Residential Land have acquired 4 Elephants as part of The London Elephant Parade 2010! These individual works of art have been a feature across the Capital over the last few months to raise money for a worthy cause.

258 brightly decorated elephants were left across London in a unique art event aimed at raising £2 million to protect the habitat of the endangered Asian Elephant.

The London Elephant Parade generated mass awareness of the animals plight whilst bringing enjoyment to millions. The exhibition conculded with auctions selling off the individual elephants and all money raised going to the Elephant Family Charity.

Residential Land enjoyed the Elephant Parade and wanted to support the Charity by purchasing 4 of our favourite exhibits, including Luna - a glossy black Elephant with twinkling lights who was located in Westfield Shopping Centre. Luna was designed by artists Matt McCann, Jake Scott & Nick Colyer.

Luna will now have pride of place in our Mayfair Office! Conrgatulations to the Elephant Family charity for such a magnificent event that brought a smile to so many of us in London!

As part of Residential Land’s continuing commitment to charitable causes, Bruce Ritchie, hosted a table at Elton John’s 12th Annual White Tie & Tiara Summer Ball on Thursday 24th June.

The exclusive event featured a performance by pop sensation Lady Gaga and raised £5.6 million for the Elton John AIDS foundation (EJAF).

Over 1100 projects worldwide have benefit from grants from the foundation, and EJAF is one of the worlds largest AIDS charities funding programmes in 15 countries across 4 continents.

Residential Land is proud to support the Elton John AIDS foundation and would like to congratulate Elton and David for another successful evening.

Residential Land attending RESI 2010

Residential Land are Platinum Sponsors of RESI 2010 conference hosted at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport. The event runs from 16th to 17th September 2010 and is the UK’s largest residential property conference.

Bruce Ritchie, CEO of Residential Land, is a keynote speaker confirmed for the event on a panel discussion analysing the Property Market along with other industry leaders including Nick Candy from Candy & Candy, Tony Pidgley from Berkeley Group and Mark Clare from Barratt Developments.

If you are attending the event and would like to arrange a meeting with Residential Land, or to join us for a drink, email louise@residentialland.com - we look forward to seeing you there!

Residential Land are leading property experts, with investment properties for sale, and hundreds of flats to rent in London.

Residential Land are looking for a web savvy Online Marketing Intern to join our team.

This job is a volunteer role and will suit the ambitious student/graduate looking to build experience in a Property Marketing function while looking for their next move in online/digital marketing.

Residential Land buy, rent and sell property across prime central London. With a large portfolio of properties for rent across the best postcodes in London, we are on one of London’s largest private landlords.

Online Marketing Internship:

The role of the internship is to provide Online Marketing support to the Marketing team. Your duties will include:

• Increase search engine optimisation (SEO) for websites through Link Building and writing targeted web copy
• Build profile and presence through social media
• Help to deliver all marketing communications – marketing literature, email marketing campaigns
• Assist writing online articles
• Assistance with managing contacts database, websites, communications, PR
• Monitoring listings of our properties on Portals and liaising with Agencies to ensure accuracy
• The role will also involve other general Marketing duties

We are seeking the following competencies and attributes:

• Efficient systematic approach, excellent time management.
• Good copywriting skills
• Basic HTML experience would be an advantage
• Understanding of on-page and off-page SEO
• Ability to multi task
• Working quickly with good momentum

Internship Benefits:

• Experience of working in a busy Marketing department
• Gain a good understanding of Search and Online Marketing
• Credible reference from a high profile employer within the property industry
• Ideal first opportunity from someone interested in a career in Marketing or Property

Hours:
Full Time; 3 days a week
10.00 am to 18.00pm
1 hour lunch break

Terms
• First month on a trial basis with no salary
• Thereafter, we will pay expenses up to £100 per week
• You should be able to commit for a 3 month minimum

Most importantly, the right candidate will be a motivated self starter, with a professional manner, an ability to act on their own initiative and as part of a team, display a positive attitude, be highly organised and hard working.

The chosen candidate will develop their Online Marketing skills in an exciting company within the Property industry. The experience will beneficial to any future employer and will build a foundation for a long term career.

If you are interested in applying for a 3 month volunteer internship, please contact marketing@residentialland.com

On 25th April 2010, two staff members from Residential Land successfully completed the London Marathon.

Emma, was running the 26 mile London Marathon on behalf of the Motor Neurone Disease Association, a charity very close to her heart. It was Emma’s first time running a Marathon and she managed to raise over £5,000!

Anthony had also never entered a Marathon, and managed to complete the race in an extremely impressive 4hrs 45 minutes. Equally impressive was that he raised nearly £1500 for his chosed charity, the Severn Hospice.

Anthony has said “It was an amazing day and some of the highlights include running past Richard Branson and his daughter (I know which one I preferred) as well as crossing the line with a fancy dress beer bottle one side and an ice cream (fancy dress) the other.” However, he also added “it will be a good few years before I recover and attempt another one!”

Emma has since said that next year she intends to either swim the solent or climb Mount Kilamanjaro - so watch this space!

Residential Land would like to congratulate both Emma and Anthony for their successful efforts completing the race quickly and in one peice, and for raising so much money for such worthy causes.

Residential Land are one of London’s largest private landlords, with investment properties for Sale and hundres of modern flats to rent in London.

Residential Land are looking for an organised individual to work alongside the Building Manger of two large properties in Central London looking after the day to day running of the buildings.  You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills as you will be regularly liaising with tenants, agents, contractors and you will be the first point of contact.
Responsibilities/duties:

Tenancies

•    Organise advertising to find suitable tenants
•    Arrange viewings and show potential tenants available units
•    Arrange tenancy agreements
•    Organise renewals if a tenant wants to extend their tenancy
•    Ensure all rental payments are received on time and chase tenants for any rent arrears
•    Organise for vacant flats to be professionally cleaned
•    Liaise with the local Councils in relation to Council tax payments
•    Liaise with utility companies in regards to unpaid bills
•    Collection and banking of rents to include receipts and accurate records
•    Organise check-ins and check-out for tenants
•    Organize quarterly property inspections for all rented flats

Maintenance

•    Help to deal with any day to day maintenance issues
•    Organise the replacement of any household appliances that are broken and cannot be repaired
•    Ensure that notes are put on to the property management system
•    Carry out daily inspections of the buildings communal areas

Day to day duties

•    Answering the telephone
•    Liaising and making appointments with estate agents
•    Update the website on a daily/weekly basis
•    Update the availability list for agents
•    Ensure the office has sufficient stationary
•    Ensure you have petty cash and receipts are kept for all expenditure

The person:

>Excellent organisational and time management skills
>Able to work alone as well as part of a team
> Knowledge of Propman or other property database system preferred but not essential
>Property experience is essential
>Polite and well spoken
> Intermediate Microsoft Office
>Works well off own initiative
>Good communication skills

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV and covering letter to: enquiries@residentialland.com.

Residential Land are Prime Central London property specialists dealing in flats for rent, property investment sales and acquisitions. we are fluent in understanding the value of each specific area. Our unique knowledge of our territories allows us to make fast decisions and act quickly on opportunities offered to us.For flats to rent in London visit http://www.residentialland.com.

Our Sales Director, Emma Whitby-Smith will be running in the 2010 London Marathon to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association. This worthy cause is close to Emma’s heart, so please show your support by donating money and leaving her comments of encouragement!

“On the 25th April I will be taking on the challenge to run the London Marathon, where I hope to raise funds for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

What is Motor Neurone Disease (MND)?

It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks the upper and lower motor neurones. Degeneration of the motor neurones leads to weakness and wasting of muscles, causing increasing loss of mobility in the limbs and difficulties with speech, swallowing and breathing, it is terminal.

The Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Association is the only national organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland dedicated to the support of people with MND and those who care for them. This fantastic organisations mission is to fund and promote research to bring about an end to MND. Meanwhile, whilst funding and promoting the research they also seek to enable everyone with MND to receive the best care, achieve the highest quality of life possible and die with dignity. The Association funds and promotes research to understand what causes MND, how to diagnose it and most importantly, how to effectively treat it so that it no longer devastates lives. www.mndassocation.org

Tough Training!

As this is my first and probably last Marathon, I wanted to support a charity that was close to my heart, unfortunately my partner’s father has just been diagnosed with MND so it is with him in mind that I have been training in the cold and the wet to achieve my target of running the 26.2miles in sub five hours my aim is to raise £5000 and I would be grateful if you could help me achieve this goal by either making a donation with a credit or debit card by using the justgiving link below or making a donation by cheque and mailing to me, cheques can be made out to the MND Association.

http://www.justgiving.com/emma-whitby-smith

By donating on the website it enables you to leave words of encouragement which is really motivating and the donation goes straight to The Motor Neurone Disease Association which automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK tax payer, so your donation is worth even more, the hardest part is raising the money in these difficult financial times, so thank you for taking the time to read this and for your donation.”

Everyone at Residential Land wishes Emma lots of luck and will be supporting her as much as possible!

Attending MIPIM 2010?

Are you a Banker, Investor, Receiver, Buyer, or Seller of Prime Central London Residential Property?
Residential Land will be attending Mipim 2010 from Noon on Tuesday 16th March until Friday 19th March

COME AND TALK TO US!

We will be on board ‘Samoa Bay’ on the Jette Albert Edouard Nord directly outside the Palais des Festivales.

If you would like to meet a member of our team please call Tina on 020 7408 5155 who will be able to arrange an appointment.

Alternatively email: enquiries@residentialland.com

Otherwise, we are holding an open boat policy so please feel free to join us on board!

• 10am-7pm MIPIM passes required
• 7pm onwards MIPIM passes not required

Residential Land are attending the Imperial College Private Housing Talk 2010

Monday 8th March
Queen’s Tower Rooms, South Kensington Campus

Residential Land have hundred’s of flats to rent in London and are the ideal choice for students looking for quallity central accomodation in the capital.

Roland House Apartments, located in South Kensington is minutes away from the Imperial College South Kensington Campus. The fully equiped flats are spacious and reasonably priced, with free broadband and free on-site residents gym, sauna and spa.

Students studying at Imperial College can benefit from special rates when renting with Residential Land. Rent directly from us and pay no agency fees. For more details about any of our properties, email enquiries@residentialland.com or click here

Residential Land Rent, Sell and Buy Prime Central London. We are a responsible Landlord with the widest selection of rental properties in the Capital, all managed in-house by a dedicated team.

We acquire London properties to build our extensive portfolio and offer a number of investment properties for sale.

Residential Land require a dynamic and enthusiastic trainee acquisitions consultant who, reporting to the Portfolio Director, will help to source residential opportunities for the company primarily in prime central London.  The candidate will also be expected to assist in the negotiation of any sales carried out on existing properties.   The ideal candidate should have the following:

-          Strong network of business contacts

-          Proven knowledge of the prime central London residential market

-          Effective negotiation skills

-          Microsoft office suite experience

-          Strong business acumen

This is the ideal role for a motivated high achiever with a passion for property

Competitive salary package dependant on experience

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV and covering letter to: enquiries@residentialland.com.