Farrell Heyworth Reviews 

Dreadful from start to finish. Staff have no idea what property they are selling, no updates - we had to call for information the whole time, only one key given at legal completion and place they were selling was left in a complete mess. No accountability, no concern for the purchaser, beyond useless… Do not use, plenty of better Independant agents in the area that care and are proactive.

Making a move is always suer stressful but Nicole at the Lancaster branch made our lives much better by her professionalism and keeping us informed throughout...
The same goes for all the staff. Always polite and always helpful.
Thank you Nicole and your colleagues.
Mike & Vicky

I am at the stage of downsizing to my dream retirement bungalow. After living in my large family home for 20 years it is a daunting move. My initial contact with Lauren in the Blackpool office was great, a very enthusiastic and positive lady who advised me on the next steps to facilitate the move including a visit from Simon to value my home and give me some realistic costs and advice on what I need to do to get the house ready for sale. It's going to be a big big upset in our lives downsizing but Farrell Heyworth have helped smooth the way the way.... Thank you 😊

We sold and bought a house with them Nicola who handled our sale and buy was absolutely brilliant nothing was to much trouble she got us over the line by a day before the tax went up saving us thousands . Nicola is a major asset to the Lancaster branch . Thank you Nicola

Had our property on the market with Farell for 5 months. In that period we had 1 viewing.
All that seemed to happen was it be put on Rightmove and on the market at a cost of £350!
Other than this no marketing done. All we kept being asked was to lower the price. It was originally valued at £225000 by 2 previous estate agents, drawing in 7 viewings in a 4 month period.
Since lowering it to £195,000 with Farell it gained 1 viewing and nothing at all in 4 months. They wanted us to drop it a further £10k which would put it under the £190,000 paid for it in 2007!
It’s decorated to high spec, a modern apartment in a nicely maintained apartment block opposite a park in a popular town centre. It has its own car park space in a secure car park along with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and the apartment is enormous.
However when justifying lower the price they sent an info pack comparing it to others in the area. However these were not comparable. Most of them not even close to matching ours in terms of age, size, number of rooms, car work, decor etc.
No personal touch at all unfortunately. Feel like a huge waste of 5 months. I think they assumed we were desperate to sell and would be willing to drop the price until it did.
We got the same generic email every few weeks telling us they’d be reaching out to potential clients (no evidence of this). Even the pictures I had to supply a coupe of my own.
Feel very let down and the fact I’ve been invoiced £350+ is a kick in the teeth. I’d advise to go to a local independent estate agent who gives you that personal touch and has great knowledge of the local area.

Currently on the market for Sale with Farrell Heyworth and rue the day I gave it to them to market.

They don't even put it on Zoopla. Surely with the level of fees they want to charge, they could 'sign up' for an additional portal other than Rightmove?

At this point I don't see how they can justify their proposed fixed fee, they've not done ANYTHING that's over & above what you would expect from any Estate Agent really.

So annoyed with myself for not asking more questions & reading more reviews.
Money for old rope springs to mind.

If they sell our house and it's a big if at this juncture, I'll really begrudge paying them £1000 more than other local agents.

nb. This is the one and only Review I've written, because I'm annoyed. It is not a 'fake review'.

Never had a problem with Farrel heyworth everything went really well been with them years now

We tried to book a viewing of a bungalow with this company. We were instantly grilled about our finances and told they needed to know in case we were time wasters. We own our house outright and had we been allowed to view the bungalow and found that we liked it then we would have put our house on the market straight away. I have NEVER known an estate agent that refuses to let people view properties. We have dealt with Mighty House and Royle estate agents previously and they were both top notch both professionally and personally. I might just have to contact the owner of the bungalow and tell them what’s happened. As for the director Jeremy, shame on you. You seem happy to fob people off with a generalised tone. Have you not seen that you have 81% negative reviews?

The worst estate agent I have ever come across
I had a government grant for a new insulated roof, solar panels and underfloor insulation on my park home
As this didn't come with an invoice they wouldn't advertise this work even though the office manager said it wouldn't be a problem
And I had to pay £250 to get out of the contract, apparently for digital marketing even though the marketing didn't meet my requirements
And they are £1000 dearer than other agents in the area
Zero feedback and still waiting for their complaints department to get back to me
Also waited 2 weeks for a sign to arrive after much chasing
They are also no longer a member of the FCA, a red flag if ever I saw one

I wish I had read some of the reviews on here prior to taking out a contract with Farrell Heyworth to sell my house… I think everything that has been said on here is quite true.. my house was on the market for roughly 18 months, I had no viewings and around 3 communications with the team within that period..
The lack of communication is one of the main reasons I would say to avoid this company as most of the other agents will provide you with some feedback/updates along the way.. I agree also that the additional ‘Digital Marketing’ fee is another reason, as this seems to be merely fee in addition to what they would be doing anyway to sell your property and is sold under the pretence that you will get some additional benefit from having it..
All in all I lost confidence in the company to sell the house, they have as I was later told changed some of the staff/teams and are attempting to provide a better service, however I would advise if you go with this company, avoid the additional marketing fee and stay with the basic package..also, if you do take out this additional fee they will not remove it from the market should you change your mind etc until it’s paid..
Another issue is even when you have paid the amount it could take upto 30 days for them to remove it from marketing platforms… which could impact on you moving to another agent.

I already have a review below explaining we were charged £300 for a level of service appropriately rated zero to one star. We made only one request when we paid this fee: that our (useless) property ad be taken down. We had zero viewers in over a year and next to zero contact from FH explaining why. FH refused to take the ad down by not replying. They relied on their practice of asking one month's notice before taking their marketing away. Bear in mind that the biggest online tool is Zoopla and they don't even use it. Bear in mind they only put your property on two online sites. Bear in mind they produced a year of zero viewers with their marketing. Selling your home? It's stressful enough without using this sort of £300 marketing approach.

Be careful with this company. We got landed with a 300 pound bill for their " digital matketing". Actually hidden in the small print and not disclosed at any point. Their digital marketing consisted of rightmove and on the market.
We got practically zero contact , and no updates whilst with them. Save yourself money and stress and go elsewhere.

This agent is beyond useless, the offices are ran by children who have no idea what they are doing.

They are rude and unprofessional. Some of the email responses i received were beyond comprehension. Basic grammar and spelling were non existent! Unbelievably there were times when emojis were even used throughout the exchange.

It is beyond baffling how they can allow these straight up school leavers run an office and attempt to sell houses.

Please avoid this company - local office I used was run by kids! So many mistakes were made with my house being for sale, I couldn't get away from them quick enough. They promise the earth but in reality they haven't got a clue what they are doing. Changed to another agent and can not believe the difference. Save your money and energy and go with someone else!

Shocking. Very rude person on the phone. Would not let me view a property unless I had a contract with there mortgage broker. I’m a cash buyer!

I'm currently looking for a property to rent since my landlord has now sold my apartment.
I'd seen a property with Farrell Heyworth which has been on the rental market for quite some time. Today it was reduced so I contacted them to arrange a viewing (contacting them in the first place is a complete nightmare and so unprofessional). I eventually spoke to Danielle who asked me a few questions, such as my annual income. Then when she discovered I received benefits, I was told that I do not earn enough so would not be able to view the property. I pay exactly the same amount now as they're asking and have lived here for over 5 years (which I did immediately tell her) so I find it strange that they can assume that I cannot afford that particular property. I wasn't even asked if I had savings, other means of covering costs or if I had a guarantor. I live in a beautiful Grade II listed building and my current landlord cannot speak highly enough of me as a tenant as I take excellent care of the property and never fail to meet rent, on time and in full.
Farrell Heyworth have shown discrimination under the Equality Act 2010 and whilst I consider it a lucky escape for me, as I wouldn't trust these agents one bit when it comes to managing properties and looking after tenants, I think it absolutely disgusting that they are treating people with such contempt and getting away with it. I hope someone looks into this company and their very obvious discrimination, but I won't waste a moment more thinking about the disregard and ill treatment from this despicable agency.

If i could give 0 stars i would, they agreed to take our house on after it being on with someone else said we had underpriced it by 20k and they could sell it no problem but keep it at the same price as it was previously on, within 3 weeks of it being on they asked to reduce the price, we asked could they create a better description and some better photos as it was very basic, they said yes but we would have to rewrite the description and retake the photos, had a few veiwings no feedback given and no notice of viewings, then we had a few no shows, they lied to us several times when we asked what happened on including saying our property was a favourite of someone who didnt even view the property, they have a charge of £200ish for it to go on social media, which we have never seen any evidence of, when asked where is it on social media the woman on the phone said you would have to ask us to do something before we would do anything, they lie to get you to go with them, lie about what they are doing and all they do is put your house on rightmove and if there isnt a buyer straight away ask you to reduce the price, this isnt an estate agents its a scam. Do not use i regret leaving JDG so much.

I have been emailing this company everyday for 2 weeks trying to book a viewing for a rental property as for some unknown reason you can't call and speak to a actual human being. I have had no responce at all. Nothing. Whatsoever. So if you are trying to rent out your property through this company good luck getting viewings because they clearly want to advertise your property but don't want to let people look round them.

Do not sell with this Company!!!

This "Family run company" is anything put family run. They got me to sell with them with promises of an eager team who would focus on selling my property and that if it didn't sell and I wanted to take it off the market there would be no fees.

After a year on the market without a single offer I discovered on an occasion that when someone wanted to book a viewing for my property they were also pushed to view another flat Farrell Heyworth were selling in my building a floor up. then when this person said they would rather not on the viewing day they were taken up to view the other flat first before being shown mine anyway. I know this as i asked a friend to go on a viewing to see how they did and this is what they came back with.

But more importantly they lied about the fees. I will say I did sign the contract that has in writing the fee so I was to blame for not fully checking that over but when the valuer came round and while they were trying to convince me to go with Farrell Heyworth they told me there were no fees for leaving, I even asked this at a later date and they confirmed it so I trusted there word which I now regret doing. When I spoke to the office about this I was told the valuer had left the company a few years ago so he could not vouch for this (I put my property in the market 1 year ago so this was already false) And then at a later date got called a liar by the middle manager. After this I just bit the bullet and paid the exiting Fee as they refused to take the property of the market until I did. But when sending me the invoice they upped the price from what was on the contract then told me to pay but luckily this time I had the contract with the amount on it so I was able to get the changed quickly but they were more then happy initially to take the higher amount pressing that I could not take the property off until I did this.

At the end of this all I can say is if you have read this do not go with this company, pick any other estate agents and hopefully you wont have to go through the same experience I did.

One of the worst agencies I've ever come across in my entire life.

I've been renting with a lot of agencies and Farrel Heyworth has been the worst. They are pretty quick to set up renting contracts and get your money yet when you report your issues with rental property, emergency repairs, electrical failure and leaks, they somehow forget to respond for weeks even months. They have no emergency contact as well.

Not recommended at all.