Trusted Agent profile · Shoreham-By-Sea
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545 reviews across 2 platforms
3 The Vinery, St Marys Road, Shoreham - By - Sea, Shoreham-By-Sea, BN43 5ZA
Fox and Sons's office in Shoreham-By-Sea, at 3 The Vinery, is rated 3.4 out of 5 across 545 reviews on two platforms, including 114 Google reviews rated 4.5.
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5/5
TrustpilotBeing a small business owner myself in…
Being a small business owner myself in Eastbourne.I can really appreciate the efforts that Steve and Todd made to make sure I could communicate outside of business hours. Getting regular updates allThe time and helping me with seeing the sale through with solicitors.Thanks guys
1/5
TrustpilotTHE WORST ESTATE AGENTS EVER
THE WORST ESTATE AGENTS EVER!
1/5
TrustpilotFOX & SONS LEWES - APPALLING
I have never dealt with such an unprofessional estate agents and I would warn anyone NOT to have any dealings with Fox&Son, Lewes. Every interaction with them has been farcical from beginning to end, resulting in me having an offer on a house in Laughton from May until Sept and only to be told today, that it was actually taken off the market a month ago. The only reason that this came to light is because one of the staff called me on Friday to see if I wanted to view a house and I said 'I've already got an offer on a house with you.' When I initially viewed the house, I fell in love with it instantly and was going to offer the full asking price. However the agent said it needed some cosmetic updating and if I changed this and that, it would make it much better. He said that an offer had already fallen through so I could go below the asking price and told me what they would accept. On his advice I put the offer in on the Monday, only to be told that it had to be higher by someone else. So the miscommunication began immediately but the buyer could have got the full asking price and ended up with an offer £20k below which was good for me, but as the estate agent acting on behalf of the vendor was not in their best interest. We had lots of questions that were never answered. One agent said the property was quite new, another said it was quite old. I asked numerous times for them to take down the For Sale sign and replace it with Sold, that never happened. I also asked numerous times for them to mark it as SOLD STC on Rightmove, but they only put SSTC in the text below not how ALL other estate agents do it on Rightmove so it always still came up as For Sale in the search rather than under offer filter. They didn't answer emails and calls, so in the end I had to ask my estate agent to communicate with them. I had one update from them in 4mths to say the vendor put an offer in but it was declined. They said it was quite usual to be waiting this long for vendor's to find something but regular updates and some reassurance would have been the professional thing to do. Throughout the process they kept sending me new properties, which I think is highly unprofessional and they should have taken me off that database as I had an offer with them. They seem to have no clue what is going on about anything, communication is non existent, and service has been appalling from start to finish. To be called today to be told the property came off the market on 9 Aug (today 5 Sept) has left me speechless. Why did no one bother to tell me? I loved this property and thought I'd found my dream home and have lost 4mths. If I had been informed on 9 Aug, this would at least have given me another month to find something else. This has inconvenienced everyone in the chain waiting. For the vendor, they have acted most unprofessionally and for the client, equally so. They should not be working in an estate agents and are giving Fox & Son's Lewes an extremely bad name in my opinion
5/5
TrustpilotThank you Fox and Sons
Our main contact was Shannon, but all the team have been excellent and they went way beyond our expectations with not only selling our place but following the sale through and keeping us informed. Most importantly they carried out what they said they were going to do and explained every step of the way, with the good news and the bad. During the sale we came up against an online solicitor further into the chain which gave the people buying our place huge problems. Lesson to be learnt here check the chain out before agreeing to a sale. Our friends are looking to put their place on the market and we have passed Fox and Sons on to them, thats how impressed we were.
1/5
TrustpilotI am giving their Bitterne Branch 1*…
I am giving their Bitterne Branch 1* because the system will not allow me to give any less.My sister and I engaged the Bitterne Branch to sell our late mothers, warden assisted, flat.They said all of the right things initially and recommended that we use their suggested conveyancers so that they would be able to chase things up and get things done.If only, the conveyancers admitted that our sale was a learning exercise for them and a lot of mistakes were made so it dragged on and on. In fairness, they reflected their performance in their eventual fee.However Fox & Sons never initiated a single phone call. Any contact from them was only ever in response to us chasing them over the 8 months it took the sale to complete. Indeed, the sale completed on Friday and 3 calls were made to them asking them to contact us and they still havent responded . They still have a key !!Of course they have taken their 2% cut of the sale but we actually found the buyer, who is a family friend ourselves, so we were able to sort out the key handover without any support from Fox & Sons.Quite simply, Bitterne Branch of Fox & Sons are, from our perspective, professionally incompetent with absolutely appalling customer service.Simply shocking and we have still had no contact despite the sale being completed and them holding a key.
1/5
TrustpilotView property was very quick to ask for…
View property was very quick to ask for deposit was meant to move in Friday nothing no communication then meant to move it Monday still nothing said references not come back they ask for paperwork several times still not had nothing back I will be homeless in the morning with a special needs child it’s disgusting no communication at all
4/5
TrustpilotSaltash Branch - Fox and Sons
Saltash Branch Cornwall - just rented through Fox and Sons and would like to thank Thomas and Kate for their help in us securing the property. Such a friendly team and always helpful
1/5
TrustpilotEven One Star Is Too Many
Even One Star Is Too ManyAvoid the branch from Bognor Regis.They've been selling my house. They've been pushing me to reduce the house price because they wanted to sell the property to the landlord that they already knew. Next time they've been pushing me to reduce the house price because they wanted to sell the property to a man who had money but he rather wanted to spend money to rebuild the loft. I was a customer of this branch and I paid fees of £4200.00 for selling my property but they've been not helping me. They've been helping the buyers and keep asking me to reduce the price.
5/5
TrustpilotI must say a big thank you to the…
I must say a big thank you to the Southampton Bitterne Lettings team Katie & Abbey for all their help and advice.Fox & Sons are very lucky to have such capable staff and I would not hesitate to recommend them both. I would say the very best there is and makes being a landlord very straightforward. Our kindest Regards to you from Richard & Jan
1/5
TrustpilotThey're falsely advertising the…
They're falsely advertising the property on the RightMove website.
5/5
TrustpilotWe used Fox & Sons Lancing when we…
We used Fox & Sons Lancing when we moved house, the manager Kane was amazing, helpful and very knowledgeable. He was available for me to talk to at any time and led me through the process with ease. Recommend these estate agents to everyone.
5/5
TrustpilotFive star service
Great experience with the team at fox and sons ( plympton branch) Lucas has been especially helpful, friendly and efficient. Would highly recommend
1/5
TrustpilotSOUTHAMPTON London Rd - Terrible
THIS IS IN THEIR ORIGINAL EMAIL TO ME
1/5
TrustpilotLow life misogynistic
A few months back, I spoke to a man called Oakley on the phone, from the Southampton branch, who genuinely made me feel sick and disgusted, through his misogynistic and backward minded comments towards woman! I had rang to enquire about a property, for a very close friend of mine, who at the time, was at work and unable to use the phone to make her own enquiry. So she emailed me and asked if I could ring on her behalf, which I was more than happy to do. I rang and got through to an Oakley, I explained how my friend was interested in a property and that she would like to book a viewing. All good so far, but then, Oakley started to ask questions on my friends current circumstances, 'your friends income?', "£35000pa" 'great! Any children?' "yes, one 12 year old boy". At that point Oakley then stopped me short and said, 'I'll have to stop you there, as from my experience, woman like that! Single mums, make bad tenants, as they can never hold down a full-time job and always just end up claiming benefits, never paying their rent, upsetting their neighbours, smoking weed and just end up being a general nuisance to everyone!' After hearing that, I was so upset, I actually just put the phone down. And wanted to forget about it. Until now, because of the time we live in, repulsive, backward minded people like that, should be called out at every opportunity. I wonder what happened in this persons life, to have so much disrespect and hatred towards woman. I genuinely feel sorry for you and hope you seek the help you so desperately need, to be a descent human being. Not the low life scum that you are!
5/5
TrustpilotSelling my property
I Dealt with Gemma Atkin, she was great, friendly polite on the ball and responded promptly to queries, i would definitely recommend Fox and Sons in Northend and Gemma
5/5
TrustpilotExcellent Estate Agent
I dealt with Fox and Sons in Hove for the purchase of a flat on Hove seafront in late 2021. All the staff at the branch were extremely helpful throughout the whole process, even when the seller had to get rid of an awkward tenant, they really couldn't have done anymore; Keira and Darren in particular were excellent. Jamie at the branch helped me get my mortgage too. I would highly recommend Fox and Sons and wouldn't hesitate to use them again.
5/5
TrustpilotHolly Myatt
Holly Myatt from Portsmouth branch was extremely helpful, made the whole moving process nice and straight forward and replied to any queries I had regarding my tenancy extremely quick, highly professional and would recommend to anyone! Thanks again ☺️🎄
2/5
TrustpilotTerminated Fox and Sons as my agents
I used Fox & Sons (Sequence) to manage my property and I’ve now terminated them after a string of unacceptable failures.
1/5
TrustpilotAbsolutely useless
Absolutely bunch of useless people in Yeovil branch. Wasn't honest in the whole process claiming I was lying in my application, was promised my holding fee back and they refused and never actually took the property off the market after taking my money. Took weeks to hear back from anyone as there entire communication is terrible. Would rate 0 stars if could
1/5
TrustpilotOne star is one too many
One star is one too many; what can I say...Avoid at all costs! They valued the property at 400k in line with Zoopla and several other valuations including a RICS valuation. They convinced us to go on at 375k to start a bidding war which they insisted they could do. Typical sales crap. Anyway, they planned to do an open day, listed the property then unlisted it to allow Rightmove to update normally a 48-hour process. It didn't go live on to Rightmove for almost 14 days despite numerous calls to the office and getting fobbed off and told this was normal, It is NOT! This led to only 2 viewings on the open day. We had spoken to their mortgage team and almost 20 weeks into the contract they have still not contacted us back to provide the updated mortgage information meaning even if an offer was received it could not be accepted and despite formal complaints this was still not resolved. At almost every stage they have tried to get us to drop the price to 350k even though we did receive an offer of 370k and they said that was the best we could expect. They have tried to get us to do a boxing day relaunch with only 10 days left on the contract and when we did try to get a relaunch by dropping by 2% they did not return our calls. The viewings were shocking, and they didn’t know which garage was which. Failed to point out key aspects of the kitchen and planning permissions in place for expansion and on two occasions failed to show up leaving me to do the viewings not to mention inaccuracies when updating Rightmove. In my opinion they are more focused on their Rightmove statistics than customer service in 20 weeks our property was emailed out twice to perspective buyers! AVOID and use an small or independent.
4/5
TrustpilotGood service from Fox and Sons lettings…
Good service from Fox and Sons lettings Bournemouth branch. Karen and team helped let my property quickly and to decent tenants. All very professional throughout
1/5
TrustpilotTerrible service at Foxs and Sons at…
Terrible service at fox and sons at Taunton.Tell you what you want to hear for you to buy the property.No communication at all, If you need to speak to someone they are always busy and never return your call so always have to ring them back again. Failed to contact us with important information that resulted in us pulling out the sale. When I phoned in to inform them it would be likely we would have to pull out, the person who was dealing with the sale was busy and I still didn't get a call back and that was over a couple of weeks ago. We have now pulled out and 10 days on still have had no contact from the estate agents but I can see the sellers have put their property back on the market with a different estate agents so I think that says it all, they obviously wasn't happy with the service they were getting either.This has put me off ever buying or selling a property through Fox and son due to the terrible service, its the added stress you don't need when buying/ selling a property.
5/5
TrustpilotA great service at Bognor
A great service at Bognor, with great leadership. In particular, we are extremely impressed with Sam, a relatively new member of their superb team. He is a great asset to their personalised service. New as he may be to the role, he is the most proactive and communicative estate agent we have ever had the pleasure of working with on our case. We have moved 8 times in 50 years, and he is the best there is. He remains aware of customers plight, and engages every skill in selling our property.Despite having our first offer withdrawn on health grounds, Sam continued his efforts to find another buyer aware of our needs in moving out of area. He remained focussed, maintaining a balance between encouraging and supporting us the vendor, whilst not exerting too much pressure on prospective buyers, till reaching success in getting a second offer on our property. He has an amazing customer focus with a calm, efficient and professional approach, in both his personal presentation and his work. He works long and hard hours in pursuit of a successful outcome for vendor and buyer alike, and his timely communication during contract process is much appreciated. He is so interested in what he does and his positivity is refreshing and encouraging all the way.
1/5
TrustpilotFalse Promises...Fareham Branch
Everything started really positively with lots of promises about how fantastic they are, how they work differently to other local agents and how they fully assess a buyer before accepting an offer.Cut to what actually happens...The number of viewings was brilliant and after two weeks we accepted an offer. At which point we assumed everything was in hand. We appointed conveyancers and got the ball rolling.In the meantime we found a house, put an offer in and the agent called Fox & Sons Fareham to confirm the chain. THEY NEVER DID. We lost out on the property as they didn't have the time to confirm the chain.This got us wondering WHY they didn't confirm the chain and upon calling them they advised that our buyer was popping in with her ID... two and a half weeks after we accepted the offer. It's worth remembering that their sales pitch is that they fully assess a buyer before accepting an offer...they hadn't even identified her!We then queried this with Fox & Sons and the mortgage advisor told me that they had called the buyer the day previously but they didn't answer. In the same morning the Branch Manager spoke to my wife who stated that they spoke to the buyer yesterday and they had validated the mortgage. A complete lie.We pulled our house off the market as none of their promises came to life. The Branch Manager even had to be chased to reply to an email to confirm they had taken the property off of the market.Fox & Sons are not worth the extra money to other agents, you do not get more for your money so you're better off keeping it in your pocket.
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