When I started watching this, I thought it was a Foxtons training video, and when I finished watching it, I thought of We Hate Foxtons.

Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvBqYv93gs

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Foxtons have sucessively failed to make interest payments on their loans. The vast majority shareholding is now held by the creditor banks who have control of Foxtons. There is some justice here in that "like attracts like" and the banks have all the time in the world to rue the day they ever heard of this  company.

What strikes me, and I hope every decent member of society as unjust, is the fact that this hideous outfit continue to trade despite having a negative balence sheet to the tune of £360,000,000.

I have worked in the property business all my life, first in Estate Agency in the West Country for 8 years then abroad, in Timeshare and for a blue chip UK developer. I returned to the UK just over a year ago and pitched up in London to work for a fairly well known National chain. Whilst quite a lot has changed over the 15 years I have been away the business remains more or less how I left it although working in London is faster and predictably more aggressive.

Having only heard of Foxtons by way of an extremely damaging TV documentary a few years ago and of course by their very distictinctive marketing (cars, offices etc) I was prepared to keep an open mind on my new found "competition".

I have to say that, having competed with Foxtons for numerous years in my High Street Estate Agency business there is much that they do that is to the benefit of their clients although it could be argued that that is a side-effect rather than a prime driver.

At the end of the day, people have a choice and if greed is the sole motivator when choosing an estate agent it should perhaps come as no surprise when that same greed bites you on the bum.

The only way to combat the bitten bum feeling is to investigate the alternatives fully and not just take the word of the first person/company that says what you want to hear or strokes your greego.

PROPERTY SELLERS/VENDORS... YOU MAY WANT TO INVESTIGATE AN ALTERNATIVE BY LOOKING AT http://www.onelondonproperty.com

i think this website is a fantastic recruitment tool, I first heard about Foxtons when I walked past their office in Camden being nosy and have to say that after reading the various posts on here, "where do I sign?"

It strikes me as a company people gravitate to who wish to make serious money, people who aren't content with £30k a year.

Good luck to anyone working for them, it could be me one day!

Has anyone been able to negotiate a lower admin fee than the astronomical fee (£376 I hear) Foxton's charge? I am going to look at some rental properties with Foxtons tonight but I have no intention of paying that much for essentially nothing. Other agents I've seen have either had no admin fee, or agreed to waive it (they just charge £50 or so for reference checking).

Thanks in advance,

Foxton's-wary prospective tenant

Same old story. Long term let - over 4 years. Moved out early December, still no penny. Couple of missing items - agreed with landlord, all ok. But new things keep popping up, outside the checkout and suddenly need to be checked witht the new tennant.

I met up with the new tennant, combined stories and informed F*xtns. Quite shocking how they misinformed him as well. All kinds of verbal promises in order to rent it out, but no follow-up after signing up.

Thisis a joke.

Foxtons are flogging a houseboat that was sailed from france and is now moored on the Thames for a million.

See:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8450534.stm

Ian Brownridge, an arsehole, is quoted as saying it is good value.

What a joke. 

To say that Foxton's employee's are pushy is an understatement.  I was receieving several calls a day pushing me to sign a a contract (that they kept changing).

 I'd say, give me 24 hours to read and sign, 2 hours later they woudl be on the phone to me, then 2 hours later and so on.

Any, this guy Hywel Kennedy from the Richmond branch looked me in the eye and said, here ios a standard contract, it's all standard stuff nothing out of the ordinary and said it was the same contract that they give to all of their tennants.

 I read it anyway and just ignored all of his phone calls that day while i read it.

 Without my agreement he had increased the term of the contract from 12 months to 18 months and removed the break clause!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/privateequity/6950363/Foxtons-taken-over-by-banks.html

Oh dear!  

I recently received a full asking price offer from a very pushy girl at Foxtons called Sofia, South Kensington and was then passed to someone else to deal with the paperwork which came through the same day, including all the references and contract ready to sign and was told that the tenant was in the office and they wanted to get it all concluded right now.  Once I had looked at the paperwork, the documents titled bank reference - was actually a copy of a bank instruction being sent to the tenants account from overseas, the document titled employment record - was actually confirmation that the applicant is on a course until end of December!

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Did anybody else noticed that every agent had to change their contact phone number to a 0843 number on FAP, saying that this way they can keep track of the calls, but obviously they are making money on people calling agencies. 

Long time ago I realised that Foxtons didn't need to change the numbers. At the time ( about 2 months ago) I contacted FAP customer service about it, and they said that they change manually the numbers, so it takes time, and other agents still have the same 0208 number. And they were right, about 1 in 30 still had it.

Foxtons are late submitting their annual accounts to Companies House. I wonder why????

We all know and understand that in estate agency their branded boards is a good tool for them to get free advertising and to dominate that area with their branding.

 Foxtons love to screw you over with over inflated fees, unfair charges and being very rude.

 The only way you can hurt these idiots back is by taking their sales or lettings boards down. If everyone who looks at this site and hates Foxtons and wishes to put them out of business, the way to start is by hurting them back.

 If you see a board rip it down.

how sad are you?

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