Property management in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire

2 bed rent

£895 a month

3 bed rent

£1,125 a month

Typical sale price

£151,150

Gross yield

7.8%

Read around CH65. Rents are advertised rents; the sale price is the average of completed sales in the last twelve months.

Ellesmere Port has rents toward the lower end of the Cheshire range. The town is characterised by post-war semi-detached and terraced housing, much of it built to house workers for the industrial sites along the Manchester Ship Canal, with newer estates added on the outskirts in more recent decades.

The town has its own railway station with services toward Chester and Liverpool, and the M53 runs directly through the area, giving fast access to the Wirral and Liverpool. This makes Ellesmere Port a practical base for anyone working across the Mersey as well as those employed locally.

The Vauxhall plant has long been the town's largest employer, and workers connected to the site and its supply chain remain part of the local rental market, alongside staff from the nearby retail and industrial parks. Families are drawn to the more affordable housing stock, and the town's road links make it workable for those commuting into Chester or across to Liverpool.

For a landlord, the lower rent levels in Ellesmere Port reflect the older housing stock and industrial history of the town, and properties that have been modernised tend to stand out and let more quickly than those left in original condition.

Housing in Ellesmere Port is predominantly semi-detached and terraced, built through the mid twentieth century to house the workforce of the docks and the chemical and vehicle plants along the canal, with a smaller stock of newer detached housing on estates such as Whitby and Great Sutton. The town's Cheshire Oaks retail and leisure development, along with the industrial estates along the A5032, provide additional local employment beyond the Vauxhall plant, supporting demand from retail and logistics staff as well as manufacturing workers. Rented terraces and semis in the older parts of town tend to suit local workers and smaller households, while newer estates attract families wanting more space for similar rent than they would pay in Chester or the Wirral. For a landlord, this mix means a modernised terrace or semi close to the M53 or the station is usually the quickest type of property to let.

• 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 West and Chester 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.