The Leslie & Co blog

This Sunday, 25 October, the clocks go back an hour. By Monday teatime it will be getting dark, and by November most weekday viewings will happen with the curtains drawn and the lights on. Plenty of sellers treat that as bad news....

By the end of this month it will be dark before teatime. And an unlit house at 6pm tells anyone who cares to look that nobody is home. October is National Home Security Month, the annual campaign behind homesecuritymonth.com, and...

Ask any letting agent when the phone starts ringing and they will give you the same answer. The first cold snap. Boilers that limped through summer give up the day the temperature drops, and every landlord in the country is...

An empty house sounds like the easy version of selling. No tidying before viewings, no dashing out with the dog while strangers wander round your kitchen. In practice, empty homes are usually the harder sell. Perhaps you have...

Picture this: it's 11pm on a Tuesday. You are sitting on the bedroom floor between two half-packed boxes, holding a school photo you forgot existed, and you cannot remember why you ever wanted to move. If that scene feels...

New job. Bigger place. Moving in with someone. Sooner or later every renter hands back the keys, and the rules around leaving changed this year. Here's the position in one paragraph. Since 1 May 2026, every assured tenancy in...

The Autumn Budget lands on Wednesday 28 October. If you are thinking of selling, someone has probably already told you to wait and see. It sounds sensible. For most sellers, it isn't. Here's the short version: if you have a real...

Every homeowner arrives at this question eventually, usually standing in a kitchen that has stopped working for the family in it. Do we spend the money here, or do we spend it moving? There is no universal answer, but there is a...

The boiler stops. There is a patch spreading on the bathroom ceiling. The back door has stopped locking properly. Most tenants do the same thing at this point. They send a text, or mention it in passing, and then wait and feel...

The survey arrives as a PDF, usually late in the afternoon, and it is longer and more alarming than anybody expects. Somewhere in it, almost guaranteed, will be a recommendation to have the electrical installation inspected and...