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  • Valuation
  • Register
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

A property service you’ll feel at home with

At Living Spaces, we know that property can be stressful – but it doesn’t have to be. As the sales, lettings and management arm of Kingston Property Services Limited, we’ve been looking after properties and estates for over 20 years, offering honesty, transparency, professionalism and knowledge.

From helping first-time buyers, to taking care of more than 350 private landlords’ properties, our customers are our top priority. By listening to your wants and needs, we turn a time-consuming process into something much easier – because we know how much your home means.

We strive to maintain high standards of operation, and are members of numerous industry bodies, such as Safeagent and Guild of Professional Estate Agents – the UK’s most prestigious network of independent estate agents.

We adhere strictly to all current legislation. 

Putting people and places at the heart of everything we do

As part of our parent company, Bernicia, we believe the good things we do have the power to radiate outwards. That’s why profits we make go towards Bernicia’s work to help communities in the North East.

Our aim is to help transform our region by investing in people, changing one life at a time and enhancing communities. For this reason, The Bernicia Foundation was created, providing a £1m boost to projects and initiatives that deliver lasting benefits to communities and help young people to fulfil their potential.




Meet the team
  • Vikki Higginbottom Business Manager

    With 18 years’ industry experience and over 10 years at Living Spaces, Vikki oversees the business. Knowing the company inside out, she has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to our customers, properties and the ever-changing market.

  • Kathryn Finlay Branch Manager/Valuer

    Kathryn has over 7 years’ experience in the industry and leads our Sales and Lettings teams at our Grey Street office. With several years of valuing expertise in busy city environments, Kathryn’s know-how is essential when selling or letting your home.

  • Hannah Wilson Sales Specialist

    Hannah has been an invaluable member of our Sales team since joining in 2018. As our Sales specialist, Hannah visits all our properties with prospective buyers and works with our sellers to help meet their needs and get them moving.

  • Thomas Allender Lettings Specialist

    Tom joined us from the recruitment industry in 2019 and brought his helpful and personable nature to Living Spaces. With expertise in customer service, Tom meets all our prospective tenants and often visits our Newcastle city centre properties.

  • Harry Grigg Lettings Specialist

    Harry has recently joined Living Spaces from a sales background, bringing with him a personal approach when assisting our clients. Harry is often out in the City Centre, meeting prospective tenants and visiting our properties.

  • Karen Wildsmith Head of Property Management

    Karen has overseen our Property Management team for more than 14 years at Living Spaces. With a wide range of previous knowledge and experience, she’s an invaluable team member for managing our large portfolio of privately-rented properties.

  • Joanne McCracken Property Management Assistant

    Jo joined us over 11 years ago and has worked in our Property Management and Sales and Lettings teams. She’s brought vast knowledge to Living Spaces and continues to build great relationships with our customers who she’s known for years.

  • Stephanie Home Property Management Assistant

    With 4 years’ previous experience in our Admin team, Steph now works in our Property Management department. She spends her time visiting properties, dealing with inventories, meeting tenants and landlords, and inspecting our properties to make sure they’re at the highest standard possible.

  • David Coyne Property Management Assistant

    David joined our Property Management team from our Sales department. With a diverse range of expertise and skills, he looks after our customers’ needs by carrying out inspections and inventories in our properties.

  • Tina Mackenzie Property Management Assistant

    Tina has worked with our Property Management team for several years. She has great experience and knowledge dealing with our range of properties outside of the city. Tina works across property maintenance, account queries, general management and is often the first to speak to customers when they call.

  • Kathryn Richmond Property Management Assistant

    Kathryn joined Living Spaces from the education sector. Her very personable nature makes her an asset to our Property Management team, where she is responsible for conducting inspections and dealing with maintenance enquiries.

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Customer Testimonials
  • St Ann’s Quay is managed by owner Directors who are motivated to keep St Ann’s Quay a prestigious development. Issues such as anti-social behaviour can often arise in multi-occupancy buildings. A number of years ago, the Directors were facing frequent problems, particularly associated with tenants in rented apartments. Many landlords are not based in the local area and use letting agents to manage properties. To help combat these common anti-social issues, the Directors introduced a Letting Agent Charter and considered a wide range of letting agents who would proactively seek to align themselves with the Directors aims and vision of the building. Due to their professional attitude and business approach, the Directors selected Living Spaces as a preferred agent at St Ann’s Quay. It’s been a pleasure working with the team who are incredibly active at St Ann’s Quay and have been excellent and highly professional to work with. Thank you for all your help in ensuring the terms of our leases have been respected and in your helpful and flexible approach to running your business.

  • Living Spaces have proved over the years to be fantastic to work with, after experiencing a number of various letting agents looking after flats in the building, the directors took the decision to recommend Living Spaces to other leaseholders as our approved agents! We have found they always place a high standard of residents in the building and have a great general understanding of the requirements and difficulties experienced in the block on occasions. Living Spaces have a desire to assist and work with the directors and leaseholders with issues and have a great professionalism which is welcomed by residents and leaseholders alike. Any issues that have arisen in the past have been dealt with promptly and we also work very well together on maintenance issues with the property management team. We would not hesitate to recommend Living Spaces to act for other developments.

  • Living Spaces made moving in very quick and straightforward. Any queries were sorted straight away and were completely settled within a couple of days. Very friendly, helpful and professional

    Ellen
  • Amazing staff, who were incredibly helpful and not pushy at all. Made moving into my first apartment incredibly easy. A huge thank you to the staff, we really appreciate it!

    Chris
  • I have always been extremely pleased with Living Spaces who I have now used as my letting agents for 14 years . As an absentee landlord I know that I can totally rely on them to deal with all problems as they arrive. I rarely have more than a day or two between lets.
    I can heartily recommend them.

    Annette

    Liam
  • Really friendly service, very efficient from setting up viewings to the signing of contracts. Would highly recommend their services to friends and family

    Chris
  • We signed for our new flat on the Quayside. Living Spaces were very helpful and not too pushy when it came to deciding.

    Stuart
  • The company made moving into our first place together quick and easy, and the staff we dealt with were all super friendly! Thank you

    Hannah
  • Dear Vikki, Karen and all the team at Living Spaces,

    Just wanted to say thank you for all your help.

    We haven’t formally thanked you all for your help over the years with letting our flats, and more recently the sale of them.

    You all do a great job at Living Spaces, and we really appreciate it.

    Kind regards

    Naomi & Raj

  • I have been so impressed with the way Living Spaces has dealt with the letting of my flat. The service has been brilliant and the results nothing short of amazing. Since purchasing the flat from your sales branch the flat has NEVER been empty with you finding me perfect tenants within days of the previous ones leaving. I am always kept informed of any developments and would recommend anyone looking to let their property in the area to go to Living Spaces first!

    Jon
  • Many thanks to Vikki and the team for handling my recent property sale in such a professional and timely manner. I have received consistently excellent service from you guys in all my property transactions covering a number of purchases, sales and numerous lettings on my portfolio over many years. The professionalism and friendliness of the team is very much appreciated and I look forward to many more successful transactions in the coming years.

    Neil
  • I have been very happy with the helpfulness and flexibility offered by Living Spaces. I don’t have any improvement suggestion to make – apart from perhaps that I would prefer to get my statement emailed to me as opposed to by post.

    Gavin
  • Just wanted to thank you for going to so much trouble to arrange last minute viewings for us after the internal viewing of All Hallows was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances outwith your control. Yourself and the young man who took us round to view the alternative properties could not have been more helpful. After a very early start and long journey from Scotland you both made every effort possible to deliver an exceptional service in a friendly and efficient manner. Although none of the viewed properties on this occasion were suitable for our son, he will certainly use your agency again for any further accommodation searches. Thank you once again.

    Pamela
  • Livingspaces are the most proactive agents I have ever used during my many years as a landlord. They work tirelessly to find suitable new tenants and generally manage to keep the void periods to a minimum. The staff are friendly and polite and their central city centre location means that they are well placed to attract passing customers, especially those new to Newcastle. I would highly recommend them.

    Andrew
  • I asked Living Spaces to advertise my city centre apartment for sale in April 2014. Three days later I had an offer and around six further viewings arranged. The sale was completed in early August. It took longer than anticipated but that was due to some complications at the buyers end. Unfortunately I was out of the country for 3 weeks in June when the complications came to light. Vikki Higginbottom at Living Spaces was absolutely wonderful throughout the sale. She handled all of the issues for me and kept me informed on a weekly basis. She also regularly chased up the solicitors on both sides. I would certainly recommend Living Spaces and particularly Vikki who took a lot of the stress away and kept me sane Thank you!

    Jackie
  • I have been really happy with the excellent service offered by Living Spaces. Their customer service has been exemplary. I had a query on a management issue relating to my property and Living Spaces had no hesitation in helping me resolve the query even though it was outside their normal remit. I would certainly recommend living Spaces as a letting agent.

    Ann
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Our History
2003

Living Spaces is formed

2006

Karen Wildsmith joins the company as Head of Property Management

2010

Vikki Higginbottom joins as Branch Manager

2013

Property Management team move from Quayside to Kingston Park

Joined NALS (National Approved Letting Scheme)

2016

Living Spaces rebrand. There are 14 members of staff split between the two offices

2020

Consolidation, Living Spaces becomes a trading division of Kingston Property Services

2004

Moved offices from High Bridge Street to Grey Street

2009

Became members of The Guild of Estate Agents

2012

Bernicia Group purchase Living Spaces and Colin Ord becomes Associate Director

2014

Grey Street office gets complete refit

2018

Vikki Higginbottom becomes Business Manager and Kathryn Finlay joins as Branch Manager

Sales & Lettings Office

E: sales@livingspaces.co.uk

E: lettings@livingspaces.co.uk

T: 0191 222 1000

Property Management Office

E: admin@livingspaces.co.uk

E: repairs@livingspaces.co.uk

T: 0191 238 3899

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9am - 5pm
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Sales & Lettings Office

E: sales@livingspaces.co.uk

E: lettings@livingspaces.co.uk

T: 0191 222 1000

Property Management

E: admin@livingspaces.co.uk

p>E: repairs@livingspaces.co.uk

T: 0191 238 3899

Monday-Thursday: 9am - 5:30pm
Friday: 9am - 5pm
Saturday: 10am - 2pm (Sales & Lettings Office)
Sunday: Closed

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