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We have used Simon Merchant many times for both buying & selling property. Always feel in safe hands.
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Simon Merchant Property Solicitors
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Nrupa Parekh
Nrupa Parekh
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a month ago
I think it is a total waste of money to deal with this firm, unfortunately. Our purchase has not been completed, no completion date was set as the vendor could not break the property chain, however, addition to the solicitor fee, they charge you for different other costs (which are mainly administrative in nature) under the label of "preparatory work" even if there are absolutely no results (it's in their terms of services that they are entitled to charge you for all their incurring cost up to the point when the purchase fails). We are not satisfied with the overall work of Nicole (our solicitor at this firm)
We do not feel that she represented our interests effectively, e.g. 2 surveyor reports showed issues with the property, which we raised to her, but apart from sending an email to the vendors' solicitor about the issues we raised and accepting their refusal to correct them, she did not do anything on our behalf (literally, the vendors' solicitor sent 1 sentence responses to all the points we raised, e.g. that the vendor refuses to do this/that. I think you would expect your solicitor to challenge this and try to act a bit more pushy way on your behalf, but nothing like this happened) We think our estate agent put much more effort in making the purchase successful (e.g. the agent tried to negotiate with the vendors on our behalf, whilst the solicitor did not do much..of course, as solicitors would get paid regardless whether the deal would go through or not. It was an expensive learning experience, next time we would go for a NO SALE NO FEE solicitor) There are better solicitors who don't charge until the completion which is fair if you're buying a property.
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Dilys
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Very happy with the service provided
I have just sold my house using Simon Merchant property solicitors, I am very happy with the service provided, the sale went through smoothly and they kept me informed throughout the process.
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Amy
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Made mistakes and then attempted to withhold funds
This review relates to a sale and purchase in June 2016.
I would never recommend Simon Merchant solicitors. They are patronising and rude to deal with, very reactive rather than pro-active when it comes to keeping you informed and made some serious errors with our land registry paperwork which nearly cost us our sale.
They then deducted nearly £300 from the proceeds of our sale (without informing us there had been any change to our original quote) and when I queried this it was the charges to fix their own error! It was only when I threatened Simon Merchant directly with the legal ombudsman that the monies were refunded.
Plenty of other solicitors in the area. Avoid.
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