Name: YOPA
Rating: 1.50

“Looking to purchase a property (mine already sold) and saw one advertised by Yopa. Sent email asking for more information and receive no reply. i imagine the seller would be very unhappy if they new about this.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Trying to view a house listed by Yopa is like pulling teeth!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Having agreed to a full sales package whereby the agent carried out the viewings, I feel the service has been, to say the very least, appalling. There are four weeks left of my sixteen week contract. I have only received one phone call after first viewing to provide feedback re an offer, but buying still has to sell. I received an offer via another viewer which I forwarded on to the agent. I informed said agent that I wouldn’t accept it. The same gentleman viewed another 2/3 times yet the agent did not provide me with any feedback from the buyer. Did he negotiate for me?? I have no idea! Three potential buyers on two separate dates arrived at the property but these were not on my yopa calendar. I know this as neighbours have informed me. On one occasion I was able to go over to complete the viewings myself. I’ve had emails from someone asking if the house is sold as she had been trying to request a viewing and her request had not been acknowledged. She explained that she was in urgent need of purchasing a property so had decided to email me directly. When I informed the agent he said he would check. Apparently, as he was checking, her request came through at the same time. Either the website is not updating/syncing correctly or I’m being fobbed off. While the property was still inhabited by my tenant and viewing were being agreed by the tenant, the agent did not arrive at the allotted time. My tenants parents, who were awaiting the agents arrival, had to collect grandchildren from school so had to leave. In regard to the yopa website; this has at times shown multiple viewing by the same potential buyer for the same date and time. Is this the agent not maintaining the diary correctly or webpage errors? Trying to access the website via a phone is almost impossible as it will more often, not load for me to view anything. I have not been provided with the service outlined on your website and the contract has not been adhered to by Yopa.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Having agreed to a full sales package whereby the agent carried out the viewings, I feel the service has been, to say the very least, appalling. There are four weeks left of my sixteen week contract. I have only received one phone call after first viewing to provide feedback re an offer, but buying still has to sell. I received an offer via another viewer which I forwarded on to the agent. I informed said agent that I wouldn’t accept it. The same gentleman viewed another 2/3 times yet the agent did not provide me with any feedback from the buyer. Did he negotiate for me?? I have no idea! Three potential buyers on two separate dates arrived at the property but these were not on my yopa calendar. I know this as neighbours have informed me. On one occasion I was able to go over to complete the viewings myself. I’ve had emails from someone asking if the house is sold as she had been trying to request a viewing and her request had not been acknowledged. She explained that she was in urgent need of purchasing a property so had decided to email me directly. When I informed the agent he said he would check. Apparently, as he was checking, her request came through at the same time. Either the website is not updating/syncing correctly or I’m being fobbed off. While the property was still inhabited by my tenant and viewing were being agreed by the tenant, the agent did not arrive at the allotted time. My tenants parents, who were awaiting the agents arrival, had to collect grandchildren from school so had to leave. In regard to the yopa website; this has at times shown multiple viewing by the same potential buyer for the same date and time. Is this the agent not maintaining the diary correctly or webpage errors? Trying to access the website via a phone is almost impossible as it will more often, not load for me to view anything. I have not been provided with the service outlined on your website and the contract has not been adhered to by Yopa.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“We are in the process of buying a house which is being advertised by YOPA and it’s been a nightmare. They have no idea how the Scottish system of buying and selling property works. They totally ignore our solicitors written and legal documents and only want us to use their online process. I would never ever use YOPA to sell a house.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“6 weeks ago, agreed to sell our home through YOPA After 3 weeks finally got the agreed survey report, 3 attempts to change errors - dealing with Aberdeenshire agent - never returned my calls or emails Now 6 weeks later and still no sales schedule Called YOPA head office complain, about heated disagreement with their local agent. Now called my card provider to get my money - wish reserched YOPA before paying them! Suggest everyone avoids them...”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Very underhand! Viewed a property for sale offer accepted with email confirmation. Then phoned a couple of days later to say offer revoked! Higher offer! Obviously this agent encourages gazumping!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“As with the previous review, after three months, only one booked visit to my house and then he did not turn up. The pay later scheme is a fraudulent scheme in my opinion, there is no incentive to sell the property as Yopa are paid sooner or later. There needs to be better a closer look at the this industry and some kind of policing. DONOT USE THIS METHOD OF SELLING!!!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I would like to warn any purchasers out there to steer clear of anything sold by YOPA. The sales team, although nice people, appear to do nothing unless prompted to do so; as the person "selling" the house has been incredibly slow to react to anything required of her eg submitting details of her solicitor, YOPA only did anything when I realised that nothing had happened, and therefore contacted them! I have little faith now in this sale being completed in time. We are cash buyers, having gone through various housing hells for over three years, and now we have this to deal with - unbelievable.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“DO NOT,and I mean DO NOT use this company. They tie people into a "Pay Later" scheme (with a Finance Company)which actually means there's no incentive to sell your house. In actual fact it's a nuisance to sell,as they'll charge you anyway. 12 weeks,no viewings,no feedback. . they have my money anyway! DON'T TOUCH.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I will not be engaging with this company again to buy or sell a property. Wishing to view a property, they refused to give me a viewing without giving them extensive personal information that I do not wish to give out freely. As a result their client will be one less potential buyer. As a seller I would not wish them to be discouraging potential buyers either.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“From the get go agent has brought in insulting offers more tan 30000 under home survey value,advised us continually to put down asking price as a marketing tool. Tried to cancel service and was told í was not allowed to for 14 weeks. Apparently in their terms which í cant remember ever seing through agent or website.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Four different agents in quick succession, all of whom offered differing advice. No warning that changes were about to happen nor any 'hello' from the new agents who arrived. No checks on whether clients had the necessary funds in place, no follow-up with potential buyers during the sales process. Papers sent to the wrong person (someone who had withdrawn an offer instead of the current client). I was left to do the apologising and explaining. I complained about poor service in writing and it was bated off to the agent, who i was told would be in touch. He never was, and no real response to my complaint was ever made. A truly terrible service. I ended my relationship with them and had a much better response from a high street agent. I am now in the process of complaining again about the fact that they STILL want to charge me for the useless service I received. Judging from past experience, I am not hopeful of any kind of decent response.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Like all the other reviews say, avoid at all costs. Do nothing to earn their money, basically all they do is list your property on rightmove and move on to count your cash!! Don't call EVER to give you updates, feedback or just check in and whenever you call there is no answer. We thought it was a great money saving idea but heed everyone's warning and save yourself time and money and go with a high street agent who actually has to work to earn your commission!!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Like all the other reviews say, avoid at all costs. Do nothing to earn their money, basically all they do is list your property on rightmove and move on to count your cash!! Don't call EVER to give you updates, feedback or just check in and whenever you call there is no answer. We thought it was a great money saving idea but heed everyone's warning and save yourself time and money and go with a high street agent who actually has to work to earn your commission!!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Extremely unprofessional agent who never picks up calls and responds to text messages, same with your head office where I spend a lot of time requesting to make ONE call to a buyer because he wants to speak to agent only and then they direct me back to agent who never responds. Been in a market for up to 5 months and had almost 30 viewings and 5 potential buyers and offers and I lost all of them because they wanted to speak to agent to negotiate and discuss further about property and your agent and your head office never bothered doing it and I am almost at the edge of losing the 6th buyer because, I have made so many calls in last 2 hours to your agent and your head office requesting to make ONE bloody call to buyer and receive his offer and none of them did it. That’s all Yopa is about.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“your agent is unproffessional and i have no chance of selling my property with you, upon my request to leave ,your arrogant customer services manager, has been of no help at all, insisting i follow a lengthy complaints procedure, which basically takes my property off of the market at the optimum time to sell”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Quite frankly I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy! Appalling! incompetent, systems that don't work, no response from agents, shocking service from their head office, basically no service at all! They don't do what they say on the tin...in fact they don't seem to do anything! I'm utterly disgusted.......”

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Posted 7 years ago

“The agent took days to get back to us even when we had put in an offer we had viewed 48 hours earlier. I then received 3 emails from Yopa in the space of 2 mins, the first saying I had requested a return visit, one to confirm the visit then one to cancel the visit! I phoned to enquire about this, couldn’t get an explanation from the duty agent who told me I would get a call the following day. I did get one that woke me and my children just after 8am, saying some one would be in touch later in the day. After waiting all day I eventually phoned the agent myself who still couldn’t tell me if the visit would happen. I was eventually told that the vendor would negotiate but wouldn’t consider until I had sold my property and wouldn’t let my husband view the property ( he had been away for the initial visit) until then. My house is going on the market next week ( the earliest I could do that because of family circumstances) and was going on at a price for quick sale. I am appalled that Yopa can facilitate this kind of heavy handed selling. I got the distinct impression that I was being played throughout the unhappy experience. I certainly wouldn’t recommend this type of service via the internet. Other estate agencies I have been using in my house search and sale have been nothing but helpful and courteous.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I would never use yopa again or recommend them to anyone! worst experience EVER, if you get an agent that doesn't get back to you with updates, lies to viewers, turns up at your house with their kid. they basically wait for viewers to make appointments from rightmove. totally unprofessional and you will NOT get your money back from yopa! we went with another agent after 100 days on the market and sold within 4days! DONT WASTE YOUR £839! So unprofessional!”

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Posted 7 years ago

Customer Service
Communication Channels	Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week

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