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★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookReally happy with the friendly and professional service provided by Williams and Donavon Hockley. A special thank you to Denise and Emily who have helped us to find and move into our home.
Lauren · 29 June 2017
Agent replied
Hi Lauren, thank you for taking the time to leave a review, we're delighted that everything went well and have passed your thanks on to Denise and Emily - best wishes in your new home!
★★★★★ 1/5
GoogleTerrible service keep well clear from taking dump in toilet before viewing and leaving place unsecured after viewing not sending paper work of terrible service snd at the cost of £2500 a lot better estate agents out there
A · 1 September 2025
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleWhen a relatively straightforward quick sale turns into a situation where we wanted to bang our heads ( and others!) against a wall, we had the one thread throughout, who knew what he was doing, sympathised with the frustration of it …
Shelley · 13 April 2024
Agent replied · 25 November 2023
Thank you Shelley for your review. We’re glad we managed to get there In the end for you! … More
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookVery friendly and helpful especially Lyn who was very helpful and understanding of my situation with my mums move
Jackie · 28 February 2022
Agent replied · 30 September 2023
Thank you for your kind words Jackie, we’ll pass your comments onto Lyn and the team
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookSo we fell in love with a property with Williams and Donovan. We hadn't even put our property up for sale, so after viewing our dream home we put our property up for sale with them too! Lloyd could see how much we wanted the property and spoke to the seller to see if they would hold it for us in order to get our property sold (which they did). Unfortunately it took us 9-10 months to complete due to deed complications. It was a very stressful process but Lynn and Lloyd where amazing. Constantly chasing and getting things sorted for us. They went above and beyond for us! We cannot thank them enough for making our dreams come true! We have been in our new property a week tomorrow and we couldn't be happier. We don't ever plan to move again, but if we did we would 100% use them again!
Sam · 15 June 2017
Agent replied
Hi Sam, we're so glad that everything worked out well in the end. Thank you for your kind comments and also your gifts - hope you'll be very happy in your new home!
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookI have used a few Estate agents before but I have to say that Williams and Donovan are by far the best I have dealt with.They are very friendly, helpful, professional and everyone who works there is extremely good at what they do. I bought and sold my property through them and they made the whole process stress free.I have no hesitation in recommending these agents to sell your home.
Allan · 12 July 2021
Agent replied · 30 September 2023
Thanks for your kind words Allan we’ll be sure to pass your comments onto our Benfleet team
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleWe would like to pass on our huge thanks to the team at Williams and Donovan for their help, support and professionalism in our recent sale and purchase. They were hugely supportive through the barriers and delays in the process and we would thoroughly recommend their services to all.
Wayne · 13 April 2025
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleYou can rest assured if you need a decent,honest reliable estate agents to do your selling, buying and conveyance then there is no better than this team, Mark Toomey has excellent customer service and skills of his team to help take the stress out of the moving process, and Paul very professional in customer satisfaction of limitless help and support. Excellent work by all.
Kevin · 19 May 2022
Agent replied
Thank you for your review Kevin.
Our team pride themselves on their customer service and acting as the point of contact for our buyers, sellers and beyond if necessary.
We understand that not all purchases and sales are stress-free but our team do their best to reduce this as much as they can with constantly staying in touch and updating customers where they can.
We will pass your comments onto the team 😊
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookGreat communication when purchasing our new home through this branch. Lovely surprise to receive flowers and a card once we’d moved in too! Thank you Paul, Denise and Chloe!
Laura · 2 September 2018
Agent replied
Hi Laura, thank you for recommending us and we're glad the flowers were a nice surprise too. Best wishes in your new home!
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookWilliams & Donovan have just completed the sale of my late Nan & Grandads property. They are an amazing team, especially Tom Revell, who directly helped my mother with the sale. He went above and beyond throughout the whole process. I would recommend Williams & Donovan if you are buying or selling a home.
Joe · 24 March 2021
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleThese glorious humans... in a diabolical nightmare in which we sold three times, lost our buyer twice, bought a fixer-upper house from a divorcing couple at war with basically zero avenues of communication that thanks to our woeful …
Emma · 13 April 2024
Agent replied · 25 November 2023
Thank you Emma for your review. We’re glad we managed to get there In the end for you! … More
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookThank you Williams and Donovan Hockley, for all your help in my recent sale! I was kept informed all the way by your lovely team. I have been using your company to buy and sell property for many years now. I feel totally confident in your hands and have never had any reason to complain. I always recommend you to anyone thinking of buying or selling. Keep up the great standard!
Jayne · 26 October 2020
Agent replied
Hi Jayne, thank you for your kind review. This one turned out to be one of your more straight forward sales. Thank you again for your continued support, it’s much appreciated.
★★★★★ 5/5
GooglePaul and Denise at Williams & Donovan were absolutely amazing in helping my parents get their house sold. They were patient, kept us updated all the time and, despite a huge delay caused by some legal wranglings with a shoddy solicitor, they were calm and did everything they could to get things over the line. Thank you!PositiveResponsiveness, Quality, Professionalism, Value
Reuben · 28 August 2022
Agent replied · 27 August 2023
Thank you so much, Reuben, for your lovely review. We hope your parents have settled in well. It has been our pleasure to help you and we'll be sure to pass on your fantastic feedback to Denise and Paul, thank you!
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleThank you for an amazing service. Tom, Paul, Denise, Katie, Bailey, I just can’t fault you all. You helped secure our next family home and gave us a hand holding service from offer through to completion. We were grateful that decided to let our property through Williams and Donovan lettings and found a tenant in 2 days! The best estate agent in town!
Christina · 15 March 2022
Agent replied
Thanks so much for your lovely review. It’s great to know that we were able to provide you with a service for sales and lettings. Enjoy your new home 🏡🔑 …
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookI guess we have used Williams & Donovan in Hockley for our last four or five moves ( we have just completed house move number 7 ! ). We have never been disappointed with the service we have received, all the staff have been very helpful, but Paul, in particular has kept us informed every step of the way. We would definitely recommend W & D to anyone moving in the local area.
Steve · 22 July 2019
Agent replied
Steve, it's always lovely to have returning clients, and the fact you've used us so often proves that we must be doing something right! Thank you for taking the time to leave us such a glowing review!
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookDenise was the most patient and understanding person to have dealing with our move. It involved 2 properties being sold and we are moving away to Somerset. She liased with all parties involved taking a lot of pressure off me. Staff involved in our house sales were excellent. Thank You all.
Carol · 3 April 2021
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookThanks everyone at W+D for helping my husband and I with the purchase of our new home. Big thanks to Denise Morgan you little star xxxxx
Emily · 31 May 2017
Agent replied
Emily, thank you so much for your review, and for highlighting the sterling service provided by Denise!
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookThanks to Paul and all the lettings team for doing a great job! We will definitely be working with them again and would highly recommend them!
Martin · 27 April 2017
Agent replied
Hi Martin, thank you for taking the time to leave us a review, happy to hear Paul and the rest of our Benfleet Lettings team are looking after you and that you'd happily recommend them!
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleExcellent service from Williams and Donovan especially with James Whyte at the sales stage and with Paul Dunne on the after sales service. Paul worked in a very proactive way to get the sale completed. A big thank you to W&D Hockley branch
David · 13 April 2025
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookThe team at Williams and Donovan are fantastic. We've bought through them and now sold through them too, their communication, professionalism and dedication is excellent and I thoroughly recommend them to anyone. They also pull out all the stops to get things sorted when you meet any roadblocks or challenges with the sale process, they know their stuff and you can trust them to get things done.
Helen · 19 June 2020
Agent replied
Hi Helen, thank you so much for your lovely review. It’s never a straight forward process but we are glad it got there in the end. Paul will miss your daily chats..... wishing you all the best in your new home. 🏠
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookThe team at Williams & Donovan have been great from start to finish. This is the second time we’ve used them on a property sale and can’t speak highly enough of them. From the approach to pricing our property through to getting us viewings and managing the process they’ve been first class. Highly recommend considering them if you are looking to sell or buy.
David · 9 March 2021
Agent replied
Hi Dave, long time no see, glad to see they've looked after you over at the Hockley office!
★★★★★ 1/5
FacebookAbsolutely awful from start to finish, worst letting agent I have used. I had to wait 4 months for an important repair, rude staff and completely inefficient. Never respond to calls or emails. They are useless, I am not one to leave bad reviews but I feel I had to warn people of the Hockley letting office - AVOID! (They replied with excuses as usual)
Lauren · 1 November 2020
Agent replied
Hi Lauren,
I am sorry you feel that way as we pride ourselves on our customer service. Unfortunately, any delays regarding repairs during your tenancy in this case were the responsibility of the landlord and we cannot control the timescales in which th…See more
★★★★★ 5/5
GoogleWe would definitely recommend Williams & Donavon to anyone who is thinking of selling or buying a house with them. The team at Hockley were always friendly but professional and Paul in particular went above and beyond what we would have expected of him to get the sale of our house complete.
Karen · 28 August 2019
★★★★★ 5/5
FacebookGreat communication, kept us updated the whole way through the process. Friendly and personable staff, especially Denise! Highly recommend.
Shannon · 23 July 2019
Agent replied · 30 September 2023
Hi Shannon, thank you for taking the time to leave us a recommendation, glad you appreciated the work the team put in throughout the process for you.
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