Bridgfords Manchester reviews

★★★★★ 1/5

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Viewing inefficiency

Rang Crewe branch to request viewing: left voicemail and sent email to same effect. 24 working hours later, no response. Rang again to get v/mail. Maybe this is unrepresentative experience... or maybe their staff are failing timefully to respond to buyers.This inefficiency is precisely what angers sellers, who may lose sales because potential buyers view, and offer, on rival properties they are considering with other agents.I would expect all calls and emails are responded to within 24 working hours - and that agents explicitly undertake to do this. If their staffing is affected by illness they need to state on auto email reply/v/mail that they regret their response may be slower than normal and when they *will* respond ('within 48 hours', etc).

Marcus · 26 October 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Spoke to Tom about renting a flat

Spoke to Tom about renting a flat, he replies fast and communicates well !He’s an absolute star ! ⭐️

Elliehope · 25 April 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Zero focus on the customer

Zero focus on the customer. Just find somebody else, particularly if you are a landlord letting a property. The applicant vetting process they do isn't fit for purpose and I was left with an "approved" applicant who should never have passed any reasonable vetting process and consequent rent arrears. I asked to speak to their CEO seven times and all I eventually got was a letter saying he would not be calling me. They just aren't bothered.

JP · 16 March 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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Very happy with Megan and Jevita from the lettings team. They were helpful and happy to answer any questions we had before moving (no matter how small).

Hannah · 28 April 2025

★★★★★ 5/5

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Gregg Cameron from Brigfords Newcastle…

Gregg Cameron from Brigfords Newcastle is super helpful, efficient and always resolves any issues regarding the tenant or any issues I have with our flat. I cannot compliment him enough. I am extremely happy with the service he provides.

Lloydy · 3 October 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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No show

We arranged for Jonathon, the manager, from the Swinton branch to come out and value our property for rent & sale. We agreed a time to meet at the property as we don’t live there anymore and Jonathan didn’t show up. Called 3 times and no one answered. Rude and no respect for anyone else’s time.

Charlotte · 12 January 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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Ellie and Joe were very helpful and…

Ellie and Joe were very helpful and made the process of buying my first home easy, quick and straightforward! Would recommend both Estate Agents for anyone looking to purchase :) Thanks so much!!

Customer · 8 May 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Worst estate agents

If I could give 0 stars I would, the lettings department at. Bridgfords Gosforth are awful. We used to rent a property that was managed by them a few years ago and that experience was awful. But recently I had seen a property that looked good and I thought I would try even though it was managed by them.Biggest mistake, rang up to arrange a viewing only to be told that they were taking it off the market until the tenant had vacated. They said they would contact when they were doing viewings, one week later I saw that the property had been let! I rang them to discover that someone had taken the property. I said that we had not even had a viewing but they said the person had offered the money. I said that was not even given as an option to me. She then couldn’t even explain the rules about when a property can be viewed. They are useless.

Eleanor · 25 June 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Disgusting behavior from the people in…

Disgusting behavior from the people in this branch. So unprofessional. DO NOT USE THEM.

Mrs · 2 September 2025

★★★★★ 1/5

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Bridgfords in Manchester are pretty…

Bridgfords in Manchester are pretty horrendous. The only two people who are nice, friendly and helpful are Daniel and Jo. Everyone else we spoke to has been rude, flippant, and even accused us of not paying.To be honest, I should have known considering we moved into a flat that was supposed to be cleaned and painted and it had food up the walls, yellow blind, dirt everywhere that this was not going to a great start. We had an early tenancy agreement exit which the landlord agreed to do if another tenant is found. This was a stressful process as the staff put a pic of the front of the building on right move and that’s it, so obviously not a lot of interest rolled in and we were liable until august having just bought a house. So we were keen to get a new tenant.I finally spoke to Jo and Daniel who were super helpful and asked me to supply some good pics of the flat, they uploaded them and surprise surprise lots of interest and someone took the flat.We left at the beginning of May, we were told by one of the Charlotte’s to only pay the days we were going to be there (around £140), when we rang to confirm this with one of the other Charlotte’s she was incredibly rude to my partner, toldhim there were no notes to reflect that and “we can’t just pay what we want when we want” - I have literally never experienced a professional speaking to someone like that, she was really condescending and made it out like it was our fault.Fast forward a few weeks, we paid the full rent for the month of May, despite moving out on the 3rd May and we were told we would get a refund of the extra we paid (£610) once the new tenant was in. They moved in on the 10th as per confirmation from BridgfordsWe have rang every day to check on this and they said it was being processed, I rang again today and it was told “there is no evidence of you paying”....We sent the evidence (receipt sent to us by bridgfords) and now they’re processing it again.The biggest issue is the miscommunication, nobody noting anything on the account, staff “not being able to see payments” we have paid, and literally no one talking to each other. I would steer very clear of this estate agents if you work full time and can’t be dealing with ringing them to chase absolutely everything.It’s a shame, as Jo and Daniel are actually really good and helped us massively. There are a few people in that office that need some customer service and account training and I really genuinely feel for anyone else having to deal with the majority of them. It’s been an absolute shambles.

Nat · 14 May 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Really appaling level of service as a…

Really appaling level of service as a tenant - wrongly accused us of being in arrears three times in 12 months and tried to take £1150 from our deposit. No apology, sometimes just didn't reply to messages and treated us as if we were trying to swindle them! Matthew Healey particularly condescending and bad customer service. I would say to avoid this company at all costs - you'll regret going with them because once they've got your money they won't care.

Joe · 5 May 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Bridgfords Bamber Bridge

If you want to sell your property quickly be well updated, able to call them at anytime for updates and advise, get lots of potential buyers through the door and liaise with an enthusiastic and very polite team, then this is your estate agent. They have hands down out performed my expectations so far. We have marketed with another estate agent who to be fair have been completely out performed by this team in all aspects. Well done so far Bridgfords Bamber Bridge, hopefully soon to complete, and you will be receiving your well earned fees.

Shaun · 4 May 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Beyond awful

It is difficult to know where to start to detail the poor service, appalling communication and general incompetence, arrogance and rudeness of the ‘Senior Executive Branch Manager’. From our very first interaction with him he has proven himself to be unable to actually listen to what you are asking. This company booked 5 viewings on our property without letting us know that there was more than one and that was just the start of the terrible communication. Continued with not actually telling us our buyer was in a chain (we will never know if this was an oversight or deliberate) and ended up in the agent cutting all communication and contact with both us and our buyers when we were left with no option but to communicate directly so as to not allow the whole thing to collapse the day before exchange because the agent ceased to facilitate communication and went home early. Glen took a difficult and stressful situation and antagonised it with rude and somewhat aggressive and provocative behaviours. I knew Bridgfords had a poor reputation, more fool me for ignoring that and giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Holly · 12 March 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Deeply unethical letting agent

Deeply unethical letting agent, even by industry standards. During our tenancy we maintained the property to a high standard and did not miss a single payment during a three year period. Whenever an issue arose with the house (inc. but not limited to broken boilers, faulty fixtures and broken utilities) they would delay as long as feasibly possible on behalf of the landlord, leaving us without equipment we were paying for. Upon leaving the property, they (and by extension their holding company Countrywide) arbitrarily raised a number of questionable charges against us at exorbitant rates and did not adjust charges when we proved a number of them unfounded. We are currently in the process of disputing the charges with a third party and their conduct continues to be unprofessional, as they delayed official response until the latest possible juncture.In my experience all letting agents will provide their own frustrations, but this company is not to be trusted.

Jack · 8 March 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Gross greed/incompetence

If I could give this business zero stars, I would. Poor customer service, blatant lies about the flat being refurbished and an astronomically slow response time in getting issues in the flat fixed. The flat we were moved into that was promised to be refurbished before moving in but it was in a completely disgusting state. Taking advantage of the covid situation by not letting us physically look around the flat prior to moving in and only providing a video tour. The flat was barely cleaned, there was missing lightbulbs, decayed furniture, mould and pigeon faeces covering balcony. How does a letting agent let all these problems slip through the net? Its either greed to get tenants in ASAP or just gross incompetence. I honestly don't know which is worse.To top this all off Bridgford knowingly let us move into a flat with dangerous electricity. Without us alerting them to the problem they'd have never fixed this. Just absolutely disgusting service. Don't use these conmen if you're a tenant because you blatantly dont matter to them, its just about taking your rent and deposit.I implore anybody to avoid them at all cost.

Ben · 24 February 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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I rated one star as couldn't write comments with ZERO stars

I rated one star as couldn't write a review with zero stars. Terrible service! E mailed to say I had an interest in a property...no reply! Rang agent to say I'd had no reply, got an apology they hadn't got around to my email. I was the first person to express an interest in a rental property. I was told I'd get a video of the property...Guess what still waiting. Arranged a viewing for Saturday at 1:30pm. Got a call from agent Saturday morning, very flippant, ah sorry your viewing will have to be cancelled. Why I asked, because someone has secured a let! I asked why could I not have been contacted to ask if I wanted to view the property before Saturday as I expressed an interest first. Apparently it's not their job. I then got attitude and pretty much was made to feel it was MY fault because I'd arranged the viewing for Saturday...absolute disgrace!

Louise · 6 February 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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We have rented a lovely apartment…

We have rented a lovely apartment through the tynemouth branch and the staff we really good and everything went smoothly and we r really happy with that. However the agent asked if he could pass my number to an agent to discuss energy suppliers. Foolishly we said yes. We were telephoned twice and each time said we had decided to go through British Gas and never thought anything more about it. A few weeks later I had a text from SSE saying my gas and electric bill needed paying. Then received a letter from British Gas saying they were sorry we decided to switch energy supply ( we hadn’t) rang SSE and after many hours of stress telling them I hadn’t switched to SSE( awful company to deal with they never ring back when they say they will) it turns out that the agent who rang us had switched our energy supplier even tho we said we didn’t want to. This has caused us so much stress and hassle and I am really very upset. We are still trying to sort.

Lesley · 3 February 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Brigfords Blackburn Branch - AVOID!!!

Brigfords can certainly talk the talk, but as soon as your agreement is signed and your money is locked in, you can kiss goodbye to any shred of good customer service. They caused us nothing but stress throughout the sale of our property. We found ourselves constantly chasing them for information, and worst of all, concocted a story to place blame on our buyers for the delay in our sale, which we later found out was due to their own incompetency! Important information was withheld from us that threatened the sale of our property. They couldn't even stick to the price they agreed for their services from word go. Absolute shambles of a company who should be disgusted!

Matthew · 13 January 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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I am warning all potential people who…

I am warning all potential people who want to sell their homes, not to use Bridgfords in sale. The manageress, Rachel Withington, has to be the most incompetent manageress I have ever come in to contact with in my 40 years experience in the property field. This is nothing personal about her as a human being, I am talking about her capabilities as a manageress of a property agents

Marshall · 28 September 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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I am a Home Owner in an apartment…

I am a Home Owner in an apartment block, I have lived in my property 13 years. The property above me is rented out, Bridgefords thought putting 3 young children under 5 in with there mother. I have nearly had a nervous breakdown due to extensive noise, men in and out the above property, being threatened off the neighbour above and her friend. Because I asked for them to tone it down as I have work in the morning. I had to move out my property for 3 mths until she was evicted. Bridge fords didn’t give a damn, they promised my neighbours and I they wouldn’t put children in again. We all work in the block and need our sleep, unlike the neighbour every day was a weekend for her drinking. Well here we are again 3 kids again under 5, no where to play and been with me up at 6 in the morning. This Lettings agent is a disgrace.

Amanda · 22 December 2020

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid Avoid Avoid

Landlords - Avoid Avoid AvoidThis company needs to be avoided at all costs, it will end up costing you a great deal of money. You will be charged for items that you have not agreed to to. You will be charged for work you specifically requested NOT to be done and you will be charged above market rates.They are made up of many different companies and each does not know what the other is doing.Complaints are not responded to and they will happily incur costs on your behalf.

Matt · 5 December 2020

★★★★★ 1/5

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Worst agency ever

I rented through Bridgfords for 2 years. They accused us of missing 2 months rent which we had paid and only dropped this when we threatened legal action. They gave us a letter of rent arrears when we refused to pay rent until we had a tenancy agreement which was overdue by about 8 weeks. They gave workmen keys to the property without our knowledge and consent and told them the property was empty so workmen let themselves in when we were home. They refused to confirm how much of our deposit was being challenged until we contacted DPA. By far the worst tenancy agency I’ve ever had.

Gggg · 20 November 2020

★★★★★ 1/5

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Gavin Campbell worst experience with a mortgage advisor …

I had the worst experience with Bridgfords in Manchester with trying to secure a mortgage. The agent was called Gavin Campbell and he is by far the most awful sales person I have ever encountered. He tried to get me to take out a mortgage with a subprime mortgage lender when I could have gone to a bank or building society. He was very lazy and unprofessional. He should be sacked from his job, because he should not be giving mortgage advice.

Ommarabab · 5 November 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Everything went smoothly and Ellie was…

Everything went smoothly and Ellie was a joy to deal with

Margaret · 31 July 2023