1 Bed Flat, Melrose Apartments, M13

Melrose Apartments,Hathersage Road:

Melrose Apartments was built to provide high quality accommodation in the heart of Manchester. For rent is a spacious one bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor of this secure, well located building. The apartment has just been renovated with most wired in electrical items being replaced and a new electrical safety certificate issued.

The apartment is very warm even without heating although there are new wall heaters in all the rooms. It is also well insulated against sound. There is a well equipped gym in the basement with all the usual machines you find in your local gym and of a high standard. The building stands in its own communal gardens.

Melrose Apartments is perfectly situated next to the Manchester Royal Infirmary making it a safe place to live and great connections to travel. Next to the hospital is the University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University. Next on from that is the City Centre.

This apartment is suitable for a single person or a couple to use it as a one bedroom apartment. A reference from your previous landlords will be required.  We are looking for trustworthy tenants who will look after the property and take good care of it.  In return we will repair and maintain the property to its current high standard.  Tenancy is for a minimum of 12 months and can be extended.  You may well find you like it so much you will want to stay longer.  A bond of one month's rent is required and rent is to be paid in advance of each month please.

Apartment

1bedroom apartment with kitchen, bathroom, hall and living room. The Apartment has just been renovated and can either be unfurnished, partially furnished or fully furnished on request.

The kitchen comes fully equipped with microwave, built in oven, grill, toaster,kettle, fridge freezer and washing machine. The microwave and cooker top have just been replaced. There is also a separate pay for use laundry in the basement.

The living room currently has a sofa, desk and computer chair.

The bedroom is spacious with a double bed with flexi-slat frame. There is a beautifully restored large antique oak wardrobe with rail and large bottom draw. The rest of the furniture is yet to be chosen by the new tenant.

The bathroom features a powerful shower/bath which gives you plenty of room and the option for a bath. There is a toilet, sink and extractor fan with the floor and walls all tiled. It has a heated towel rail.

In-house resident only gym and laundry in basement, and communal gardens for barbeques etc at the rear of property. 3 internal lifts and staircases.

Swipe card entrance, CCTV and intercom access. Private door to the apartment has Yale lock, deadlock and spy hole.

Mixed rented and owned properties within the apartment block, consisting of mostly young professionals and students.

The Surrounding Area

The entire area has been regenerated and most are new buildings with shops,restaurants and bars. At the end of the road a hundred yards away is Tesco Extra, Lidl, Superdrug, Poundland, Subway,Post Office, Cafe Nero, Tim Horton's and lots of others. There are many restaurants and Pubs.

Travel

There are very good bus routes at either end of Hathersage on Oxford Road and Upper Brook Street and Oxford Road train station close by. Making it very easy to get around by bus or linking to the train at Oxford road station of Manchester Piccadilly.Piccadilly gardens is about a 25 minute Bus Journey. There is also good road access for cars.

Services

The rent includes water rates and service charge for the building for maintenance,communal areas such as the gym and garden. Electricity, phone/broadband and council tax are not included in the rent.

The physical connection for fibre internet access is already installed to the living room, but the tenant will need to arrange a provider. There is access to sky digital sockets in the rooms but connection and box will need to be arranged by the tenant if required.

Gym access is by keypad and the cost is included in your monthly rent. There is a garden quadrangle at the back where it is permissible to have barbeques.

There is a rubbish chute down the corridor at the end of the building on each floor. Gardening, communal area cleaning,waste disposal and general maintenance is included in your monthly rent. There is no additional service charge to the tenant.

Parking for the flats is on site and secure with card access security gates. It is provided in an ad hoc manner to those who require it as many people living in the central city do not have vehicles. There is currently a parking space held for the apartment in case the incoming tenant wishes to continue this at an additional cost of £60 per capita month.  There is parking outside the flat between 6pm and 8am and a large multi-storey car park on the corner less than 100m away at the hospital if required for visitors.

There is a very friendly building manager there each weekday who can help if you need something and he has a mobile phone number which you can contact if he is not in his office. There is a new smoke alarm and fire alarm system fitted within the building.