Bridges Estate Agent
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THE WORST ESTATE AGENTS IN MY OPINION
I've bought and sold a number of houses and I have found Bridges to be the worst estate agents. I won’t use them again. I have tried to work with them regarding my concerns but there was no improvement, despite chasing them and eventually making a complaint (which they closed without addressing any concerns). They've had plenty of opportunities to resolve this but they haven't so here I am writing a review to warn others! My contact was the branch manager in Farnborough ("T"). At the start he seemed enthusiastic, professional, helpful and it was my understanding that we were on the same page. I made it clear that I wanted to sell my house but I'd acknowledged various difficulties in the housing market and for this reason I asked if he felt there as anything I could do help sell my property. I was told "you've done it all". I asked him and his team to let me know if there was anything I could do to change the property once they start doing viewings and receive feedback. This all changed after I signed up. All communication from him stopped - in fact during our contract term nobody contacted me to discuss my property. Other agents would call me to check in. Two properties came for sale on my road with other agents and sold. Viewings would go ahead on my property and I wouldn't hear anything. After a few days I would follow up asking for feedback and it would go to voicemail so I'd have to wait for them to call me (to book further viewings). I would frequently be told; i) we haven't been able to contact the people ii) I didn't do the viewings but I'll ask the person who did to call you (they rarely did). There were times where they had feedback recorded on their system but nobody had bothered to tell me. Each time I explained that it's useful for me to have feedback because there maybe things I can do to get sold. I had this same conversation with at least 5 people but got the impression they didn't want to know. I would increasing receive calls from "L" in their central team to book viewings and I would also ask her for feedback but this would be referred back to the Farnborough office. I called my contact "T "and for a very brief period I received some feedback on viewings before this stopped again. It got to the point where I told them there's no point doing viewings if I never hear anything back. Things still didn't improve and it seemed I was getting very little from Bridges. I asked for feedback on a specific viewing and when our contract was due to end. I was told they didn't have this information so they'd ask T to call me. Of course he didn't, he was working that day but asked someone else to call me. I was told there is a system note that "TQ" had already called me with feedback which I had stated was incorrect. After the call I checked my phone records, text messages, voicemails and emails which confirmed the fact that they had not contacted me. So either they have lied about calling me or they've dialled an incorrect number and spoken to someone else about my property. I was told our contract had ended and he followed up by emailing me asking me to reply providing notice to end our contract! On the call he said they may have contacted my partner - this is also incorrect (and impossible) as I'm the sole seller, they do not have my partners contact details and my partner has had no involvement in the sale of my property. I replied providing notice to end our contract. I copied in T and the other person I had been dealing with, stating my concerns, as detailed above. Another agent who had sold a nearby property contacted me and was surprised my property hadn't sold. I mentioned I had found Bridges to be useless and he said he hears this a lot and he's actually taken on another property from them as the vendor has experienced similar issues to me. It was refreshing to deal with an agent who can be bothered to show interest in my property. I hadn't received a response to my email to Bridges so I followed up asking them to take my property off the market and how I get the key returned. I'd had enough. A few days went by I still hadn't heard anything so I followed up. I had previously used Bridges in 2017 to sell my previous property. I struggled to get a reply from my contact and after my property went under offer I tried to view properties they had advertised but they never came back to me so I never got to view them! I thought things would be better this time with the new contact but I was very wrong - things are far worse. Eventually the head of sales called and said he'd looked into my concerns. I stated I would never use Bridges again and remained unhappy but he had nothing to say so the call ended. I received a reply stating they had closed my complaint. To be clear it’s not resolved and this guy hasn’t listened to me as in the reply letter summarising our call he missed off various key points that we discussed. AVOID!