STAFF at Your Move in King Street, Maidstone, have been presented with a gold award for outstanding customer service.

The award is part of an initiative created by Your Move to ensure staff focus on the service they deliver to customers.

As part of this, Your Move appointed 12 brand standards officers who visit their network of more than 300 branches across England and Scotland on a quarterly basis to observe staff as they meet with customers and deal with their requirements.

Reviews are conducted and tests carried out to ensure minimum performance standards are met with gold award certificates being presented to the best performing consultants.

John Wells of Your Move in Maidstone, said: “We’re delighted to receive this award. Although we’ve got some great systems in place to offer a unique service to our customers, the way in which we deal with them on a day to day basis is also vitally important.”

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GILLCREST Homes and agents RPC Land & New Homes welcomed the Mayor of Folkestone, Councillor David Dickinson, to officially open the The Waldorf Apartments, in Sandgate Road, Folkestone recently.

The new development has 40 apartments and penthouses which also benefit from having secure car-parking facilities.

The development is built over five floors, served by two lifts.

Martin Wood, Gillcrest Homes development director, said: “This is among the first developments in the area for some time, and now that we have proved the strong local demand for our properties we are urgently seeking further local sites to repeat our success.”

Mary-Anne Strable, of RPC Land & New Homes, said: “Over 50 per cent of the apartments are reserved, with a high proportion of purchases being made by local people.”

Prices range from £134,995 to £194,995. The designer show apartment and sales office is open daily between 10am & 5pm, tel 01303 250111; RPC.

Land & New Homes can be contacted on 01622 691911, and Gillcrest Homes is on 0845 130 0070.

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AN ESTATE agency is reminding potential homesellers that the spring is a good time to put their property on the market.

Ray Pentland of Connells, said: “Everyone knows the importance of ‘kerb appeal’ when selling a home.

“With the spring flowers bursting into bloom, but before the summer weeds start to challenge even the keenest gardener, this is a perfect time to put your property on the market.

“We already have a bulging portfolio of people looking to buy in this area and properties right across the range are still selling, although the frenetic activity we saw last year has now calmed down and people are taking longer to choose their perfect home,” he said.

Connells has branches at Ashford, contact 01233 622206, and at Canterbury, contact 01227 764720.