1/5
TrustpilotAvoid them
Avoid them. They inventing fake offers. Everything is beautiful new and shiny but when you viewing house there is a dog s**t on the middle. Which is fantastic for them.
Trusted Agent profile · Ilkley
Hunters Ilkley reviews
★★★★★
583 reviews across 2 platforms
4-5 Crescent Court, Brook Street, Ilkley, LS29 8DE
Hunters's office in Ilkley, at 4-5 Crescent Court, is rated 2.5 out of 5 across 583 reviews on two platforms, including 37 Google reviews rated 4.7.
Reviews
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Trustpilot1/5
TrustpilotSTAY AWAY!
I rented a property for 6 months from this company and it’s by far the most horrific and unprofessional company I’ve ever come across. I got my keys and on entering the property you could smell how dirty it was. The carpet in living room had been so badly worn it had holes in it (when I view the property before it had tenants living in it and this as covered by furniture). Some of the rooms were wallpapered. Obviously lack of cleaning done. I did the inventory hive where you tick of the picture taken by the estate a gent matched the description, it did so I ticked it. All this was via email and before I got the keys to actually see it bare. I was horrified at the state of the place and called them immediately. Banister rail was loose, the back door had dropped, the front door leaked, all interior doors were very hard to open, the showers had been leaking as there was mould on kitchen ceiling directly below, boiler lost pressure when the heating was on and much more. They rectified a few things. Now over the 6 months I was there they did get things sorted (4months before an electrician was employed to fix the smoke alarms). Now I did not receive my full bond back as they took money off me £15 for dust on light fitting, and £25 for paint work that had been scratched (previous tennant painted white paint on brown plastic windowsills). I left the property in an immaculate state. It was much cleaner then when I moved in. Besides Annabelle being the most stuck up rude and unprofessional person I also think I’ve been misled and taken advantage of. As i imagine they took bond money off previous tenants for the decorating issues they did not however rectify this and restore the house to neutral decor. I don’t mind find taken off if I have damaged anything but they seem to take your money and not repair anything!
1/5
TrustpilotAvoid at all costs bad communication…
Avoid at all costs bad communication problems have to keep chasing them.Agreed figure on Friday to let one bedroom property on Monday increased amount by £750 not acceptable or professional.Still not had proper viewing of property at this point sad to say they least bad experience all round.The only prompt response i had from them was an e.mail with a holding charge invoice attached ten minutes after calling to place an interest in viewing the property 🤔🙄
1/5
TrustpilotHunters P'Head - Terrible customer service!
My recent experience with Hunters (Portishead) has been very poor and unfortunately, due to terrible customer service, I will avoid ever dealing with the company again. I thought it may be wise to share this review as I genuinely feel houses may not be selling in our area due to a certain persons 'selling techniques'. Every phonecall before and after our viewing with this person was incredibly frustrating. They were very rude, abrupt and patronising. During the viewing both me and my partner were almost cringing at the 'selling technique' , it was all about him and his contacts, very much a bragging opportunity. This was followed with a very patronising quick fire lesson on 'how to sell a house'. If the agent had bothered to actually ask questions about us, he would have learnt that one of us had very extensive property sales experience. Similarly, by asking no questions about us, he didn't sell the house to us, he merely opened the door and identified what the rooms were. No attempt of selling the features to fit our needs, nothing. Whilst I initiated some questions about the property, the agent didn't answer me directly and would always look to my partner when speaking - we both picked up on this seperately and found it to be very rude and came across chauvinistic! The agent wrapped up the viewing by saying he had a cash buyer in next (as to try and scare us), we waited...and guess what, nobody arrived. During the multiple calls after out viewing (some were return calls to his voicemails) this particular agent would respond like he didn't have a clue who we were, (well if he had bothered to use his customer service skills perhaps his memory would have served him better) after re-highlighting who I was, I was faced with short answers in a 'you're wasting my time tone'. I left every phonecall seething at how rude this person really was.I think anyone who has dealt in any customer facing role understands that customer service is key, find out about your customer, what do they do, what are their needs, build a rapport etc.I appreciate we were only viewers but fast forward to us selling in the future - there wouldn't be a chance I would use them as my agent. Safe to say, I will not be dealing with Hunters again.
1/5
TrustpilotMY ADVICE IS DO NOT USE HUNTERS LETTING…
MY ADVICE IS DO NOT USE HUNTERS LETTING IN PONTEFRACT!!!I would prefer to give NO stars to Hunters Letting Agents of Pontefract. They are a shambles, they dont follow best practice in terms of how they deal with those people that sign agreements with them. I rented a property in the area being charged £700 pcm for a 3 bedroom house WITH garage I was very specific I needed a garage. the house had this and i was informed that everything had been checked at the property when I went to sign the contract. Moved in no working cooker, fridge or freezer, had 3 water leaks from bathroom (that I didnt use) into living room. Also no ability to use the Garage as they didnt give me a remote control for it for nearly 3 months and when they did it would not open but I had a manual handle to wind up and down (but the garage was full of builders rubbish), but of course they said they had checked and it was ready to move into. At the end of the tenancy they deducted £90 from the deposit for pet hair in the main bedroom (Ihave a cat which was always sleeping in its bed on the ground floor plus dead flies on the living room floor). No monies back however for the lack of the garage!! I then overpaid by mistake a further months payment and instead of sending back the full amount of £700 the deducted monies for some reason, no explanation to me. THEY ARE NOT BIG ON COMMUNICATING!!! People may think this is not true, I can prove all of this - there is more but i simply cannot be bothered to put it here. Will be taking legal advice.
1/5
TrustpilotAccept no responsibility for misselling
When we purchased our house through Hunters they marketed the property as having a 1.5 acre plot. Since purchasing we have subsequently found out this 1.5 acres is actually less than 1 acre. We have raised this with Hunters who do not consider they have done anything wrong. We have gone through their escalation process for what it was worth and they refuse to accept any responsibility. We are taking further action to understand what laws Hunters have actually broken around misspelling but if anyone has any advice feel free to comment.
5/5
GoogleGreat experience with the lettings team. Was trying to find a place during covid, they kindly did a remote viewing for me, and then gave me time time come and look at the place in person. And during my tenancy they were always super speedy with anything that did come up. Couldn't have asked for more to be fair
1/5
TrustpilotDon’t expect any help.
Trying to talk to someone is just ridiculous. No one can do anything and always passes to another person which leads to waiting for a callback that never happens. I called 8 times yesterday hit voicemail each time, was only calling as again the call I was promised didn’t happen.Very happy to be changing to working with another estate agent.
1/5
TrustpilotHot air and horse
My original contract was with Thurman & Rye and was acquisitioned by Hunters part way through, but the staff remained the same. They had two flats to sell, so I offered them 3% if they sold both flats within the standard contract period as an incentive to market the properties. They didn’t market or sell a single flat. They just sat there and hoped for RightMove to create the footfall.Worse still was the brochuring of the properties, they couldn’t spell, got the wrong specs and they couldn’t draw the floor plans properly. Loads of promises and assurances from the start etc, but proved to be a load of hot air and horse.
1/5
TrustpilotDO NOT USE THIS ESTATE AGENT
DO NOT USE THIS ESTATE AGENT. On the 18.10.2018 I was appointed to see an apartment at 41 Mill West, Sowerby Bridge, HX6 3JH. (I hope the landlord is reading this)We agreed a time of 16:45 but due to traffic my sat nav advised I would be eleven minutes late. I called the office at 16:25 and after a few minutes of waiting for somebody to answer the telephone I was greeted. I advised the lady I was running late by eleven minutes and was told the agent showing me around cannot wait for me because she finishes at 5pm. I asked why would it be booked with only 15 minutes to spare for viewing and the reply I received from a manager at hunters was “you only get five minutes to view the property. The manager I had the displeasure of conversing with was named Nicola Thompson. She is rude, cocky and full of self importance with no regard for customer service or a potential tennents interest or the landlord of the property who contributes to her salary. I feel I had a lucky escape. I hope her superiors read this as well as the landlord who owns the property I was going to view. She needs to enroll in a customer service role and soon, personally I’d fire her but unfortunately this is what happens when you allow the inexperienced and possibly inadequate into a junior management role. I will post on every review site I can because of this women’s attitude with the hope her bosses react and teach her how to behave towards potential and existing customers.
1/5
TrustpilotI can't complain about these letting agents as I signed an agreement not too so that we could get some of our deposit back...
I can't tell you about my experience with a recent let as the only way I could get our deposit back was to agree not to complain about any aspect of the tenancy or the process of charges negotiation. I can tell you to be very careful about using this letting agent. They issue a notice to quit towards the end of each assured short hold tenancy rather than let the tenancy run-on so that they can raise the rent, knowing you are in situ and charge new fees for the tenancy agreement. Scrutinise your inventory and the check-out report in detail. Do not suggest you have any cause for complaint.
5/5
TrustpilotHunters Barkingside
Hunters Barkingside Mark Sherer and his team of staff at Barkingside branch went above and beyond to help sell our house in Clayhall Ilford. I cannot recommend them enough A*
5/5
GoogleWe have recently bought a house in Ilkley through Hunters Ilkley Office. I guess all house purchases have their challenges big and small. Whilst there were some complications with ours any issues which arose were professionally and quickly dealt with by Hunters. Lester Hurst and his staff are very professional yet friendly, acting for their clients whilst helping the purchasers to bring about a successful sale/purchase. We were very pleased with our experience working with Hunters and whilst not thinking about a move at this early stage, should we move at some point in the future, they would be our estate agents of choice.
1/5
TrustpilotWe had so many issues
We had so many issues in our rented property and they never came and sorted them due to this we moved out. We had left our house in a very clean state and only the problems we had when we moved in had been left they tried to take our full bond off us and more. They are horrific and I wouldn’t recommend using them and I certainly won’t be ever again.
5/5
TrustpilotHouse to let
Friendly, efficient and professional service.
5/5
TrustpilotKIRSTIE KAY
This review is for Kirstie Kay for being very helpful and performing her role to a high degree of excellence.I most note John Adlam (partner) made a simple request extremely difficult to facilitate and an unpleasant experience.
5/5
TrustpilotGreat service
Once again guys 1st class service. Always use these guys. Great price. Always polite. Always on time. And the plus is your car engine is started for you so no cold car to get into. If it’s icy the windscreen is defrosted for you. Thanks again 👍👍
1/5
TrustpilotI made enquiries about a house for sale…
I made enquiries about a house for sale in grimsby , and received a basic could not care less email , it did not answer my question, and hastened to add they have no properties in the price range ,I WONDER WHY????very poor customer service , never again with grimsby branch . They could not even find time to put my name on emails. Thats twice in 6 months they have failed .
5/5
GoogleWe bought our first property with Hunters. The whole process took a very long time due to issues on the vendors, but Hunters (Debbie) was very proactive in chasing the vendor's solicitors as well as the vendors themselves and they always tried to keep us on the loop with any updates they received. In a industry well known for delays that usually mean the buyer/seller has to constantly chase people up, Hunters clearly showed a very professional and friendly attitude. When we come to sell our property in a few years we will more than likely come back to hunters straight away.
5/5
GoogleDear Lester We wanted to thank you and all your staff at Hunters in Ilkley for the superb service you provided on our recent house sale. The property market for larger houses has not been easy in recent times and we did hope that the very good reports we had read and heard about Hunters would prove true in the case of our house. From the day you first stepped through the door and gave us a lot of advice on presentation, your service was excellent. Your advice on presentation pulled no punches, but we would strongly advise all your prospective clients to listen to you and take heed. It certainly worked for us in that you sold to the first viewers on the first day, which really can't be bettered. You clearly have an excellent team and you all provided a service from start to finish which could not be faulted. There are a lot of estate agents in Ilkley, but if your team keep up the level of service we experienced, then the other agents will need to up their game if they are to match you. We would heartily recommend your services to anyone looking for a first class estate agency in Ilkley. Well done and thank you again.
1/5
TrustpilotPeople be alert avoid at all cost like…
People be alert avoid at all cost like covid. Do not deal with the bradford shipley branch previously Bentleys. Dishonest timewasters that just do not care. They lie and cheat to impress for their own gain. Mis advice vendors to sell to buyers who are friends/associates. Dont waste your time and emotions I did. Wish I and vendors had checked the previous reviews would not have wasted time and money.
1/5
TrustpilotRip off.... merchants
Rip off..... overpriced maintenance costs that do not fix the problem then charge again when the first diagnosed issue is attempted again, the Carlisle branch is incompetent
1/5
TrustpilotData Breach !
I enquired about a house and have been added illegally to a mailing list. I complained and asked to be removed twice, was told they never added me (though the emails added me 1 day after my 1 ever enquiry to this company) and they have yet to remove me. Companies like this should not be trusted, they are taking your data and will spam you !
5/5
TrustpilotLaura from hunters buntingford has been…
Laura from hunters buntingford has been brilliant in helping us find our new home. Great service, very quick to reply to any questions and very friendly and caring attitude. She took alot of stress out of finding a place to live. I could not recommend her enough!
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Questions about Hunters Ilkley
How many reviews does Hunters Ilkley have?
Hunters's Ilkley office has 583 reviews across two platforms: 37 on Google, 546 on Trustpilot (across the whole business).
What is Hunters Ilkley's rating?
Hunters Ilkley is rated 2.5 out of 5 across all 583 reviews, and 4.7 out of 5 on Google from 37 reviews.
Where is Hunters's Ilkley office?
Hunters Ilkley, 4-5 Crescent Court, Brook Street, Ilkley, LS29 8DE.
