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1.4/5, 25 Reviews
8% Recommended
30% sales valuation accuracy
33% letting valuation accuracy
18% sales fee satisfaction
18% letting fee satisfaction
By : 'Clive'
Services : Letting(As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
Absolutely useless on the customer service front - these guys can't even pick up the phone (you're on endless hold, I waited multiple times for over 20 minutes) to engage you in properties they've advertised or response to emails - so god knows what they'd actual be like as letting agents you'd need to contact for help with a rental or mortgaged property! Not recommended at all
| Services | Valuation | Fees | Min Price of property reviewed | Max Price of property reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | 30% | 18% | £0 | £0 |
| Lettings | 33% | 18% | £650 | £1,350 |
Ocean Estate Agents
201 Gloucester Road, Bristol, City of Bristol
BS7 8BG
0117 942 5855
By : 'Fin'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS8
Joke of a company. No one ever answers the phone. They avoid answering any of the issues you have over email and promise to get on top of it but do nothing until you email them again. Rinse and repeat. A number of serious problems have not been fixed in 6 months. Damp, broken fireplace panel,... Read Full Review
By : 'Fin'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £650
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS8
Joke of a company. No one ever answers the phone. They avoid answering any of the issues you have over email and promise to get on top of it but do nothing until you email them again. Rinse and repeat. A number of serious problems have not been fixed in 6 months. Broken glass on the stairs when... Read Full Review
By : 'Harry'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : BS8
A long apartment hunt for us however the team at Ocean were fantastic! Will and Abygayl were both brilliant and were loving our new home. Would highly... Read Full Review
By : 'Camilo'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £995
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS2
I expent 2 years with this company, We have few issue like the oven doesn't work and they take over 7 mounts to fix it, when we leave the flat we pay 200 for professional cleaning everything was perfect but they complain about the oven cleaning, extractor and bathroom I have pictures a looks ... Read Full Review
By : 'Alice'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £875
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS6
Ocean lettings completely made life difficult for myself and my housemate in lots of ways. They were unhelpful, appearing to avoid answering questions when emailed, such as about our mice problem. We had huge holes in and around the property which needed to be filled to stop the mice from coming... Read Full Review
By : 'Lianna'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £950
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
I used Ocean Lettings for 3 and half years as a renter, When we had the first person who looked after our property Janna all was well until towards the end of our tenancy a man named Jacob took over. During our year with Jacob, it took 6 months to respond to a broken tap that had rotted away... Read Full Review
By : 'George'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
If I could give no stars I probably would. I have never experienced such slow and pitiful customer service. We have always been patient with them, but to no avail. Our shower was leaking through our ceiling, our decking was falling through and rotting away, everything felt as though it was falling ... Read Full Review

By : 'Better'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £1045
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
This agency is worth every single one of the poor reviews it has already received. Shame there's no zero stars... Read Full Review
Average

By : 'Bradleystoker'
Services : Letting( As a Owner )
Rent PCM : £1000
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS32
I have used Ocean to manage my property let for 5 years. The lettings team are professional but once it passed to Maintenance team I received the laziest most unprofessional management in teh 10 years I have let my... Read Full Review
They are taking 10% and I am chasing them up and visiting my own property to review maintenance issues. I have been billed for maintenance that Ocean agree are the tenant´s costs but as Ocean get my rental before I do, they just pay their maintenance contractors with my money and never take tenant to task saying it will be sorted at end of contract via deposit.
By : 'Georgia'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS1
Moved into our flat at the beginning of the year and found our apartment in an absolutely filthy state- took us months for them to agree to come and clean the carpets which were making our whole house smell of mould- and nothing ever done to address any of our other complaints about the... Read Full Review

By : 'Tenant'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
We have had, and are currently having a terrible experience of Ocean. They were uninformative and incorrect about several aspects of the house when we moved in. They have ignored several maintenance requests for broken wooden flooring a faulty radiator and a faulty front door lock that led to us... Read Full Review
Extortionate agency fees for an appalling service.
By : Jessica
22 Jul 2018It's not our first time renting a house. We lived in a few other countries and dealt with other letting agents. I am afraid our experience with ocean wasn't great at all. The whole process was ...

By : 'Livgab'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS1
Appalling service - treated like second class citizens even though we pay nearly £2000 per month rent. Very unprofessional and wouldn't know the truth if they fell over it. Would never use them... Read Full Review
Extortionate
By : 'Clive'
Services : Letting( As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
Absolutely useless on the customer service front - these guys can't even pick up the phone (you're on endless hold, I waited multiple times for over 20 minutes) to engage you in properties they've advertised or response to emails - so god knows what they'd actual be like as letting agents you'd... Read Full Review


By : 'Zbig'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
Bathroom tap broke - they replaced it for a new one (and to be fair, it was done quickly), but left old hose and shower head and refused to provide the rest of the set. According to the property manager its perfectly fine to replace half of the bath tap set - as long as it works, aesthetics do not... Read Full Review
By : 'Baggers'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £775
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS6
I was appalled by the rental team at ocean let's Gloucester Road! The manager actually watched me nearly cry in the office over anti social neighbours and the staff member told me she wasn't in the office and I couldn't make an appointment even though the manager was sitting on the desk opposite!... Read Full Review
Outrageous I was charged 500 pounds in relisting fees as I had to leave contract early due aggressive and anti social neighbours who lived in he flat above. They refused to not charge me due to no fault of my own and then stated they had nothing to do with the issue and it was up to the landlord. They promote this property and is on their books!

By : 'Landlady'
Services : Letting( As a Owner )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS8
Terrible Service - Avoid at all costs As a landlord I have experienced lies, severe delays in responding to my emails if I get a response at all, overcharging, and when I finally decide to leave them I get a �250 sting in the form of a 'downgrade fee'.... Read Full Review
Bad - zero value for money
By : 'Li'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS6
*The most serious issues for which they charged £300: * I signed a form and paid a deposit for a *tenancy* to be a tenant. A few days before moving in they finally sent the contract which was a *lease agreement*, and I was to be a lodger. Upon questioning this, they refused to make it a... Read Full Review
I paid £300
By : 'Anonymous'
Services : Letting( As a Tenant )
Rent PCM : £1350
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS7
Had the misfortune to be a tenant on an ocean property for three years.incompetent on multiple levels with some terrible company policy. I won't bore the reader with every single detail, but leave a single anecdote. Our property contained a dishwasher in the contact which broke down early on. We... Read Full Review
Very overpriced - from what I gather the landlord thought this too
By : 'Paul'
Services : Letting( As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS6
I came away from Ocean feeling patronised and condescended to by their staff. There was a distinct lack of clarity at every stage of the process and communication from them regarding whether or not we had been agreed to take a house was not good. There also seemed to be vastly too many... Read Full Review
- Greater clarity and communication regarding where the process was at. - More polite and less pedantic staff. - Greater clarity over exactly when the holding fee would be returned to us. - Fewer viewings for properties with some minimal feedback if rejected.


By : 'not'
Services : Sales( As a Buyer )
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : BS2
This estate agent is not to be trusted. It was clear that the agents conspired to increase my offer on the grounds of being gazumped by a fictional party. This was put into effect by initially not issuing a bill of acceptance of the offer price, followed by not updating RightMove as to the... Read Full Review
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