Whilst in the end we sold our house, i absolutely wish we had gone through another estate agent, as i am not really sire what we paid them for…. At our valuation, we were won over by promises of fancy marketing packs and photography. What this ended up amounting to was the property on rightmove (which any EA offers) our property shared a grand total of ONCE over 10 months on social media, and photos that i ended up retaking on my own mobile phone as the professional ones were awful. Even my sales advisor agreed when i sent her the ones i had taken myself. This fancy “marketing” package sets you back just shy of £300, in addition to your selling cost and your liable to pay even if you don’t end up selling (so much for no sale no fee!) We had a total of 11 viewings over 10 months, of which i was asked to do ALL 11!!! Despite being told they would have multiple agents available for showing including weekends, not once did they have anyone available when anyone called to view. There was always the emotional manipulation of “we aren’t available but you never know this could be the one!” We had an original sale fall through and were actually advised to keep our property off market and give them a few weeks to find a new buyer (which really is shoddy advice) needless to say they didn’t find a buyer and i had to go back on the market. I even had to demand it happen as the property we wanted was going back on the market on a specific day and F&H were more worried about upsetting our original buyers than selling our house. We would go vast amounts of time with no contact, no viewings, no information on how the property was performing on rightmove until i asked and no information on what they were doing to sell the property. In fact, when i would call and speak to the manager he was nothing short of rude (stark contrast as he did the original valuation and what a change in character once you were locked in) When we received and accepted our 2nd offer things seemed to go smoothly (or more accurately i heard nothing for weeks) until we were passed to the “sales progression team” who were either never in the office or had no idea what was going on! The sale nearly collapsed a number of times due to people not reading emails and understanding situations properly, but the sales progression team either had no idea or the wrong idea. One day i even received a congratulations on setting a completion date 2 days after the buyer had stated they had lender issues, they just had no clue! In the end i found it easier to deal entirely with our solicitor who was great, communicating with the buyers solicitor. These were introduced by F&H and were the only good thing to come out of the whole ordeal really. So all in all they didn’t really market beyond rightmove (and charged me £300 extra), i ended up taking my own pictures, had to do all my own showings and found them of absolutely no use in the progression of the sale. Not sure what exactly the “fee” was for as they seemed to do very little and were absolutely not the cheapest option to go with either. But you live and learn. A side note really as this was our fault not to double check, the EA actually closed our local branch some time before we instructed but this wasnt made clear to us. The numbers on the website used local area codes but transferred to an office much further away. I do wonder if this had something to do with why they didnt want to do the viewings, but they sold themselves as a “local” EA of which they were very much not. If we were ever to sell again, we would absolutely go to another EA. Likely the one we bought the house off as they were nothing but professional and on the ball.