One of the best things about owning a Beechcroft home is having a friendly, helpful Estate Manager on hand.
When you’re away, spending time visiting friends and family, holidaying in this country or abroad or perhaps ‘locking up and leaving’ to live at a second property for part of the year, it’s very reassuring to know that someone is keeping a watchful eye on your home – making sure the post isn’t piling up and that, if you have a private garden, you don’t come home to knee-deep grass. You won’t even have to clean your external windows – it will all be done for you.
Our Estate Managers are chosen because they’re able to ‘turn their hands’ to most things – minor repairs, cleaning of the communal areas and gardening of both private gardens and the landscaped setting. As you’ll discover, your Estate Manager will do much more – you’ll be able to ask about the local area, request help when you’re organising an event and many Managers organise meetings and social events for owners.
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“My garden and all the communal garden spaces are tended and all external maintenance is taken care of. Our Estate Manager, Ian, is so kind and obliging and will do all sorts of things to help out. Bins and recycling are taken care of.”
, Cotswold Gate
“Linda, our Estate Manager is marvellous, absolutely brilliant. We couldn’t have anyone better. Nothing is too much for her – she really helps our community and the residents. I have been to the coffee mornings she sets up – they’re great, she takes boxed games. We have some nice neighbours here and I go bowling in Watlington – the club is about five minutes’ drive away. There’s already a good sense of community at Castle Gardens.”
, Castle Gardens, Watlington
“It’s lovely to have an estate management service. The window cleaners come regularly and the gardeners come every week and I am happy with that. Living in my former home, it was a chore having to mow the lawn every week. Now, I can sit in the garden and enjoy it because the gardening of my private garden is done for me which gives me more time to enjoy things. The estate management service will also be useful when I go away because there’ll be someone to keep an eye on my home.”
, Castle Gardens, Watlington
“In my previous home, I had gardening to do and fences to fix but, living here, I can potter in my garden if I want to but I don’t have to do anything – everything is looked after. I can’t speak highly enough of the estate manager – he’s wonderful. I have been here a year and the estate management service has been really useful. If you have a problem, you speak to the manager and he solves it.”
, Hampton Manor
“The estate management service is fantastic. The manager is so obliging – if you want any help at all, he is on hand.”
, Hampton Manor
Every morning, I walk around the development checking that all the lifts are working and that everything is clean and in good order. Most days I do some gardening. A professional gardening team comes in once a month but on a daily basis, I keep the grass tidy, carry out general gardening tasks, clear the leaves in autumn and the snow and ice in the winter. I also organise the regular external window cleaning. It’s important to keep the development, including the gardens, looking nice.
I get a lot of requests and am more than happy to help. A key part of my role is to be a ‘good neighbour’… many of our homeowners need to be reminded how to set their heating. There’s so much to remember when you first move in - so I help them with that. I have sorted out minor plumbing problems from stuck taps to blocked sinks. Recently, one lady had a problem with moving her garden chairs from her balcony to her garage for winter storage. She couldn’t get them through her door so I lowered them off the balcony for her.
Yes, we have people here who spend their winters with family in Australia, others who live in France for part of the year and others who travel or holiday frequently. The estate management service was one of the most important factors for them when they were choosing a new home. When they leave, they give me the keys to their home and I sign a form confirming that I have permission to look after the property. I go in regularly to tidy up the mail and check that everything is in good order.
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At all of our developments, residents only pay for the services provided. The service charges are used to maintain the development at a high standard and to pay for an estate manager to take responsibility for the maintenance of the development and to be on hand to provide residents with help and advice, if needed.”
, Sales & Marketing Director
“The services that we provide to Beechcroft owners remove the stress and worry associated with property maintenance. Many Beechcroft residents have moved from amazing properties that they may not have been able to manage or maintain as well as they would have liked or can see the future costs of this rising.
They buy lovely Beechcroft homes, which they are able to furnish and decorate and enjoy life in a beautiful environment where they don’t have to worry about a thing.”
, Chief Executive, ELM Group
