.

We’re open all hours, all day every day until 9pm on a Wednesday and on a Sunday when many agents close we’re here all day – so that prospective tenants with busy lives can be taken care of.

Once you’ve let you may want to use the services of our property management department, it’s here to ensure that your tenant takes care of your property, pays the rent on time. Our property management department aims to eliminate the hassle that many landlords experience, you’ll be allocated your own property manager who’ll inspect your property during the rental, oversee any repairs and resolve any problems.

Your property manager will create inventories to ensure that the condition of your property and its contents is taken care of and nearing the end of the tenancy we’ll handle the renewal or the timely re marketing of your property to minimise any void periods, maximising the return on your investment.

You NEED a letting agent that understands tenants and how best to manage a property, 2000 landlords can’t be wrong.

So contact us now for a free no obligation rental valuation and some reliable marketing advice click http://www.thornleygroves.co.uk/valuation-request/

We’ve made sure we’re easy to find by becoming Number 1 on Google just type “Estate agents Manchester” and you’ll see Thornley Groves on top of every other estate agent.

Visit our web site and make an online enquiry or telephone your nearest office. We think you’ll notice the difference.

Thornley Groves have Rented 1,181 properties in the first 8 months of 2009 – that’s 34 tenants moving into one of our landlord’s homes every week of the year so far and we’re getting busier as the year goes by.

With one of the slickest Letting and Management operations around, we receive praise from landlords and tenants every week complimenting us on the speed with which we find a tenant and move the tenant in, minimising void periods for landlords and allowing tenants to move in exactly when it suits them – any day 7 days a week !

We are however becoming a victim of our own success. The shortage of new build completions especially, in the City Centre but also in South Manchester, means that we are running short of stock and are finding it difficult to satisfy demand for well presented conveniently located homes, especially furnished ones that are ready to move into right away.

If you have a property that’s vacant or about to become vacant, contact your nearest Thornley Groves office now – we’ll match your property to one of our high quality tenants in record time and deliver the return on your property investment that you deserve!  We have over 700 tenants registered, actively looking for a home to rent today!

Call NOW on 07802 941 411 to arrange a FREE consultation for your City Centre or South Manchester Rental Property or click here http://www.thornleygroves.co.uk/valuation-request/

Manchester Estate Agent Thornley Groves has let 450 properties in the first 5 months of 2009 in the City Centre.

So much for the Manchester City Centre property market being over supplied! Demand for furnished and unfurnished houses, flats and apartments in and around the City Centre remains very strong with quality tenants looking to rent in all price ranges.

We are now entering a our busiest period for home rentals in the City Centre and NEED more stock.

If you have a property you are looking to rent call Matthew Smith now on 0161 245 1118 or 07801 340 099 for an instant indication of rental value and a competitive letting quotation.

Alternatively fill out this short rental valuation request on line http://www.thornleygroves.co.uk/valuation-request/

If you have a property on the market with another agent or your existing tenant is about to move out we can find a quality tenant at a good price fast and ensure your property doesn’t stand empty.

Allow us to come and talk to you – 1500 landlords can’t be wrong and as we’re the only agent with 3 prominantly located offices in and around Manchester City Centre we can give your property the widest possible exposure through our Branches in Salford at the junction of Bridge Street and Chapel Street, The Northern Quarter on Tib Street and the Southern Gateway on Whitworth Street West.