Who do you call in Didsbury when you want a named person on the phone about your house, not a call centre reading from a script? That is the gap Jaks And Co sets out to fill. It is a family-run estate agency and lettings firm on Wilmslow Road, working South Manchester with the tagline "Moving you, honestly," and the site is arranged around the four people who walk through an estate agent's door: buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants.

Each of those gets its own path.

Four kinds of client, one office

The buyer side is the quietest part of the offering. Jaks And Co helps people search for property and find a home across Manchester and South Manchester, which is the standard house-hunting support any agent provides.

For a buyer new to the area, that home-finding help runs to matching them with property that fits the brief, and the referrals on to mortgage brokers give a first-time purchaser somewhere to sort financing before an offer goes in. The heavier machinery sits on the selling and letting pages, where Jaks And Co has built out dedicated sections labelled House For Sale, Sell Your Home, Property Valuation, and Rent Property Out.

For sellers, valuation through to completion

A seller gets a market valuation to start, then property marketing that includes video and virtual tours, negotiation support, and liaison through the chain right up to completion. That last piece is the one homeowners tend to underestimate. Chains break over a single stalled link, and having someone chase solicitors and buyers up and down that chain is often the difference between a sale that completes and one that collapses in month three. Free property valuations are offered as the entry point, which is normal for the trade but still lowers the barrier to a first conversation.

Jaks And Co also points sellers toward conveyancers and mortgage brokers through referrals, so the surrounding paperwork has somewhere to go. The video and virtual-tour marketing is the part that widens the buyer pool, letting people walk a property from their sofa before they commit to a viewing in person.

For landlords and tenants

Landlords are offered tenant sourcing plus full property management with flexible options, meaning an owner can hand over as much or as little of the day-to-day as suits them. Tenants get rental matching and, usefully, negotiation carried out on their behalf, which is a step past the usual "here are some listings." The LinkedIn page fills in the fuller lettings picture: rent reviews, inspections, and investment and residential management alongside straight sales.

For a landlord who wants one firm handling inspections and rent reviews instead of juggling several, that breadth counts, and it keeps the whole tenancy with Jaks And Co under a single point of contact.

Free property valuations, local area guides, and an FAQ section round out the site. None of those is unusual on its own, but stacked together they suggest an agency trying to answer questions before the phone rings. For someone weighing a move who is not yet ready to commit, the guides and the no-cost valuation give Jaks And Co a low-pressure way to open the conversation, and the referrals onward to conveyancers and mortgage brokers hand a client the next contacts in the chain instead of leaving them to find their own.

The people behind the Wilmslow Road office

An estate agency named after its owners lives or dies on those owners, and Jaks And Co puts them front and centre. Moharram Rehman is the owner and director, with more than fifteen years in the property industry.

Junaid Shah is a director who has been in the trade since the age of sixteen. Between them the two carry the day-to-day, and a firm this size means the person who values a house is often the same person who later negotiates its sale, not a stranger inheriting a file halfway through.

Named contacts and Didsbury knowledge

The whole pitch here is personal service with named contacts, transparent communication, and local knowledge of Didsbury and the surrounding areas. That is a real differentiator against the big chains, where a seller can go weeks without speaking to the same person twice. Whether Jaks And Co delivers on it is something a client only learns by using them, but the structure is built for it: a small team, two directors whose names are on the door, and a patch tight enough that the same faces handle the same streets.

Local knowledge in this business comes down to knowing what a two-bedroom terrace three roads over actually sold for last month, and an agent rooted in Didsbury has a better shot at that than a regional office covering half of Greater Manchester.

What the reputation trail shows

The confidence on the page is not yet matched by independent proof, and reputation is the one area where Jaks And Co has more still to build.

Testimonials on the page, quiet everywhere else

Jaks And Co carries direct customer testimonials on its own pages, several praising Moharram by name for helpfulness and professionalism through both sales and lettings. Those read well, but they are first-party quotes the firm selected and published itself, so they cannot stand in for verified reviews. A search for outside ratings comes up short. The Facebook page shows "Not yet rated" with zero reviews, and while a LinkedIn company page exists and lists the services cleanly, it carries no rating figure. There is no Google star count, no Trustpilot presence to point to.

That absence does not mean the work is poor; a newer or smaller agency simply may not have gathered public reviews yet. It does mean a prospective client has less to lean on than they would with an established chain, and asking the two directors for recent client references is a sensible move before instructing them.

Contact, at least, is refreshingly direct. The phone number, an email address, and the street address at 673 Wilmslow Road all sit plainly on the site, so a seller or landlord can reach the office without hunting through menus. For a firm whose entire promise rests on being reachable and personal, having the details out in the open is the right instinct.

The tagline is "Moving you, honestly," the two directors are named and pictured, and the four service pages each spell out what happens at each stage of a move. What the site cannot yet supply is a stack of independent reviews to sit beside the testimonials it hosts, and that is the one column still waiting to be filled at Jaks And Co.

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