Having horrific experience with them now! Withdrawn an offer as can not bear all the lies in uncomsumable quantities! Dont even want the flat anymore, just to avoid them. I'm the buyer, but treated like a stupid animal, just for them to increase the selling price at the falling market!

Even the so called "good" ones are snake oil salesmen. I used Savills and there was so much pressure from them when offers came in. They (Savills, Foxtons, Knight Frank and the rest) all seem to have "posh private school" accents, which I found so fake. 

Have had a very good experience with Rampton Baseley.
Hampton's are good to but I wish Jonathan was still there.

Avoid:

KFH, Realm Estates & Cound.

James Pendleton are v.good

Remember that line in Pirates of the Carribbean? Orlando Bloom" "You CHEATED". Johnny Depp (hands upturned, arms wide): "Errrr, PIRATE!!!!"

Just saying!

Hi there, I thought KFH had a good reputation...try Oscar Knight Estate Agents they cover Clapham.

We had a good experience with Hamptons and Savilles

Resurrecting this old thread to ask - which ones ARE any good? I'm a just starting as a buyer, and have had a bad experience with KFH already. Thanks for the rec for Keatings - are there any others that worked well?

Keatings are great - always had a good experience to get tenants through them.

However, avoid XanderMathews (Acre Lane, Brixton). New agency so cheaper but again lying, dreadful communication, not taking a holding deposit from potential tenants who then dropped out and blatantly ignoring instructions for returning keys ... they 'popped them round' to the new Keatings tenants and presumably dropped in some sales talk too!

Hi!
We also had a bad experience with KFH (Northcote Rd). One of the agents actually made me cry couple of times I spoke to him... We bought the house at the end but will never use KFH again...
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I'd add Maalems and Jacksons (Earlsfield) to your list of estate agents to avoid.

Eer where did I say it was acceptable? I said don't be surprised. They are commission driven sales people. Some have good experiences some have bad experience and some good. Another buyers lawyer would sort it. I'm sorry you had a bad experience and that I like jimmy. I can live with myself

To be honest I think there are similar stories about all Estate Agents, we had a similar problem with Hamptons in Clapham ( higher offer put in and accepted then unwilling to take a higher offer again from us as they would be letting down the people who had just gazumped us!) but sold ours through KFH in Abbeville road with great service and no problems (though it was 10 years ago). Treat all Estate Agents and vendors alike as they are all out to make as much money as they can.

We also had a very bad experience with KFH whilst selling our flat and would never use them again. I believe they only ever act in their own best interests in order to earn the most comission! Essentially you're just stock for their books.

We bought our house from Marsh & Parsons who seemed reasonable although I had to fight with them to keep the property off their website when the house was meant to be off market once our offer was accepted.

When we sell our house I would attempt to do it without use of an estate agent.

We've had a good experience with KFH (well, as far as house-buying / selling can be good, generally it's no fun at all!), but that was the Kennington branch. They seemed to be a nice bunch.