Property maintenance firm One Call Home Assist has signed up six Scottish lettings firms as its official business partners.

Under the agreement, the Lothian-based companies – which include Verve Property, Arden Property Management, Edinburgh Pearl Lettings, Live and Let, 1st Choice and Martin & Co – will be official ‘partners’ of One Call Home Assist.

The firms will offer the Home Assist property maintenance contracts to landlords and tenants on their books – and a percentage of the contract fee will then be recouped by each firm that signs up a new customer to the service.

John Dickson, One Call Home Assist’s national sales director, said: “The attraction for partner firms is that they receive a percentage of every contract that is sold