Provision of Buyers Agent/ Surveyor Services to the LB Brent working Primarily in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

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The London Borough of Brent is looking for suitably qualified buyer’s agent/surveyor to help in the purchase of approx. 50 residential properties primarily in the Home Counties. LB Brent is seeking to appoint up to three buyers agents/surveyors to identify and assess properties and oversee works to help grow Brent’s portfolio primarily but not exclusively in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. B-RENT is the working title/name of the London Borough of Brent’s new private rented sector landlord. B-Rent has been set up by London Borough of Brent to purchase, own and manage a portfolio of properties circa. three hundred units. B-RENT is an asset owning landlord letting properties at local housing allowance rates. B-RENT has a nominations agreement with LB Brent through which 100% of tenants will be nominated by LB Brent’s housing needs service. LB Brent has a track record of nominating to the private rented sector and B-Rent will be an additional private rented sector landlord to whom it can discharge its homelessness duties. Brent currently owns or is in the process of purchase through conveyancing fifty residential units and will complete its portfolio within two year. The homes will be located in two management areas: • Brent (portfolio ambition 120 units) and West London (portfolio ambition 30 units), and • The Home Counties (portfolio ambition 150 units) Keywords: leasing rent housing