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1.5 Rating 425 Reviews
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1.5
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YOPA 1 star review on 12th July 2022
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YOPA 1 star review on 25th August 2017
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Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
I turned up for an arranged viewing to see a sold sign up at the property. I still wanted and phoned the mobile of the Yopa employee who did not answer his phone so I left a message and waited but NOTHING. After the 8 emails I've received in 8 days not one said your viewing is cancelled as the property has sold. This wasted my evening, I had left work early and was looking forward to the viewing. I have a few properties and never have I dealt with such awful communication and service. Steer clear of YOPA
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Posted 13 hours ago
Yopa is a joke! We been on a market with them for the passed 5 weeks, with a newly done property which has an amazing statistic on Rightmove and zoopla of people interested in our property, we only had one viewing booked, which doesn't make any sense. We then find out our self that sale representative of our properly (who by the way convinced us to go with Yopa) has left the company, and no one told us, they have not communicated with us at all not answering phone calls, ignoring emails. We raised a formal complaint as for a while we had no one representing our property, again ignored us, no answer. We asked to take our properly of the market and no answer, and now they telling us to pay the fee, for what? they have not done anything. on top of that speaking to viewings manager she hang up the phone on us!!! Absolute joke! the worst company we ever had! If you thinking of going with them please don't, save yourself a disaster experience and and horrible headaches!!
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Posted 1 day ago
Do not use. I asked for the contract to be a no sale. No fee. The agent came out told me to press on that deal which I did on his I pad. I should have read it but I trusted him. He actually set me up with no sale and a £1400 fee at the end. I took them to the ombudsmen and they said yoga provided evidence to support their claim. How can they provide evidence if it was word of mouth. But as usual. The big man wins. I got £200 reduced from bill due to agent not updating me on progress. I had 2 viewings of which one he left all my lights on all day. And as for other viewing I don’t think it really happened as neighbours saw no car !! They were not helpful in any way. Do not use. If you do get every thing in writing.
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Posted 3 days ago
Would have been minus but no option available. No sale no fee..... Misleading... they say read the small print, ..I say, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME and your money on them. I withdrew my house sale with them after 4 months of NO viewings at all.... I've just sold with another agent. My partner still has house for sale with them.... His prospective buyers have nothing good to say about Yopa, theyve all said they dont answer the phone every time. Its not a service at all Its a scam so be aware save your sanity and go with a proper agency.
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Posted 6 days ago
I have written to them twice regarding an on-line property, the first tome 7 days ago, the second 2 days ago. Still no response. Do the buyers actually want to sell it or not?
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Posted 6 days ago
YOPA DO NOT USE THEM, THEY ARE A “SCAM” KEEP AWAY” I asked for NO SALE, NO FEE, the Agent sent me email, I replied, which was a contract in small writing, (I did not read thoroughly, my BIG mistake) 10 months to sell, and if not sold you still have to pay £1400. I presumed was the verbal agreement of NO SALE, NO FEE, NO I WAS Scammed. Properly went on the Market Dec 22, 1 view. I rang and rang Agent to drop price, could not get hold or speak to the person, who no longer works for them, time was ticking and Agent knew would get paid without work or customer service. I appealed to the ombudsman, which now they are making me still pay £1000.00 for WHAT????? YOPA SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF AS AN ESTATE AGENT. I am now happily going to pay ABODE their fee as I got a 5 Star service and they sold my house, they do No Sale, No Fee. As for YOPA I have to pay then £1000. For WHAT NOTHING.. When I confronted the Agent, why was the contract done where selling in 10 months, if not sold still have to pay? NOBODY WOULD CHOOSE THIS. Agent replied this is better and cheaper 😡 No I asked for No Fee and would prefer to pay more if sold and nothing if not sold. I can see there are hundreds of people going through the same as me. This should be STOPPED. 0 Stars
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Posted 6 days ago
I had put in a offer recently on a property in Telford after negotiations the offer was accepted just to get a call within 48 hours to be told that the home owner had decided to sell to his friend funny enough the house had been on the market for over 8 months agent lied just so I can increase offer hellno. Avoid buying or selling with these jokers
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Posted 1 week ago
Despite getting 2 buyers very easily in the 10 month deal, both fell through. I feel due to lack of aftercare and not researching the chain properly. I would absolutely not recommend Yopa. Yopa is like some kind of rudderless, captainless, crewless, clueless ship manned by cabin boys who turned out to be stowaways who hadn't noticed all the rats disembarking. I cannot recommend this company. My life was turned upside down by the ineptitude from all involved. Even the complaints procedure was painfully slow and riddled with dead ends. I did manage to get a £300 reduction and considered taking it thru ombsbudsmen but it turns out estate agents are unregulated and after taking advice I decided it would probably get me now where.
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Posted 1 week ago
HIDDEN FEES AVOID!!! HOUSE SALE HELD AT RANSOM REGUSING TO SEND INFORMATION TO MY LEGAL TEAM. Sadly it started out great witha good agent saying all the right things showing me packages and deals. Then after being told I can use my own solicitor it's not a problem on the pay later model £1300 and change. Turns out you have 300 extra to OPT OUT of using a solicitor you made clear you would not use. I'm currently having my legal team go over this and where I stand I have been assured via the ombudsman uk services I'm legaly entitled to my money being returned due the misuse of the sales act. Very disappointed the agent knew all along I had my own legal team within my existing buisness I own. I intend to make this public so others do not fall into thos trap holding my sale infomation hostage and would not pass it to my solicitor unless I paid 300 to OPT OUT 🤔
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Posted 1 week ago
I have had a terrible experience with Yopa. My so called local agent went AWOL for 2 weeks. A great sales pitch originally and then nothing. I had a note placed through my letterbox from someone who had been trying to arrange a viewing of my property but no one would respond. I contacted Yopa to complain and said the service was unacceptable and I wanted to go with another Estate Agent given the very unacceptable service. I asked to speak to someone I got an email saying a fee of £2098 was being requested from me right now and their finance people would progress because I dared to say I’m not happy with the service and I want my listing removed. Yopa need to be investigated. This is definitely atrocious customer service and a way of getting money for nothing from people who can’t afford to be ripped off. I’m taking this all the way. This is something Martin Lewis should investigate. Do not under any circumstances use this company. I’m reminded of the very good advice we should all live by. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is. Pay the extra to a legitimate local Estate Agent. All you’re doing with Yopa is giving them money for nothing and paying another estate agent anyway. Lesson learnt. The hard way.
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Posted 2 weeks ago
NEED TO SPEAK TO A HUMAN BEING BUT CANT
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Please please do not go with Yopa. They have made me ill with worry. I am a pensioner and they didn't sell my property within 10 months so I had to pay them £1,399. I had a small discount off the price because I work for the NHS. What a joke. They tell you its no sale no fee but I stupidly signed a contract not knowing that I had to pay this money. I feel like I have been robbed. They do not push to sell your property as you have to pay this fee anyway. Another estate agent sold my property. Do not go with these on line estate agents they are liars . They tried charging me for an ECP certificate which they didn't even arrange. I rate this company 0
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Posted 3 weeks ago
We have had our property on the market for 10 months with only 1 viewing and the agent didn't get the date correct or turn up to show the viewers around! We did the viewing. He gave a very good sales flannel and has now disappeared. He doesn't answer my messages. We haven't received any feedback from the one viewing despite requesting this. We haven't received any feedback on online interest. We were advised to reduce the price after 3 months. The drone photos that were promised never materialised. We were strongly ressured the property would sell quickly, then when we asked why there had been no interest were given loads of excuses about 'market forces'. The same' market forces' that would sell it quickly. An absolute joke at our expense. They just want your money and then do nothing for it. The company should be under investigation by the Ombudsman. I would advise anyone to avoid this company and go with a local agent with a visible office. Angry seller in Cumbria.
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Posted 1 month ago
Very disrespectful agent. Was smirking and staring in his phone, during the valuation of my house. Supposed to be local agent for Manchester, with 0 knowledge of the particular area. I think his name Brett Howarth. He only seemed to notice that there was no carpet on stairs and house needed a lick of paint, he completely disregarded big jobs that already been done on the house - new heating system, new windows and doors, refitted new high spec kitchen and bathroom. And then he had cheek to ask - would I buy house in this condition in this area for the money I was quoted by different companies with smirk on his face. Very very disrespectful person. That’s was me done with Yopa. Chose a local, who actually knows the area well and more than happy to go with them
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Posted 1 month ago
Worse experience if you choose them I have to pay the bill after 10 months .. house stay on market for 7 months after I decided to go with other agency ,few viewings in 7 months. Agent suggested to me to chose a plan for 1339£ wich I have to pay in 10 months or sooner if the house is sold..bad choice for me Avoid them if you could the worst agency I can't give 0 start that I put 1
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Posted 1 month ago
I would not recommend Yopa to anyone. We was first visited by Phill Williams last year and was filled with all the hope and joy that we could sell our home. He but it on for once price to start with which was overpriced for the area but then are neighbour but her house on the market with another estate agent and we was contacted by Phill asking us to drop are price so we did as once again was told that it would push to sell. Few weeks on and we had our first viewing who went to both property but they went with ours. Phill informed us that we wouldn’t have anything to pay till the sale of the house had gone through which we was happy with. That was it no contact with Phill two months after we should have moved and our buyer was been a real pain and with only days then from signing the house over our buying pulled out. As it had fallen through we was told we had to pay so was happy to take our 1k. My husband had a call from someone called Richard to say it would show it’s back on the, then had an email from Phill to advise that we sent our house to auction. Still no call from Phill Williams even though my husband has tried to call him. We then decided to change estate agents and my husband phoned Yopa Saturday morning to say we wasn’t interested no more with them. He then had another email from Richard to say that they will remove it and within less than 5min it was gone. My feeling about the company is that they just want your money and not really bothered about selling your house. I will be putting in a formal complaint.
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Posted 1 month ago
Yopa ? More like joka !!!!! A friend of mine (as I wasn’t getting enough viewings) made out she was interested in my property so a viewing was set up The Agent could not have been less negative telling her that I wouldn’t listen to the fact the house is over priced and needs modernising , kept looking at his phone heavy sighing ,yawning Like she was taking up his time How rude I then spoke with Yopa office and demanded to know why this viewer had left such negative feedback and they started to say negative things about my friend I said I’ll sell the house myself as I was paying an extra £500 for the agent to sell it of the £1499 payment after 10 months I have now noticed that they have taken my property off Rightmove and yet they still Expect me to pay in July ?????? I don’t think so Just want to clarify that 11 Sparth Rd M401QH is not on the market with Yopa , it should be , but it isn’t !!!!! What an I to do when it comes to payment ? Because I’m not going to pay Not a penny
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Posted 1 month ago
Do not use or go anywhere near YOPA. I was miss-sold their product. Their local Warrington agent, Alex Beswick, did not explain their pay later plan. I asked if their contract was the same as traditional estate agents - no sale no fee, he replied “yes”. He sent me a contract by E-mail which I could not open. He instructed me to “just sign it”. After 6 weeks and 4 views I contacted him and cancelled the contract. Eight months later I received a bill for £1,399. I contacted the property Ombudsman and received a decision 12 months later, due to a huge backlog of cases. They replied I would have to pay as their contract, which I could not open, stated if property not sold within 8 months I would have to pay a fee of £1,399. So if looking to sell your property, stick to a traditional street estate agent with the no sale no fee agreement. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask.
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Posted 1 month ago
I phoned yopa to value my house and put it on the market in a month time as I was going to travel. I received few phone persistent calls in which this agent wanted to get my keys and start the viewings while I was away… I told them I did not want that. On my return from my holyday. I received phone calls and messages from this agent in the area of Weston super mare called Annie, avoid this agent as she does not behave professional and address you in a familiar way . Hey lovely” hey honey etc… When finally made an Appointment to see her, she took a week to respond then she changed the appointment 4 times , and on the day that she was due to come. She told me she had troubles with her car.. I cancelled work loosing money in order to be in the house. I could not believe how unprofessional and unreliable this agent was. So I decided to cancel and not to use Yopa. Follow this … I received an abusive text from this agent. What a lucky escape
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Posted 1 month ago
Based on our experience: AVOID!!!! Gross misconduct / mal-practice from one of their agents based out of their northern area! He mislead my daughter, who has come out of an abusive relationship, lives alone with a young child too, into believing she could sell her house without the very costly expenses of going to court and overriding her x-partners agreement. He used some ‘smoke and mirrors’ tactics to suggest he had been in touch with ‘authorities’ … the HMRC, to reassure her that indeed the house could be put on the market without full consent, had my daughter sign up to a 19 month deal, where, if even if the house did not sell, she would have to pay high costs. He suggested that when the sales was on the verge of being completed, he would personally go round and make her x sign on the dotted line! I have now complained 3 times and also through their ‘official’ complaints channel, but to no avail. Based on this overall experience, I believe Yopa to be just a cheap, money making organisation, who will do anything to make a buck! Zero ethics, poor communication, zero response to complaints, no proper vetting of their staff!!! Their representative in this case just a typical grabbing, commission based salesman! Next step, solicitor! 🤬
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Posted 1 month ago
YOPA is rated 1.5 based on 425 reviews