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1.1/5, 30 Reviews
3% Recommended
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By : 'Kat'
Services : Letting(I am a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E161
THEY ARE TERRIBLE! We recently moved out of flat and we are still awaiting our deposit and rent owed to us - c. 3000 GBP. It's been almost 1.5 months now! We have called/email them on multiple occasions - either the manager Kamran (Ayaan is on paternity leave) is on lunch, on a call, out of office etc. They NEVER return any calls! We have contacted the landlord, who didn't have any luck either. We have filed a case in Small Claims Court against Guy Salmon Estates. I will keep you posted!
TERRIBLE
By : test
23 Aug 2013Test
By : Arya
26 Aug 2013Hi Kat , Thanks for the comment , we are in a similar position where our money is stuck , in terms of deposits and first week rent , would need some advice as to how go about the legal options , . Also plese keep us posted on the case. Thanks Arya Shamang
By : WWC
28 Aug 2013Hi Kat, Yes, we just paid for a contract, but now we were informed that the company has gone into liquidation . hope we can keep in touch for further legal help. Thank you! own3505@sina.com
By : XT
28 Aug 2013The company was closed today, not only for us, they even took lots of money from others. We have contacted with one of their staff yesterday, but we didn't sign the contract. All of them were gone today. The person rent the same apartment for different tenants. Hope we can keep in touch and find a legal way to resolve.
By : XT
28 Aug 2013The company was closed today, although we have met one of their staff yesterday, no one can find them now. They took lots of money to escape, not only for us, many people also have the same experience. Pls keep in touch in order to find a legal way to resolve.
By : Arya
28 Aug 2013Hi , They have done the same to us ,and they owe us around 4000 pounds, can we all share our email addresses to find a common solution to this . My email id :aryashamang@gmail.com
By : YP
29 Aug 2013Same thing to me . I m a landlord and owe to pay the deposit back to the tenants and also lost one months rent. Terrible. Just filed a debt form with the liquidators.
By : Mayo
29 Aug 2013In the same boat- They took couple of month's rent upfront and deposit and now owe us £3600! My email is:- mayosoni@gmail.com - Does anyone have any advice on what steps are to be taken next? We should definitely team up. Having such a bad day.
By : Arya
29 Aug 2013Yp , can you please let me know who the liquidators are and how we can get access to the form ?
By : YP
30 Aug 2013Give these guys a call (www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/) and mention that the company is GSE London Limited.
By : FW
31 Aug 2013I am in the same boat! They owe me my deposit and owe my landlady over 3000 in unpaid rent! What can we do about this???
By : You know who
10 Sept 2013Looking at compnies house website, they have obviously gone into liquidation, GSE London ltd, trading as guy salmon estates. I have received a letter today from the official receiver of London, the liquidator, who states that they only have approximately £9000 cash declared in the bank. It is worth ensuring that, if you are owed money by them then to email Daniel.hibben@insolvency.gsi.gov.uk to ensure you are listed as one of the creditors, who is the official examiner dealing with case. I myself am owed in excess of £5000, and looking at the letter sent by the creditor unlikely to get a penny back. Osman and Ayaan Malik, despite their families, have no conscience. In addition, I would suggest to report all this to the police and trading standards in particular, as agree does seem like a larger scale of criminal activity, rather than a small claims court matter. There are also links to an agency called Oscar Hurst in docklands business centre tiller road where they used to be located, who the director, Abrar Khalid, is also labelled as the director for GSE London ltd, but doesn't actually work there.
By : a.khalid
21 Feb 2016This is a message to everyone who has been scammed by this company, my name is Abrar Khalid and I was director for this company for a year before my name was taken off and replaced with someone else. Non of you know me and I don't know any of you but believe me when I say I feel everyones pain. Let me make it clear now that I was not involved in this scam nor was I aware of any of what they were doing to everyone. I myself have been a victim of their scam and am paying a heavy price. A few things I want to mention before I go on is that I went to school with both ayaan and his brother osman so I knew them from a young age. Ayaan's name was adnan iqbal when we were in school but after meeting him again 10 years after leaving stratford school he had changed his name to ayaan malik for reasons unknown. As we started hanging out and being good friends again he asked if he could put his company under my name because he was having problems but never mentioned them to me nor did I inquire because I was too stupid, gullible or naive take your pick coz it was the worse choice I've ever made in my life. Unkown to me at the time but both brothers have been banned from being directors of any business coz they lost a law suit and were told to pay £90,000 so they liquidated the company they had at the time and got banned for a number of years hence why I was one of the idiots who said yes to letting them put their business under their name. At the moment there is a court case being held in March 2016 as the liquidation company is taking both brothers to court over what happened and me for simply having my name on the business. I have details of the lady who works for the liquidators who is trying to bring them both to justice but so far from talking to her she has told me that they have been avasive to all their attempts to contact them and there is an arrest warrant out on their names. I have done nothing wrong. I didn't take no one's money. I cut all ties with them both 3 years ago after I found out what they had done under my name. I got nothing from having my name on the business apart from my name and credibility ruined. So I reach out to you all to contact me if you wish to do so and I will give you the details for the lady who is dealing with the case as well has the date and location of the hearing which will take place next month. Not that they will show up but I got nothing to hide nor am I coward like them to run away, I will be present for the hearing. itsabrar@hotmail.co.uk Also I have just found out they have done this same scam under the company name of Oliver Knights. Read the reviews and you will see the link.
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Guy Salmon Estates
4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway, London, Greater London
E16 1AT
0207 476 2928
By : 'Abrar'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (Admin)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E7
To everyone that has been scammed by this company contact me in order to get justice: itsabrar@hotmail.co.uk My name is A.Khalid & I was a director of this ... Read Full Review
Disgustingly bad
By : Ming Li
16 Aug 2016This company has scammed so many people , I have finally got a outcome , this company also opened a new company called OLIVER KNIGHTS , also scammed allot of landlords and tenants. I have finally ...
By : 'charles'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE15
I too want to join forces with anyone to stop this company from ripping people off. I rented a property last year from them 2013. They let me a property illegally. I had to move out and lost £1000's of pounds. They were unscrupulous on every level. I was put in a vulnerable situation and nearly ... Read Full Review
The agent could have given me my money back on the property as soon as it became apparent that they had illegally let it. instead they left me high and dry. when i finally managed to get my cash back, they wouldn\'t return the £300 administration fee (even though i\'d only had the property 4 days) They wouldn\'t return calls or emails. They should also have offered some recompense for the £1000 I spent moving in and out of the illegally rented property. Disgusting
By : 'Landlord'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E16
Do not use this agent. They are a family run business where all three brothers claim not to know each other. Ayaan Malik, Osman Malik and Kamran Iqbal (also a Malik) are the brothers who have been running it for the last year. They have continuously lied over the phone and face to face meetings. ... Read Full Review
Agent is a scam and they need to be shut down and investigated.
By : 'Rose'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E15
Avoid GSE at all costs! Firstly, they failed to put our deposit into any sort of safe deposit scheme, despite this being written in our contract that this would be done. Upon chasing them up on this, they were seemingly uncontactable as anyone that could deal with it was conveniently 'out of the ... Read Full Review
Don\'t run off with peoples money
By : 'Lin'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : NW3
Hi Everyone, I am also a victim of their scam. My friend and I were going to rent an apartment via them. However 3 days before the move, (everything all paid for) they told us the ‘bad landlord' pulled out, leaving us stranded, no money, and no place to live. After looking at their ... Read Full Review
By : Wenna
11 Sept 2013Hello - I am a fellow scam victim, and the EXACT same thing happened to me! 3 days before the move, we were told the 'bad landlord' had pulled out, and we were left £1800 down with nowhere to live....
By : 'AffectedLandlord'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E3
Having also been affected by this scam, I have it on good authority that these guys are also involved with Wilson & Co Properties located at 14 Tiller Road, E14 8PX. I conveniently received a call from W&C 'offering' their services to me having had no previous communications ... Read Full Review
By : noneedforanick
21 Oct 2013This review is very inaccurate. No one from Wilson and Co has ever had dealings with any ex Landlord of Guy Salmon. Before making these wild accusations it would have been better reserved for you to...


By : 'abijua'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E14
I am in the same boat, they owe me money. Please can you let me know what can be done. I have already given notice for my property, and paid the Guy Salmon for new property which i am not getting now because they are liquidating. Although they messaged me today asking me about my account details ... Read Full Review
Pay me my money back
By : Serg
9 Sept 2013File a police report, it's a fraud, it's already been proved. Join the FB...
By : 'Almas'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E16
Hi All, This estate agency made contact with us. We checked out the website and they were also on major property websites therefore we decided to let our flat. We rented a flat through them and our details were given to another estate agency called Hox City (agent's name: Nabil Khan) which I ... Read Full Review
By : 'Angrytenant'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E14
Landlord hasn't seen a penny of our rent. Worried about our deposit. I knew there was something fishy about these guys but we were on a move deadline. Please set up the fbook ... Read Full Review
By : Elaine
6 Sept 2013Guy Salmon Estates - People affected by the...
By : 'Elaine'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E3
Me and my husband, we've lost a lot of money with the Guy Salmon Estates as well. My name is Elaine and my phone number is xxxxxxxxxx . The thing is that not only this case is a fraud, but it's a criminal case as well, since all the staff who worked there knew what exactly is going on and I've ... Read Full Review
GET ME MY MONEY BACK!
By : bella
3 Sept 2013they managed 2 of my properties, owe me 4 months rent, filed a court case against them about a month ago, they did not respond. please get in...
By : 'Alex'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : SE3
Same here. Tenant's rent disappeared and landlord can't get agent fee back. Should we set up a facebook group etc to discuss this? My email: ... Read Full Review
By : FW
31 Aug 2013Yes can you please set up and let us know the page details? I am in the same boat, owed...
By : 'Maddy'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E16
They are a complete scam! I understand that there are several of us in fairly similar situations where Guy Salmon has tricked or cheated us out of money. They have no closed down and filed for liquidation. If all of us could collect our statements together and turn to a legal advisor that ... Read Full Review
By : 'Victoria'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E16
This company's office in 4 excel has been CLOSED!!! They rented us a property which has already been rented by others for 2 years. Everything they said was lie. They still let us to sign the contract, but close the office today. And no one answer the ... Read Full Review
By : Mayo
29 Aug 2013Hey I'm almost in the same...
By : 'Kat'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E161
THEY ARE TERRIBLE! We recently moved out of flat and we are still awaiting our deposit and rent owed to us - c. 3000 GBP. It's been almost 1.5 months now! We have called/email them on multiple occasions - either the manager Kamran (Ayaan is on paternity leave) is on lunch, on a call, out of ... Read Full Review
TERRIBLE
By : test
23 Aug 2013Test...
By : 'Sandra'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E1
We let our property 22 July and after repeated requests by phone,email and in person we have been told by the one staff member in the office that we cannot have the landlords deposit and the rent owed to us as the principle Aayan Malek is on "paternity leave" and there is no one in ... Read Full Review


By : 'Monika'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E16
Very disappointed with them, not instructed my tenant to pay the rent to our account.. The tenant keep making payment to them and they holding it for ages... Not answering the calls, switching off their mobiles, not returning the MSG, constantly lying about staff members being on holidays and ... Read Full Review
Jade Pearman Osman Malik pls return the calls and answer the emails.....also pls pay our rent and instruct the tenant to make payment to landlady account
By : 'You'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E14
AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE - Worryingly illegal and immoral practice. Have been chasing unpaid rent for months, despite evidence from the tenant that it has been paid to the agents. Also be wary of fraudulent registration of the tenancy deposit schemes - it clearly seems to be re-occurring problem ... Read Full Review
Paid the rent and register the deposit in good time.
By : YP
29 Aug 2013How did you get your deposit (or the tenants deposit) back. What actions should we take. I m a landlord as...
By : 'Rogue'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Owner)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E14
WARNING TO ALL These agents rented my property for two years on false pretence to a so called tenant and then behind my back and without my consent rented my property on a short let. It was lucky I got my property back but they never paid me my last rented and never returned the tenants deposit ... Read Full Review
Return the deposit Pay my rent Not sublet
By : 'Shocked'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : No
Postcode : E14
[[EDIT ORIGINAL START]] I'd also like to warn anyone not to deal with this agency! If you are a current tenant, please check that your security deposit has been secured with one of the Tenancy Deposit Schemes-it most likely hasn't and you probably won't get it back. I have been struggling for ... Read Full Review
They seem to be a fraudulent operation. They have not returned my deposit and continuously lie about it.

By : 'Teresa'
Branch : Canary Wharf, 4 Excel Marina
Western Gateway
Services : Letting (As a Prospective Landlord/Tenant)
Would you recommend ? : Yes
Postcode : E16
We need to say a hige THANK YOU to MICHELLE for her availability and her kindness, her customer service and her assistance in these days...we were desparate to find a place and she has helped us as nobody did....MICHELLE YOU ARE A STAR!!!! We will recommend your site and you should be very proud to ... Read Full Review
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