I am sorry you have had a bad experince with estate agents and i wont comment on my personal thoughts on Saxton Mee and what they have done to the people they owe money too.
Not all Estate agents as you put it are doing absouletly **** all,some like myself are doing everything to support their family and staff,whilst still do there best for their clients in this dreadful climate.
It is ignorant to presume we are all the same .I personally do everything i can for my clients and so do my hard working staff,many of whom work till late at night unpaid in order to tie up a sale.
The only agents that wull survive are the honest hardworking ones as they are the only ones willing to work twice as hard in order to get paid to feed their families.
i have heard... that they have gone down for £700,000 and that they reformed splitting into 3 companies... commercial as was but without James mee... new homes as it was without James mee... and saxton mee has been split in two Bannercross, Hathersage bakewell and dronfield going to James mee and Tim Heaton and the crookes and hillsborough to Linda Crapper (new homes director) she will operate her own seperate lettings..
It smells very bad.. they bought the for sale stock off the old company for £1
Apparently James Mee was out shooting with the chief administrator the week before..
just not good form.. they even had the nerve to try and put a positive we are restructuring spin on it..... tut tut
We were talking about this at the weekend and I can't imagine where the figure of £700,000 comes from.
If they were a year behind with all the office rents it couldn't come to much more than £100,000, an optimistic £20,000 for the man who puts all the signs up, unpaid wages aren't going to be much more than £30,000.
As such they have no stock apart from a bit of office machinery and furniture. £1 for the for sale stock, well it has no value really, paticularly at the moment. These amounts are miles away from anything really worth going down the Swanee for, especially when the administrators have had their cut.
If the figure you've heard is anywhere near true then there's something afoot, and it's not 12 inches....
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We were talking about this at the weekend and I can't imagine where the figure of £700,000 comes from.
If they were a year behind with all the office rents it couldn't come to much more than £100,000, an optimistic £20,000 for the man who puts all the signs up, unpaid wages aren't going to be much more than £30,000.
As such they have no stock apart from a bit of office machinery and furniture. £1 for the for sale stock, well it has no value really, paticularly at the moment. These amounts are miles away from anything really worth going down the Swanee for, especially when the administrators have had their cut.
If the figure you've heard is anywhere near true then there's something afoot, and it's not 12 inches....
Might be able to add unpaid bills for IT? PCs, paying rightmove, their own Website costs etc...? What about the lease costs on s****y cars?
out of interest, one of the directors of Saxtonmee who seems to be taking part of the broken up company is Linda Crapper. Is she any relation to Patrick Crapper the letting agent with the green and white boards round parts of Sheffield?
Redundancies, unpaid wages are well over £30k, anyone that estimates below this does not have a clue as to how many people have lost their jobs in last 6 months. Some employees are owed thousands.
Staff that worked / work there - work to pay a mortgage and feed their families - just like everyone else.
I have my house for sale with Saxton Mee and on my 3rd sales negotiator in the last 3 months. They rang up yesterday to organise a viewing. We've had no contact putting our minds at rest and explaning that business will be unaffected. I thought a letter just out of courtesy would have been the least they could have done.
I have my house for sale with Saxton Mee and on my 3rd sales negotiator in the last 3 months. They rang up yesterday to organise a viewing. We've had no contact putting our minds at rest and explaning that business will be unaffected. I thought a letter just out of courtesy would have been the least they could have done.
After 10 weeks the sale of my house fell through,the people said they couldn't get a mortgage,agents shouldn't take the house off the market untill a mortgage is sorted,so I lost 10 weeks of selling time and then am told my Saxton Mee to pay £95 to re ad in the local paper when they took the house off the market for 10 weeks.
This morning the administration notice for Saxton Mee dropped through our letter box confirming what we knew - we're not going to get paid for the work we've done. Like a lot of other people.
A nice little deal done in the boardroom and everyone else can go to hell.
Interesting, isn't it, that hardly anything has appeared in the Star, or that one estate agent who dared refer to it in his copy for an ad in the Telegraph had it censored. It is of course purely coincidence that James Mee and the MD of Sheffield Newspapers are close neighbours and friends. If this forum didn't exist, the whole affair would hardly have generated any wider publicity at all.
And despite it all, Mr Mee will show his face in public as though nothing has happened. Just as he did in the executive suite at SWFC for the last home match, and I'll bet he'll do again on Saturday.
We are with them at the moment but would lve to change. Problem is we will have to pay approx £375 to do it.
Why dont all the people who were with saxton mee before they went insolvent refuse to pay, did they become exempt from payment when saxton mee went insolvent. I dont think they notified any of their clients that there was a problem.
the administrators may have broken the Data Protection Act by effectively selling all the Oldco customers names and addresses to Newco Saxtonmee, the customers signed up with Oldco Saxtonmee. This may be a way of leaving Newco Saxtonmee without paying any fees for Oldco customers.
Details of the breaches of the Data Protection Act can be found here;
For the people who are/were using saxton mee to sell their property.
I called them a couple of weeks ago to express interest in a property, i also outlined my situation, i had a mortgage arranged, had nothing to sell and could complete quickly, so bearing that in mind would the owner of a particular property consider a lower offer . I was flatly told no, they didnt take any of my details, name, telephone , number or anything else so i moved on to the next agents !!!
Then i called Haybrook and Blundells who have both since sent me a number of properties by email and post, marking on each property buyers situation, if they would take an offer and when i could view, both asked me to go in and be financially qualified which i did and as a result I have viewed properties and hope to make an offer. Both of these agents have kept in touch every other day to give me any updates.
I know who i would use when and if i come to sell, i feel sorry for the staff who have most probably been treated so poorly they couldnt be bothered to do their job.
Well, He lives in a £1.5m home with totty ex-employee and his wife lives in a £1m house also as settlement All in Baslow if you need to call on them
The house he bought in Baslow was up for rent a couple of weeks ago so I don't think he is living there. I am not 100% sure but I don't think he is living with the ex staff totty as you so delightfully put it, either. And his ex wife lives in Hathersage, apart from that you were spot on.
We are with them at the moment but would lve to change. Problem is we will have to pay approx £375 to do it.
We're in the same boat having paid for our hip we would have to pay for marketing and cancellation fees totalling nearly £400.
I'm tempted to go somewhere else and only pay them for marketing and tell them to stuff their cancellation charge where the sun doesn't shine.
The house he bought in Baslow was up for rent a couple of weeks ago so I don't think he is living there. I am not 100% sure but I don't think he is living with the ex staff totty as you so delightfully put it, either. And his ex wife lives in Hathersage, apart from that you were spot on.
You are quite right she lives in Hathersage but the totty is correct and up for rent means nothing does it if he is taking the cash??????
Administration. Dont be conned here people. Do NOT pay anyone but the Administrators if you owe Saxton Mee and make a DEMAND of the Admionistrators if you are owed. Saxton Mee cannot buy their old debts back under the new company.
