Young lettings agent gets national recognition after starting business with mum
A Melton Mowbray woman who launched a new lettings agency with her mum last year is already being recognised for her talents after being named as a finalist for a national industry award.
Becky Clarke runs Amhurst Lettings with her mother, Debbie, looking after landlords across Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire.
And she was delighted to be shortlisted for the award for Young Property Professional of the Year at the prestigious National Property Awards last week.
Becky, who told the Melton Times that ‘it felt like such a huge sense of recognition and a proper full circle moment’, adding: “All the hard work from the last year or so suddenly felt seen.
“Amhurst has become a bit like my baby, so having the business noticed and getting the recognition I believe it deserves just felt really good.”
She left a ‘nine to five job’ because wanted to go into business with her mum to help her parents build a pension they could retire on.
Their small independent lettings agency was created by combining the family’s construction knowledge, the customer service and systems background Becky had from corporate, and the lettings knowledge she picked up to set up a business those landlords said they wished they had access to with transparent fees, no maintenance mark-ups, no lock-in terms, and proactive management.
“My parents have over 30 years experience in construction, so property and how buildings actually work from the ground up has always been part of my life,” Becky explained.
“Before I left my nine to five, I’d been going to property networking events and kept hearing the same landlord complaints: poor communication from their agent, endless mark-ups, fees they didn’t understand, maintenance that seemed to take ages, and that horrible feeling of managing your own property manager.
“That’s what pushed us to start Amhurst in the first place.”
Becky added: “Working with Mum is a bit of an unusual mother–daughter setup, in a good way.
“I’m the driving force day to day, in terms of setting the direction of the business, speaking with landlords, finding tenants, systems and operations.
“Mum takes the maintenance admin and the finance side.”
Go to www.amhurstlettings.co.uk to find out more.