Property management in Crewe, Cheshire

2 bed rent

£790 a month

3 bed rent

£900 a month

Typical sale price

£111,226

Gross yield

7.0%

Read around CW2. Rents are advertised rents; the sale price is the average of completed sales in the last twelve months.

Crewe has some of the more affordable rents in Cheshire, reflecting its history as a railway and manufacturing town. Terraced housing dominates much of the older part of town, with semi-detached and detached properties on the newer estates that have grown up around the edges, particularly toward Shavington and Wistaston.

Crewe railway station is a major interchange on the West Coast Main Line, with direct services to London, Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, which makes the town attractive to rail industry workers as well as commuters willing to travel further for work. The M6 passes close to the town, and the A500 and A534 provide onward links, supporting road-based commuting as well.

Bentley Motors has its main plant on the edge of Crewe and is a significant local employer, while Leighton Hospital, just outside the town, provides substantial healthcare employment. Together these two employers bring a steady flow of skilled workers and NHS staff looking for rented accommodation within a short drive or bus ride of their workplace.

For a landlord, Crewe's combination of rail connectivity and large local employers such as Bentley and Leighton Hospital tends to support consistent demand for rented housing, and properties positioned within easy reach of the station or the hospital are often the quickest to find a tenant.

Crewe's housing stock is split fairly evenly between older Victorian terraces close to the town centre and the railway works, and larger semi-detached and detached houses on estates around Shavington, Wistaston and Wychwood, which have expanded significantly in recent years. Beyond Bentley and Leighton Hospital, the town's role as a rail engineering centre and its warehousing and distribution units near the M6 add further local employment, and Manchester Metropolitan University's Crewe campus brings a modest student population into the terraced streets nearer the centre. This spread of tenant types means terraces near the station let quickly to rail workers, students and young professionals, while family houses on the newer estates suit those working at Bentley or the hospital. For a landlord, Crewe's combination of affordable stock and varied employers tends to keep demand fairly stable across different parts of the town.

• Rent collected and paid to you within 3 working days of your tenant paying
• Your rent held in a ring-fenced client account, separate from Caso's own money, until it is paid to you
• Tenant calls and messages answered 24 hours a day, every day
• Repairs assessed, priced and arranged for you, charged at the contractor's invoice with no markup
• A monthly statement for each property, with every invoice attached, in your portal
• Late rent chased from the first day it is overdue, with a dated record
• Tenancy agreement drawn up and signed online
• Renewals, changes of tenant and legal notices prepared and served
• Rent reviewed every year and the Section 13 rent increase notice served for you
• Deposit protected with the Tenancy Deposit Scheme within 30 days, and the deposit paperwork the law requires served on your tenant
• Deposit deductions agreed and the deposit returned at the end of the tenancy
• Gas safety, electrical safety and energy certificates renewed before they expire, at cost
• Smoke and carbon monoxide alarms checked and recorded
• Council landlord licence applied for where your area needs one, and its renewal date tracked
• Optional: rent guarantee at cost, with no markup. You are paid even when the tenant does not pay.

Selective or HMO licence (council licence). Cheshire East Council has no selective licensing scheme currently. A shared home let to five or more people from more than one household still needs a mandatory HMO licence.