Extremely poor customer service.
Had the pleasure of trying to use Hicks Hadley to purchase a home. Things were fine in the early portion of the process, getting the details for the house for inspection and communicating my offer to the seller.
And in the initial talks after the offer was accepted, they were great at introducing me to solicitors and and financiers that would handle the proceedings.
Unfortunately, after this point, the estate agents went quiet, with the next bit of contact being to tell me they seller was now relisting the property, because they had decided to raise the price.
While they claimed I still had a chance to put a new offer in, and despite my buying procedure still ongoing, they refused to inform me that the seller had then accepted another offer, and that the contract we had in progress would be terminated.
The first time I was told of this was from an update from the solicitor, telling me about the property being bought by someone else, but they were told that a member of Hicks Hadley had been in touch with myself to to tell me of this, but I had had no such contact, so had been left waiting for an update for a week, only to find out that had been for nothing.
Absolutely worthless company. Don't care about helping you with your purchase unless you have enough cash to pay in full it seems.
Update: A few hours after leaving this review, had an e-mail from the Sales member I had dealt with, trying to claim she had given me all the information, and had informed me that I had lost the property, still tried to claim this after showing them the e-mail chain between us, which had ended a fortnight prior, with no mention of the property being sold to another buyer, and tried to shift the blame onto myself for not having the correct information from her.
If you have to deal with this company, ask for another staff member if they pass you onto Clair Collins.
18 October 2021
Unprompted review