The concise testimonial: This is the best agency you will…read morefind, intercontinentally. Seriously. Go here. They're so consistent. The agents are just phenomenal. I'm sure they're all great, but talk with Sophie Trainor if you can- she's simply the best at her job. The less concise testimonial: It feels good to report how positive my experience has been with Templeton Robinson. I'd rented with them for the first year I lived in Belfast, and at that point, I'd promised myself that I'd only rent or buy with them as they were noticeably the best agency I'd come across in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Paris, and London combined. The agents who work here are consistently the most trustworthy and professional, not to mention sincerely patient and kind. Foolishly, I broke my promise and (without naming any rival agencies) was disappointed; they are not all created equal. Today, this disappointment has only further emphasised just to what extent the staff of this company is superior. I've recently been dealing with Sophie, and was compelled to write a review purely based on the fact that she is the best agent I've ever met. She's so dedicated and genuine that she stands out, even in a vocation where an efficient and personable disposition is essential.

Property People are the an estate agents and property management company based in the North of the…read moreCity. I have not had much experience with these guys apart from taking a jaunt into their offices whilst passing by. Their office's are a little bare, but its the style of most agents offices now to look kinda of minimal. They were quite friendly to me when I enquired about a property, although they did get a little pushy when I said I'll come back later. I had only come in to be nosey (and grab a sneaky Yelp) but I ended up giving them my mobile number to just get back out of the door! I have heard of some people having problems when they're rented accommodation was being managed by Property People, but who doesn't have a gripe with those people who take your money off you every month!

AWFUL AWFUL Seriously AVOID AVOID…read more went in as me and the girlfriend were flat hunting got greeted by a hairy 6 foot male receptionist who had no idea of the area or couldn't understand we wanted a 2 bed flat under £500. we got offered a room let at £350 each. All the staff were huddled together at a computer giggling eating and making us feel uncomfortable as if we were wasting their time. 3 staff members in the office and when we asked to see a suitable apartment I was told they could fit us in next day at 2 as they were too busy. Went to other agency and got sorted with viewing same day and have happily got sorted. Worst experience ever, no customer service at all. AVOID UNLESS DESPERATE.

I used Lairds for 3 years at university and they were so accommodating and helpful each year…read more Anytime we had an issue, they were on-call to help. Highly recommend them! They've so many properties to choose from and they made sure we got the house we were looking for.

At school we were warned away from Lairds due to their history of dodgy dealings but this not stop…read moreme stepping foot into their offices every year of university life. Lairds is an estate agent institution. Every student will have been warned and every student will ignore the hazard because Laird is handy. It's located in the university area, they have loads of properties and they put all properties and their details on a nicely designed out sheet for all to see. But that's the easy part over. After this the torment will begin. The dreaded contract with guarantors signing in front of solicitors is enough to scare any new student into oblivion. Then you move in and have the viewings that no-one tells you about. You were out last night, stumbled home, may be semi naked but definitely stinking of booze. It's 9am and you wakened by an estate agent knocking on your door and entering your room with two bright eyed and busy tailed students. Nightmare. However, if you have very little to do and fancy a bit of banter, book a viewing and pray to God you get the little man from Southern Ireland. He's fantastic craic and will leave you with stories from his estate agent past. It's worth it just for him.

Running about looking for places to rent is never much fun. You're checking through local…read morenewspapers for private rentals, calling to estate agents and letting agents, and generally making a lot of phone calls. Trying to make appointments and arranging times to view various properties (for the ones that haven't already been let out by the time you phone)... the whole thing can be a headache. However, this letting agent can save you an awful lot of hassle. You walk into the office in Botanic Avenue and they have lists of all the properties they have available to let in the surrounding area. The next step isn't to pull out the iPhones and digital organisers to make an appointment to view a property at a time that's convenient to you and them, no no. The next step is to hand them some type of photo ID (driving licence or passport), tell them which property you'd like to view, they give you the keys and off you go! This is undoubtedly the way to go. Bring the keys back and get keys to view another property. If you're looking for somewhere around the university area, you could easily view about 10 properties during business hours. Of course, this doesn't help if there's somewhere that you specifically have your eye on that isn't being let by this property agent, but aside from that it's a great service.

When I was looking for a new gaff, a pad if you will (although please don't). I used a local…read morewebsite to find places, which gave links to the various estate agents. Bladon and Co was one of them. I had a few problems with these guys. First off, no one ever appears to be in their offices and I wasted more than enough call credit constantly getting an answering machine message of a monotone voice that made me want to flee the country rather than rent again. When I did get through however, they were quite pleasant, friendly guys who organised viewings with me without a problem. Then, however, when it came to their viewings, on both occasions the agent was around 30minutes late. Very frustrating.

I arrived to view a 2 bedroom apartment 10 minutes early, we waited outside and when we had waited…read morearound 20 minutes I contacted the estate agent and they told me that 'Conor' had got held up at a previous viewing and was on his way. When we waited another 30 minutes with nobody arriving. We then contacted Bladon again and this time we were told that Conor had went to the house we werent there so he left. I made them aware I had waited at the front door of the premises for around an hour and nobody had arrived. A complete waste of time.

This particular estate agents provided us with alot more problems than renting our first house…read moreshould have had. Firstly they insisted that the leases be faxed to them, not posted or dropped in. Who nowadays faxes instead of emails?! Next they lost the lease of myself and my friend twice, thus making it more of a pain in the backside than I'd wanted. THEN because the leases were not all handed in, they put the house back up on their website. AND at £20 more than we were paying, which our landlady had no idea about. AND then they signed up to a mobile phone operator who continued to send us push-messages about renewing our lease when we had already agreed to move out and the landlady had new tennants. Total disaster

McGeown are an absolute farce of an estate agent…read more We rented a property in 2011, they wanted our witnesses present to sign the tenancy. They CONSTANTLY forget what property we live in any time we have an issue to resolve. In addition, most recently, I got a text from our landlord to say we hadn't paid our rent for April/May. I checked my bank statements and the money had went out on the agreed dates to McGeown. Rang them up to try and get it resolved, they didn't know who I was again, said they had never heard of the property, then finally concurred they did rent this one, then said they had no idea why the money was going to them and didn't challenge an extra £550 sitting resting in their business account. Still waiting on a resolution. Piece of advice: Don't let with them and don't rent from them. 3 words to sum them up. Incompetant. Useless. Infuriating.