Reeds Rains (Newtownards) Newtownards reviews

★★★★★ 5/5

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Been supportive through all my…

Been supportive through all my application...they understood ive had a tough time since my Husband passed away

Margaret · 8 September 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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Macclesfield branch are the worst…

Macclesfield branch are the worst estate agents our family have ever come across in 60 years of buying and selling properties in the UK! Reed Raines recommended a conveyor based in Leicester (miles away from us) in November 2020, we had to chase both of them all of the time. Reeds Raine were rude and aggressive, and we’re not working for us, in our best interest (and we were paying their bill). The Conveyancing (Premier Property Lawyers) cost us over £40k by their incompetence and Reed Raines staff were unsupportive to us and had an over familiar interest in selling our property to a family friend. We pulled out at the end of March still unsold, due to both companies inefficiency and unprofessional work. Don’t use Reeds Raine, especially Macclesfield branch.

Julia · 3 August 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Do NOT use this agent

Do NOT use this agent. Honestly have had me crying they are so frustrating. Everything is made into a big issue. You wont get your deposit. i cannot state enough how bad they are honestly. They dont answer emails or conveniently dont received them even though they receive others and you are sending to the same email. staff are rude and just tell you lies and change their stories. Not one bit helpful everything an issue. Handed notice in and am still having to battle with them. If someone from Reeds read this i would like to know how to escalate further and hate having to deal with Liverpool office.

Kieran · 26 July 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Reeds Rains at Hazel Grove amazing service!

Reeds Rains at Hazel Grove have been the best! From the moment I met Dean I knew that I wanted to use the Hazel Grove Branch. Dean and his team have been amazing, very professional, attention to detail, always there to answer my queries, very friendly and knowledgable. They have been there every step of the way and supported me throughout the process that hasn’t been easy for me to understand but they have always explained and reassured me.

Andrea · 25 June 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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The Reeds Rains team in Newtownards did an excellent job guiding us through the sale of our property. We purchased our property through them five years ago and we were very happy to use them as our selling agent this time around. They were consistently helpful, responsive, and pragmatic throughout the process, which made what can often be a stressful experience feel well-managed and straightforward. Stephen in particular was a great to work with and communicated clearly at every stage. I would highly recommend Reeds Rains to anyone looking for a reliable and effective estate agent.

Chris · 16 January 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

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Staff was great,good communication and…

Staff was great,good communication and taking their time to explain things through. Would recommend the service over again

Ms · 27 August 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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Shocking from store in Prescot and management from head office

Shocking from store, the regional and then there boss Sold using Prescot Can’t communicate and lied asked for staff to not deal with it as we lost trust and faith and thought they were incapable at doing there job roll. Paid for full epc sent me certificates but old one they never replaced it till I told them, Attitude is bad never them always someone else’s fault Got told by regional on phone and email the only one dealing with the house was the manager wasn’t true and left with no communication and original team were thought was ok dealing with again and told me to bring keys in even though we haven’t sold and told us it’s not our house and we’re not insured so as you can imagine being in work and getting told you don’t have your house ain’t great and then the attitude she’s right I’m wrong had pay solicitor to deal with her. Rang the manager not his issue he’s moved Regional never replies Resulted in ceo complaint - he investigated but missed large chunks out to protect his friend the regional manager Then hides away/ then on holiday This is just some of the issues we have dealt with but the list is a lot longer would give a zero if I could

Daniel · 16 June 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Private tenants AVOID ! BULLIES

Private tenants AVOID !! Never in my life have I felt intimated by a company until my dealings with reeds rains. Absolute bullies. Staff are disgustingly rude. ( Apart from Ellie, I think she is the only one who seems to have undergone any customer service training ) One lady just turned up at my house with a front door key and told me shes coming in to inspect, I asked for half an hour as I was in an important phone call. She told me that doesnt matter, she needs to come in she isnt waiting half an hour and she has a key so WILL be coming in. Alls I was asking was for a bit of time to re arrange my phone call they cant even respect that. She was made up to exert her power that she had a key for my house and was coming in. Hope that made you feel good you horrible woman. House was dirty and an overflowing bin in the living room on my 1st day, therefore caked in flies each window was a graveyard of dead flys. Oven thick with grease. (Despite being told this was being professionally cleaned before I will get the keys) I was told any maintenance issues, reeds rains sends someone to complete then charge landlord. No I sent an email with some maintenance issues and got a section 21 back! They want the house back. Landlords friend came and did some odd jobs after a long while. Not the service I was sold.

Chelsea · 14 June 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Professional

They handled the sale of my property in a professional manner with great communication through the whole process.

Stu · 24 August 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

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Sale if property

We have found Reeds Rain very helpful, also the staff have answered our queries promptly. This is our second sale as they helped us sell my mom's property.

Linda · 17 June 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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ReedRains and religious beliefs

I tried to apply for a mortgage adviser position with Reed Rains. Due to my religious beliefs I was not able to work on Saturdays. Reed Rains were not able to accommodate my religious beliefs despite the fact I offered Sundays , they have many advisers and several estate agency offices in the area and we are in the 21st century. They claim Saturday is a busy day at estate agents (even though appointments were telephone calls only and could be any time) and would not budge to consider even a part time role. The discussion was with an area supervisor in the North West. Reeds Rains are now beginning to address the issue!

D · 23 May 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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I am a landlord that's worked with Reed…

I am a landlord that's worked with Reed Rains to manage our property in East London. There has been little need for interactions over the last few years other than the odd visit and collection of rent. However, over the last 6 months, our tenants have unfortunately slipped into arrears of around £10k. Reed Rains has not managed this situation very well, there has been little effort to communicate with the tenants other than rent invoices being sent from an office 200 miles away. It was mentioned three months ago that the tenants might have vacated the property. This was only checked last week with an abandonment notice being placed on the door. Despite repeated requests to be contacted or find out who deals with the property and us as a client nothing has been done. What I have been getting is passive-aggressive emails from the team at credit control taking no responsibility and showing no empathy for the fact we are £10k in arrears with no end in sight and that we could have been better head of the problem. Again there has been no one to speak with to discuss the matter.Our experience of this company and lack of customer service here is shocking, in this case, there certainly have not operated in the best interest and on behalf of the client.

Daniel · 21 May 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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MCR City Center Branch - 0/5

I am landlord, I was on fully managed service with RR. RR selected some bunch of thugs as tenants for my house, Tenants never paid rent on time and stopped paying after 3 months completely. RR did literally nothing, RR failed to effectively do the pre-tenancy checks, referals, failed to notice that tenants had dogs at my property, RR also made blunder when sending S21 notice, it was rejected by solicitor. There is no dedicated property manager, it keeps changing and you need to keep explaining to the new property managers. its big NO-NO agency, avoid yourself a horror and choose some other trustworthy agency.

Pradeep · 20 May 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Pathetic, incompetent and zero added value

Where to start? I get letting agents need to make a profit, and I’m happy to support that - if they use just a fraction of the profit to offer a service.They were a pain to deal with when we moved in, they performed every task with great difficulty and constant reminding. It was like communicating with a toddler. Emails were ignored, bounced between departments and processed slowly.In 3 years we needed 1 x spare key, 1 x washing machine repair/replacement and 1x boiler fix.We never got the key.We did receive a new washer - but we ended up doing all the arranging.The boiler fiasco took over 2 months and they charged the landlord for things that were completely unnecessary, resulted in water damage and cost 5x more than it needed to. They were that bad, the landlord arranged to cancel the contract with them. We thought that might be the end of our collective woes. Nope - since then their lack of attention has resulted in countless hours of negotiating with utilities suppliers as without our or the landlords consent they cancelled with our suppliers by authorising another company to switch us out.So in summary:They made every interaction frustrating and disappointing.They failed on 90% of every kpi They did not provide a service of any description beyond a basic inventory and handling our rent payment.They ignored emails and requestsAnd since leaving them they provided a final legacy of complexity for us to fix regarding our utilities.If I could give a minus star rating I would.The initial contact with the Chesterfield branch was ok, but as others have said, after signing you are shunted off to a bunch of people in Southampton who don’t care and have no concept of geography. Eg they sent plumbers from Burton on Trent, and Wakefield - to Chesterfield, but only after threatening with cost recovery and requesting the landlords details.

Francesco · 5 April 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Fantastic service provided by Ryan and his team. Extremely professional, helpful and provided great advice and support. Highly recommend.

Murdoch · 27 June 2025

★★★★★ 4/5

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Myself and my husband a viewed a property…

Myself and my husband viewed a property through Reeds Rein last week. I wanted to pass on how great our experience was with Louise who did our viewing. Louise was professional, but friendly, honest and knowledgeable, and did not rush us through the viewing. We have viewed houses previously and I honestly can say Louise was one of the best we have dealt with. She is a credit to your team. We have made our decision about the house, and how we would like to proceed. I know Louise is going to be in touch soon, so will look forward to speaking with her.

Emma · 23 February 2021

★★★★★ 1/5

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Rude estate agent

Today I accompanied my mum to a house viewing and the estate agents showing us around was awful. For the first few minutes that we were in the house she was perfectly pleasant and professional. However, after a conversation between my mum and I where we indicated that the kitchen and garden may be too small for my mum’s needs, the member of staff very quickly became rude and dismissive of everything we said, and her entire demeaner changed to one of irritation. After seeing the downstairs, I asked my mum if she wanted to look upstairs. Before my mum could even answer, your member of staff cut her off with a very sharp “What’s the point in looking upstairs if you’ve already decided it’s wrong?”. Firstly, we hadn’t decided that it was “wrong”, we were just commenting on things as we saw them (we also made lots of positive comments). Secondly, I was addressing the question to my mum because she has mobility issues, and what I was really asking her was “are you physically comfortable enough to go upstairs today?”, which my mum knew, but didn’t get the chance to answer because she was very rudely cut-off. Thirdly, if we’ve travelled there to see the house, we’re going to want to see all of it. That should be common sense. After seeing the rest of the house and making lots of positive comments, we were discussing it in the downstairs hallway. It was obvious that the estate agent just wanted us to leave, she had clearly decided that we were wasting her time. When discussing the garden, mum said that she ideally wanted something bigger. The estate agent asked where mum lived, and then snapped “Well, the garden you’ve got is like a postage stamp!” which was very rude and totally irrelevant. Mum had already explained that she has mobility issues, and now she explained it again, stating that the reason she wanted a bigger garden than what she has now is because she’s struggling to walk to dogs and she wants them to have a big garden to be able to run around in. My mum shouldn’t have to explain her motivations of her criteria for a house to the estate agent, especially when she had already told the member of staff that she has a disability. That is none of the estate agent’s business! We both loved the house and mum is considering putting an offer in, but staff should be trained to a better standard than that.

Lucy · 9 February 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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Very professional

Very professional, friendly and knowledgeable. Keep clients up to date with progress.

Customer · 21 September 2026

★★★★★ 5/5

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I have been very happy with Reeds Rains…

I have been very happy with Reeds Rains up to now. They are helpful and polite.

Mrs · 26 August 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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Macclesfield Office - Impressively bad service for a renter...

Macclesfield office and maintenance should hang their heads in shame!After 3 days in a rented property the plaster fell off the wall of my twin 2 year olds bedroom - the next day we had Reeds Rains contractors round who declared it was damp from a hole in the roof. I offered to pay for the fix on the day to protect my children but was not allowed as it had to go through our landlord and Reeds Rains.For 4 months we chased Reeds Rains, their maintenance team (based in Southampton with no access to a phone for 3 months despite never being available as they were 'on another call' when we contacted the maintenance team). Children were sick regularly, we taped the wall up, took our sick children into the office to prompt action...lots of sympathy and promises from various people but zero action or communication to explain why nothing was happening. We escalated our complaint after researching (as nobody in the process shared our possible next steps), 3 months later our landlord told Reeds Rains maintenance company he would not be fixing our roof or wall and he was angry at us as previous tenants hadn't complained. The maintenance company disappointingly told us this was the end of the process and there was nothing they could do - despite him obviously breaking his contractual obligation to four rot free walls and a roof.After almost 4 months of a young family living in a damp house and paying full rent whilst chasing people on a daily /weekly / monthly basis it got fixed for less than 3/4 of our monthly rent.Ongoing issues after 5 months include:*Bath not attached to the floor and fell on my mother in law 5 months ago - not fixed*Washing machine broke - not fixed*Dishwasher broke - not fixed*Fireplaces not attached to floor or walls - not fixedStill paying £1200 a month for this bargain and service - as a renter I suggest you avoid this company as they have not supported us, shared any information, expressed an interest in our welfare beyond taking our money and passing on our landlords cut.

Vincent · 3 January 2021

★★★★★ 5/5

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The only estate agent with a personal touch!

Out of several estate agents contacted Reeds Rains were the only agent to contact me personally and at a time that suited me as I am not a UK resident.

Valerie · 18 May 2026

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid.

Regarding the Salford Quays branch.They refused to comply with a request for our landlords address in line with Section 1 of the Landlord & Tenant Act 1985. Explicitly stated that the request was in line with this act and still declined.Requested a "relisting" fee, we came to an agreement to move out of the property early due to antisocial and criminal behaviour from a behaviour. When asked for an invoice and an itemised cost of the fee, this was also refused. £350 + VAT was requested to "relist" the property.Money was taken from our deposit to pay for a skip so a new drive could be laid. We were informed that "Rubbish had been left in the bins and a skip was needed to remove it" (unsure why the bins couldnt be put out for the bin man). We have since been back to the property and have seen a whole new drive has been laid. We are now being threatened with small claims court for the relisting fee. We are still in arbitration regarding the outstand part of our deposit that was not returned.Complaints have been made to Salford City regarding there practices and inability to follow tenancy law.Avoid.

Rob · 3 December 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Great estate agents

Great estate agents. Customer Service was fab. Leah and Tom were both very helpful and kept me up to date and chased solicitors etc. On the day of completion there was an issue with the funds being released and it was late in the day when we got the keys but Tom arranged for them to be dropped off as soon as funds had cleared. I wouldn't hesitate to use them if I move again.

Rene · 12 July 2024

★★★★★ 5/5

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Property selling

Property selling - Pro-active attitude, weekly updates, ready to assist with tasks over and above just marketing and finding a buyer. You get more than expected from these Estate Agents

Lorraine · 15 May 2026