A small agency that answers the phone.

HRD sources whole houses for working crews across the UK: close to site, with parking, sorted fast and billed on one invoice.

What we are, and what we're not

We're not a booking platform. There's no account to create, no portal to log into and no ticket number to quote. You ring or send the form, a real person picks it up, and the same person stays on your booking from the first call to the final invoice.

HRD started with two people booking houses for crews that hotels kept letting down: teams split across corridors, nowhere to cook, nowhere to park the vans, and a card-behind-the-bar routine at every check-in. We fixed it the obvious way: whole properties, dealt direct with the host, priced properly.

Today we run a vetted list of over 1,400 properties and house crews for flooring companies, civils contractors, fit-out teams, utilities and archaeology units all over the country. Most weeks, the phone gets answered on the second ring.

The short version

UK-wide coverage · whole properties, not rooms · options same day when needed · VAT invoices your finance team won't query · one point of contact throughout · plans can change without drama.

Who you'll deal with

Two directors, both on the phones. No account managers passing you around.

Five years ago, Tanmay was a student in Durham waiting tables in Adham's restaurant. The part-time job became a friendship, and the friendship became a business. A completely different industry, the same instinct: look after people properly and they come back. Today each of them runs his own clients end to end, so the person who takes your first call is the same one on your last invoice.

AK Adham Khan, Co-founder and Director of HRD

Adham Khan

Co-founder & Director

Before HRD, Adham ran the Durham restaurant where the two of them met. Hospitality first, property second, which is the right order for this job. His clients get his number, and he answers it.

adham@homesrentalsdirect.com 07999 409801 WhatsApp Adham
TK Tanmay Khandelwal, Co-founder and Director of HRD

Tanmay Khandelwal

Co-founder & Director

The student who waited the tables, now the business partner. Tanmay runs his own book of clients the same way, and builds the systems that keep HRD faster than an agency this size has any right to be.

office@homesrentalsdirect.com 07765 001167 WhatsApp Tanmay

On a busy week you'll find either of them doing all of it. That's the point of staying small.

Straight answers

Are you a booking platform?
No. We're an agency. You tell us the job, we find the property, negotiate the rate, make the booking and invoice you. No account, no app, no portal.
How does the billing work?
One VAT invoice from HRD Lettings Ltd per booking, or one consolidated invoice if you'd rather batch them. No card behind the bar, no employee expenses to reconcile, nothing for your office to chase.
What if the job changes?
Jobs overrun and crews change size. That's normal here. Extending or moving a booking is a phone call. Cutting one short is ultimately the host's call, not ours, but we ask, we push, and we usually get somewhere. If a property ever fails on arrival, we rehouse the crew, same night.
Do we pay deposits?
You don't. Where a host requires a deposit, HRD puts it down on your behalf, so your crew checks in with nothing tied up. The flip side: damage isn't free. If a host charges us for damage, we pass that cost on to you at cost, with the evidence. Fair both ways.
Where do you cover?
The whole of the UK. If your crew is working there, we'll house them there.
Who actually answers the phone?
Adham or Tanmay, the two people above. The number reaches a person, not a menu.

Try us on the next job

Three minutes on the form, or two on the phone.

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