For blocks

Why manage your block with Davies & Davies?

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   We're small block specialists

   Big block management companies are built for scale: hundreds of units, layers of account managers and smaller blocks treated as an afterthought somewhere down the priority list. We’re built the other way round: small blocks are our focus, not our overflow.

   That means you deal with people who actually know your building, not a call centre working from a spreadsheet. Fewer units under management, per manager, means faster responses, better relationships with contractors and nothing falling through the cracks because your block wasn’t big enough to matter.

   

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   No minimum term contracts, cancellation fees or notice periods

   Most block managers bank on you being too tangled up in contracts to leave, even when the service is dire. We don’t work that way because a good agent shouldn’t need small print to keep your business.

   We’d rather earn it, month after month, than lock you into it. If the service ever slips, you’re free to walk – no lawyers, no loopholes, no last-minute invoices designed to sting you on the way out.

   

3. 03/

   Fair fees. No fine print.

   Block management has a reputation for charges that appear out of nowhere and line items nobody can quite explain. We do the opposite: a clear, fair fee structure, set out plainly from day one, with nothing buried in the small print for you to discover later.

   It’s should be that simple but it’s unfortunately rare in this part of the industry. Not us! We don’t do hidden mark-ups on contractor invoices or vague “admin fees”. Just an honest number and the service to match it.

   

4. 04/

   24/7 maintenance help by vetted contractors

   Emergencies don’t check the time before they happen – a burst pipe at 2am doesn’t wait for office hours and neither do we. We run a 24-hour, 365-day emergency maintenance line, so something going wrong at your building never means an answerphone message and a growing sense of dread.

   Every contractor we use is vetted against our Good Ethics & Standards Charter – not just the cheapest quote we could find. We contract people who turn up, do the job properly and don’t cut corners. Fast response and reliable work, together, not one at the expense of the other.

   

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   You'll actually meet the person managing your property.

   Some landlords find out too late that their “local” agent is running things from an office nowhere near their property, with a manager who’s never actually seen it. That’s not us. Our team is based right here, in North London – not a call centre or a satellite office fielding your building from across the city.

   Because we’re actually local, our property managers visit in person and not just when something’s gone wrong, but as a matter of course. That means problems get spotted before they become expensive and you’re dealing with someone who genuinely knows your property, not a name on a spreadsheet.