Foxtons, Good News ....

Cat695

lean your head to the left and you will see 241

Sir_Humphrey

Cat695 wrote: »

lean your head to the left and you will see 241

I wonder if they have a 666?

morg_monster

chewmylegoff wrote: »

a rival estate agency opened up opposite foxtons on balham high road about six months ago, they copied the stupid foxtons image and had a ridiculous beer fridge taking up about a quarter of the office floor space. that office closed within a couple of months. hopefully foxtons will go the same way.

chew i was about to post that! It was Morgan Randall. I live right near there and for the short time they were open used to wonder whether the receptionists in foxtons and MR would sit there all day making faces and flicking the bird at each other...
It's so odd though, they left months ago but all the bottles of coke and mineral water are still there in the fridge under the reception desk, all the massive wide screen LCD monitors, all the desks, chairs, etc etc. Really wierd. no for sale/lease sign and someone comes in frequently to pick up the post as there's never much more than a couple of days worth on the mat. I'm very surprised it doesn't seem to be up for sale or lease and also kind of surprised noone has tried to break in to steal anything since the whole shopfront is glass, you can see everything.

I always thought they were doomed when I saw they had a 1 bed flat in my building on sale for £30k more than another agent two doors down was offering an identical flat. But I guess they can't be doing too badly if they aren't fussed about leaving the office as-is.

baby_boomer

Update from the Evening Standard

The expectation is that Foxtons will keep going and that the banks and current owners will share the pain.

Apparently they stress tested Foxtons on purchase against a scenario in which transactions in London were down 30% [compared with the current 60/70% fall].

Someone spotted the top of the market.

Foxtons was sold for £360m by its founder Jon Hunt in May 2007

chewmylegoff

morg_monster wrote: »

chew i was about to post that! It was Morgan Randall. I live right near there and for the short time they were open used to wonder whether the receptionists in foxtons and MR would sit there all day making faces and flicking the bird at each other...
It's so odd though, they left months ago but all the bottles of coke and mineral water are still there in the fridge under the reception desk, all the massive wide screen LCD monitors, all the desks, chairs, etc etc. Really wierd. no for sale/lease sign and someone comes in frequently to pick up the post as there's never much more than a couple of days worth on the mat. I'm very surprised it doesn't seem to be up for sale or lease and also kind of surprised noone has tried to break in to steal anything since the whole shopfront is glass, you can see everything.

I always thought they were doomed when I saw they had a 1 bed flat in my building on sale for £30k more than another agent two doors down was offering an identical flat. But I guess they can't be doing too badly if they aren't fussed about leaving the office as-is.

yeah, i noticed it was still on there on my way down to waitrose the other day. i bet the foxtons crowd absolutely loved it when morgan randall shut down. i think they've got a couple more offices elsewhere in london - is odd that they're not doing anything with the office. you'd at least think they'd sell the fridge stock to foxtons.

maz_student

Are they really that bad? I was looking at some of their properties online last week. Does anyone have any first-hand stories? Up till now I honestly thought they are a reputable company who care about their image!

FoxtonsRIP

Panorama exposed them as a load of cheating, lying crooks a few years ago

maz_student

thanks for that Im sticking to haart.co.uk!!

geoffky

it was the money programme that exposed them... pure scum.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/10_october/29/money_programme_mortgage.shtml

ps haart were also mentioned

also have a look at what they were up to
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http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8482518243122067675&hl=en-GB

Doozergirl

FoxtonsRIP wrote: »

Panorama exposed them as a load of cheating, lying crooks a few years ago

It wasn't Panorama or the money programme; it was a programme called 'whistleblower' and there was nothing that you wouldn't expect from an EA. If you have a head on your shoulders, look at rightmove for comparables and view properties with other agents then you're fine. They can't help being wideboys :rotfl:. At the end of the day, you're buying someone elses property, not a Foxton's employee.

It was one of those crap documentaries - like when Donal McIntyre got so desperate trying to find muggers in Brixton that he started wandering around the backstreets holding his phone out to people and offering people cash upfront if they could find weed for him. That was so funny, I haven't watched him since. Maybe I should!

MINI stopped making cars in British Racing Green a few years back and I am sure there is only one reason for that. A city car with the UK's major city populated with green ones owned by EAs? If you owned a green one that wasn't liveried, people would assume that you'd bought a second hand Foxton's one anyway.