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| Value for Money | 0.4/10  |
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| Reviewer Rating | 0.3/10 |
| Overall Rating | 1.5/10  |
Full review by
vw
on 30th Apr 2008
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We stated looking for a house as first time buyers. They knew we'd never done this before and Bairstow Eves Estate Agents seemed friendly and helpful. We saw a lovely house with them and we went through the financial advisor they recommended, which was countrywide. Country wide recommended and instructed a solicitor on our behalf which we were happy with. Then the mortgage fell through and the mortgage advisor was increasingly unhelpful and seemed like she didn't know what she was doing. We then tried a different mortgage advisor and informed bairstoweves who seemed fine about it. The next day they rang us up and said the vendors wanted a guaranteed completion date or they were puling the house of the market and renting it out. Immediately after there call the countrywide advisor rang us up and said she'd sorted us a mortgage with the same company the new advisor had suggested but it would go through a lot quicker with her as she had all our paper work. In panic we switched back and it all fell through. We'd paid our for all the searches not knowing that actually we needn't have paid out a penny to the solicitor. The house is now back on the market for £2.000 less than we'd offered and we feel if bairstoweves hadn't put so much pressure on us we would be living there now.
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Review by
COMICBOY
on 1st Feb 2008
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I bought my 1st property 2 years ago and after paying £1,000 up front for solicitors / mortgage fee etc i went on hols for a week.
When i returned Countrywide GAVE the work to another solicitor WITHOUT my consent, then banked the cheques ! When the new solicitors wanted paying, it was to be forwarded from Countrywide BUT they took a month to do and delayed my purchase by another month.
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Review by
Verbelen
on 28th Sep 2007
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As we planned to migrate to Australia, decided to put our house on the market on 3 July 2007. Called my Bairstoweves local office as they were closest by. They showed up on 5th July, boasting constantly "we're the biggest and best agents in the country". Explained that we planned to migrate by mid September. No problem they said. Measured up the house, took various pictures and signed the 12 week Contract on a no sale no fee basis. Only on 10 July our house appeared on their website and on right ...
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Review by
godrell
on 23rd May 2007
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We viewed a property that Bairstow Eves Estate Agents had for sale. Myself and my wife loved the property so much that we offered the full asking price. The first thing they asked us was to provide proof from our bank that we were credit worthy. This was before they even wanted to forward our offer to the seller. We thought this was strange, but as we didn't want to lose the house, we went to our bank right away. Our bank had never heard of this type of practice before, but gave me a piece of pa ...
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Review by
miersj
on 25th Feb 2007
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In addition to the bad points, we also suspected them of showing people round who had no interest in the house or could not have afforded it - one reason we suspected this was because of the behaviour of the people who came around, and because whenever we got a bit shirty they would suddenly find a viewer to encourage us to keep them on. When we had a terrible offer (£49k below asking price) we were pushed to accept it and to tell the Bairstow Eves estate agent what our lowest price would ...
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Review by
kcook
on 14th Oct 2005
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As a buyer, I registered with all the estate agents, but Bairstow Eves kept constantly phoning with properties way out of my budget. They even tried to fix appointments without me knowing anything about the properties. One of the properties I did want to view, an agent was to show me around the property but didn't show.
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Review by
Johnnorthrop999
on 24th Aug 2005
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Check to make sure you are not getting a FIXED RATE commission with Bairstow Eves Estate Agents. Remember, with fixed rate commissions the agent has an incentive to overvalue the property and sell at any price!
Shop around.
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