Ron Trotman
No Commission Fee = No Service! I would NEVER use Purplebricks again. Despite the heavy PR and blanket advertising campaigns, No Commission Fee = No Service! Seller beware as the Brilliant reviews (lots of 5 stars), rate the initial marketing but not the sale. PB are just another market disrupter trying to gain market share, as all they do is post pictures of your house on the internet property portals. You do the viewings yourself, so have signed up to pay a company an upfront fee, for the privilege of selling your own house while you work for free! It’s ok if the sale is straightforward but there is no duty of care to identify and resolve issues in the chain before they become a big problem. Lesson learned: this is why you pay commission to a high street estate agent to sell and market your home, as it’s your most valuable asset. PB get paid to list it not sell it, so are not interested in working to get a sale. The Local property experts” (LPE’s) are only incentivised to ensure you sign up and instruct them, and are off chasing new clients. Post sales support and the conveyancing service, who are supposed to handle the legal process, are equally useless. When you can actually get through to them, there are frequently no updates, incorrect names on paperwork and non existent chain management. Booking viewings on and messaging through the app is a nice benefit (when it works). The downside is the simplicity means lots of viewers were either time wasters looking for a day trip out (or tyre kickers), not serious buyers with property to sell or even on the market. After accepting offers we had to chase to get updates on the status of the chain and despite warning it would break because of slow progress it did as buyers pulled out. The buyers who did make offers we accepted were obviously not vetted for affordability (despite the LPE advising us they were in the best position to proceed), as they also pulled out weeks after outbidding all others so were not committed to buying. This leaves you embarrassingly unable to proceed with houses you have made offers on and had them accepted, as you have had the legs cut out from under you with no notice, on the app, or phone call, just a text! I have cut my losses (in survey costs, search fees and time), and gone on to instruct a local high street estate agent, which we should have done in the first place. One to be avoided at all costs!
1 year ago
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