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Whitegates Leicester

A selection of reviews/testimonials by highest rating
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1.00 /5

I regret choosing this company to sell my house, I have had very little viewings, very bad service all round. Viewing appointments being the most inconvenient EXPERIENCE I have ever had, agent not turning up to the booked time slot, customers always arriving before the agent and asking to view without supervision because there is no representative from white gates that has showed up(no covid pre-caution). Absolutely no contact from the estate agent (mahul) to notify of any changes or delays. Appointments being scheduled for mostly weekends where they expect you (the customer) to show your house to strangers, especially in the current climate that is the most ridiculous thing i have heard, and if the agent hasn't turned up they tell you to do their job for them. Price was exaggerated and was later reduced due to no Interest. I do believe this company is a total joke and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone ever. The clients that came to view were mostly disappointed with whitegates and the only answer I've heard is excuses like we can reschedule. Stay well away from excuse Gates they are awful. Have a good day :)NegativeResponsiveness, Quality, Professionalism, Value

Reply from agent

Sorry to hear of your dissatisfaction. I'm sure you'll understand we have little control of punctuality of the public and if some of our clients are willing then we advise to allow you to let clients view without us to minimise the amount of people at viewings as per the government advice. Please do contact Andrew Gaunt our Customer Service Director, andrew.gaunt@whitegates.co.uk as we are keen to find a way forward.

1.00 /5

We live in rental property. There are so many problems radiators not working and one window is broken. We complaint many times from last 3 months to them. They don't listen. We live in freezy house with two kids. They aren't responsible. Please stay away form them.👎👎👎👎NegativeResponsiveness, Quality

1.00 /5

Lack of communication. They are not fixing their own mistakes and ignores calls and emails about the issue. Through the phone management team promises to fix the mistake, but over one week nothing has been done.

Reply from agent

We are sorry to hear this, please can you contact Andrew Gaunt our Customer Service Director on 0116 326 6262 or andrew.gaunt@whitegates.co.uk and we will gladly sort for you. Please note a lot of our agents are working remotely at present and it can take a few days longer than usual before we can process requests.

1.00 /5

I rarely leave reviews but feel I have to post this as a warning to any landlord thinking of employing Whitegates as a letting agent. I can not comment on their performance selling property but if the same personnel are involved then I would advise caution. As single property landlord here was my experience over the last 12 months. They allowed my tenancy to run up over 6 months of arrears and still did not notify me. They calculated the arrears incorrectly, mishandled the repossession, provided no communication and refused to reply to phone calls or emails. Provided poor or incorrect information with regard to recovering the debt through the small claims court (in the end I did it all myself). Refused to provide me with the information needed to recover my deposit meaning it took over 6 months and my suing the company through the small claims court to recover my deposit. Even after the CCJ I had to execute a warrant and send the baliffs in to recover my funds! They have sent a statement showing the money is being paid, but have still not paid as of this morning. That is typical of this business which says one thing and does another. Save yourself a lot of trouble and deal with people who do what they say, know what they are talking about, and actually communicate with you! I have rarely experienced such terrible service from any company.

Reply from agent

Thank you for your review. It is not appropriate for us to comment extensively on this forum however it must be noted that Deposit funds are held with the DPS as we use their custodial scheme, we never hold onto deposits therefore cannot be 'sued' for the deposit as it is not within our control. Landlords are notified of arrears (it would not make sense not to tell landlords as they'd soon miss the money not arriving into their account so it does not make commercial sense for us to not communicate with our clients). Ultimately, we are sorry your tenants circumstances changed and they failed to pay, there is always a risk of this being a landlord and we are here to help in these situations on landlords behalf. We look after a large portfolio on behalf of landlords and we only encounter a problem with no more than a handful of properties out several hundreds.

1.00 /5

Rented from this company for nearly 3 years. Absolutely atrocious customer service, delays in liaising with owners for repairs. I wouldn't recommend renting from them at all! Infact they are not worth a 1*

Reply from agent

Thank you for your feedback and we are sorry you feel this way. Each landlord is different and how they respond and deal with repairs, some are prompt and some require some further chasing, regardless we always ensure our clients are aware of works required to their properties and stress to them their responsibilities as a landlord. We will ensure we communicate better with tenants with progress and thank you for this feedback.

1.00 /5

Would give minus 5 if I could! The worst of the worse agents out there! BUYERS/VENDORS BEWARE! They care about nothing but their commission, wont try push your sale through AT ALL. We had to do all the leg work for our place that my husband was buying, they chased our solicitors once in eight months and only to see if there was a completion date. They failed to inform us of key information which was detrimental to the sale and had we known wouldn't have purchased this house. Award winning is complete BS they dont even know what customer service is, put a complaint in beginning of October was told a reply would be given in 15 working days and we are still waiting. If this is what they call service I wonder how bad their average service would be. Never ever again would we go through Whitegates or recommend them.

Reply from agent

Dear Dimple, Further to the below, we have investigated and the property in question is a shared ownership property where we simply advertise and conduct viewings for the developer. We do not handle the application process or post sale activity which is why we were not involved in the transaction. Nicola our Deputy MD will respond to your email in full and pass your comments onto our client, the developer. Kind regards, Andrew Dear Dimple, I am sorry to hear of your feedback but we are grateful for it. Your feedback has been passed directly to the Directors who will contact you for further information. Whilst we take your comments on board. We operate on a no sale, no fee basis so naturally it is in our commercial interest that we proactively progress sales and delays do not help our clients or us as a business. We have tight processes in place to do what we can for a speedy completion. The vast majority of our sales complete within weeks as they are progressed every single week. We will investigate and respond to your directly. We are pleased you are in your new home and hope you are settling in well. Kind regards, Andrew

1.00 /5

Worst experience iv ever had with an estate agent paid holding deposit for a house for them to keep changing what they needed for us to rent the property we did everything they asked then to be told another applicant had the property even though I had paid the holding deposit so they shouldn't of let another person apply until our application had been finished. Also.wouldnt give holding deposit back.

Reply from agent

Our tenancy referencing is outsourced to HomeLet and we trust them to conduct due diligence on our behalf. This may require further information should they need. We are sorry you were not able to secure the property but we have to ensure we protect landlords and take HomeLet's recommendations. With regards to holding deposits, in the vast majority of cases we refund them. You are only not entitled to a refund should you fail referencing for not disclosing a material fact. We act in accordance with the legislation.

1.00 /5

Nightmare of a company. Not helpful at all. Ignore your calls/emails.

Reply from agent

Thank you for your review. As we said, our contractors are not able to come and replace light bulbs for tenants especially during lock down as it's not classed as an essential repair. We apologise if you felt you were ignored, we did explain the situation and explained replacing bulbs is tenant responsibility.

1.00 /5

Poor service, been without heating for 4 days and have a child under 1 living at the property and it still hasn’t been resolved! I am still looking for a resolution, however the staff are not helpful at all, and no one is dealing with the situation.

Reply from agent

Whilst we appreciate it must be frustrating, when parts required to be ordered to repair the boiler it does take time. It would be no different for a homeowner and it is no different if you are tenant. The repair was dealt with as quickly as possible despite it being the festive period and parts needed to be ordered. We can only apologise if this need not meet your expectation.

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