News & Blog

Service charges have been much debated in the media and beyond in recent months. Managing agents often come under scrutiny around residential service charges and what they involve. What is apparent is there is confusion and misunderstanding.

Fiona duCassé and I thoroughly enjoyed UKREiiF and catching up with various clients, industry contacts and, hopefully, meeting some new clients too.

Taking place annually on the 22^nd of April, Earth Day serves as a powerful reminder of the work that we can all do to protect the environment around us. Having first started in America in 1970, Earth Day has grown and now encourages business, individuals, organisations and governments from around the world to participate. This year’s theme ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ focuses on the importance of clean energy as a resource to simultaneously support the planet whist empowering communities, driving economic growth and improving health quality.

At Rendall & Rittner, we are proud to hold key accreditations that emphasise our quality of service, commitment to the highest health and safety standards and the importance we place on investing in our people. These accreditations from TPI, BSC and IIP, sit alongside our Regulated by RICS status, and together provide comprehensive external verification to our clients, customers and residents that we are continuing to meet the highest standards of service and the value that we place on continuous improvement in all that we do.

As a service provider, we appreciate that our people are our greatest asset. In order to secure and retain the best people, we are committed to investing in our employees and understand that learning and development (L&D) is a key part of this. We are constantly looking for opportunities to refine and enhance our L&D strategy in order to support our people in developing their knowledge and skills, and have therefore recently launched our new Property Management Academy.

At Rendall & Rittner, we pride ourselves on our ability to offer an extensive range of property management and development consultancy services that meet the needs and expectations of our clients, customers and residents. As we look to further enhance and expand the services available to our clients, we are excited to introduce newly established surveying company SRVO, the latest addition to the Odevo group of which we are a founding partner.

Vanessa Brandham, our newly promoted Health & Safety Director, joined Rendall & Rittner ten years ago. Here she explains how her role has evolved, and how health and safety has become a cornerstone of the business.

In early January, the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) updated its Building Assessment Certification guidance and detailed the specific criteria being used when they are assessing safety case reports submitted as part of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) application.

We are delighted to announce that Rendall & Rittner has been awarded a Five Star accreditation in the British Safety Council audit for the sixth consecutive year. Securing an impressive score of 97.55% - an increase of over half a percentage point from last year - this achievement demonstrates our commitment to best practice in health and safety.