Dixons Estate Agents Reviews

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Dan, Vicky & Rich were very helpful along our journey to our successful move. Anything we didn't understand they explained it to us. Thankyou so much

Selling houses is stressful. Except for Dixon's Yardley who are quite frankly mad for it. Faye will list your home and get a buyer and Zoe will hand-hold, trouble-shoot, metaphorically bang heads together and keep everything on track These guys are as cool as cucumbers and won't let you down Estate agents get a bad rep. These folk are bucking that trend I cannot recommend them highly enough. You will not regret selling with Dixon's, Yardley

Instructed Dixons last year to sell my dad's house. Really hard to get hold of anyone, continually had to chase for updates, felt completely let down by them and their lack of customer service. Avoid!

Very unimpressed with Dixons service in our recent house sale. First buyer they found wanted a buy-to-let mortgage but couldn’t get one so dropped out. We then dropped the price of our property for a quick sale, as we had already committed to an onward purchase, and we got 5 good offers as a result. Despite telling us that they were ‘working for us’ and that ‘the highest offer isn’t necessarily the best one to take’ Dixons proceeded to go with the highest offer - without even asking us if we were happy with that - a client who we soon realized had no real intention of going through with the purchase and we asked them to move on to the next highest offer. Dixons refused, saying we needed to “give him time” even though, after having been approved for his mortgage he had refused to sign it off saying that he wanted to view the property once more, which should have started alarm bells ringing for them too given that we had already expressed our concerns that he would not proceed with the purchase. Another week went by with him ignoring requests to come in and complete the paperwork before he finally admitted he wasn’t going to proceed, as we had suspected all along that he wouldn’t. Only then did Dixons try to contact the other 4 people who had made offers but, with more than three weeks having now passed, they were unsuccessful in contacting any of them. Then, they recommended an investor of theirs, presumably out of desperation to complete their target of finding ‘a buyer’ so they could claim their fees, who said he would purchase but at a much lower price than it was advertised for. Because we didn’t want to lose our onward purchase we reluctantly agreed to sell to him but, had Dixons ‘worked for us’ as they claimed to do, and acted on our request to move on to other clients we would likely have sold the property for a lot more. Often, email questions we asked about the process went unanswered and then, two days after we finally moved, we received a phone call from Dixons sales progressor asking when we were going to drop off the keys as the buyer was waiting to gain access. We had to explain that we had dropped off the keys and deeds on the day of completion. We were somewhat dismayed that she had called us without first checking with the other staff if we had brought them in. Because of their handling of our sale we feel like we were cheated out of tens of thousands of pounds. We certainly won’t ever use Dixons again and wouldn’t recommend anyone else do either.

Moved into a tenancy recently managed by Dixons Yardley. The property management team are very professional especially Sharon Allen and Harry Richards, who have been very helpful and prompt with their responses.

Ripped me off! They took my deposit and then refused to give me it back when we didn't get the property - said I provided misleading information when that was absolute rubbish! Bunch of thieves - don't go near them

Not happy with the service provided by Dixons for our house sale. At the outset they told us that they were "working for us" and that "the highest offer isn't necessarily the best one to take". Yet, after receiving five good offers for our property, we were pushed to go with the highest one, from a client who it was obvious to us was a timewaster yet, when we suggested moving on to the next offer they told us we should give the client the opportunity to complete his paperwork. He later pulled out of the purchase and by then the other four people who had offered had either found something else or didn't reply to enquiries and because we were in a hurry to move as we had already committed to another purchase, we ended up having to sell to one of their recommended investors, at a loss of around £40,000. Staff often didn't respond to emails and trying to call them was very hit and miss. Definitely would not use Dixons ever again.

The best house viewing I have been to so far. Really struggling to find a property at the moment and Sophie Hodgson has been absolutely brilliant. She is very informative and knows her job role very well. My viewing was very pleasant and friendly. She comes across very happy and very welcoming.

The agent has been affable and approachable, also very helpful in providing general guidance and advice. The service in general has been great!

I just viewed a property at Arran Road(B34 6DD),DIXON staff are professional and friendly.The house is in excellent location within a walking distance to my children school,very clean and quiet environment .(Stephen)

SOPHIE HODGSON Professionalism and manner of presentation was off the chart she is holding dixons and representing with top notch

I Wouldn't even give this place 1 stars! They are the rudest estate agents iv had to deal with (Selly Oak Branch), iv recently just moved out of a property which I rented through Dixons & id definitely AVOID now if I was going to rent again . Timothy Reynolds was nothing but rude about me leaving threatening extra charges for leaving the property as he couldn't be botherd to read my tenancy agreement and see that under the break clauses I ended my tenancy in the correct way. All he cares about is getting his commission at the end of the day from there over priced properties. Daniella Lawmon also rude from this branch, questioning me about why I was leaving the property & also trying to threaten me with additional charges which where NOT in my agreement. They don't push the landlord on getting any repairs done they just fob you off on the phone with aload of rubbish to make sure you keep paying that rent every month so they get their commission!!. AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!

Worst estate agent I’ve ever had the misfortune to employ. They were completely uncontactable. The same day our house went up for sale, it sold for over the asking price. We had no chain, buyer wanted to move really quickly, it was a slam dunk you think, nice easy commission for Dixons? Nope, this was May, our buyer wanted to move in July. We finally got in touch with the agent in June and he hadn’t even called her. Needless to say we lost our sale. My feeling is that they probably will put in the work if your house is £1mil, if it’s less, don’t bother with them. This was the Shirley, Solihull branch just FYI

Bought a property through Dixons has a first time buyer and even decided to use David Smith for my Mortgage and I can say what a lovely man he is, he did all the hard work and running around, kept me updated at all times right until I had my house keys so thank you to him, will definitely be using him again and recommending him to all. When initially putting an offer on the house, I felt when it came to the price Zoe was playing on the fact I really liked the house and wanted it and so games were being played and I ended up paying £5k over the asking price which I really regret because when moving into the house, I found so many problems. When I spoke to Zoe about dodgy Electric work with a fake certificate given, she ignored it and said she can't do anything, even thou the person who sold the property is well known to Dixons. Highly advise everyone to paid and get a survey completed and not just rely on the Bank to theirs. Elite Properties LTD is the company that's sells house through Dixons with fake electric certificates.

Dixons Yardley I sold my late mom’s property through this Dixons Branch and have to say that the sales team - Faye, Zoe & Naomi have been absolutely amazing throughout the whole of my experience, very friendly, caring, approachable as well as completely professional - it has been a real pleasure & I would totally 100% recommend!! You are top notch assets to the Branch - thank you so much.

I highly recommend anyone who’s looking to buy their future home, to go to the Kings Norton branch. From the start Korron and Amelia made me feel like I was family. Korron was with me every step of the way and help guide me on this amazing journey. She alway went above and beyond for me. Even going into work on her days off to help things so as smoothly as possibly. And for that I am truly grateful. Feel as though I have met friends for life. Thank you so much x

Do not rent from Dixon! I am currently suffering because of their lies. When viewing the property, Amber (Yardley branch) assured me certain issues would be fixed. She then called.me to say they had been. As soon as I moved in I realised she had lied. The shower floods and the kitchen has a leak which is now flooding the floor. It has been 2 weeks since I reported it, still nothing from countrywide. Avoid Dixon, Countrywide and save yourself future hassle.

Thank u to Sarah and the team at Dixons in erdington sarah was very helpful always keeping upto date with the sale on my flat many thanks Sarah and Allison

Rented flat - Longley Walk, Chelmsley Wood. My partner rented a flat from Dixons for 12 months, on check-in the property had various marks and smudges and was far from pristine condition. I myself have worked in property lettings for 11 years and I deal with all aspects from check in, check out and releasing deposits on a daily basis, so I know exactly what is and is not acceptable. The flat had tiny electric wall heaters that were not wired in and did nothing to heat the flat, these heaters were not mentioned on the EPC as it had Blown air heating when it was carried out and would mostly likely fail a new EPC, you could see your breath in the flat it was that cold. Various repairs and the poor heating was reported to Dixons many times and even mentioned during an inspection but nobody ever got back to him even when he called up to chase. Before check out myself, my partner and his parents cleaned the flat, it was left in a cleaner condition than when he moved in. He then received an email from Dixons to say the landlord would like £190 towards cleaning. The deposit was on the insured scheme where the landlord holds the deposit and pays a membership to insure it with MyDeposits, this means MyDeposits always sit in favor of the landlord as they are the paying member not the tenant. With this in mind we disputed the deposit and sent photographic evidence of the cleaning and condition plus the emails shared, the deposit should have been released in full but they still took £145 of it and awarded the landlord. My advice is avoid renting from Dixons and always avoid signing up for a deposit on an insured scheme, the tenant will never be in a fair position.