Trusted Agent profile · Rotherham
★★★★★
1,432 reviews across 2 platforms
54 High Street, Maltby, Rotherham, S66 8LA, S66 8LA
William H Brown's office in Rotherham, at 54 High Street, is rated 2.5 out of 5 across 1,432 reviews on two platforms, including 240 Google reviews rated 4.9.
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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
GoogleWe recently purchased a house and William H Brown and especially Calum were great from the very start, any questions were quickly responded to and we were kept up to speed with any developments I would highly recommend.
5/5
GoogleCalum and the team at William H Brown are excellent, Helped us through every step of the sale of our house to make it a smooth transaction and easy for us. Thank you so much. Tim & Glenys
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
TrustpilotWilliam H brown Rotherham branch
William H brown Rotherham branch. Viewed 2 property's. Unprofessional Agent's rude and ill mannered. Not honest and has no integrity. 2 hours' journey wasted. Mortgage fee's wasted and fuel cost's . Worst is the property is still for sale even though it's under contract.Avoid SalesAgent jesse.PLEASE AVOID - NO GO. AVOID !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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
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.
5/5
GoogleThis Estate Agent is professional, efficient and informative. The staff are knowledgeable and a pleasure to deal with. Our property and circumstances were unusual and took a long time to sell despite many viewings. Their enthusiasm never waned. We got our full asking price.
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.
5/5
GoogleJust bought the house from Maltby branch. Great customer service. A big thank you to Calum Brennan (branch manager). I would recommend them. 👍👍👍👍👍
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. 😄
5/5
GoogleCan’t thank Callum and Katie enough for all there help getting my Uncle’s house sold and him moved into his new bungalow. Both we’re very polite and professional throughout, nothing was too much trouble and they we’re always on the end of the phone to answer any questions when needed. Would highly recommend.
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 .
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.
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
5/5
GoogleRecently arranged my mortgage with Edward Witten based in the Maltby office, who I found to be extremely helpful and explaining pros and cons that other advisors had ignored. Would highly recommend using Ed for any mortgage support.
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
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