Edinburgh Rental Market Update - April 2022
For the 6th month in a row, the number of available properties for rent in Edinburgh remains extremely low. Supply...
We don’t take the responsibility of taking care of you, your property and your tenants lightly. We’re organised (making sure everything is in order), proactive (seeing what’s ahead and planning accordingly), super-responsive and excellent communicators. Everyone in our team has a strong customer service background. People think Umega is a property business. It’s really a people business.
Umega landlords benefit from the shared experience of tens of thousands of managed tenancies over the last 15 years. We’re qualified, regulated, award-winning, Edinburgh property management experts and we want to make letting a property through Umega a positive experience for everyone.
Use our handy free valuation tool to find out what your property is worth.
We’ll follow up to answer any questions you have service either face to face or on the phone - whatever’s easiest for you.
You can onboard with us nice and easily, completely remotely and we’ll take things from there.
Our fees are straightforward and transparent.
We charge a monthly property management fee and a marketing fee.
Marketing
Best in class property marketing & market coverage
24 hour appointment booking for prospective tenants
Proactive daily market reviews to ensure optimum let
Move In
Swift, thorough credit-checks & references
Online photo inventory & deposit handling
Tenancy documents digitally created, signed & stored
Tenancy
Organisation of repairs & safety certificate renewals
Regular inspections & photographic reports
24/7 access to your rental account
Move out
Serving notice, online checkout report & deposit admin
End of tenancy remedial work & proactive recommendations
Market review & relet minimising voids
Want more information? Here are some documents with more details on what’s involved in our property management service. Everything you need to make a decision about your rental property.
Our business is all about reputation and referrals.
We have a successful business and attract new customers because we take care of our customers and employees. It’s as simple as that.
Our customer service comes from recruiting the right people and creating the conditions for them to do an amazing job.
We really look after our people so they look after you.
We’ve accumulated decades of experience and lessons.
We take every opportunity to capture what’s happening, learn from it and share it with our customers.
We’ve been at it since 2005 and since then, Umega has become established as the leading letting and property management company in Edinburgh. We’ve done this by constantly improving and learning about the behaviours and rhythms of Edinburgh’s letting market and all the technical and legal aspects in Scotland fast evolving private rented sector.
We take care of every aspect of letting and property management on behalf of our landlords and at each step we make sure it’s as convenient as possible for our customers from our slick onboarding, through to our automated inspection reports and our online payments app. We look after the property management process end to end as the 12 stage diagram illustrates. We provide a better way to rent properties.
We’re voluntarily regulated by ARLA Propertymark and we helped Scottish Government with their landmark letting agent register to help raise the bar for agencies in our sector. We were awarded the Residential Letting Team of the Year for Scotland by the Scottish Home Awards for three years running (2018, 2019 & 2020) and in 2021 we won Scottish agency of the year and the huge accolade of UK Letting agency of the year our industry’s main awards; The Negotiator Awards.
We’re the best in the business and we’re not standing still. We’re continually testing the latest software and solutions to help improve our Edinburgh property management service for our landlords and tenants. We’re constantly analysing the market and our own data to help understand what’s going on in the wider context of the housing sector in Scotland and the role that we play in it. Housing is a fascinating area to work in and we don’t take our role lightly making sure that Umega is leading the way with what an Edinburgh property management agency should be and setting as best an example as we can for the rest of our sector.
Get in touch right now
Don’t like forms?