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1.5/5, 13 Reviews
23% Recommended
100% sales valuation accuracy
67% letting valuation accuracy
100% sales fee satisfaction
50% letting fee satisfaction
By : 'Bee'
Services : Letting(Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Rent PCM : £1150
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
We rented through them and decided on a place, we paid referencing and holding deposit fee and took our document in within 48 hours( despite there's a bank holiday Monday )the office plus the head office were very unprofessional. They mistakenly copied visa page of foreign country of the British passport submitted to them and asked my partner by email, call on several occasions to bring the passport again to their office for photocopy, after sending my email which was annoying. It took over 48 hrs for them to send an email realising there error and not even a proper apology. After a call from both the head office and branch again on same issue. Referencing took over 3weeks and data protection is not respected at all because they were calling me to talk about my partner. We didn't eventually get the flat and we didn't know this until 2 days to key collection and had to find another in less than 2 hrs before office closing time. Too many errors, waste of money, time, unprofessional and they don't even admit their mistakes or apologise properly but passing blames around. I will say avoid this estate agent by all cost. Bee
Bad
By : Andrew Roberts
30 May 2017Hi "Bee". I am sorry to hear this and would really like to investigate further to ensure that what mistakes have been made are not repeated. Would you be able to email me the property details on andrew.roberts@acorngroup.co.uk or call me on 020 8315 6922 to discuss further. Thanks in advance. Regards Andrew Roberts Customer Relations Manager
By : Andrew Roberts
31 May 2017Hi Bee, I haven't heard from you but I have made some enquiries into this. I would like to thank you for bringing these issues to my attention and confirm that I have taken steps internally with regards to the administrative error with the visa to ensure that such situations don't reoccur. It was unfortunate that our landlord decided against you as tenants at the last minute. You are aware of the specific reasons why, which I wont air here, but I am afraid that this was the landlords prerogative and one that was out of our control. However, I am pleased that following this, our Sydenham office were able to find you another property where our landlords were very happy with you, all within 3 days of you viewing the property. I hope that you will be happy in your new home, but if I can help further, please do let me know. Andrew Roberts
By : Bee
31 May 2017Hi Andrew, I've been busy moving into my new home, hence the late response. I don't have issues with the landlord acceptance at all, I think you misunderstood the whole situation, because I perfectly understand the landlord has a right to refuse or accept tenants. But my issues are with the mistakes in documents communication issue between your branch and head office and delays in referencing, it took over 2 weeks and the landlord didn't get to look into the references until less than a week into moving in date.
| Services | Valuation | Fees | Min Price of property reviewed | Max Price of property reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 100.00% | 100% | £310,000 | £310,000 |
| Lettings | 67% | 50% | £850 | £1,200 |
Acorn Group Estate Agents
54 Sydenham Road, London, Greater London
SE26 5QF
020 8776 7070

By : 'Irene'
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : SE26
We recently were lucky enough to have Jack Cuthbert as our estate agent as we were looking for new tenants for our home in Sydenham. Not only did he find us our perfect tenants that aligned with our wish list completely but he was absolutely faultless in his responses to us throughout. Jack is... Read Full Review
By : 'M'
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Rent PCM : £850
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
Fees are astronomical and you don't even get a clean flat. And apparently it's standard with Acorn, my friend rented through them in Croydon and the flat was also dirty. Why lie? call it anything else but cleaning fee because you are not delivering it. On top of that I've had to... Read Full Review
Bad. Not worth the money
By : Andrew Roberts
6 Jun 2018Dear "MC", could you please call me to discuss as you are raising quite a few issues here which I would like to investigate. Thanks. Andrew Roberts - Customer Relations Manager - 020 8315...

By : 'Disappointed'
Services : Sales (Prospective Vendor/Buyer)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE23
Waste of time. Agent was pesky throughout the week over phone and email, and then missed our viewing, made no apology, and acted put out that we couldn't just reschedule to his whims. We'd rented a car to get to five viewings that day and because of his failure to schedule his time, we... Read Full Review
By : Andrew Roberts
31 Oct 2017Dear "Disappointed...". As I wanted to reply to your Facebook message, unfortunately Yousef was unavoidably detained by other viewers at other properties during the day which had a knock on ...
By : 'Sydenham'
Services : Sales (Prospective Vendor/Buyer)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
I had my property valued with Acorn and have been harassed by their sales team since. I was very clear about when I would be ready to put my property on the market and what my expectations where. The sales negotiator was late and lied to me about why. He called several times to tell me that he... Read Full Review
By : Andrew Roberts
31 Jul 2017I am sorry to hear this and would really like to investigate the issue further. Would you be able to email direct on andrew.roberts@acorngroup.co.uk or call me on 020 8315 6922 to provide me with...
By : 'Sminton'
Services : Sales (Prospective Vendor/Buyer)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
Acorn Sydenham's branch manager came to our home to do a sales valuation and it was an awful experience. As soon as he was through the door he started walking through our home taking measurements of all the rooms without asking. We were talked at for the duration of the meeting and not listened to... Read Full Review
By : 'Bee'
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Rent PCM : £1150
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
We rented through them and decided on a place, we paid referencing and holding deposit fee and took our document in within 48 hours( despite there's a bank holiday Monday )the office plus the head office were very unprofessional. They mistakenly copied visa page of foreign country of the British... Read Full Review
Bad
By : Andrew Roberts
30 May 2017Hi "Bee". I am sorry to hear this and would really like to investigate further to ensure that what mistakes have been made are not repeated. Would you be able to email me the property...
By : 'disappointed'
Services : Other (Buying agent)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
I made an offer for a two bedroom flat for �492,500 in Lawrie Park Gardens with this agent. The offer was accepted.I informed my solicitor to await instructions. After,two weeks of not hearing from the vendors solicitor or the estate agent, I contacted Acorn to enquire as to the reason for the... Read Full Review
By : Andrew Roberts
16 Feb 2017Hi. I am sorry about the poor experience you have had with our office in Sydenham. We obviously take customer satisfaction very seriously and would welcome the opportunity to discuss this with you in ...


By : 'Buyer'
Services : Sales (As a Buyer)
Sold price : £310000
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE26
Lack of correspondence. Never received response to my email queries. Unavailable or inflexible in terms of booking viewings following the vendor's acceptance of my offer to buy the property. I would never use this agency to sell or buy a property again. Incredible low standards of service and very... Read Full Review
Answer to queries quickly and efficiently.
By : 'T'
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Rent PCM : £1200
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE20
Misplaced my keys when showing prospective tenants around so I had to carry out a couple of the viewings at short notice; didnt keep a record of the keys when they found then; didnt let me know for 4 days that the heating wasnt working; didnt respond when I arranged a plumber then again they... Read Full Review
Simply doing the job they are being paid to do would be a great start


By : 'Florent'
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Accorn was very effcient at letting my property. However I enountered a few issues in the management of the property. Issues were gaps in the communication, high turnover of property managers (had 4 in 1 year!) and slow turn around. But I have to say that at the end the job was done, it just took... Read Full Review
By : 'dom'
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Acorn is by far the worst letting agent I have ever dealt with. I had been looking for a one bedroom flat to rent in southeast London and registered with Acorn. I was quickly contacted by agents from three different branches, which I thought was a good sign. They called me, made me repeat... Read Full Review
By : 'adyboymillenium'
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
I was totally disgusted by Acorn's attitude towards me as a tenant - they were slow in communicating repairs e.g. hole in my kitchen floor, ceiling below collapsed, bathroom ceiling came apart and these where the people trying to blame it on the landlord. I had to call the police on a guy named... Read Full Review
By : 'Katie'
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Just completely and utterly awful in a nutshell.. Fantastic at finding as somewhere to live and taking our money but now its time for us to leave they're arranging viewings at all different times of the day and even on a friday night at 7pm! When questioned they become rude and aggressive and... Read Full Review
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