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about us

Pencraig Developments Limited is a family owned and run business established in 1993 by Jeremy and Katina Goodwin. Over the last 17 years we have built up an impressive portfolio of quality student accommodation in Plymouth. We are very selective in the houses & flats that we buy; all are in Mutley, which is the area of Plymouth close to the University most favoured by students.

We are professional full-time landlords of quality student accommodation in Plymouth. All of the student houses & flats that we rent belong to us; we are not a residential letting agent or property management company, so if you rent student accommodation from us you know that you are dealing directly with the landlord.

Our tenants can contact us 24/7 by telephone, text or email. We live in Plymouth (within a mile of our properties), so we are able to attend promptly in the event our tenants need us; we provide our tenants with outstanding service, dealing promptly with maintenance issues and providing rapid response in the event of any difficulties that our tenants might experience, for instance letting them in when they have forgotten their keys, changing light bulbs or investigating the loss of internet broadband service in our student houses & flats.

We are full-time professional landlords and not buy-to-let amateurs. This means that we do not manage our houses in our spare time but we manage them properly full-time. All day, every day. Because they are our only source of income you can be sure that we will not sell your student property during your tenancy (in the 17 years since we started our company we have never sold a property in Plymouth). Because we are a limited company you can check our accounts at Companies House and see for yourself that we are financially sound, so you can be sure that your student property will not be repossessed during your tenancy. If you rent from an amateur landlord who owns just one or two student properties and who relies on another job for their main source of income, if he/she loses their job, which mortgage do you think they will pay with your rent money? Your student property or his or her own family home? We have had many enquiries this academic year (2009/10) from students looking for accommodation part way through the year because their landlord is selling their student property for one reason or another. We've even had enquiries from landlords planning to sell a student property, looking for alternative accommodation for their tenants. If you aren’t too worried about having to move part way through the year in the middle of your studies, then rent from any landlord. But if you want to be sure that your landlord isn’t going to sell your student property or have it repossessed by the bank, make sure that you rent from a professional landlord like us.