We’re very proud of our employees and no more than Wesley Stokes, Senior Negotiator at our Watsons of Cromer branch. Wes, who also lives in Cromer is a lifeboatman and part of the Cromer RNLI team of volunteers, and can often be called away from his desk at any time to head out to an incident. Being on call 24 hours a day means volunteers can get called to a shout, whatever the time of day or weather...

Register Your Electrical Appliances   Why take the risk? House fires and electric shocks, which can be caused by faulty appliances, are amongst our biggest fears. Yet most households still don’t register their electrical items and therefore manufacturers are unable to contact them in the event of a recall. Faulty appliances alone cause over £40 million of damage in the UK every year and around...

NAEA Propertymark Board member and Branch Manager at Watsons of Norwich, Ian Harris provides some handy tips and guidance on making an offer for your dream property: Putting an offer forward to purchase your dream home is a big thing. Here are some tips and guidance to make the process as smooth as possible. Alternatively, you can watch the NAEA YouTube video here. Preparation Firstly, the more...

So what exactly is a Section 20 Notice, and what are they for? As a managing agent, we find there is often confusion by our clients as to why remedial works are sometimes delayed, and what may appear as a simple solution, seems to be taking time. The reason for this could be the implementation of a Section 20 procedure. Section 20 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985 (as amended by the Commonhold &...

Estate agent boards have proved a great marketing tool for a very long time, with some arguing they are an essential to sell or let your property; while others disagree. With the increase of online marketing, is there still a place for these traditional estate agent boards in the digital age? With the saturation of social media, and more users than ever before searching for properties online, there must...

On the 12 October 2017, Watsons will be exhibiting at the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce B2B Exhibition taking place at Norwich City Football Club, Norwich (open between 10am – 4pm). This networking event is the region’s premier business to business exhibition and attracts over 750 attendees to the event. Helping to develop Norfolk businesses year on the year the B2B Exhibtion is an unmissable event in...

Surveyors are never off duty, whether stamping on floors or tapping walls when visiting a friend’s house or sitting in the garden sipping a glass of wine and looking longingly at the chimney on the neighbour’s house (wanting to tell them the pots are cracked and the flaunching probably needs replacing). Or the gutters are mis-aligned and will cause dampness to the external walls which will eventually...

There is currently a market for Ground Rent investments, with specialist institutions buying freeholds of blocks of residential flats in order to receive the Ground Rent Income. The combined knowledge of Watsons and our specialist advisors enables us to transact with landlords, developers and other investors during the acquisition of residential ground rents with efficiency, quality and...

In the past it was very difficult to obtain mortgages that ran past a client’s normal State Retirement Age. We are now living in an aging population with many people now working past their 65th birthday. The government has moved people’s State Retirement’s Age back due to the rise in the cost of pensions, caused by longer life expectancy and the increasing ratio of pensioners to workers. There is...

When renting out a property Watsons advise all landlords to take a deposit from the tenant prior to the tenancy starting. With our full management service we protect the deposit on behalf of the landlord and therefore would deal with any dilapidations at the end of the tenancy, The deposit offers a level of protection to landlords and means that should the tenant breach the terms of the tenancy...