Leaders Letting & Estate Agents Southsea Reviews Summary

Category: Real estate agent Southsea

Address: 45 Osborne Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth, Southsea PO5 3LS, United Kingdom

Phone: +442392838344

Rating: 4.5
based on 178 reviews.

Customer Service

Pros:

  • "The staff were very helpful and friendly."
  • "Very helpful throughout, very professional and were always on the other end of the phone if I needed them."
  • "Tess and Tom make me very welcome, take a real interest in you, are good listeners and communicators and sensitive to customer’s requirements demonstrating good customer focus."
  • "Very professional team and helpful."
  • "Tom Wingham, who was always on hand to answer my million questions, as well as ensuring that our move in was as simple as possible."
  • "All agents were very kind and helpful in answering all the questions I had."
  • "All staff were friendly and knowledgeable."

Cons:

  • "Never deal with the letting agents Vanessa Potter and Hannah who don't give his full name like the dishonest person she is."
  • "Inefficient, no respect for the customers and tenants."
  • "Once you're on the way out of tenancy with them they stop caring."
  • "However, we were badly let down by one member of the team who released the keys to a tradesman without notice."
  • "Your email gets ignored When you need them, but if you dont answer theirs, then will call you and disturbing you."
  • "Service varies some of the team are good but at times the responses are slow and you have to chase them up."
  • "Various admin agents lied over and over."

Property Management

Pros:

  • "Thanks for the repairs to the kitchen ceiling and the loose tiles in the bathroom."
  • "I was delighted with the highly professional service from Alex and David - from assessing the rental value to getting a new tenant settled in."
  • "Leaders have provided a professional service from start to finish, and Lucy was a pleasure to work with."
  • "Really happy with the service I receive from both the Lettings Team and the Property Management Team at Leaders."
  • "Any problems and queries are always dealt with in an efficient and friendly manner."
  • "Leaders Letting agents have been amazing."
  • "They have been prompt at dealing with queries and provided good advice throughout."

Cons:

  • "Rented property next to us... No response for 2 weeks so have paid a company to take it down today at a cost of £140 of which I will be invoicing yourselves for."
  • "The deposit was not given back for 2 months."
  • "Possibly one of the worst estate agents / management companies I used over the last 5 years."
  • "Reported boiler not working and no heating in the middle of January... No one called and now we will go the whole weekend with no heating."
  • "We logged numerous issues on fix flow throughout the year and I do not believe a single one was solved."
  • "Im getting very desapointed with leaders. They always find an excuse for every issue you have at home!"
  • "We were badly let down by one member of the team who released the keys to a tradesman after being explicitly requested to give us and the tenants 24 hours notice of any visits."

Professionalism

Pros:

  • "We have recently sold our house through leaders and our experience was extremely positive."
  • "Needed to rent a flat at the last moment due to change in my plans. Leaders was great in accommodating me in their schedule and within a week a half I was already in my new flat."
  • "I would definitely recommend Leaders to any prospective buyers or sellers."
  • "This was a really complex sale... Leaders were brilliant and persistent and achieved a sale of the property in spite of all the complications."
  • "Highly recommend using Leaders Southsea."
  • "Leaders have provided me with a professional and courteous service throughout the sale of my grandmother's flat."
  • "A professional, proactive and friendly team."

Cons:

  • "I feel totally scammed! Be warned!!"
  • "Unethical letting agency. Definitely not recommended."
  • "Worst experience I had in 20 years in UK."
  • "However on check out I was charged for £590 for damages which are artificially made up."
  • "He made my skin crawl!"
  • "Overall I was really disappointed from start to finish with Leaders."
  • "Students don't bother with this lot, absolutely waste of time, quite happy to take your money not keen in giving it back when due."

Communication

Pros:

  • "Being in NZ, communications have been key and in the 3 months Alex has been working for us, he has replied to all emails promptly."
  • "The Leaders Southsea team, in particular Hannah W, have recently done an excellent job of finding new tenants in a short time frame."
  • "Hannah was exceptional, from prior to the viewings weeks before listening to exactly what we were looking for... Everything has been fast, professional and so super friendly."
  • "The team at Leaders Southsea, specifically Lucy who handled our move, were amazing and went above and beyond to make sure everything was a smooth and stress-free experience."
  • "Emails were responded to very promptly and he did his upmost to push things along as quickly as possible."
  • "Tom has been extremely helpful throughout the process and I would most definitely recommend Leaders based off of the service he has provided."
  • "Leaders team is amazing. I am very grateful to the leaders team for their efforts and support for helping us through all the stages in the move in process, especially Tom."

Cons:

  • "Seen a house and was happy with it so made the deposit, and they kept delaying it and keep saying they will call me back!"
  • "Twice my girlfriend and I booked viewings over the phone and both times the agent didn't show up."
  • "Your email gets ignored When you need them, but if you dont answer theirs, then will call you and disturbing you."
  • "Alex doesn't respond to emails or phone messages AND all we want is an update so we can get my sons deposit back."
  • "Unfortunately, after they left, our tenancy was shifted to a variety of different account managers who made it clear they were not really interested."
  • "Service varies some of the team are good but at times the responses are slow and you have to chase them up."
  • "We were badly let down by one member of the team who released the keys to a tradesman after being explicitly requested to give us and the tenants 24 hours notice of any visits."

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