Trusted Agent profile · Kirklees
★★★★★
1,205 reviews across 1 platform
34 Victoria Street, Holmfirth, HD9 7DE, Kirklees, HD9 7DE
William H Brown's office in Kirklees, at 34 Victoria Street, is rated 2.1 out of 5 across 1,205 reviews on 1 platform.
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1/5
TrustpilotUnderhand
I tried to sell a property through this company at auction and they had some very interesting views on the value. I said I would take my business elsewhere and the next day the local branch phoned me to try to get me to get the property put on the general sales market through their branch. I politely refused because their actions were very underhand. They have rung me weekly for a year since in one guise or another trying to get my business.
1/5
TrustpilotWilliam H Brown
William H Brown - Scunthorpe. Initially , friendly staff but as time elapsed it became evident they weren’t interested in my plight as a tenant. However it was only until very recently I realised that one staff member in particular considered it acceptable to make stuff up and frankly her motives in hindsight seem racist. It’s not a word I use lightly either. I would be very concerned if you were to rent a property with this company and specifically this branch. Whilst I have absolutely zero proof to validate my opinion , the overwhelming feeling I have as a result of dealing with this person’s lies isn’t going to go away in a hurry.
1/5
TrustpilotWilliam Brown of Swaffham and William…
William Brown of Swaffham and William Brown Auctioneer facilitated viewings and offers behind my back after a sale was agreed with me under private treaty. They lied to me when I questioned why the advert had not been removed, assured me time and time again that the property would not be shown and that no more offers would be allowed, and finally just a few weeks before completion called me to say that they had allowed and taken a bid under "auction conditions" and that unless I met with all terms of this including being prepared to pay the auctioneer fees and giving an immediate deposit and to close within 28 days including forgoing my solicitors input ( which was already weeks in progress) I would loose the purchase. I made a formal complaint but had no concrete evidence in writing and the staff at the Swaffham branch closed ranks, lied, and said that they had never assured me that my purchase was safe. It has cost me thousands of pounds because I have had to rent now while looking for another property.
5/5
TrustpilotHanna was my mortgage advisor.She was…
Hanna was my mortgage advisor.She was professional, friendly and very efficient and I would highly recommend her to anyone.
1/5
TrustpilotLettings yes. Property management no.
Although they managed to let out all of our properties reasonably quickly, their property management was abysmal. They gave repair work to contractors who were expensive with very poor quality work. Sometimes they were the friends and family of the staff.We had to appoint a different property management company who now is far more reliable and trustworthy.
5/5
TrustpilotI highly recommend William H Brown…
I highly recommend William H Brown Stevenage. Jack Elston has made the sell of my property and move hassle free. So polite and quick to answer any questions. Thank you Jack for all you and your team have done.
5/5
TrustpilotThank you Maisie and Jack from Ware …
Thank you Maisie and Jack from Ware for finding me a rental property, Amazing service, will be recommending this branch.
1/5
TrustpilotSimply avoid at all cost !!
Simply avoid at all cost !!! Inexperience is not what you want when dealing with the biggest purchase of your life. It’s cost us ☹️
1/5
TrustpilotOver One Year for Nothing
Around one year ago, we were interested in a house and the seller A accepted our offer.Then after over half a year, almost all the procedures went through, the seller's solicitor stopped replying to our solicitor but reassured that they're sorting the last enquiry out.After one month, the estate agent contacted us that the seller declined to sell the house and the staff from the estate agent apologised quite sincerely. Someone senior from the estate agent gave some information of a similar property around the same area to us.We both found this house quite met our expectation so we expressed our interest and the house seller B accepted our offer within one week.As this house B is a no chain house, we expected the procedures can go through more quickly than last time. However, the enquiries have taken more than four months and there is still two outstanding enquiries. We did try to ask what the last two enquiries were but not getting any response.William H Brown is a liar as the house B suddenly becomes a chained property during the conveyancing process.
5/5
TrustpilotTammy , the superstar from Scunthorpe.
We have just moved house and relocated back to the UK .Tammy from the Scunthorpe branch was simply amazing. From start to finish she was helpful, supportive and understanding. She made what could have been stressful experience a very simple and enjoyable one.Thanks Tammy , you’re a superstar.
5/5
TrustpilotAmazing service, talented staff
Bought a property with William H Brown, my sales negotiator, Andreea Crisan was professional and helpful at all times.I could call anytime and get help or answers to my queries.Highly recommended and will definitely buy with WHB again.
1/5
TrustpilotHarassment on another level
My wife provided my contact details to William H Brown on Rightmove when looking at a house we were interested in. When we explained our situation to them they said they would take my details off their records. 3 months on and I'm still getting weekly calls from them, even after saying under GDPR regulations I want them to remove all records they have of my personal information. I've decided now to report them to the ICO as enough is enough.
1/5
TrustpilotShocking
Shocking , they do not tell the truth then when we wanted to leave bullied us to threatening court action if we left , 5 people looked at our house 4 did not even have their houses on the market , would not release us from contract and then kept telling us to reduce the price after they valued it 40 odd thousand more , 4 months of hell and making the whole experience stressful and wasting our time !!!!! I have sold many houses and never had such an awful agents bar one staff member who was genuinely nice to us but still was not honest .
5/5
TrustpilotShootout to Beth Dalton
Shootout to Beth Dalton. This women can really work great i had troubles renting a house so she helped me alot! I've never seen such a kind and great person like her. Because of her my experience with Williamhbrown is awesome. She's the best worker out there. 😄
1/5
TrustpilotAvoidx100! William H Brown & Sequence Home
The entire business management is managed so poorly that I am amazed how they are still in operation. I am a landlord and used William H Brown (Sequence Home) as a lettings agency to fully manage my property. Whilst the front looks professional, but once onboarded with them, the full management services are sub-standard. They are slow in responding but when they needed the money off you - it is on time. Custom them if you want to be scammed with false promises. Even as it stands, they are withholding £200 of my money, and when I queried it, they said that it was for an unpaid inventory checkout service of £162: (i) I'd paid it with receipt as proof, and (ii) £200 vs £162 - clearly they need to pay a trip to specsavers. This has been dragging since Nov 2022 - and I don't believe I'll have the £200 back.
1/5
TrustpilotDo Not Use Bannercross William H Brown.
Do Not Use Bannercross William H Brown.I wish I’d looked at all the other reviews before going with them because the negative ones are spot on about this company.They lock you in a 20 week contract. (which is way longer than other estate agents), they do this as they aren’t the best at their job.Kate will be all nice and positive to get you to sign the contract but as soon as you do you’re in for a shock. She’s rude, she ignores emails, gets the staff to say she’s not in the office, she’s a full on liar.They will get you a few viewings and after that they will basically leave you hanging as they know you are stuck for 20 weeks.My partner rang for a way to move forward with selling my house, she was welcomed by a sarcastic, patronising Kate. My partner is 28 weeks pregnant and this upset her.Keep well away from this company if you want to sell your house, I promise you now you will regret it.I will go to the ombudsman over this and the regional manager of William h brown to get out of this contract.
1/5
TrustpilotComplete and utter incompetence
Complete and utter incompetence. From the start, there were inconsistencies - constant misspelling of names, mistaking the house numbers, 34 instead of 43 despite constant corrections on our end, so important letters were sent to the wrong house. They didn't double check names or our addresses despite how we had to constantly give them our payslips and bank statements which would have shown them that they had input the wrong information. If they'd so much as looked at all the information they had at hand, they could've so easily phoned us to correct the mistake that they made. But they didn't, as they were blind, foolish and terrible at their jobs.We were given 3 months of radio silence, and during that time we were under the impression that they were doing their jobs, but alas, they were not. When we finally emailed them as we were scared they'd forgotten about us, it turned out that yes, they had. They tried to blame us by saying we did not email them back some confirmation, but we did email them twice, and they completely disregarded our emails.Every three months they asked us for more proof of work, such as our bank statements and our payslips, as they were working so slowly they needed constant proof that we were still employed.We were transferred from our initial correspondent to another, who was new and still learning. From my end, it appears that the first man handed us over to another person so that the blame would be shifted to him if things were to go wrong - which they still did.Our solicitors, separate from William H Brown, commented on their slow uptake, surprised at how long they were taking. We knew it had to be a terrible experience if our own solicitors commented that William H Brown was doing such a bad job.They kept telling us and our solicitors that we were being sent letters, however those letters didn't exist until we pushed for them to exist and asked what the contents of these letters were.We had confirmation that the seller accepted our offer in May of 2022, and we were finally moved in by late January, early February 2023. We were given promises that we would've been in by Christmas, but that was not the case. We did not have our hopes up, as we'd also been told we would've been in and settled by September 2022, and were disappointed.When we gave them the deposit, they took days to confirm that they'd received the deposit, and we had to phone and email and push them to confirm it for us, as with no confirmation, we feared that the worst had happened, and the deposit had been lost. Thankfully, it wasn't, but the lack of communication was terrifying.When we were finally allowed to have the keys, and we went into the office to get them, we found out that William H Brown didn't have the keys, and the seller still had them. They broke confidentiality by letting us contact the seller ourselves to get the keys from her personally. However, she agreed to see us and hand us the keys over, as she also didn't trust them to keep the keys safe.With all these bad, terrible and frankly easily avoidable mistakes, we have had the worst experience buying a house from these people. If I could go back in time, I would beg for us to get a house from anyone else but William H Brown. I have never come across such incompetent, foolish and frankly stupid people in my life. I urge everyone else to not go to them, they are terrible at their jobs, terrible at communication, and terrible at the simplest of tasks.
5/5
TrustpilotVery friendly staff,very helpfull and…
Very friendly staff,very helpfull and understanding,&supportive,good properties when browsing,and pleased to do buissness with you as a Agent,now have found a new home ,which I'm very happy about ,and good location for work,and was very helpfull supporting along the way of my progress of application and finding me a good private landlord too,kind regards june
1/5
TrustpilotAbsolutely awful company
Think they’re above you, snobby, rude, arrogant. Never had worse dealings with a company in my life. Had numerous valuations, these came in most expensive. Girl from the office called me to see if I wanted to view a property, that I know has been on the market for months as it’s a friend of mine, she told me it had just gone up last week so another lie. Do not use this company, far better and more friendly local estate agents who are more personable than a big company who think you’re beneath them
1/5
TrustpilotDo not bother. Use your time with truthful agencies!
I took into consideration that they are a legit company, duely registered, and ignored the reviews. If only I had taken the reviews seriously, I would have saved my time and the money I spend with travelling to see the property they showed. They really don't bother with communication. Hopeless. Not a signal of a follow up even though they took a copy of my ID and I signed an EOI. Now if I see they are the ones advertising I just pass.
1/5
TrustpilotNo care, no communication.
Zero communication and less than zero attempt to resolve any issues. Since moving into a flat supposedly under the care of William H Brown 6 months ago not a single problem that I have reported through their portal, in person and over the phone has been sorted. The balcony door is ratchet strapped shut in mid winter because the mechanism was broken between viewing the flat and me moving in, this was also not mentioned conveniently in the itinerary, Dish washer broken, cooker hood broken, skylights leaking, sinks broken, balcony rotted and dangerous. To top all this off, ive now been without water for 12(!) days as the pump has broken with no urgency to fix the issue or provide me with anyway to drink, shower or use the toilet. I'm not sure this is even legal at this point. Ive had some bad landlords but William H Brown are the worst.
1/5
TrustpilotBest off not using this firm
This company is all sorts of wrong. Not only do they tell you phone calls recorded they later confirm they are not when you get to head office complaint stage. Clever sods lied to me clear as day on phone and never put any of what they told me in emails.. I'm now being accused by them of being the liar, which I now can't prove apart from half statements in email which are inconclusive at best.... I would avoid this company again, I do not recommend anyone use this useless, dishonest company. It is now looking like a small claims court case if the TPO can't get me the money they owe me. Not a huge amount £500 but when you paid them £2500 for services its a sizeable amount.
1/5
TrustpilotAVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!!!! SCAMMERS
AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!!!! ABSOLUTE SCAMMERS!!!!!!!Absolute joke of a company!! Me and my partner were told to pay a deposit and secure our home and that it would be ours. Only to have a phone call the next day telling us the place has gone ? I thought it was secure? No!! They then tried to make us pay more deposits for another place then for again to tell us it’s not available AND THEN THE SAME HAPPENED OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!! I asked for my deposits back as I was sick to death of being messed around !!! The young untrained women that had absolutely no knowledge of the company she works for at William h Brown promised me 3-5 working days and the money would be back! To then constantly having to Email about my money to then be responded to telling me my money has been taken for ‘costs’ what costs? They messed me around I didn’t even complete applications for ANY PROPERTY! They didn’t have any information for credit checks etc!!!! Livid
1/5
TrustpilotAwful customer service from property management
Myself and my husband are currently renting a property from William H Brown and the service we have recieved so far has been appauling. We only moved in about 3 months ago and there have been countless issues with the property. The main issue has been the lack of care and communication from the property management department from Ailesh Lawlor who has been completely inconsiderate of our situation. I am currently almost 8 months pregnant and there is some work being carried out in our place and everytime I have called Ailesh she has responded in a careless tone. She has shown no care whatsoever everytime I have reported an issue for example, the leak in the wall, no hot water or heating, faulty extractor fan, leaks from the sink and many more issues. She has continuously responded with " i will give you a call back" or "I will get back to you with more information" however we have barely received anything from her. We reported the leak in the ceiling a week after we moved in and were told that it was a priority to sort it out due to the weather condition. However, it has taken them almost 3 months to solve this issue! The overall customer service has been extremely poor from the property management department and I don't believed anyone should have to go through this, especially someone who is so heavily pregnant.
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William H Brown's Kirklees office has 1,205 reviews across 1 platform: 1,205 on Trustpilot (across the whole business).
William H Brown Holmfirth is rated 2.1 out of 5 across all 1,205 reviews.
William H Brown Holmfirth, 34 Victoria Street, Holmfirth, HD9 7DE, Kirklees, HD9 7DE.
