Foxtons

Ok - here is a review that I never thought that I would write - one praising those money grabbing, ruthless estate agents in London and the South East - Foxton (cue pantomime boos) Location Foxtons have offices all over London and the South East - they also have a great website where you can register to look for rental or to buy a property. Offices These are open much longer than normal estate agents - 7 days a week and until 7.00 - 8.00 in the evening so you don't have to spend all day house hunting at the weekend or when you should be at work! Services They, as the name suggests sell and rent properties. We used them to ...  Read the complete review

Despite having heard awful things about Foxtons, I found a really nice flat through the Richmond office and decided to take the risk! REALLY wish I hadnt! The customer service was amazing right up until we actually handed over any money! The office is very flash and we were given bottles of coke when we were there. When we had agreed the let and it was time to turn up to pay our deposits (I rented with 2 friends) they hit us with the admin charge £400! While this appeared to be very steep, we grumbled amost ourselves but paid up and moved in. To be honest we didnt have much contact with them until the time it came to renew our contract when we were hit with a ...  Read the complete review

This review will probably not endear me with the people who thoroughly hate Foxtons, but I figure I'll share my experience with them anyway. Note that I only used their services as a buyer, not as someone looking to rent, so this is an entirely different department. From what I gather, Foxtons properties tend to come on slightly overvalued than what they actually are worth, but you can usually negotiate the price down quite a bit too if you are daring and press the agent for it. Foxtons, like all the other agents, do not ask the buyer to pay for anything though they will encourage you to use their mortgage lender, Alexander Hall, who from my ...  Read the complete review

Yes, they only care about money they want and nothing else.
If you have a problem with the properties, you will never find any one to solve it, however, if they think you own them one pound, they will disrupt your live like hell.
No service at all, except the point they are gathering your money.

Firstly let me give you a tiny bit of background about myself. I work for a small property investment company who contracts out a lot of work to estate agents so I have a fair bit of background knowledge as what you can/should expect from an estate agent. This review is totally in the capacity of my experience as a perspective tenant looking for a property, and the service (or lack of) that I experienced with Foxtons. Following a few undercover expose by the BBC's I was aware that Foxtons didn't have the best of reputations, however I was prepared to put this down to having a few bad eggs and to give them a chance, and so whilst looking for a new place in SW ...  Read the complete review