Simonblyth Reviews

Horrible service and a disrespectful follow up

Horrible and poor is some of the few words that can only describe SB Customers me having to wait in the rain without even a phone call to let me know that they forgot about my viewing Are you still working on a chalk board Even after a call to them on the day to ask if they are turning up and they just say we are running behind That s it I even made a cash offer and was having a final look before proceeding I m sure all the vendors would love know a cash offers has been lost due to SB poor follow up service If this is how customers are treated I would suggest you use someone else people

Has to be the winner in Awful Service

Has to be the winner in Awful Service Award Shameful behaviour when it comes to submitting an offer and underhanded tactic for squeezing another penny from a buyer but loosing a potential buyer because you need another few hundred pound to cover the advertising Not turning up for viewing appointments for potential buyers 3rd time for me alone waiting over 40min for the agent to show your terrible and you know it My advise and the advise of 70 of other people on TP is to look at others good luck people

Absolutely terrible from start to

Absolutely terrible from start to finish I was looking to buy a property twice contacted them with a list of questions for the seller twice I was told somebody would be in touch and twice nobody called despite me chasing I had to play detective and track down the seller myself Then both parties having agreed to try and progress rapidly 6 weeks 2 weeks away from our completion date I find my solicitor has not heard anything I find the sellers solicitor has not heard anything and it turns out Simon Blyth estate agents Kirkburton have done absolutely nothing despite being chased A month completely wasted which cost me a lot It does beg the question - what exactly do they do for their money Rightmove does all the matching of buyer and seller after that they just seem to make things worse

Not to be trusted No winners

Shambolic experience from the staff at the Holmfirth office After Several attempts to arrange a viewing on a property staff promised to get back to us with a suitable date and time to view but never did We decided after waiting to introduce ourselves to the vendor at his property He kindly agreed for us to view it He confirmed that the office hadn t contacted him about our requests to view We immediately knew this was the property we wanted to buy It ticked all the boxes in our buying wish list We were really excited and proceeded to make an offer On ringing the office we were told that the property had an offer that was going through But the vendor confirmed he had not accepted any offers and it wasn t too late to submit an offer This followed a number of lies by staff who were very resistant to us and unhelpful They did not allow us to progress with our offer The vendor encouraged us to submit Our offer but officially through the office We put our offer in writing in an email to the office The whole experience was stressful and emotional resulting in the vendor taking his property off the market The agents are now claiming that they introduced us to the vendor which they didn t There is a clear need in our opinion for estate agents like Simon Blyth s to be accountable for their actions and regulated by an independent authority There were No winners In this dreadful experience Not to be trusted

Another terrible experience with the

Another terrible experience with the Kirkburton office of Simon Blyth I was in the process of buying a property that I was told had been taken off the market as I had paid for surveys etc when I discovered by accident that Simon Blyth were showing people around the property on the quiet - nobody had bothered to tell me after I had already spent hundreds of on surveyors I walked away as I could no longer trust them as agents Prospective house sellers note the house I was intending to buy I would be living in by now - and it is STILL for sale as I write this imagine how the seller feels now I would go elsewhere There are better more competent agents

Terrible

1 star given as couldn t give zero Offered on a Simon Blyth property only to find when the surveyor went in that they had over valued it by 85k as they had marketed it against new builds in the local area They refused to accept any fault and said the vender wanted to meet us in the middle with a price We said we were not paying over 40k more for a house than what it was worth and Simon Blyth kept us hanging for a week We had to chase them daily for updates and they kept telling us that the vender wouldn t go below a certain price We then decided to look at other houses We then found out from the vender a week later that they wanted to sell to us at the price the surveyor and had asked Simon Blyth to tell us this but the estate agent hadn t told us this and instead told the vendors that we were unreasonable encouraged them to put their house back on the market told the vendors that they felt we were being unreasonable When we told the estate agent we were pulling out of the sale the very rude woman on the phone said she didn t want to hear our complaint and put the phone down on us We are 1000 worse off in wasted searches and surveys but we just feel so sorry for the lovely couple we were buying off and hope they never use this estate agent again

Catalogue of mismanagement

We recently sold our property in Sheffield using the Stocksbridge branch and overall I would not recommend them to anybody Below is an outline of how I have reached this conclusion The house was overvalued and had to be reduced within weeks The pictures were poor and in my opinion were taken from the height of a toddler check their listings We were promised on several occasions a proof read of the description and of the photos but this never materialised During the house sale our main contact at Simon Blyth left and we weren t told for months and only after we chased for an update There was little to no updates from them during the sale and when chased were very rarely called back There was no contact when negotiating the exchange or the completion date They were not even aware that the house was completing and were surprised to see me when I arrived in the office to hand the house keys in Overall the whole process was a demonstration of poor client relations bad knowledge of the local property market and basic decency Fortunately we struck a positive relationship with our seller and our excellent solicitor otherwise if this had been left to Simon Blyth I fear we would never have sold our house Based on our experience I cannot recommend Simon Blyth and in hindsight we should have used one of their competitors

I let a shop through Simon Blyths in

I let a shop through Simon Blyths in January 2024 They never asked the tenant for a deposit I am still awaiting a physical and fully signedcopy of a lease over two months after the tenant got the key from Simon Blyth lettingsservice I paid for their legal drawing up of a lease and neither myself nor my tenant have a copy despite asking several times They also never carried out an identity check on the tenant never asked for references and didn t even bother asking for their home address A shoddy shoddy and expensive experience I will never use Simon Blyth lettings service again and hope to warn others of their lazy rude and unpleasant services

Phoned the Barnsley Branch to make an

Phoned the Barnsley Branch to make an appointment for my property to be valued Explained that I work and would it be possible to value at some point Heard nothing back at all I find it RUDE and it s only CURTIOUS to phone back to say yes or no Clearly Simon Blythe doesn t want business so I ll spend my money elsewhere