Want to find the best estate agent in Solihull?

A good place to start your research is by looking at reviews. If you just look at reviews on agent websites, they will have filtered them, so you only see the good ones. Start with Google reviews, or review websites such as Trustpilot or Three Best Rated, or property review websites such as allAgents or Home.

Let’s start with Google reviews
If a company has 1 or 2 5 star reviews, you might have doubts about the validity of these reviews, as they could be from friends or family. But once you start getting into higher numbers, and read through the reviews, all written in different tones of language, with specific details quoted, you can see that they are real reviews from actual customers. When you Google different estate agents in Solihull often their Google review rating comes up next to their details. HS Homes and Simon Burt top the charts, both with a 4.9 rating out of 5. That’s an impressive number, especially when you consider that other estate agents in Solihull only get 3.5.

Do you put you trust in Trustpilot?
Trustpilot delivers different results – and that’s to be expected because people use different platforms for their feedback, just like people use different supermarkets, or accountants.  Top of the leaderboard of estate agents in Solihull is DM & Co, based in Dorridge, with an impressive 5 out of 5 from 367 reviews.

Three Best Rated estate agents in Solihull
This website recommends the top 3 businesses in a location, according to the results of their 50-point inspection, which includes everything from checking reviews, ratings, reputation, history, complaints, satisfaction, trust, and cost. The Three Best Rated estate agents in Solihull, according to them, are smarthomes, Black & Golds, and Simon Burt.  

Home
Home.co.uk is a property information website where you can find properties, analyse sales and rental prices, and discover lots of useful information about selling, buying, and renting. They also list the most active estate agents in Solihull, and other areas, and their results are: smarthomes with 10% of all listings, followed by xact with 9%, and then Burchell Edwards and Ruxton with 6% each. The more listings an agent have gives you an indication that they are the most popular, with people giving them the most instructions. But be aware that quantity doesn’t mean quality, so it’s perhaps not the best metric to use to pick your next estate agent.

allAgents
allAgents is a property review website that also runs annual awards to determine the best agents by town, postcode area, and region. When looking in the Solihull area their top three agents, all with 5 stars, are smarthomes, Simon Burt and Melvyn Danes. This is based on customer reviews.

Selecting the best estate agent in Solihull for you
The best way forward is to pick 2 or 3 estate agents that have good customer reviews, from one of these sources mentioned above, then meet with all 3 and see who you respect the most. You need to know who you’ll be working with, what price they’d value your property at, and their approach to marketing if your property was to take longer to sell or rent than you’d hoped. Add in any personal preferences you may have – for instance, do you prefer a small or a big company, a long-established business, or a new one. And you should have your answer!

Information correct at the time of writing this article.