Property management in Runcorn, Cheshire

2 bed rent

£775 a month

3 bed rent

£985 a month

Typical sale price

£137,630

Gross yield

8.2%

Read around WA7. Rents are advertised rents; the sale price is the average of completed sales in the last twelve months.

Runcorn has some of the more affordable rents in Cheshire, reflecting its development as a new town from the 1960s onward alongside its older riverside core. Housing stock ranges from the purpose-built estates of the new town, with a good supply of semi-detached and terraced housing, to older properties in the original town near the Bridgewater Canal.

Runcorn East and Runcorn railway stations provide services toward Liverpool, Chester and Manchester, and the town sits directly on the M56, with the M62 also within easy reach. This makes Runcorn well connected by road for commuters heading toward Liverpool, Warrington or Manchester, as well as for those working in the industrial areas along the Mersey.

The chemical and industrial sites around Runcorn and neighbouring Widnes provide local employment, and workers from these industries make up part of the rental market, alongside commuters using the motorway network to reach Liverpool or Warrington. Families favour the semi-detached housing on the new town estates, which tend to offer more space for the rent than comparable properties closer to Liverpool.

For a landlord, Runcorn's strong motorway links and lower rent levels relative to Cheshire as a whole tend to draw tenants who need to commute across the region by car, and this broad catchment can help keep properties let with fewer gaps.

Runcorn's new town estates, built from the 1960s under the Runcorn Development Corporation, provide a large supply of semi-detached and terraced housing arranged around dedicated cycleways and the former Busway, while the older town near the Bridgewater Canal and Runcorn Hill retains more traditional Victorian terraces. Beyond the chemical and industrial sites, the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus nearby adds employment in research and technology, bringing a different type of tenant into the local market alongside industrial and logistics workers. Families tend to favour the spacious new town estates, while smaller households and young professionals often look toward the older town or newer apartment developments near the waterfront. For a landlord, Runcorn's mix of industrial, logistics and science park employment, combined with strong motorway access, tends to support demand across a wide range of property types.

• 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). Halton Council reviews its selective and additional licensing schemes from time to time, and schemes can cover named wards or streets only. We check the register against your exact address before the first tenancy.