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Philip James Manchester

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homes4u

homes4u

(18 reviews)

Oxford Road Corridor

The service was slow and communication could be better. It was hard to get updates and responses on…read moretime. Needs improvement in customer care.

This estate agent has four branches in Manchester, and really capitalises on the student population…read moreby offering hundreds of student lets. These lets are never honestly advertised and the landlords are rarely decent. As students, my friends and I let our first house through homes4u and had an awful experience. I would definitely say that homes4u put their profits ahead of the comfort and safety of the students living in their 'managed' properties. The houses we viewed in our second year of uni were all with homes4u, because we wrongly assumed that the most advertised estate agents would be the best, and they were all horrible. The standards at homes4u are clearly very low, because we viewed some really nasty houses, one with black damp mould covering the entire living room ceiling and a bathroom that was rotten. We ended up in an OK house, but with the worst landlord ever. I really felt that homes4u totally side with the landlord, because they own the property and hold the cards. Our landlord would 'pop in' three or four times a week, totally unannounced, and got us to cancel our direct debits so he could come round and collect our rent as cheques or cash. As four girls we felt really threatened and uncomfortable, and homes4u paid absolutely no attention to our complaints. In the end, one of our number dropped out and we were in the process of looking for another housemate for her room, when our landlord evicted us and kept a lot of money from our deposits. Again, homes4u did not want to hear about it. Unless you're ready to fight against laziness and bad property management, steer clear.

Shepherd Gilmour Properties

Shepherd Gilmour Properties

(3 reviews)

I had read some bad reviews of Shepherd Gilmour online, but had unfortunately fallen in love with a…read moreflat they were marketing. I now wish I'd kept looking. After I moved in, I found that the gate to my "secure parking spot" had rusted over and it took them nearly two months to repair it and send out a replacement key. More than annoying considering the flat was in the city centre of Manchester and parking on street is prohibited between 8am - 8pm unless you pay for it. On top of this whilst living in the property the locks were changed on the gate as part of routine maintenance, however I was not provided with a new key for a further two weeks. I had numerous issues with the plumbing and lack of hot water at my flat, whilst the majority of these were sorted speedily, two months before moving out I had a problem with the plumbing backing up. Shepherd Gilmour sent round a handyman NOT a plumber who proceeded to knock three massive holes in the bathroom wall and use my personal property ( a couple of towels and a facecloth) to mop up the foul smelling water that poured out. The handyman then departed leaving these scrunched up on the floor as a lovely welcome home gift for me. I dealt with all of this with as much good humour as I could muster, however upon moving out I was sent an email stating that I had not informed the agents in good time that I was due to move out (despite several emails and about 30 phone calls saying that I was not renewing my tenancy) and that there would be a charge for the several days it took to find a new tenant. They also charged me with a cleaning bill despite the fact that I spent an entire day cleaning the flat and REPAINTED it before moving out. (a year earlier I had repainted it upon moving in after they had told me that repainting the flat would incur an extra £25 a month increase to my rent!!!) I'm still hoping to get my deposit back, but honestly I very much doubt I'll see a penny of it from them. AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!!

Always sendin emails outbto me as propertys become available that are suitable to my needs without…read moreme havin to ask or mither i think its well organised n recommend them to anyone

Park Crest Properties - Logo taken from the Park Crest website - http://www.parkcrestproperties.com/index.htm

Park Crest Properties

(2 reviews)

Headingley

After the oddity of our last house, my housemates and I wanted something entirely new - fresh,…read moreclean and most importantly young professional. We were now completely fed up with student style homes, with awful student style landlords and the poor service they offered. Enter: Park Crest Properties. As soon as we saw the website we felt we'd found a hidden gem, an exciting new mid-way between student life and young professional life. The website was easy to use, simple but classy and offered a great selection of houses and flats. Perfect. After choosing the one we desired (complete with little garden and 'cloud burst' shower head, oh yes!) we called to arrange an appointment. Our landlord-to-be (who is also also the estate agent) could not have been more efficient. He was punctual, informative and honest. After the viewing we signed up almost immediately - although it was a lot smaller than our previous home, it was lovely. It was the eye for detail (as it says on their website) that really made the difference, most especially in the bathroom - it was like some kind of luxury spa and extremely well looked after. Of course, you don't have a rented house without complaint, but anything we took issue with, our landlord was prompt in both communicating with us and acting on our problems. And once we had all decided to go our separate ways sorting out the bonds was, to my great relief, totally fine. We couldn't get them back until we sent proof that we had paid our final utilities, which I think is more than fair, and within the week of doing so we received our cheques with only a small deduction for some minor things. The entire experience was both professional and personal, and this is a lovely, understanding and efficient estate agents. I highly recommend!

Regular readers of my reviews will realise that over the last few years I have had quite a few…read moremoves in a short space of time. What this means is that I have visited practically every estate agent in Leeds. On the occasion that I visited this one I was on a very tight schedule to find somewhere to live and probably came across as quite panicked and desperate. Lucky for me then that the guy in the office was brilliant and calming. At the time they didn't have any properties that were suitable, only because I had to move in three weeks and they didn't have any available that soon. Rather than just tell me to try somewhere else bless him the guy spent nearly an hour with me going through my options. Not only did he tell me where else to try but suggested a couple of places and pointed me in the right direction. He was also lovely in that he told me about a couple of areas in Leeds that I hadn't considered. Although somewhere to live was the main goal of my journey and that wasn't satisfied, he did give me lots of advice that was really valuable. http://beautytruthsnotuglylies.blogspot.com/

Philip James Manchester - realestateagents - Updated May 2026

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