Humberts yesterday put up a holding page on its website. It gives a telephone number which is incorrect.
Humberts UK Ltd also posted up a new notice on Companies House saying it had satisfied a charge, with the “persons entitled” being Humberts Ltd.
There is clear distress for employees who look to have lost their jobs before Christmas, and also for the reputation of franchisees who have bought and wholly own their businesses, and whose businesses are apparently still successful and going. Franchisees are invited to contact us so that we can clarify their own businesses as estate agents.
We have also spoken to an agent who sold their business to Humberts but where a payment has allegedly been missed.
Despite repeated attempts, we have still not managed to contact the owners and senior management team of Humberts, one of the oldest estate agency brands in the country.
Comments (5)
A little unfair on Ollie, hardly his fault! With an attitude like that he could work for me any day!
I hate to see youthful exuberance come crashing down, but do we now get to play ‘Where’s Ollie’?
https://youtu.be/cR7sQBa53S8
Wasn’t Humberts bought by the holiday company guy who was gonna show us all how it was done and start offering concierge services from a collection of hubs blah blah?
Classy, all goes to **** and they run away without explanation.
The guy seemed rick(with a P) from the start.
What an absolute shower. To quote a phone number which is simply 0123 456789 is pathetic. Their staff and franchisees deserve so much more than this and where is Tim Simmons in all this, as he was busily sharing twitter posts of their exciting meetings only a few weeks ago. No way that a so called CEO didn’t know this was happening.
If I was a franchisee, I’d take this opportunity to quick rebrand over to your own good names and dis-associate yourself from a business which is clearly failing them.