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There’s guys are absolute crooks. Under no circumstances make an offer on a house through them, unless you want to have fake bids put in front of you to drive up pricing. They are without any honour or honesty and will lie again and again to hide their behaviour at every level. I have never seen anything like it, after putting a bid in for a house I was looking to buy against a totally fictitious other buyer at £20,500 over the advertised and reduced price of £95,000 (see attached image - totally crazy price, they told me I needed to bid for over £115,000) asking price, they then tried to make me bid against myself adding another £1,500 to the highest price (£117,000) which was already mine…… disgusting at every level.
Buy from anyone else or expect to go through the same experience.
Even when I escalated this to the branch manager (Steve Purve) he didn’t apologise, he just added to the lies and that just demonstrates a ‘culture’ of the worst behaviour I have ever seen in an estate agency.
If your buy through them, you have been warned. To anyone selling and to the owner of the house, I was happy to buy for ‘cash’ at a fair lower price, so choose someone else to sell through, because your sale will be screwed up by this crew.... Read more
13th Oct 2025 (22 weeks ago)