This agent will do everything possible to keep your deposit. Despite paying for professional cleans, decorating and spending more time making your old house nice and shiny instead of getting your new house ready to be lived in, they will take you to the cleaners literally. Do not use Prospect. We were evicted at Christmas after 10 months on a 3 year term, we had a leaking conservatory for 10 months, (which made our sofa mouldy and it went to the tip) loads of people came to quote but never to fix (until the week before we were moving suddenly its being fixed) We had drains that didn't drain and our shower was regularly a bath full that didn't release water, this went on for many months. We moved into a flooded kitchen with a dishwasher left in the middle off the kitchen which didn't fit under the unit so we had to ask for it to be removed and get a smaller one. Turned out the reason the dishwasher was flooding the kitchen was because it wasn't plumbed in correctly. We paid a professional plumber to sort the plumbing issues and a professional contractor to put TVs on walls etc to ensure no damage. We moved into an unfurnished house full of furniture which we were expected to just keep. We were told the landlord is selling when actually he let his family move in. Prospect have harassed us for the most ridiculous things such us 'all of the window keys' which were never provided, a radiator cap? a light bulb? seriously? They want us to send another cleaner to clean while the landlords family are now living there? Making us feel like we trashed the house, like we were not clean people. We left that house immaculate and the landlord has confirmed he is happy with the condition yet the agents are relentless and despite us paying £450 on professional cleaning the carpets, professional clean of the house and decorating all at Christmas, making Christmas pretty crap, while finding a deposit to move they still want £500 from us! People forget tenants have invested a lot of money into 1 property and we had moved into the area from London this same year too so new jobs, money was tight, all our savings were in the house and it takes time to be in a position to move again, but we didn't cause a fuss, we vacated even despite the fact we were told 'how sorry the landlord is, he will be flexible and let us stay on or go early. We finally secured a house after searching frantically over Christmas to be told, no they wont let you leave early! I had to argue the fact we were told we could leave early so we agreed a date and now its a NO? Finally we compromised on 1 week but jeez! this isn't good for anyones mental health. Honestly, in my 20 years being an agent myself and over 20 years renting properties personally I have never ever experienced anything like this. I would never recommend this agent to anyone because they are very efficient and fast at securing the business but I am not surprised to see how many people have had similar issues to us. This was our first maritial home and it was an absolute nightmare. Their cleaning company even said it, they're over the top and always do this to tenants.

We rented a property through Prospect (Winnersh) for 2.5yrs and obviously as a tenant you have no say in who manages your property. However I am also a landlady of 3 others properties so could also observe from the other side and felt that for the amount of money our landlord was paying them each month they did very little. We had endless problems with heating and plumbing and were often just told “phone British Gas yourselves”. For the last SIX MONTHS of our tenancy the toilet in our en-suite did not flush properly and the saga trying to get it repaired was an absolute joke. However when you are paying £30k a year in rent I think the least you can expect is a flushing toilet. On our last inspection a member of the sales team also turned up completely un-announced and told me “he was just observing as he was interested in the knowing what the rental team did”. We suspected at the time he was actually valuing the property, so no surprise when we were told a few weeks later that we were having to move out because the landlord was selling. However the fact that this man came into our home un-invited and un-announced and lied to my face shows total lack of honest and integrity. We have now been left the property for two months, we looked after it well and left it better than we found it. We know the final check up inspection was done weeks ago but Prospect are ignoring all our communication in relation to the return of our deposit, we have called and left voicemails, and emailed about it - yet zero response whilst our deposit still sits in their bank account!!! We are now renting through Sears and the improvement in service, response and communication is unbelievable. They are 100% better. Sorry but can’t recommend Prospect at all, lack of communication & service, total lack of integrity from the sales department, and their lack of honesty continues in now withholding the return of our deposit with absolutely no reason or communication.

Terrible service. We were in a chain with Prospect estate agents. Paul and Beth lied to us the whole sales process about the length of the chain, right up to the day we thought we were going to exchange. After a lengthy 6 months, the sale has now fallen through. Worst estate agents I have dealt with over the years.

Absolute liars!! Kept a whole chain in the dark about the true extent of the chain length as claimed it was “in their clients best interests” it really wasn’t and now after months of being fed lies the chain collapsed due to their lies. Stay well clear of this company they will cost you time, money and health issues.

Awful property management team.

So, if their slow response and lack of communication and compassion wasn't bad enough, when my purchase fell through and Matt said "it's frustrating for me to you know, I now don't get paid" They also didn't bother to tell anyone else. My solicitor continued to try doing some work, until I called to discuss my next move, they had NO IDEA the sale had fallen through! Can't even do that part of their job - let alone the next bit! I have now not had any follow up calls or heard ANYTHING back from them to see how I'm doing with my search. The least I expected was a phone call to find out what I was looking for and to be on their mailing list. But instead, despite phoning them to complain about this, I still have no returned phone calls! USELESS! AWFUL company! Stick to the big guys or doing the work yourself, don't deserve the money they are paid! I guess this is what happens when a company employ young men who don't give or have any idea about customer service!

Camberley branch are useless liars. I'm not wasting my time on here explaining everything they did as there was so much. Avoid this company as they cannot be trusted!