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Christmas Hours 2023

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Christmas Hours 2023

We’re super excited about Christmas and we hope you are too! Here’s just a quick reminder of when our offices will be open over the Christmas and New Year period;

Friday 22nd December: 9:15 am – 5:30 pm

Saturday 23rd December: Closed

Sunday 24th December: Closed

Monday 25th December: Closed – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 26th December: Closed – Bank Holiday

Wednesday 27th December: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Thursday 28th December: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Friday 29th December: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Saturday 30th December: Closed

Sunday 31st December 2023: Closed

Monday 1st January: Closed – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 2nd January: 9:15 am – 5:30 pm

If you are a Tenant and have a maintenance issue during this time, please call the normal lettings number on 01722 820580 and follow the instructions.

Smelling Gas:
This is URGENT then PLEASE CALL: 0800 111 999

Plumbing & Heating:
D & M – 07743 294 386

Austin Heating – 07741252469

Electrical:
AM Electrical – 07458 187 156

SGS Heating & Electrical – 01722 331066

 

PLEASE REMEMBER ALL MAINTENANCE STILL NEEDS TO BE REPORTED THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE PORTAL (https://www.bassets.co.uk/maintenance-reporting-system/) OVER THE FESTIVE PERIOD. 

Salisbury Hospice Charity – Corporate Gala Quiz Prize

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Salisbury Hospice Charity – Corporate Gala Quiz Prize

 

Northwood Incorporating Bassets has agreed to offer this fantastic prize of a FREE Property Sale based on the following conditions:

 

  • The area covered is SP1-SP8
  • All Northwood Bassets standard marketing will be included within the auction price.
  • Maximum house value: £500,000
  • Reserve Price: £2,000.00
  • This prize is time-limited & must be instructed by 31 Dec 2023.
  • The FULL amount of the winning bid must be paid upfront within 7 days of the close of the auction.
  • There is no alternative cash prize available, nor any variation on the above terms & conditions.

Christmas Opening Hours 2022

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Christmas Opening Hours 2022

We’re super excited about Christmas and we hope you are too! Here’s just a quick reminder of when our offices will be open over the Christmas and New Year period;

Friday 23rd December: 9:15 – 5:30 pm

Saturday 24th December: Closed

Sunday 25th December: Closed 

Monday 26th December: Closed – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 27th December: Closed – Bank Holiday

Wednesday 28th December: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Thursday 29th December: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Friday 30th December: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Saturday 31st December: 10:00 am – 12:30 pm

Sunday 1st January: Closed

Monday 2nd January: Closed – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 3rd January: 9:15 am – 5:30 pm

If you are a Tenant and have a maintenance issue during this time, please call the normal lettings number on 01722 820580 and follow the instructions.

Smelling Gas:
This is URGENT then PLEASE CALL: 0800 111 999

Plumbing & Heating:
Stonehenge Plumbing & Heating: 01722 212052 & SGS: 01722 331066

Electrical:
SGS: 01722 331066

Kiwi Place, Bulford

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Kiwi Place, Bulford

 

Bassets Lettings, in partnership with Annington, are delighted to present this newly refurbished development, comprising a mixture of two & three-bedroom flats, closely followed by two and three-bedroom houses, all finished to a high standard located just off Tidworth Road.

Kiwi Place, named in recognition of the historic Bulford Kiwi on nearby Beacon Hill, comprises an initial collection of 69 three-bedroom apartments. Formerly used as MOD housing for Service personnel stationed at Bulford Barracks, the apartments have been refreshed with a neutral palette to breathe new life into the homes

For more information, follow this link: Kiwi Place, Bulford.

 

WE’RE RECRUITING! – We’re looking for a Lettings Negotiator to join our busy team

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EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO WORK FOR SALISBURY LEADING LETTING AGENT.

Bassets Lettings, Salisbury has a vacancy for a Lettings Negotiator in our Salisbury Lettings Office.

The successful candidate will be responsible for all lead generation, undertaking viewings, as well as managing tenants and landlords through the process from the initial marketing of a property to the point at which the tenancy starts and tenants move in.

The position is a customer-facing role in a busy lettings market and the successful applicant should be professional, presentable and have excellent communication skills. It is essential that they have an approachable personality meaning that they are easily able to converse with people from all walks of life. The successful applicant will be a good judge of character and will feel comfortable discussing all aspects of the lettings process with tenants and landlords alike.

When in the office the applicant should also be able to deal with general telephone enquiries, be able to discuss available properties with interested customers face-to-face, book viewings for available properties and assist anywhere elsewhere needed as part of the small front office team.

A smart and confident appearance, excellent time management and organisational skills are essential for this role as is the ability to work equally well as part of a team or individually.

Previous administrative experience and good computer literacy is vital, but, previous experience in the property industry is not as full training will be given.

A full UK driving licence and a car are also essential for this role.

Hours**

8.30 am – 5.45pm Mondays.

8.45am – 5.45pm Tuesday – Friday.

9.00am – 2pm (Alternative Saturdays with a half-day in lieu).

Holiday: 20 days plus Bank holidays.

PAY: Basic Salary, monthly commission.

For a more detailed breakdown of the job description, please contact Quentin Thatcher, MARLA – Head of Lettings.

Please could you provide salary expectations with any correspondence

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: Circa £18,000.00-£22,000.00 per year

Please email Quentin Thatcher – Head of Lettings quentin.thatcher@bassets.co.uk with a copy of your CV and a covering letter.

Jubilee Weekend – Opening Hours

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Jubilee Weekend – Opening Hours

Jubilee Opening Hours

With the Queen Celebrating her Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of Service. We are all very excited to have the additional Bank Holiday to commemorate this. Whit this in mind we will have slightly altered Office hours, so we can join in the celebrations with you.We hope you all have a fantastic time and are able to celebrate this momentous occasion in style with some beautiful weather.

Thursday 2nd June – Closed
Friday 3rd June – Closed
Saturday 4th June – Closed
Sunday 5th June – Closed
Monday 6th June – Open as Normal (8:45 am – 5:45 pm)

If you are a Tenant and have a maintenance issue during this time, please call the normal lettings number on 01722 820580 and follow the instructions.

Smelling Gas:
This is URGENT then PLEASE CALL: 0800 111 999

Plumbing & Heating:
Stonehenge Plumbing & Heating: 01722 212052 & SGS: 01722 331066

Electrical:
SGS: 01722 331066

Demand from house hunters and supply of properties

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Demand from house hunters and supply of properties

The average number of new potential buyers registering at each member branch was up from 67 in February to 84 in March, returning close to the January high of 100.

The average number of properties listed per member agent branch remained fairly steady at 22, compared to 23 in February. New instructions to the market continue to be high at an average of 10 per member branch, showing the increase in supply since the new year has held.

 

Nathan EmersonCEO | Propertymark

Our March figures show a range of new activity as the spring market makes itself known. The number of new properties coming on to the market has increased slightly and new stock breeds new buyers and new sales. The number of sales being agreed in March is slightly above our recorded long-term average and the uplift in properties coming to market is a trend we would hope to see continue into April and May.

Sales to first time buyers

The proportion of monthly sales to first-time buyers stayed strong at 30 per cent of overall sales in March.  This is slightly down on February’s figure of 37 per cent but still above average for the post-2020 lockdown period (25 per cent).

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If you’re thinking of selling or letting your home please use the Book a Valuation link below.

Christmas Opening Hours 2021

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Christmas Opening Hours 2021

 

We hope you’re looking forward to Christmas as much as we are, here’s just a quick reminder of when our offices will be open over the Christmas and New Year period;

Thursday 23rd December: 9: 00 am – 5:00 pm

Friday 24th December: Closed

Saturday 25th December: Closed

Sunday 26th December: Closed 

Monday 27th December: Closed – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 28th December: Closed – Bank Holiday

Wednesday 29th December: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Thursday 30th December: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Friday 31st December: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Saturday 1st January: Closed

Sunday 2nd January: Closed

Monday 3rd January: Closed – Bank Holiday

Tuesday 4th January: 9:00 am – 5:45 pm

If you are a Tenant and have a maintenance issue during this time, please call the normal lettings number on 01722 820580 and follow the instructions.

Smelling Gas:
This is URGENT then PLEASE CALL: 0800 111 999

Plumbing & Heating:
Stonehenge Plumbing & Heating: 01722 212052 & SGS: 01722 331066

Electrical:
SGS: 01722 331066

Halloween Competition

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Halloween is fast approaching this weekend and we’re running a competition for the best Pumpkin design. 🎃🖍
 
Send us a picture of your Pumpkin, whether it be carved, decorated or anything creative, along with the writing ‘Bassets/Northwood’ and you’ll be entered into our prize draw for a chance to win a £50 Gift Card.
You can enter this via either; Facebook, Twitter or by sending an email to lettings@bassets.co.uk.
Please remember to attach your name and a contact number when sending us a picture, so we can contact you if you are to be the lucky winner!
Good luck to everyone that enters!

Acquisition of Bassets Lettings

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Acquisition of Bassets Lettings
We would like to formally announce that David & Mary Clayton will no longer be involved with the running of Bassets Lettings. They have made the difficult to sell the company to another local family-run business, Northwood Salisbury.

David & Mary set the business up back in 2002 wanting to offer a transparently priced, first-class service to their landlords in an industry with ever-increasing regulation. Their two key objectives have always been to find you, good quality tenants, promptly and to look after your property throughout the tenancy so that it will re-let more quickly and for a higher rent when vacated.

Now, following the acquisition of Bassets, the Owners of Northwood Salisbury, Stuart & Maryam Calvert follow a very similar ethos, having been in the industry for the past 18 years.

Speaking of this acquisition, Stuart Calvert said: “I have been with Northwood since 2003, working my way up to office manager within a year and buying the Northwood Southampton franchise in 2006. Northwood Southampton has constantly grown over the years and now has a team of 10 staff. In 2015 my wife Maryam and I opened a brand-new Northwood Salisbury office on Castle Street, Salisbury, which now has a team of four staff and is run by Maryam on a day-to-day basis.

“We are delighted to have completed on the acquisition of Bassets, which is a very successful family-run independent business with a superb reputation as an honest and transparent lettings business. There is a great synergy between our two businesses, as our Northwood business is very much family-run and I know that was important to David and Mary when they decided to sell. Maryam and I believe in delivering outstanding levels of customer service, and we treat all of our clients with the personal attention that we believe is so important.

“I am delighted to confirm that the entire team will remain in place at Bassets, with no redundancies. The business will continue to be managed by Quentin Thatcher who as many of you know has been Head of Lettings there since 2013 and has over 30 years of experience in the property industry.

“We do not intend to make any major changes to how the business operates, as it is already extremely successful. However, the advantage of this acquisition for Bassets will be access to Northwood’s fantastic resources which include outstanding marketing, IT, advertising and legislative updates etc. All of these resources will greatly enhance the services already being provided to landlords and tenants by Bassets. We look forward to working with the new team and expanding our presence in the Salisbury area.

Former owner, David Clayton said: “We would like to say a huge thank you to all our staff over the past 19 years who have helped take Bassets from being a new start to the market leader locally for lettings. Although the time is right for Mary and I to move on, we are delighted to hand over Bassets to Stuart and Maryam who, with a family run business of their own, share a similar ethos and commitment to looking after their customers.”

 
Head of Lettings  – Quentin Thatcher said: “As highlighted above I will be staying at Bassets and along with the Bassets team we remain committed to maintaining the first-class levels of customer service and communication which have been the foundation behind Bassets success and why Bassets Lettings remain Salisbury and Amesbury leading Letting Agent.  We hope moving forward the business will only go from strength to strength.”