Bristol · BS1–BS16 · since 2011
Every letting agent in this city will tell you their fees are transparent. We are the one that prints them where you can read them before you ring.
412 properties managed ARLA Propertymark Client money protected
What it costs
Publishing this is not generosity — a letting agent is required by law to publish a fee list on its website. Most publish it somewhere you will never look. Here it is instead.
50% + VAT · no let, no fee
Marketing, accompanied viewings, full referencing, tenancy agreement, deposit registered, check-in. We hand you the keys and the file, and step back.
6% + VAT
Let Only, plus rent demanded, collected, reconciled and paid over within three working days. Arrears chased from day two.
9.5% + VAT · most landlords
Rent Collection, plus repairs, contractors, certificate renewals, inspections, deposit disputes and notices. Your tenant calls us, not you.
This is the list competitors keep on a separate page. It is short on purpose.
That is the entire schedule. There is no arrangement fee on works, no percentage on contractor invoices, no renewal commission and no exit fee. If we have not listed it, we do not charge it.
Published under the Consumer Rights Act 2015. Marchmont Property Ltd is a member of the Client Money Protect scheme (CMP009214) and of The Property Ombudsman (D12475). A copy of this schedule is displayed at 14 Chandos Road and on every portal listing we place.
Where your money sits
Client money protection became compulsory in 2019 because letting agents had been absconding with rent. These are our scheme memberships and reference numbers, so you can check them yourself before you instruct us.
Rent is held in a designated client account with Lloyds, separate from the trading account, and reconciled daily. Marchmont Property Ltd, registered in England & Wales no. 07742318. ICO registration ZA914772.
What you get for it
Most landlords should be on Fully Managed. We will tell you when you should not be — if you live on the same street and enjoy the work, Let Only is cheaper and we would rather say so.
For landlords who want the tenant found properly and will run the tenancy themselves.
For landlords who can handle a boiler but would rather not chase money.
For anyone who does not want to be rung at eleven at night about a leak.
The calendar we run for you
Section 21 was abolished on 1 May 2026 and every tenancy in the country became periodic on the same day. This is the part of the job that has changed most, and the part landlords most often get wrong.
Every 12 months
A Gas Safe engineer inspects every appliance and flue. Existing tenants get a copy within 28 days; new tenants get it before they move in. We book it, chase it and file it.
Unlimited fine, or prosecution — and a Section 21 was never valid without it
Every 5 years
A full Electrical Installation Condition Report, given to the tenant before they move in, with any C1 or C2 remedial work done inside 28 days.
Up to £30,000 per breach — the single largest fine a landlord faces
Band E now · band C from 1 Oct 2030
Band E is the current legal floor. The confirmed requirement is band C for all tenancies from 1 October 2030, with a £10,000 per property spending cap and a ten-year exemption if it still cannot be reached. Not 2028 — that date moved.
Up to £5,000 — and the property becomes unlettable
Within 30 days
Registered with the TDS and the prescribed information served on the tenant and any guarantor. Capped at five weeks' rent, or six where the annual rent is £50,000 or more.
One to three times the deposit — payable to the tenant
Before the tenancy, every time
Original documents or a share code checked for every adult occupier, with follow-up checks diarised where a permission expires.
Up to £20,000 per occupier — and a criminal offence if knowingly ignored
Live since 1 May 2026
Section 21 is gone. Every tenancy is an assured periodic tenancy, fixed terms have ended, and possession runs through Section 8 grounds only. The PRS Database and the new Landlord Ombudsman follow later this year — we will register you.
Up to £7,000, rising to £40,000 — for repeat or serious breaches
Last twelve months
On the market now
Bristol rents averaged £1,883 a month in June 2026, up 7.4% on the year. These are live instructions, priced where we think they will actually let rather than where they would look best in a valuation letter.
Gwilliam Street, BedminsterBS3 4LG · 3 bedroom terraced house
Chandos Road, RedlandBS6 6PF · 2 bedroom first floor flat
Cotham Hill, CothamBS6 6LF · 1 bedroom garden flat
Who manages your property
The universal complaint about letting agents is that you meet the valuer and are then passed to a call centre. Every managed property here is allocated to one named manager on the day we take the instruction.
Founder & Director
Fifteen years in Bristol lettings, eight of them at a corporate agency she left because she was told to stop quoting fees over the phone. Handles valuations and anything that has gone properly wrong.
Senior Property Manager
Runs 180 managed properties north of the river and the out-of-hours rota. Keeps the contractor panel honest: three quotes over £400, and no invoice paid without a photograph.
Compliance Manager
Owns the certificate calendar and every inspection report. Spent the spring re-papering all 412 tenancies for the Renters' Rights Act and has the spreadsheet to prove it.
Landlords
“I asked four agents what full management cost. Three said they would need to visit first. Marchmont's number was on the website, and it was lower than two of the three who wouldn't tell me.”
Deborah YatesTwo flats, Montpelier · landlord since 2019
“The boiler failed on the Friday before Christmas. Tobi had an engineer there on the Saturday morning and I found out afterwards, from the statement. That is exactly what I am paying 11.4% for.”
Sam OkonkwoSix properties, BS7 · landlord since 2016
“My previous agent charged me 10% on top of every repair invoice. Over four years that was more than eleven hundred pounds I hadn't noticed. Marchmont charge nothing on works and say so in writing.”
Ruth BeddoeOne house, Bishopston · landlord since 2022
Free, and genuinely free
Forty minutes at the property. You get a written rent assessment, the works we think it needs before it goes on, a realistic letting date, and the fee schedule you have already read. No obligation, and we will tell you if you are better off staying where you are.
