Coastal Lettings

18/06/2026

🏡 ROOMS AVAILABLE – MARKET STREET, DALTON-IN-FURNESS 🏡

Looking for a stylish, comfortable place to call home? We currently have 2 beautiful rooms available in this stunning shared property on Market Street, Dalton-in-Furness.

✨ Beautifully decorated throughout
✨ Modern, spacious, and fully furnished
✨ Well-presented property with a warm, homely feel
✨ Bright and comfortable living spaces
✨ Fantastic location close to local amenities and transport links

💷 Rent from just £155 per week
✅ ALL BILLS INCLUDED

Whether you’re relocating for work or simply looking for high-quality accommodation, this property offers the perfect blend of comfort, style, and convenience.

📞 Contact Coastal Lettings today to arrange a viewing

☎️ 01229 811991
📧 [email protected]

📩 Message us now – these rooms won’t be available for long!

18/06/2026

🏡 ROOMS AVAILABLE – MOUNT PLEASANT STREET 🏡

Looking for high-quality accommodation in a fantastic location? We currently have 2 rooms available in our modern, fully furnished HMO property on Mount Pleasant Street.

✨ SPECIAL OFFER ✨
🎉 One of the available rooms comes with ONE WEEK FREE RENT – but be quick, this offer won’t last long!

Rooms from £135 per week!

✅ Spacious en-suite rooms
✅ Fully furnished throughout
✅ Modern, bright, and well-maintained property
✅ Comfortable communal living areas
✅ Prime town centre location
✅ Close to local shops, amenities, transport links, and BAE Systems
✅ Professional house share

Perfect for working professionals looking for a clean, comfortable, and convenient place to call home.

📞 Contact Coastal Lettings today to arrange a viewing or find out more!

☎️ 01229 811991
📧 [email protected]

📩 Send us a message and secure your room before it’s gone!

16/06/2026

Compliance: the quiet area where mistakes become expensive,

Compliance is one of those subjects that most landlords understand in theory but leave more exposed than they would like in practice.

The familiar requirements remain: annual Gas Safety, EICR at the appropriate interval, EPC compliance,
alarms, licensing and fire safety duties where relevant. What has changed is not the existence of these rules but the seriousness with which they are now being enforced and the cost of getting them wrong. Councils have broader powers. Civil penalties can be very significant. The operational consequences often go beyond the penalty itself. There can be disruption to lettings, emergency remediation, reputational stress and a much more reactive operating posture.

What we most often see is not someone deliberately choosing to neglect obligations. It is simpler and more ordinary than that. Dates are missed. Certificates are stored in different places. Different contractors hold different records. No one has a clean view of what expires in 30, 60 or 90 days. Things continue until something goes wrong or someone asks a question.

That is why compliance now needs to be treated as part of asset operations rather than admin. It needs
forward visibility. It needs central records. It needs rhythm. A good diary and tracking system is not
glamorous, but it is a very sensible form of protection.

In the current market, that sort of quiet discipline matters more than many landlords realise.

09/06/2026

09/06/2026

🏡 ROOMS AVAILABLE – COULTON STREET, BARROW-IN-FURNESS 🏡

Looking for modern shared accommodation in the heart of town?

Rent from £115 per week.

We currently have 3 rooms available:
✔️ 2 Double Rooms
✔️ 1 Single Room
✔️ Shared Bathroom

Perfect for:
👨‍💼 Working professionals
🎓 Students
👫 Friends looking to live together

✨ Modern, bright & spacious property
📍 Central Barrow location
🚌 Excellent transport links nearby
⚓ Only 5 minutes from BAE Systems

These rooms won’t stay available for long!

📞 Call Coastal Lettings today on 01229 811991
📧 Email: [email protected]

Secure your viewing now!

09/06/2026

Who is renting, and why that matters

The market is not a single blob of undifferentiated demand. It is made up of segments, and different
segments respond to different things. One of the most significant sources of demand remains contractors, engineers and professionals connected
to defence and wider infrastructure. This group often values speed, readiness and simplicity above marginal savings. They want a room that is available, clean, easy to understand and straightforward to secure. If the overall offer feels right, many in this group are less likely to be derailed by a small weekly difference in rent.

There is also stable local working demand, including healthcare, services and a range of employed tenants. This demand can be very solid, but often behaves differently. It may compare more carefully on price and value and take a slightly more deliberate route to decision.

Then there are lower-end segments that can still be viable, but typically require more intentional
management and a more careful match between tenant profile and property setup. The key point for landlords is that a room should not be marketed vaguely to ‘everyone.’ It should make sense for a specific tenant profile. The photos, description, pricing and room standard should all be aligned around that profile. Where that alignment is missing, the marketing becomes blurred, the tenant feels less
certain, and conversion weakens.

A more selective market tends to punish vagueness.

05/06/2026

🏡 3 En-Suite Rooms Available –Ramsden Street, Barrow-in-Furness 🏡

Looking for modern, comfortable accommodation in a prime location?

📍 Town Centre Location
✅ Close to BAE Systems
✅ Excellent transport links
✅ Large, modern furnished rooms
✅ Private en-suite bathrooms
✅ All bills included
✅ Fast Wi-Fi included

💷 From just £120 per week

Ideal for professionals, contractors and BAE employees looking for quality accommodation close to work and local amenities.

📞 To arrange a viewing or find out more, contact Coastal Lettings:
☎️ 01229 811991
📍 243 Dalton Road, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 1PQ

📩 Message today – rooms available now and expected to go quickly!

02/06/2026

The real cost of voids

Void periods remain one of the most underestimated financial drags in smaller portfolios.
A room at £125 per week sitting empty for four weeks is roughly £500 lost. On one room, some landlords absorb that psychologically as ‘just one of those things.’ Across a portfolio, it adds up much faster than many people expect. Five rooms each suffering one avoidable four-week void over a year is about £2,500 gone. Ten rooms pushes that to around £5,000, and that is before allowing for extra works, extra marketing and extra staff time.

That is why a slightly more realistic price, paired with faster occupancy and more consistency, often
produces a stronger annual result than an aspirational price that stretches the void.
This is one of the most important shifts in the way landlords need to think about performance. The better question is no longer, ‘What is the highest weekly figure I can advertise?’ It is, ‘What combination of price and speed gives the strongest total annual return?’

In a selective market, that is a far more useful lens.

27/05/2026

26/05/2026

What this means for maintenance

Maintenance has traditionally been treated as a reactive function: something to control, minimise or delay where possible. In the current market, that is increasingly too narrow a view.

Maintenance is not only about preventing disasters. It is also about preserving the quality signals that
underpin enquiry, conversion and retention. Small issues can have outsized effects on perception. A dripping tap, a loose door handle, a marked wall, a broken blind, a sluggish extractor fan, unreliable heating or worn flooring might not sound significant on paper. In practice, they contribute to the feeling that a property is either cared for or not cared for.

That feeling matters.

A tenant deciding whether to stay another year often reads those signals just as carefully as a prospective tenant deciding whether to move in. If the environment gradually feels less well managed, they begin to imagine alternatives. If the response to issues is slow or inconsistent, the property starts to lose confidence value.

This is where programmed maintenance becomes useful. The right approach is usually not to wait until a problem becomes serious, but to reduce the build-up of small negatives that slowly drag performance down. Periodic repainting. Routine checks on heating before colder periods. Reviewing flooring and mattresses before they become visibly poor. Testing alarms and replacing worn fittings. Keeping communal areas looking intentional rather than leftover. None of this is glamorous. All of it protects income.

A well-kept property does not just cost less in the long term. It performs better in the short term too.