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4.7

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Looking at 58 reviews, reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers consistently praise the excellent service and supportive staff, who are described as professional, helpful, and attentive throughout the entire process. Many people found their overall experience to be outstanding and remarkably stress-free, often highlighting the team's dedication and positive approach. Reviewers frequently highlight the quick response times and clear communication from the team, ensuring they were well-informed and updated at every stage. This efficiency, combined with their proactive problem-solving and willingness to go above and beyond, made the buying or selling process much smoother and more enjoyable for users. People often felt well-supported and reassured, leading many to highly recommend the company for its reliable customer care.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Superb experience with British Home Sellers from start to finish with our house sale. From initial contact with Nathan, right through to progressing the sale with Molly and Fallon, the communication b... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We’ve just bought our home through British Home Sellers and had an amazing experience. Fallon was fantastic — extremely professional, gave clear information at all times, and was so quick to respond.... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Having lost my husband 5years ago, the time had come to downsize. I had never sold or bought a house on my own and thanks to the help and guidance from both my selling agent and the lovely Charles the... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We bought our first home through British Home Sellers, and the experience was excellent from start to finish. Robert and his team were incredibly helpful throughout the process. A special mention... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

British homesellers was very professional

British homesellers was very professional from start to finish . Alex clendon was very helpful and my deposit was refunded very quickly. Very pleased with the service from British homesellers.

July 24, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great communication

Great communication, quick responses to emails or voicemails. Endeavoured to answer any queries in a timely fashion which helped reduce any additional stress that comes with a house move. Robert was a great help in liaising with our seller to ensure as smooth a sale as possible! Thanks!

July 10, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Process relatively easy

Process relatively easy, staff on hand to answer queries, if I left a message someone always got back to me within a few minutes. Thankyou to Alex, Hannah and Molly

June 29, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Really easy and simple transaction

Really easy and simple transaction, only had to speak to the estate agents 3 times during the whole process, once to book a viewing, once to make an offer and once to receive the keys, they dealt with everything quickly and effectively with our solicitors, whole process only took 7 weeks, thanks to Robert Love for keeping us in the loop with emails regarding process.

July 3, 2023
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

positive experience

4 stars given only because we didn’t have much involvement as we were the buyers not the sellers. All over a positive experience, easy to contact and prompt with their replies. Handled all our queries with urgency and we’re helpful throughout. Robert Lowe reached out to us the majority of the time, always kept us in the loop, we never felt like we had to chase them up. Hadn’t heard of them before but happy with the experience, helped made our first time buying experience better

June 19, 2023
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Very Friendly Team but Misleading and Ineffective Company

Though British Homesellers have some lovely people on their team, are great to get in contact and very helpful, we did not have the best of experiences.

We signed up for the house to be advertised slightly under market value for their buyers who they said would be in a position to complete after 6 weeks of an offer. Instead they just marketed the house traditionally, at market value, which meant we were worse off than if we had asked a local agent. British Homesellers were more expensive and unable to facilitate the viewings so we the sellers had to and when it came to the sale they lacked the local know how to support with valuation issue which, I believe, led to the sale falling through.

Nice people to work with but do not fall for their ‘we specialise in fast sales’ - they are simply just an internet estate agent.

They’ve replied to my review to say that the property was down valued. Which is untrue as we didn’t even get to that stage for the surveyor to respond with this information. Their comments would ironically also be an indicator that BHS miscalculated the value of the house to start with. In addition when it came to actually finding a buyer the conveyancing process took exactly the same amount of time; there was no process to speed things up so once again saying ‘we specialise in fast sales’ doesn’t make it the truth. Do not bother.

Please be careful with their reviews and choose wisely.

June 5, 2023
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Reply from British Homesellers

We are sorry to hear about your experience with us. We are pleased to see you have been happy with people in the team. However, we appreciate it is frustrating to have a sale fall through.

In this case we achieved a sale quickly with a committed buyer paying a reservation deposit tying them to the purchase. Unfortunately the sale fell through due to the surveyor down-valuing the property due to it's proximity to a care home. The surveyor would not approve a valuation as high as our buyer had offered, forcing the buyer to withdraw. If the survey had not down valued the property, it would have completed just shy of 6 weeks after you accepted the offer.

We do specialize in quick sales and have a high success rate, but unfortunately, we cannot control the outcomes of a survey.

We do sincerely wish you the very best in selling in the future.

Sincerely,
British Homesellers

-Update 10/07
Thank you for your time. We appreciate us referencing a 'down value' caused unintended confusion. As confirmed, the issues in the valuation survey where;
1. That the property is close to an old people's home
2. It is close to non-residential developments, both of which might adversely effect the value and salability.
3. That there may be structural instability (i.e. cracks) and that he would need to see a structural survey to be able to value the property.
The outcome was the buyer was concerned about spending further on a full structural survey, when the initial valuation survey indicated the above concerns.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely 10/10 service

Absolutely 10/10 service throughout my whole experience with buying a house every person I spoke too was extremely helpful and patient with everything thing I needed
Robert Love was the main agent who was helping me and guiding me through every step and made things that were complicated feel easy to do I would 100% recommend him! Thank you for everything!

Chelsey Pearson

June 30, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Many thanks

As house buyers through British Homesellers, we just wanted to say many thanks to an incredibly professional and courteous team for their prompt replies to our queries and high level of customer service throughout the process. I know it’s a team effort but special mentions must go to Robert, Molly and Charlie for keeping us updated and for ensuring that communication lines were always open with the seller, too. Thanks again and I’d be happy to recommend you to anyone who might have doubts about using an online estate agent.

June 28, 2023
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Positive Experience

A positive experience on the whole the agents I dealt with Robert and Charles were amazing keep me in the loop at all times and answered any of my queries promptly and efficiently. I found them most professional but also compassionate and empathetic.
From a buyers point of veiw I would rather have an agent on the High Street but that's just personal choice and it no way made it a deal breaker .
I would recommend their services and felt by the time I completed we had built a professional friendship.

June 7, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Highly Recommended

I wasn’t sure what to expect but I was so impressed by the high standard of communication and efficiency shown by Alex and Charles at British Homesellers. I’ve never bought a house on my own before and they made the experience so much easier and less scary than I thought it would be. Highly recommend

April 27, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid, avoid avoid!

My experience with British Homesellers was horrendous. I could write a lot more but will summarise the biggest issues as follows:

1) They said they were different from estate agents as they had a big panel of investors/corporate buyers. This is untrue. They are (shoddy) online estate agents.
2) They promised to get more for my property because of the panel of investors. They guaranteed a minimum price they'd achieve. This was also untrue. My property sold for less than valued.
3) They lured me away from a very good agent then copied all the information & the floor plan which had been produced by my previous agent. I asked British Homesellers to make a change to the floorplan and they couldn't because they didn't create it.
4) They took photos which were terrible and truncated all the rooms & garden making them look half their size. Their photographer, a freelancer, stomped through my house with his shoes on depositing mud everywhere.
5) They don't do viewings. These have to be carried out by the vendor. Basically you have to sell your own house.
6) They make no provision for handover of keys on moving day. The conveyancers aren't permitted to hold keys so I had to speak directly with my buyer and arrange to meet her to hand over keys.
7) The buyer of my property had already been in contact with my previous agent about my property. She saw it again on Rightmove once British Homesellers had taken it on and reduced the price.
8) Once an offer had been accepted on my property I heard NOTHING from British Homesellers for the next 5 months. I contacted them a few weeks before moving to ask about handover of keys and they said they don't make any provision for keys. I then had a phone call from them on moving day at about 10am asking if I'd made arrangements to hand over keys. This was whilst the house was in chaos with removal people and I was frantically directing them on what was going and staying in the property.
9) A few weeks after moving day I had a call from British Homesellers asking about my experience. I told them it had been horrendous, gave them details & said I'd never use them again. I was told they'd investigate and come back to me. As at today, more than a year later, they've not called back.

In summary, this company doesn't deliver what they promise and a lot of their sales chat is misleading and inaccurate. They charge the same as a regular estate agent but only do a fraction of the work.

I would have given them zero stars if it was an option.

Avoid, avoid, avoid. Go and get yourself a proper estate agent.

May 31, 2022
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Reply from British Homesellers

Thank you for your review and apologies for your experience.

We never want anyone to have a bad experience with us and we were naturally concerned by your experience. When we get it wrong, we always seek understand our failings and I hugely appreciate the time you have spent with me on the phone to take me through the issues. We have taken your feedback on board and rest assured we will learn from it.

Kind regards,
Will @ British Homesellers

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Flat Purchase

Throughout the entire process BHS were there to answer any queries and indeed go the extra mile to get the purchase over the line. Alex Clendon in particular was absolutely superb and made what could have been a stressful undertaking smooth and drama free. Thanks to all the team at British Home Sellers. Great job!

May 12, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

British Homesellers really made my…

British Homesellers really made my relocation so very much easier and by their prompt and frequent communication with updates, I was reassured throughout. A really first rate service. Thanks especially to Charles and to Alex.

May 4, 2023
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful experience

I had a bad experience with British home sellers. Initially I had a local agent selling my place for a month and had steady viewings. I had a leaflet put through my door from British home sellers informing me that they wished to sell my house, they told me that my valuation and the previous local agents valuation was good and that my property would be sold in 3months at the latest. Being slightly naive I gave them sole selling rights for my property and took it away from the local agent. They told me that a professional photographer would come take pictures of my place which they never did, instead using very old and dated pictures, in fact I never met a single representative from the company in the 6 months, my viewings dropped to zero, I’m not lying, I had zero viewings in 6 months. I would get a text message every two weeks telling me how many times sombody brushed passed my house on the website and to stick by them as they worked on trying to sell my place. After 6 months of this nonsense and waiting to get out of the clause to let some serious people sell my house I am finally on the road to selling my place again. What a nightmare and what a waste of 6 months. Stay away from these guys, they will lead you on

April 19, 2023
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Reply from British Homesellers

Dear Mr Roberts,
We are sorry to hear about your experience with us. We understand your frustration with the lack of progress during the selling process and apologize for falling short of your expectations.

We specialize in quick sales and have a high success rate, but unfortunately, your property did not sell as quickly as we had hoped. We do sincerely wish you the very best in selling in the future.

Thank you for sharing your feedback. We will use it to learn and improve our services.

Sincerely,
British Homesellers

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Super helpful friendly staff

Super helpful friendly staff - made buying our home so easy. Only knocked off a star as we had to go through sellers to get access - which was a little cumbersome. Overall very happy, thank you.

February 3, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent service

Easy to contact, polite and helpful staff. Alex was great and helped explain the buying process to me as I was helping my elderly father purchase a flat. Tara was also extremely helpful when we hit a few hurdles at the 11th hour. Thankyou to all the team, my Dad is happily settled in his fabulous new home.

February 14, 2023
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

British Homesellers helped us get our first property.

My wife and I got the property we wanted with the help of British Homesellers. We were first time buyers but they made the process so simple and stress free. They answered many questions and assisted us in many ways from phone calls between us and the sellers, providing answers to relevant questions to us and our conveyancer and legal team and finally helping with the key and handover. They were immensely helpful and I would definitely recommend British Homesellers.

December 21, 2022
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