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Everything went pretty smooth and Tim was easy to communicate with it’s 5* from me thank you
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Holden Smith Law Limited
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Working smarter, for an easier legal journey. Life’s really good at throwing curveballs. When it throws them your way, you need a legal team ready to bat it out of the park. Our services are here for you, as and when you need them.
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Matter Type:
Purchase and Sale
Adrian C
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Outstanding Service
I wholeheartedly recommend Tim and Leigh without any reservation. My experience with them was truly exceptional, especially after a frustrating time with another conveyancer. The difference was like night and day!
From the very beginning, Tim and Leigh were incredibly responsive and attentive. They were always available to answer my questions, no matter how small, and consistently went above and beyond to ensure my interests were protected. They quickly grasped the complexities of my case and efficiently moved the process forward.
Their professionalism, expertise, and dedication made what can be a stressful experience incredibly smooth and reassuring. I can't thank them enough for their outstanding service!
A representative from Holden Smith Law Limited responded to this review on 28 October, 2024:
Thank you very much for your kind review, it is very much appreciated.
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Matter Type:
Residential Conveyancing
J Bolton
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Proactive and Responsive
Tim and Leigh were great working as my sell-side solicitors. It was not easy process but the proactiveness and responsiveness of the service was great especially when dealing with difficult buy-side solicitors. Also, rather refreshingly, Tim would ring me as required, which made life easier and helped the service rather than just communicating exclusively through emails.
Would certainly recommend Tim and Leigh.
A representative from Holden Smith Law Limited responded to this review on 18 October, 2024:
Thank you so very much for your kind review, it is much appreciated.
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Matter Type:
Residential Conveyancing
Anonymous
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Very frustrating experience
Tim Hare worked to try to salvage a very poor experience from the company. I needed conveyancing for a very simple sale of a flat to the owner of the building and was initially assigned Mark Thompson. I filled out the initial paperwork on their portal, even as far as providing details about the building that Mark insisted were needed for the buyer even though the buyer was the building owner. Several of the bits of information were then requested again even after being provided, Mark saying he could not see my responses even though they were ticked as complete. Throughout I made it clear that the buyer did not care as he was already aware of the state of the building as he owned it! The portal "progress meter" never worked once, was a completely pointless, and getting any kind of indication of progress was like pulling teeth. At one point I emailed Mark to get an auto reply saying he was on holiday, and told to contact another person who turned out was ALSO on holiday. I tried to phone at a different point and got no answer from the several numbers I was provided. For some reason (after trying to get some kind of movement for a considerable time) my case was moved to Tim, who was a lot more proactive, easy to contact and tried to get things resolved, ultimately getting the sale through.
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Residential Conveyancing
Alec
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Alex Jones
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Thank you for an easy transaction. Always there when we needed you.
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Stacey
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Purchase of property
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I just want to say thank you so much to Caroline and team for the quick completion of buying our dream house. After bouncing around previous solicitors for months with delays and issues we finally found Caroline at Holden Smith. The process was quick, efficient and done and dusted within a few weeks. Caroline was very transparent and thorough. Explaining everything at our pace and nothing was too much trouble. (Even after all our questions) We would definitely recommend and will be no contest if we need any services in the future.
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Matter Type:
New home purchases and sales
Joel,
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Nightmare!
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Waste of time.
Abena was rude and uselesss
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Stephanie,
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Very friendly but professional help and advice
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Matter Type:
Residential Conveyancing
Hayley,
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Second time using this company
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Used holden smith in the sale and purchase of property.
Had additional documents drawn up at the same time.
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Matter Type:
Lasting power of attorney
Allison Hunt,
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Excellent service
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Used them to organise a power of attorney
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Sam
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Sam
If I could give o stars I would. Absolutely terrible service. Kat and kirsty oversaw my sale and purchase and the lack of communication I received is appalling. I was selling my house as seperating from my partner and buying a new house on my own, but they seemed to treat the sale and purchase as one case. They never even asked what my ex partners plans were following the sale of the house until the last couple of weeks which would effect the length of the sale process. Everything was through email and I was constantly having to chase them. The 2 times I did speak to Kat she was incredibly rude, talking over me and couldnt wait to get me off the phone. The whole process was incredibly stressful anyway but at the end it was even worse. I had a moving date proposed 1 month prior and the week before received an email from Kat to state we had to be out by 12pm that day. So on the moving day I had my removal van all loaded up and ready before 12 only to be told the exchange of my contracts had not even happened! I ended up having a removal van sat around for 5 hours waiting and in the end was told we couldn't move that day. It cost me £750 in moving costs plus other expenses.not only that, it pretty much collapsed the whole chain from being able yo move that day also. The only response I got was that it wasn't their fault but my buyers solicitors and they denied all responsibility even though it was crystal clear in the email that I had to be out by that day before 12pm. Had they been more proactive and not just rely on email to communicate with people it might not have been such a mess!
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Gemma
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Gemma
Buying a home can be stressful but Nicola made the whole process feel seamless from beginning to end.
I would highly recommend Nicola and the team at Holden Smith Law to assist you when buying or selling a house.
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Amy
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Amy
Nicola and the team from Holden Smith Law have been brilliant throughout our purchase. Nicola was very responsive throughout the process to help deal with queries. The whole process was fast and smooth, thank you guys.
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Mark
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Mark
Very professional, responsive solicitors, would use again when needed!
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Kath
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Kath
The team are very helpful, thorough and friendly. I can't thank Katie Sanderson enough for dealing with our house sale.
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