Property management in Middlewich, Cheshire

2 bed rent

£920 a month

3 bed rent

£1,195 a month

Typical sale price

£188,775

Gross yield

6.6%

Read around CW10. Rents are advertised rents; the sale price is the average of completed sales in the last twelve months.

Middlewich is among the more affordable towns in the Cheshire rental market. It has a long history as a salt town, and its housing includes older terraced streets close to the centre alongside semi-detached and detached homes on the estates that have grown up around the town in recent decades.

The town does not have its own railway station, so residents typically rely on the road network, with the A530 and A54 running through the town and the M6 within easy reach to the east. This makes Middlewich more suited to those who commute by car toward Crewe, Northwich or further afield.

Workers connected to the chemical and food processing industries based in and around the town form part of the local rental market, alongside commuters travelling to Crewe for the railway and Bentley employment, or to Northwich for the salt and chemical sector. Families are drawn to the newer estates for their more affordable semi-detached and detached houses.

For a landlord, Middlewich's affordability relative to the rest of Cheshire tends to appeal to tenants who need space for a family but are working to a tighter budget, and this can support reliable, longer tenancies once a good tenant is found.

Housing in Middlewich leans toward smaller, more affordable terraced and semi-detached properties, with the newer estates on the edges of town, such as those off King Street and toward Booth Lane, adding a supply of three and four bedroom family houses. The town's industrial estates support employment in food and chemical processing, and Middlewich also benefits from its position roughly equidistant between Crewe, Northwich and Sandbach, which widens the pool of commuters who might choose to live there. Tenants tend to be local workers, tradespeople and families on a tighter budget than in the more expensive parts of Cheshire, and turnover for well presented family houses tends to be relatively low once a tenant settles. For a landlord, Middlewich's affordability and central position within the county tend to keep demand for family housing fairly steady.

• 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.