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Our local friendly staff at Hunters Cockermouth and North Lakes specialise in selling and letting homes in Cockermouth, Keswick, Aspatria, and the surrounding villages. Bordering the National Park and the industries on the west coast, this is one of Cumbria’s most desirable and sought after locations.
We have a long association with the town and have recently become part of the Hunters Estate Agent family due to our Managing Director, Graeme MacLeod, becoming the Hunters franchisee for the Cumbria, Lancaster, and South West Scotland areas. Graeme has over 20 years estate agency experience at a senior level and has worked throughout the north of England for some of the UKs largest agencies. Your next property move is in very safe hands.
Hunters Cockermouth and North Lakes offers a full sales, lettings, and property management service.
We offer properties for sale and rent from single occupancy flats to luxury mansions, holiday homes to forever homes, and investment opportunities to affordable family homes. We also work closely with some of the region’s best new home builders, construction companies, and we have a thriving property management department that can reliably identify investment opportunities to help grow your property portfolio.
Our strong position in the estate agency industry enables us to have exclusive referral agreements in place with Cumberland Building Society for mortgage advice and lending, top quality service with Premier Property Lawyers to meet all your conveyancing requirements, and to help your search for the ideal property through the auction route, we can provide an introduction with Auction House Cumbria.
We provide a local, friendly service with our valuation and accompanied viewings services, we then handle all your buyer and tenant enquiries, offers, and negotiations from our Central Hub where we have over 20 negotiators working on your behalf. The Hub is located in Carlisle and is the operational and administrative centre for the Hunters Cumbria. franchise area.
Why not give us a call on 01900 825900 to discover how Hunters Cockermouth delivers professional and successful results to sell, let, or rent your dream home. Whatever you need, we are here to get you there.
In terms of handling buyer and tenant enquiries, progressing sales, and negotiating offers, we do this centrally using our sales hub with one of the biggest estate agency teams in the region. Our phone lines are open 9am to 8pm on weekdays and until 4pm at the weekend. No agent works harder for your sale or let.
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Jill is our branch Sales Manager and she oversees our large team of negotiators based in the Central Hub in Carlisle that cover Cockermouth and the rest of the Hunters Cumbria area. Jill has several years of estate agency experience in sales, valuations, and lettings, and keeps a cool head when chains get tough and purchase issues need to be resolved.
Marie Callow is our Lettings Manager at Cockermouth and runs the lettings department for the area from her base at the Carlisle Hub. Marie has exceptional customer service skills and is passionate about her role safeguarding our landlords’ properties, their investments, and our tenants’ wellbeing. She also ensures that all our landlords are kept fully up to date with changes on landlord legislation to maintain full compliance. Marie holds the Propertymark qualification for inventory preparation and is qualified in lettings and property management in England and Scotland.
Heather is a Local Valuer for our West Coast team. Heather began with Hunters as a sales negotiator covering the Cockermouth area and has been the local valuer since 2016. She lives with her family in the local area so understands the market both as a professional estate agent and local resident. Before her agency career, Heather worked in customer facing roles and enjoys the people aspect of her present role.
Nicola Nunn is the Sales and Lettings Negotiator based at Hunters Central Sales Hub. Nicola is part of our West Coast Team and specialises in the Cockermouth and North Lakes areas. Nicola joined the team in 2018 from the retail sector and has brought passion to deliver a positive and professional customer experience. During her free time Nicola enjoys cooking and spending time with her family.
Kim is a Local Valuer but started out as a sales negotiator in 2005 in the busy Carlisle office. After learning the ropes by arranging viewings, negotiating offers, and all the related processes, Kim moved on to be a valuer in her local area and then managed our Penrith location. Having lived in Cumbria all her life, Kim knows the area like the back of her hand and loves helping people in all situations to do what is best for them. Kim loves nothing more than seeing a property she has listed being ‘sale’ or ‘let’ agreed knowing she has helped that customer move on, whichever way their lives are going. In her spare time Kim loves spending time with her friends and family and enjoys working out in the local gym.
The Cockermouth and North Lakes housing market is very diverse with everything from starter homes to retirement homes, and family homes to second homes. Cockermouth itself is popular with local house buyers raising their families and working either on the west coast, Carlisle, or in the tourism industry within the Lake District National Park. Towards Keswick and the surrounding villages within the national park there is a noticeable rise in selling and rental prices as ‘home hunters’ seek to live in one of the UK’s most beautiful destinations.
Cockermouth is a popular town that lies 25 miles south east from Carlisle, and 30 miles west of Penrith where the M6 motorway can be picked up. The town’s main street is full of local shops selling everything from fresh fish to toys, ladies’ clothes to ironmongery. The town is very well provisioned with well-known high street names and smaller independent shops for the more specialised goods and discerning customers. ‘Taste Cumbria’ food festival events are hosted in Cockermouth a couple of times a year; this brings trade and visitors to the town as well as providing a lovely community event.
Hunters Cockermouth staff love working in this picturesque town that is steeped in history and packed with things to see and do. Cockermouth Castle is well worth a visit; it is believed that Mary Queen of Scots visited here while fleeing her home in Scotland and heading South. William Wordsworth, the poet, and Fletcher Christian, the infamous mutineer on Captain Bligh’s ‘Bounty’ were both born in the local area, and the town market that hosts craft and continental markets is known to pre-date 1221.
Cockermouth School offers secondary and sixth form provision and is rated one of the best schools in the locality, making Cockermouth popular with families wishing to live within the catchment area. There is also a choice of state primary schools offering a good standard of education.
For the active residents of Cockermouth, the town offers a leisure centre and a local Golf Course at Embleton that was designed by James Braid, and The Reivers Cycle route passes through the town as part of its 150-mile route through the lakes and borders. Harris Park is located in the town and has tennis courts, a bowling green, a children’s activity play area, and many lovely terraces to wander along taking in the views of the town. Highfield Sports ground on the outskirts of the town provides good quality space for amateur football and rugby.
The town sits on two rivers, the Derwent and the Cocker, and although the area has suffered from flooding in the past, much preventative work and investment has been provided to prevent this occurring in the future.
Within the Hunters® Cockermouth area is Keswick, located 14 miles from Cockermouth, it is a popular market town in the northern part of the Lake District National Park and was recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is the home of the only actual lake in the Lake District, Bassenthwaite, all the rest are meres or waters, it also sits on the banks of Derwentwater. Towering nearby are some of the largest mountains in England, known locally as fells, including Helvellyn and Skiddaw, making the area incredibly popular with walkers who return time and time again, often eventually deciding to settle here.
The Keswick Adventure Centre is the perfect place to go ghyll scrambling, rock climbing, abseiling, canoeing, paddle boarding, and canyoning, or perhaps whiling away the hours with a wander through the town centre taking in a little bit of retail therapy and a rest at one of the many restaurants, cafes, bars, and pubs. Unsurprisingly, tourism is the largest industry and employer in the town and surrounding areas.
Another popular location in our area is Aspatria, a small town to the north west of Cockermouth and close to the coast. Aspatria is more industrial than the other neighbouring towns and has more of a focus on a farming and agricultural economy. Split down the middle by the A596, which is one of the major trunk roads linking Carlisle with the west, it is an ideal place for anyone looking to commute to Carlisle, Keswick, or Cockermouth area. There is a real feeling of community here and locals tend not to move away.
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