Buyer & sellers beware scammy secure move Buyer & sellers beware! Redbrik operate a very shady Reservation fee scheme where they charge a "non-negotiable", "non-refundable" £595 for a search pack and the right to take the house of the market. Problems with this: 1. The searches will usually be outdated. If something has come up in the time gap the old searches do not cover, then the buyer will be in trouble. Redbrik says they will "sort" this out. However, I would not want to be stuck in some remediation process with them when things go wrong. Far better to get your own conveyancer to do the searches. 2. The reservation fee to take the house of the market is nothing but a money grabbing scam whereby they pocket £595 from the seller and £595 from the buyer while charging the seller their usual percentage. 3. The £595 reservation fee does not benefit the buyer and is intrinsically unfair. It does not really protect from gazumping, as the seller can still accept a higher offer (perhaps £5000-10,000) and just refund the £595. 4. Additionally, this money does not go towards the sale of the house and is a lot of money because searches that only cost around £200-250. Thus, I am struggling to understand or see the value in this fee. 5. As a seller if you use this scammy service, it is likely you will get far fewer offers because most buyers will not subscribe to this scheme because 99.9% of estate agents do not do such things. I just made an offer of the asking price of a house ~£350K and though this secure move stuff was optional. Imagine my surprise when Redbrik was happy to scupper the deal even thought the seller was very interested in continuing! Sellers who advertise with Redbrik do so at their own risk as they only negotiate for their own fees and do not look out for the seller. The company has an awful reputation and should honestly look at acting with more integrity rather than trying to con people out of money on spurious reasons. Redbrik are cowboys! Save your time & get a proper estate agent!