Savills Islington Estate Agents Reviews Summary

Category: Real estate agency London

Address: 94-96 Upper St, London, N1 0NP, United Kingdom

Phone: +442072261313

Rating: 4.6
based on 228 reviews.

Agent Responsiveness

Pros:

  • "Sophie Norris in the Islington office was phenomenal - always super responsive."
  • "Leah is very responsive, helpful and approachable."
  • "Always felt confident that Sophie was on the case to ensure everything moved as quickly and smoothly as possible."
  • "George at Savills has been super helpful with helping my client secure and move into his new property. He has been very efficient and communicative."
  • "Lucy Whistler in the Islington office... was amazing. Incredibly responsive, helpful, cheerful and knowledgable."
  • "Everyone was always responsive, helpful and extremely motivated to complete the rental quickly and successfully."
  • "I had a very good experience with Charlie at Currell Islington. He was great at responding rapidly and was able to arrange viewings at short notice which really helped."

Cons:

  • "Absolutely horrible experience! I moved out of a flat on 30th September 2022, the check-out report then discovered items that are missing in the flat."
  • "Three months were completely wasted with this company - even when we left there were no emails or evidence that we'd ever been on their books or that we'd been a customer."
  • "The Islington team tasked to handle the ‘day-to-day’ of lettings seemed ill prepared, ill informed and often unable to handle the most basic task."
  • "Slow poor response to broken washing machine and drier (over 2 months to fixing which was not fun and no small cost for managing laundry for a family of 4)."
  • "It then took the agency until January 2023 to return the deposit. I have been regularly emailing, but nobody has been responding to my emails."
  • "No follow-up or reasoning was provided by either Oktaj or Savills Islington. A disgraceful showing by a purportedly top notch letting agency."
  • "The most frustrating aspect of our interaction with Savills came at the closing of our tenancy."

Professionalism and Support

Pros:

  • "Leah was so helpful and supportive throughout the entire buying process."
  • "They marketed the house accurately, arranged plenty of viewings and communicated dates and times well, were respectful in our home, and always responded quickly to queries once an offer came."
  • "I can only give the highest recommendation for working with Savills."
  • "Sophie Norris is the consummate professional - she provided market intelligence and advice to us throughout our purchase process and was responsive to any queries."
  • "Leah and Dan have been amazing all the way through."
  • "Sarah Curtis handled our case with aplomb and was utterly professional, efficient and a pleasure to work with."
  • "I've been an Islington landlord with a portfolio of properties since the late 1990's. I have tried and tested the majority of Islington agents and have found Savills to offer the most consistently reliable and professional service."

Cons:

  • "The primary caution with Savills Islington is that... you are often met with abysmal service."
  • "Incredibly disappointing experience with moving out, but the agency was so nice and on things when I was renting a flat through them."
  • "Getting Savills to action on required items often took multiple emails, calls and missed appointment times."
  • "After letting our property with them for almost two years, not only did we not get better contractual terms, but the quality of service we received deteriorated."
  • "If you are landlord with a property in the King’s Cross / Islington area, avoid working with the Savills Islington branch if possible. We had a bad experience with them."
  • "Savills' headquarters may request excessive cleaning fees and unreasonable repair costs."
  • "We had an utterly awful experience of this company 'trying' to sell my flat for three months between February-May 2021."

Customer Satisfaction

Pros:

  • "Having had some pretty shocking experiences with estate agents in London Savills really delivered."
  • "I wouldn't hesitate recommending this professional team."
  • "Thank you for making the process of selling our flat so easy, we sold it on the second viewing, exchanged contracts and completed in 6 weeks, some sort of record I'm sure!"
  • "Would recommend working with Will to everyone!"
  • "I would highly recommend James Davidson from the Highbury office, who was very supportive in getting our sale completed."
  • "I worked with Jessica Gee to find our new apartment in Angel and I can't recommend working with her enough."
  • "I can’t recommend Leah enough!"

Cons:

  • "I rent out a property through Savills and their garden management of garden maintenance is abysmal."
  • "How do they ever manage to sell anything if they can’t be bothered to call buyers back?"
  • "Filthy hair clogging up shower drains, broken fridge shelves (took another 2.5 months to get an the second shelf for a fridge), entangled blinds, everything in the flat the cheapest possible quality, no storage space, 3 pots and pans some of which rusting."
  • "Our recent experience with Savills was a frankly appalling level of service and lack of courtesy."
  • "Dirty house at start of tenancy, now trying to charge us £550 for a professional clean of a 3-bed maisonette and garden clean up after tenancy, when we cleaned weekly and on leaving with agency that cleans for embassies."
  • "But attitude towards tenant by the company is dishonest and will rip you off, while what you get in return is below par service."
  • "Currell tried to rip us off with a locksmith fee in our deposit claiming that we have sent them the wrong key for the new lock to our apartment door."

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