cmRENT History

Michael Saville & Susannah Raven (now Saville) created cmRENT in September 2003 having been unimpressed with the service received from other local agents with their own rented property portfolio. Michael was born & brought up in Chelmsford, Susannah in Braintree, giving us expert knowledge of these and the surrounding towns & villages. We set up our first office in Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, where we let 94 properties by the end of 2004.

In January 2005 we moved to a small but prominent office in Rayne Road, Braintree, where we grew rapidly, letting 264 properties in 2005 (that’s at least 1 every working day!). During that year we grew from 2 to 5 staff members with the addition of specific Accounts, Property Management and Administration staff.

In 2006 the rental market continued to grow and we obtained planning permission to extend our existing premises to cope with the extra business. It soon became apparent that this would not be large enough so we began our search for a new, larger office.

By October 2006 we had grown to 7 staff and after searching for nearly 6 months for a suitable size new office, we finally moved to a BRAND NEW 2169sq.ft modern office at Freeport Office Village, in Braintree.

During 2006 cmRENT increased their number of properties let for one year to 291. We grew to 8 members of staff to cope with this extra workload.

In 2007 we introduced our 'Let4Sale' service for selling tenanted properties from 1 landlord to another. We also began producing our regular newsletter keeping Landlords up-to-date with market news, new services and special offers.

By the end of 2007 we had settled well into our new office premises and expanded on our previous year, letting over 300 properties.

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