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mikese22 Wrote:

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> Bushells were brillant when i bought my flat

> through them and just as good when i sold through

> them 3 years later - the staff are really friendly

> and very 'human' in the way they dealt with me



Yeah, Bushells were fantastic when we sold our house through them. They returned calls and everything!

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I also got the 0% offer letter. I guess there is

> nothing to lose by taking up this offer, as long

> as you put it on with another agent too. Otherwise

> you may find that they are much more interested in

> selling someone else's property which they WILL be

> earning commission on.


Once the 0% deal goes don't even *think* about using Foxtons AND another estate agent. Foxton's contract states that they are entitled to their cut on sale, NOT if THEY make the sale. That means that if the other estate agent sells your property, Foxtons will still come after you for their commission. You end up paying twice over.

smith Wrote:

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> Best letting agent in ED - Jamie at Property In.

> Professional, polite, friendly, helpful. No

> hesitation in recommending at all... unlike Ludlow

> Thompson (head office somewhere in Midlands).


I'd second that, he's been fantastic with my colleague and I for commercial lettings.


I've had a Foxton's sales letter in Ulverscroft Rd. My only experience of them has been as a renter and the fees they charge to tenants are just so high, I think it was about ?370 around this time last year when I was looking in Ealing. Of course, coming from Australia, I was horrified to discover that tenants pay fees in the UK. The industry is regulated in Aust and no fees at all can be charged to tenants (and as a tenant you also don't pay the council tax on your rental property).



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Shaggy Wrote:


>

> Once the 0% deal goes don't even *think* about

> using Foxtons AND another estate agent. Foxton's

> contract states that they are entitled to their

> cut on sale, NOT if THEY make the sale. That means

> that if the other estate agent sells your

> property, Foxtons will still come after you for

> their commission. You end up paying twice over.


This practice is a well established custom of all Estate Agents - not just Foxtons. The commission is usually less if it's a multi agent deal.


Moral - if you don't like to pay commission don't use them to sell your property. With the proliferation of websites, e-bay, YouTube, this forum I am sure the majority of sensible people could cobble together the necessary details, a couple of photographs to market their property and save themselves ?6,000 on the average ?300,000 house / flat sale in ED.

Marmora Man Wrote:

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> Shaggy Wrote:

>

> >

> > Once the 0% deal goes don't even *think* about

> > using Foxtons AND another estate agent.

> Foxton's

> > contract states that they are entitled to their

> > cut on sale, NOT if THEY make the sale. That

> means

> > that if the other estate agent sells your

> > property, Foxtons will still come after you for

> > their commission. You end up paying twice over.

>

> This practice is a well established custom of all

> Estate Agents - not just Foxtons. The commission

> is usually less if it's a multi agent deal.

>

> Moral - if you don't like to pay commission don't

> use them to sell your property. With the

> proliferation of websites, e-bay, YouTube, this

> forum I am sure the majority of sensible people

> could cobble together the necessary details, a

> couple of photographs to market their property and

> save themselves ?6,000 on the average ?300,000

> house / flat sale in ED.



Quite true, it is. Foxtons are more aggressive than others about imposing it though, as is therr right. An Icelandic couple a couple of years ago tried to test the rule and fought it all the way to the Court of Appeal. They lost and were refused permission to appeal to the Lords.

i hope all those letters have gone in the recycling my dears and not your bins!


we got 2 letters even with our lowly se5/se22/se15 boarder address.


i don't care about them, just pleased that the bricked up facade is being opened up. however, wonder what parking is going to be like behind that strip. what with Ludlows' and Wates' beetles and Haarts' minis where will all those 'foxtonmobiles' go?

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