Comments on: Foxtons Estate Agents – A WARNING

By: Reece

Reece — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:09:10 +0000

I enjoyed reading your tactics of how you got them back at there own game! I am glad your persistance paid off! Im sure if you would not of taken control and been so firm that they would still be pursuing you to this day!

By: Watcyn Youd

Watcyn Youd — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:59:36 +0000

CLASS WAR PRESS RELEASE:

Picket Foxtons: Islington Branch, 3 pm March 3rd:

Monday March 3rd at 3pm sees Class War’s picket of Foxtons in Islington, in a demonstration against the greatest con-men of our time – estate agents.

We’ve been ripped off by them, and are sick of them driving up house prices in our part of town.

So come along and tell one of the worst of the lot, Foxtons, what you think of them.

Foxtons Islington branch at 355 Upper Street will be picketed from 3pm – 7pm on Monday 3rd March.

There is however a lot that can be done before then (and afterwards!) – and not just towards Foxtons. Many estate agents routinely break the law by placing advertising signs without permission on council property, and sometimes on private property. One very simple way to fight back against the damage estate agents are doing to our communities is simply to take these signs down where ever you find them. Don’t let them advertise – illegally – over-priced properties in your community.

Take these signs down, and return them to the estate agents concerned – the bigger this campaign gets, the better it gets for us, and the worse it gets for the likes of Foxtons.

Lets get busy!

NOTES:

The BBC TV Whistleblower programme found agents putting forward false offers, faking landlords’ signatures and falsifying documents to inflate property prices.

Foxtons are here to drive up house prices, it’s their avowed intent: their founder Jon Hunt, who sold up last year and pocketed £370 million, liked to talk of ‘going to war’ for his sellers. Foxtons takes a bigger commission than any other agent to flog each house which it justifies by promising to wring from a buyer the highest possible price.

QUOTES:

“Some of the people I hate most in the world are estate agents. I hate generalisations, but all estate agents are slimy, money obsessed, lying idiots, who went to public school, but still didn’t get any A levels and so have to do an essentially unnecessary job for too much money. It’s not a generalisation. Show me one estate agent who isn’t like that and I will show you an estate agent who has lied to you to convince you that he isn’t like that and has thus confirmed just exactly how much he is like that in reality.” Richard Herring

“For those of you who don’t live in London and have no intention of ever living in London: well, lucky you. Lucky you for not having to put up with……extortionate house prices, but mostly lucky you for not having to put up with Foxtons, the people who sell those houses for extortionate prices.” Bryony Gordon

Tel: 07986 041 207
Email: londoncwf@yahoo.co.uk
http://www.classwaruk.org/
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By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:12:51 +0000

We were left without hot water on numerous occasions and an extractor fan in our combined kitchen/ living room that never worked – despite notifying them about it in the first week of the tenancy.

They are now charging us £200 for a mark in the kitchen left by the kettle, that if the extractor fan had been working – would never have happened.

Calls/ e-mails and letters are never returned and your agent is always on the phone.

They’re all about 15 years old with no experience and no morals…

How they sleep at night I have no idea…

Please, please, please boycott!

By: anne

anne — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:55:07 +0000

my two housemates and had an offer accepted for a flat and four days later (four days before we moved in) they told us the landlord had accepted a different offer leaving us in teh lurch. we had signed everything, paid everything! NEVER use foxtons!!!

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:20:49 +0000

I’ve just seen a Foxton’s sign outside a house at the road at the end of mine. I was interested in seeing what they were valuing it at as it had previously been on with a couple of agents and (in my opinion) had been overvalued. Foxton’s have it on for much more, way above the ceiling for propoerties in this part of south east London. They have also blatantly lied and said it is in West Dulwich and it’s NOWHERE NEAR West Dulwich. They have also said it is a quiet residential road whilst anyone who knows the area will know the road as a rush hour cut through road. What astounds me though is not their amoral practices but the fact that the people trying to sell the house have gone along with these lies when it is so clearly overvalued. Foxton’s and estate agents like them would be out of business if people didn’t allow them to act like this. I feel very sorry for you, David, but how did you know they had overvalued your property? Maybe try and sell privately.

By: David Walker

David Walker — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:30:53 +0000

I am in South East London and decided to use Foxtons, what a nightmare. They grossly over valued my flat and of course the sale fell through. That was 2 weeks ago and now they are supposedly bringing someone else round to view, as in to start the process all over again. What the hell are they playing at…. I think I will just stay where I am after all this.

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:58:57 +0000

Foxtons is a nightmare. They asked me to sign a document “but not date it, they would fill it in after I signed it.” Their listing agent threatened me if I did not drop the price $90,000 in less than 3 months. They are horrible.

By: sue

sue — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:53:01 +0000

Apparently it did work! No, Foxtons have not contacted us (or put anything through our door) since that last phone call mid June. They must have finally got the message.

By: Homes in Guildford

Homes in Guildford — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:18:51 +0000

Foxtons have really built a bad reputation! One thing to do next time is use as many estate agents as you can and compare what each says or does then you will be well informed and therefore make a better decision, so that estate agents like Foxtons don’t trick you or waste your time.

Have they contacted you again?!