Foxtons opening date

[Dulwich_ Park_ Fairy]

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!

[Frisco]

I got a letter from them today. It went straight in the bin.

[ClareC]

Where are they concentrating their mail shot?

[*Bob*]

We got one too yesterday.

There was a trail of hair grease leading up the path to a wheel-spin tyre-mark on the road.

[snowboarder]

We've now had FOUR letters from them through our door.

Strangely it's coincided with our car wing mirrors being nicked. No link of course. Just lots of unpleasant things all at once.

[Brendan]

I have had 3 letters from them. Strangely it coincided with my car?s head gasket going!

[fish]

Have received three letters from Foxtons, in as many days.

[SimonM]

Have only had the 2 letters - one about selling. onr about renting/letting. Inrtiguingly they were addressed to me personally only - I wonder if they will now follow up with phonecalls and, when my wife answers the phone, ask her if her husband is in? >:D

[Bellenden Belle]

ClareC - I don't know where they are concentrating their mailshot, but we got a letter for selling and we're on Maxted Road, off Bellenden Road.

[ClareC]

I'm Goodrich Road - Lordship Lane end, havent had anything from them. Dont know if that's good or bad :-S

[Shaggy]

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.

[Ted Max]

Also Maxted Road (who knew, huh?). Sales and Letting letters here. They clearly want a slice of the funky Bellenden Village action.

[elizlondon]

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).

E

[Marmora Man]

Shaggy Wrote:

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> 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.

[Shaggy]

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.

[SimonM]

Saw my first Foxtons' dark green mini on Underhill Road today. I have to say, as garish estate agents' liveries go, this was by no means the worst local one!

[mamafeelgood]

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?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Even more fun would be to redirect the post back to Foxtons!

[Mark]

Does anyone have the email address for the Foxton's Dulwich contact from those letters (it's not on the website)? I want to ask them if they will chip into the forum's birthday drinks...

[SeanMacGabhann]

I would echo mamafeelgood's comment re: whatever about the worth of the business at least one of LL's eyesores will have disappeared

[elizlondon]

Mark, it's Dulwich@foxtons.co.uk - I just got another letter through today.

Elizabeth

[Asset]

They've had plenty of free publicity on here that's for sure - they ought to pay for the whole thing!

[Brendan]

Would it be possible to galvanize enough community support to get the council to ban estate agent motorcars from parking on LL?

Given a little thought a legitimate reason could be thought up.

[Zebedee Tring]

I've just had my third bloody letter from Foxtons - and they aren't even opening for about three weeks.

[*Bob*]

I should imagine they want to open in a blaze of glory, windows (sorry - giant plasma screens) packed to the rafters with property - so they need time to get the clients in.