William H Brown reviews

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

William H Brown has been absolutely fantastic with helping me into my new home! The whole application process has been so smooth, quick and easy from start to finish! The staff go above and beyond for you and their communication is spot on! I couldn’t ask for a better service from an estate agents! Special thank you to Emily & Darcie who have handled my application & got me my new home! Thank you guys. I can’t recommend you enough!

Ellie-Jae · 16 March 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

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We recently purchased our first property through William H Brown, and we couldn’t be happier with the service we received. Tarley was absolutely fantastic from start to finish. As first-time buyers, the whole process felt quite overwhelming at times, but she went above and beyond to make sure everything ran as smoothly as possible. She was always on hand to answer our questions, kept us updated throughout, and made sure we understood every step along the way. Her professionalism, patience, and genuine care really stood out. Nothing was ever too much trouble, and she made what could have been a stressful experience feel manageable and exciting instead. We’re so grateful for all her hard work and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend William H Brown to anyone looking to buy a property. Thank you again for helping us secure our first home!

Michael · 16 February 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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Don’t even bother always been the same that’s why get through so many staff….

Well went to view a property. Put an offer in and they said they went having a think about.. vendor )to find out another viewing the next day. Bad experience. Told me they would phone me in the morning had to chase all too much effort.

N · 5 September 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

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From the bottom of my heart, thank you to Tarley and Clare for your hard work, patience and diligence over these last few months. You made the sale of our property as stress free and smooth as you possibly could. You were always available to discuss and deal with any issues or queries we had. We really couldn’t have done it without your expertise and guidance. Thank you again for all you have done for us, it’s much appreciated. Jayne and Mark

Jayne · 24 September 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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I would just like to say a massive thank you to Tarley at William H Brown for making buying our first home a brilliant experience and being there to help us with all of our queries! As this was our first time, we weren’t sure on all of the …

Bethany · 16 September 2025

★★★★★ 5/5

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Anne Luby has been amazing from the…

Anne Luby has been amazing from the very beginning. She took the time to arrange regular Teams meetings, which made the whole experience feel much more personal. As a first time buyer, I had absolutely no idea where to start and was a complete novice who felt out of her depth, but Anne guided me through every step of the process.

Jessica · 16 March 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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PLEASE STEER WELL CLEAR!!

Poor communication, false promises from sales, lettings and mortgage services. Started off great but once they've had your money they don't care about resolving any issues. Don't bother with the lifetime membership as you'll have to do all the work yourself. Don't bother with management services for letting a property either, they won't tell you about any problems and they'll let your tenants damage your property and steal from you without any reconciliation measures or compensation. I sold my flat over a year ago and I'm still battling with them and the Zero Deposit scheme to compensate me for my property being stolen and damage that I paid to fix for the new owner out of my own pocket. PLEASE STEER CLEAR, SAVE YOURSELF A HEADACHE!!

Miss · 20 August 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

Ellie was super helpful in getting our first home! She always answered the phone to all my questions and chased up when things slowed down. Thank you!

Imogen · 16 December 2025

★★★★★ 5/5

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Ollie Aston flat inspection

This Morning I had Ollie Aston attend my flat for an annual inspection. He was on time as agreed. He took photos for Landlord and was a very pleasant with his customer communication during the visit. I raised a few questions which I hope to hear back. I wish him the success in his employ and rate 5 star service. Overall have dealt with WHB for 6 years always been of a high standard.

Peter · 24 August 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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I would not trust these people

I would not trust these people, I emailed them to arrange a viewing on a tenanted property, no contact, after a couple of days I called them to arrange a viewing for same property, straight away the sales person tried steering me to another property instead, but I held firm, they said they would get back to me with an appointment, they never did, it’s now sold. They have preferred investors waiting in the background, other sectors would not get away with it.

Anthony · 10 July 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

Massive thanks to Tarley for helping us out when looking for our next home. Nothing was too much trouble and all questions answered in an efficient manner 👍🏻 …

Aidan · 16 November 2025

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

William H Brown are an excellent agents. Everything has been dealt with efficiently and professionally. All employees are polite and friendly. Darcie dealt with our renting of a property and she was amazing! Mia was also very helpful when Darcie was out of the office. However many times I phoned with questions Darcie was always happy to help. She organised everything smoothly and speedily from the viewing on Monday to collecting the keys today, only four days later! She made what can be a stressful time smooth running. I would definitely recommend this agents. Thank you so much Darcie.

Debbie · 16 November 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Impeccable Service!

We recently had the pleasure of using William H Brown also known as Sequence as our estate agent during our house purchase, and I cannot speak highly enough of their outstanding service. From the very beginning, Libby our Mortgage Advisor was incredibly professional, knowledgeable, and attentive to our needs.

Beloved · 11 February 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

Best agency I have ever dealt with. Very professional and sincere. Darcie dealt with most of my queries and tenant placement (although her colleague were equally competent when Darcie was out of office). One of the issues I have had with most agencies were communication and this was never a problem - I was kept well informed. Darcie went out of her way to ensure a smooth process! Looking forward to doing more business with them! Thank you guys

Maxwell · 17 October 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Tarley was absolutely outstanding from start to finish during our home purchase. We faced a number of difficulties and set backs with our transaction but without her patience and professionalism the whole thing would have been ten times more stressful! It was a long 9 months but she got us there and we can't thank her enough for her help in securing our forever home.

Dave · 19 May 2024

★★★★★ 1/5

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Keep pestering me despite house selling months ago

Came to our house for a free valuation before putting it on the market. We went with another agent because we felt William H Brown overvalued our house. We told them as soon as we decided that we wouldn’t be going with them. Since then, they have pretty consistently called me from various offices (local/regional etc) asking to co list with the agent we chose, trying to set up an appt with their in house mortgage advisor, asking if we have found anywhere else, asking how our sale is progressing etc. Our house sold in a week and we had an offer accepted on our new house the following week so we have absolutely no need for any input from William h brown. Yet still, three months later, they call me fortnightly to ask how everything is going, despite me asking them repeatedly to remove my details and any data associated with me. They are dogs with a bone who won’t take no for an answer!

Em · 21 May 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

Ellie was amazing!throughout the purchase she was always available and answered promptly,she really knew what was important to us and we can’t thank her enough!

Bridie · 22 October 2025

★★★★★ 1/5

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Unprofessional

I dealt with William H brown, Holderness road branch as a tenant. Firstly, they tried to scam me into buying home insurance as an essential requirement of the contract. During the tenancy my landlord was lovely and remained in touch directly, so thankfully I didnt have to deal with them. At the end, I was in huge trouble because WH brown's absolute unprofessionalism. Despite multiple calls and requests they failed to provide references for my next agent. I had no where to go for a week due to this delay. It cost me a fortune! Over a month has lapsed but they have done anything about my deposit. When asked they said to get in touch with the lamdlord directly. Whereas they were the ones processing the deposit collection initially. After sorting it with the landlord myself it was over 2 weeks without any further progress to deposit return. Really a shameful service!! Staff and service all pathetic

Reema · 15 May 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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Its been 5 years since I moved out of a…

Its been 5 years since I moved out of a rented property by William H Brown in St Albans and I have not been refunded my holding deposit. I have contacted them severally over the phone and emails and no luck till date. Nothing but radio silence. First I was told the Landlord would be contacted to claim back the £500 or so left after she dubiously claimed damages on the property. They then later pushed it on me to speak chase the landlord to reach an agreement on obtaining my deposit back. I have used a 2026 date on my review because trustpilot doesnt allow you to go all the way back to 2021.

David · 5 May 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

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Excellent service thanks special extra…

Excellent service thanks special extra thanks to Tom, William and Sarah for their help.

John · 3 September 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

Google

Great staff and very helpful, especially for first time buyers! Ellie and Casey were both fantastic in getting our house across the line! Would definitely recommend!

Tom · 13 September 2025

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid WH Brown!

Sold my house through W H Brown and they were the worst estate agent I have ever used. Communication was nil, left messages and they didn’t get back at all. Actually went 5 MONTHS with no contact! Sold my house to first viewer for full asking price so they had very little to do.When I complained to head office, they stated the branch had done nothing wrong! Obviously have low standards. Definitely an estate agent to avoid. No wonder they have a poor reputation

MS · 20 December 2024

★★★★★ 4/5

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Could not have had better service

Went for a viewing on a bungalow back in the Summer and met a lovely lady called Marina from the Kingsley branch. We didn't like the bungalow but, we did like Marina and we put our house sale in her capable hands. She sold our house within a day I think and everything went really well until 6 weeks later, our buyer lost their buyer. However, about 4 weeks later, our buyer found a new buyer and we all set of again. However, due to solicitors not talking to each other and them being particularly hard to get hold off the last month or so of proceedings was very stressful and just made hard by the solicitors. However, Marina and everyone at William Browns worked so, so, so hard getting solicitors to talk and get things done and eventually, we exchanged and completed last week! The team at Kingsley worked so hard for us and went above and beyond our expectations - Marina was our main contact and I can not speak highly enough of her and would love to thank her for her straight forward talking, her honesty and her absolute dedication when it was actually quite hard work!! Thank you Marina and team ☺️ To have full transparency, the reason I could not give 5 stars was due to the solicitors we used which were recommended by William Browns - they were shocking but that does not detract for the amazing service we received

Karen · 16 December 2024

★★★★★ 1/5

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Useless, uncommunicative liars who are after your money.

There is a saying that "Buyers are Liars". Well trust me, our Estate Agents handling the sale of our property were without doubt the worst we have ever had in selling any of our previous properties proving that it isn't the buyers that are the liars but the Estate Agents themselves. I won't name individuals but as a company, William H. Brown of Ely were the worst for Communicating to us in the selling of our property. From the first contact where the then manageress came and visited us to suggest a selling price to the end result of us vacating the property was nothing short of disgusting. Considering they were going to be getting paid a couple of grand for selling our property for us, they did nothing. We did get the odd email and phone call trying to dazzle us with percentages and figures why our property wasn't selling but as I said to the individual calling me, stop making pathetic excuses and sell our property. When we first put our property up for sale at a price suggested by the management, one of the staff rang me and suggested that I should drop my price to get more interest! This was a week after we had it up for sale. I very politely told him no. They changed staff like I changed my grundies, every time we went in to the office someone else had left, hopefully to richer pastures. God help any new staff. All they will learn working in that office will be to lie, ignore your customers and spout BS because that's what we had from them, totally and utterly useless staff acting on our behalf.. The Manager who is in situ now was supposed to working on our behalf but was more focused on our buyers than us and even had the nerve to suggest that we moved into rented accommodation, with a wife, dog, cat and me, put all our possessions in to storage just so that our buyers could move in quickly. Quite disgusting behaviour from the "Manager". He even had the gall to tell us that our buyers wanted to move in on the following Monday and that they had their removals team delivering their possessions on the Tuesday. More lies. What a Pratt! We have now been moved out over a week and we have since found out that the buyers still haven't moved in, so what was all that pushing and prompting about putting us under enormous stress? It all points to him wanting the deal sealed so he could get his monthly bonus. Considering what our Solicitors, Hunt & Coombs did for us, the sheer amount of hard, intense work our Conveyancing Team did and the amount of fees they charged us was paltry compared to what we were charged. So to wrap up my review of William H. Brown, Estate Agents, Ely. We were very sorry we ever got involved with them. I would suggest using caution if you are unlucky enough to use them to sell your property because they don't care about you as a customer, just see you as a cash-cow. They will lie to you, ignore your calls and generally mess you about. I would suggest you use any of the other Estate Agents in Ely because to be honest, none of them could ever be as bad as William H. Brown.

Kevin · 15 December 2024