Davis Tate Avis 

I can't recommend the firm based on my recent personal experience.

Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from a purchase (this was prior to contract exchange) and received a completely unprofessional phonecall from an employee wanting to know more details as to why.

I highlighted my concerns and reasoning but the employee became more irate over time and was not only berating me for not proceeding, but made several patronising personal remarks indicating I lacked an understanding of some material information. I can assure any readers that I had a very detailed understanding of the matter at hand (surely more than the employee as he misquoted some very important figures throughout) and my decision to proceed was based on some very real concerns.

I should have recognised an earlier red flag when the property survey revealed the highest level of concern in one area and was told it was "no big deal."

I am still flabbergasted that a firm would initiate the call with me and what they felt it would achieve? That I would capitulate and say "oh sure well I'll definitely go ahead then!"

I can completely understand that they had a disappointed vendor, but being rude and unprofessional with the buyer is not the way to resolve anything.

I let my flat via this company. The service was poor before COVID but became terrible after - they made many mistakes (one of which cost me a lot of money) and gave me lots of excuses and downright wrong information. My impression was that they didn't know what they were doing and hoped I wouldn't notice.

They added a lot of stress in a difficult year - it would have been easier not to use them

Really excellent service from Ben and the team at Shinfield. I had an offer in 6 days of it going on the market, and it completed in less than 8 weeks. Ben was candid, honest in every interaction I had with him, He worked really hard to get things moving when the chain started to wobble, and my Buyers also really appreciated his support. If you have a bad opinion about Estate Agents, try Ben and his team at Shinfield! I will certainly be using them again!

We had a bad experience with Davies Tate in Twyford for a chalet bungalow we rented in Hurst. They were misleading and unhelpful from the very beginning.
As an Estate agent has a duty of care towards the tenant, but we found them to be very attached to the two controlling landlords instead.
They conveniently didn’t inform us of them being immediate neighbours until after we were committed. This lead to an uncomfortable tenancy of being spied on and countless intrusions.
The Agents made us pay for both
Check-in and Check- out. It’s only because the landlords disputed the return of our 1.5 month deposit (for redecorating dated interior and blinds) that an independent adjudicator became involved, highlighting this unfairness and thus returning back to us 92% of our deposit whilst overriding their checkout clerk’s findings.
Please be careful with them and ask All the right questions before you sign on the dotted line...

Davis Tate Wantage - John and Oliver have been fantastic during our recent house move! Finding us our first home and making it happen! 🙌 it’s been alittle daunting due to the pandemic happening but they have reassured us and guided us well through our move. Communication was brilliant and always getting back to us so quickly! Highly recommend

Moved into a FLEA INFESTED flat Fuchsia Grove, Shinfield on 25th December... called Davis Tate when they opened 28 December to say flat is infested with fleas, bitten all over by fleas & we had been up from 11pm - 5:30pm vacuuming and hadn't slept after being at work all day as well!
NO APOLOGY and no concern. Was told they'd contact the cleaner to come and clean. Which would definitely not have been on the same day & they showed no remorse and never said sorry for the inconvenience. I agree with the other review, staff are very arrogant.
Finally after pushing to stay in a hotel, they called Pest Control and said to the guy “ I think they’re exaggerating.” Pest Control have had to come out twice, since we moved in... the 2nd time a I had 22 bites on one leg , 3 on the other and he found 7 living fleas after the 2nd treatment .

I had the washing machine & tumble dryer on for 3 days , and had to stay in a hotel, cancel Christmas and New Year plans as we couldn’t have any visitors. I counted 22 bites on one leg.

Almost 2 months after moving in, the faults when we first moved in have still not been fixed, as promised.
If this was a private Landlord, they would have been fixed in December before we moved in.
Never will I go with an Agency again, worst treatment and experience of renting ever.