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Home Services work in Cambridge
Cambridge is a small city with a steady base of home services firms serving it. The trade here splits between owner operators, often one or two vans working out of a lock up or a driveway, and a smaller number of multi van firms and national franchises with a Cambridge postcode on their ads. The housing stock shapes the demand. A large share of the city is Victorian and Edwardian terraces off Mill Road and around Chesterton, plus the big post war estates at Arbury and King's Hedges, and each of those brings its own pattern of repair and replacement work. The rented sector is large because of the universities and the science parks, so landlords and letting agents generate a steady stream of smaller jobs. Paid search in the city is contested but not expensive in the way London is, and the firms bidding on it are mostly the same names you meet on the same jobs. That is the demand sitting there for a home services business with pages that answer it.
