Letsure the long established landlord and tenant rental insurance company and credit checker on tenants is expanding its operation in, Glasgow, Scotland.
Letsure have just launched a recruitment campaign to increase the number of staff at their credit search reference centre at Granite House, Stockwell Street, Glasgow. The company that was established in 1983 has been based in Glasgow for many years and as Lumley Holdings Group up until it became part of the Erinaceous Insurance Group in 2007 being part of the same group that owned it‘s major competitor HomeLet. They also had an office in Maidenhead that was closed when they became part of Erinaceous.
In 2008 the group separated from Erinaceous and became Barbon Insurance Group Limited and in February this year Mr Ian Fraser was appointed Managing Director. Shortly afterwards it was possible once again for landlords and tenants to arrange insurance on line via providers such www.jml-property-insurance.co.uk who have been an online Letsure introduction agent since 2002.
The company currently employs 55 staff at Glasgow and as part of its expansion programme is looking to recruit a further 30 experienced sales consultants and five accounts personnel.
The Head of Sales is Steven Elliot who commented "We have been growing the business from our Glasgow base through the creation of a bespoke service for both letting agents and landlords. Our objective has been to revolutionise the market and provide lettings professionals with a service that leaves them to continue doing what they are good at, letting properties.
"Our main base is in Glasgow and we believe the quality of local candidates is invariably high, providing a mix of knowledge and a strong work ethic. We have ambitions to expand further in Scotland and now require to grow our retained workforce to help us realise our growth ambitions and allow us to fulfil significant new business wins."
Letsure are most fortunate in the fact that many of the staff have been employed by the company in excess of five years and Steven Elliot saidâ€"We look to continually invest in our staff through a phased training programme and have recently refurbished our contact centre to create a more aspirational working environment.
"We have also introduced a number of exciting staff incentives which will reward our top sales people as the business grows throughout the next 12 months."
Philip Suter of jml-property-insurance.co.uk said “We are very pleased that the company is recruiting more staff, this shows that the UK‘s rental market is exceptionally busy and there are numerous tenants to be referenced each day. It is essential that landlords have thorough credit search references and in todays market if they are concerned about rental problems to take out a Letsure rent protection insurance policy.â€
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