Dark Nights, Warm Homes: Your Guide To The Switch
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 30th Oct 2026 The clocks went back on Sunday, Halloween is on Saturday, and it is now properly dark by teatime. Whatever you think of winter, it has arrived, and your home is where you will spend most of it. So this week, a warmer subject than...
Landlords: The True Cost Of An Empty Rental
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 28th Oct 2026 Forget ghosts and creaking floorboards. The thing that genuinely haunts landlords is simpler: an empty property, eating money in the dark. A void period, if you are new to the term, is simply the gap between one tenancy ending and...
What Really Scares Buyers Off A Home This Halloween
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 26th Oct 2026 It's Halloween week, so let's talk about fear. Not the plastic-spider kind. The kind that makes a buyer who loved your home on Tuesday go quiet by Friday. Here's the twist most sellers never hear: buyers are almost never...
Phil Spencer Announces Leslie & Co As Top Agent in the UK for Customer Service
3 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 26th Oct 2026 Leslie & Co wins award at the 23rd annual ESTAS Awards, the most prestigious awards in the UK property sector The Ealing-based agency Leslie & Co received the Gold award in the London (West) category at the prestigious ESTAS...
The Honest Truth About Selling: Silence, Offers, Quiet Weeks
7 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 23rd Oct 2026 Nobody warns you about the strange bit in the middle. Your home goes live, there's a flurry of interest, and then, some weeks, nothing. A promising viewing goes silent. An offer finally lands and it's lower than you hoped. Here's...
Locks, Alarms, Lighting: The Landlord And Tenant Split
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 21st Oct 2026 A lock breaks. A side gate won't bolt. The outside light has been dead since March. In a rented home, whose job is that? It is one of the questions we get asked most, and October, National Home Security Month, with the evenings...
Selling This Winter? How To Master After-Dark Viewings
6 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 19th Oct 2026 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....
Darker Evenings: Ten Minutes To Secure Your Home
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 16th Oct 2026 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...
The Landlord’s October Checklist For A Trouble-Free Winter
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 14th Oct 2026 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...
Selling An Empty Home? Avoid These Costly Mistakes
5 minute read posted by The Team @ Leslie & Co
on 12th Oct 2026 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...
