Bridgefords Countrywide

My experience of Bridgfords. They charge fees insted of commission rates. They try to charge you for a fee in their "sliding scale" based on the initial "valuation" of your property. Say for instance they value your house at 200 K. They will charge you this fee even if they sell your house for 150K. Most other agents will go for a % based on Final sale. Bridgfords do not which means they can keep pressuriisng you to sell low in the knowledge they still get the high fee. They charge too high and they are over rated for what the say they do. They go ona and on and on about how many hits your house ...  Read the complete review

Through my recent traumas of moving house I have had experience with Bridgfords from the perspective of both buyer and seller. If you're planning to sell your property, then I hope my opinion on Bridgfords will give some useful pro's and con's when choosing an estate agent. If you're buying then obviously you don't have any choice in who is marketing the home that you plan to buy, but this op still contains some important tips on what the buyer should look out for when dealing with Bridgfords. Bridgfords has 49 branches in the North West of England and is owned by the Countrywide Estate Agents Group which is the country's ...  Read the complete review

I have worked for the Halifax and you may want to read that opinion if you are looking for an Estate Agents. As I said I have worked in Estate Agency and am very familiar with most of them. When in Estate Agency I carried out mystery shoppping excercises at most of the big name agents and so know the good and bad of most of them. I decided to pick Bridgefords as I have quite a bit to say about them - good and bad. I will start with their good points. First of all they are extemely pro-active and will do all in their power to sell your property for or to you which I will go into later. The reason they are so proactive is because they are commission based. I had a friend ...  Read the complete review

We used Bridgfords late last summer to sell our first home. They had a high profile locally with many houses that were for sale displaying their signs. They continually advertised in the local newspapers and had a shop in a prominent part of the local centre. Other aspects in there favour were a no sale no fee arrangement and they were a member of "countrywide assured" which they told us was the largest chain of estate agents in the country. Looking back I would not say that anything stood out in there favour exceptionally well. On the valuation they were an hour late, but very apologetic. The sales patter was very smooth and we were sucked in to ...  Read the complete review