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Ocean Estate Agents have been selling Bristol homes of all shapes and sizes – large and small, grand ¬and modest, smart and not so smart… for all kinds of people since 1984.
Founder Paul Harris started the business over 40 years ago with Ocean Bishopston on Gloucester Road, and there are now 12 local offices across the city including one in Portishead and Weston super Mare.
Their ethos is very much ‘people before property’, with the emphasis on looking after the individuals and families buying or selling their homes, to make what is often a challenging experience, as worry-free as possible.
Ocean’s teams, reflect the culturally rich communities of this wonderful city, spanning a diverse mix of ages and backgrounds from across Bristol.
It is also very much a family business. Many of the team have grown up and started their own families whilst working for Ocean – they even have some second generation ‘Oceaners’ now working for the company.
Reviews 748
Lizzie Howling
Apr 10,2024Very helpful team, excellent communication and very proactive for getting the best deals, would definitely recommend.
customer
Apr 10,2024Ocean Southville did a fantastic job at selling our house. I would recommend them to anyone. In particular the move manager helped push everything along and kept our chain together despite many ups and downs! They were positive and helpful from the beginning to end. Thank you Ocean,
Joe
Apr 09,2024Embarrassing that a company can't even respond to multiple emails or pick up the phone for multiple days to a customer. Shame.
Mr Cox
Apr 08,2024A fairly good service for an average price. No issues to raise. Thanks
Matthew Macken
Apr 08,2024Very Helpful, was always on hand to help with a very tricky house move. My First experience with buying a property and it was great! Mike and Melissa were fantastic throughout.
Val Hopkin
Apr 08,2024We have been very impressed from the beginning. Everything was made so easy and we were kept up to date all the way through.
Mrs Elizabeth Stockdale
Apr 08,2024It's been a pleasure working with Ocean Lettings (Willowbrook office, Bradley Stoke), both for a property purchase and, more recently, helping us to choose the right tenants. Ocean always call back when they say they will - this is so very important and results in an excellent working relationship.
DR A HOPKIN
Apr 08,2024Everything was done and taken care of without fuss and very efficiently. Kept us informed daily of what had happened.
A happy buyer
Apr 06,2024Had a great experience with Oceans Estate Agents especially they are local of Bradley Stoke, Bristol. They have always been very thorough, approachable and professional and always provided very helpful guidance and advice especially I was a first time buyer and almost knew nothing about the whole process. Highly recommended.
Claire Thomas
Apr 03,2024The service provided was excellent. The staff we dealt with were friendly, clear, quick to respond and extremely helpful.
Prajeesh Karayi
Apr 03,2024The employees were extremely helpful in updating us at every stage of the process. Their consistent communication kept us well-informed from the initial viewing all the way through to the key handover.
Mark Sampson
Apr 03,2024I cannot speak highly enough about Ocean Financial Services. Having never had or attempted to get, a mortgage before I had no idea where to start. Victoria was amazing. She talked me through the whole process and took all the worry away.
Jean Patricia Rowbottom
Apr 02,2024This is the second sale that Ocean, Shirehampton, has handled for me in the last twelve months and, once again, it was done to perfection. Mark, Chris and Sam all were excellent and Tanya was an absolute star keeping me up to date all through the long process of waiting for my buyer to obtain his probate. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend the team at Ocean, Shirehampton, and they deserve far more than five stars! My thanks to all of them.
Mr Freke
Apr 01,2024Ocean Bradley Stoke branch recently sold a property for us and through the trials and tribulations of selling a leasehold property they kept the dialogue between the two solicitors going positively. The sales coordinator at the branch kept us well informed at every stage of the sales process and in some instances was responsible for helping to move things forward. we will have no hesitation in using Ocean again when we need to sell one of our buy to let properties.
Antonio
Apr 01,2024Excellent service received from Ocean Financial Services in getting a mortgage for our first house. Tracey, Simon and their team were fabulous during the whole process. Unlike many brokers that just set a mortgage term and LTV in their quotation tools, Simon really cared about listening to our needs and finding the best tailored product which gave us peace of mind with low monthly payments and no limits on overpayments. Tracey was very informative and followed up our file with periodic updates, giving also the necessary guidance to move on things with rest of buying process. We'll recommend them to any friend getting on the housing ladder.
JAN LLOYD
Apr 01,2024Being reassured by the staff of the stage’s selling your property goes through. Having visibility to the’dashboard’ on line so you can check the progress of the selling process. The document you are given to fill in at the beginning of the process can be a bit daunting but checking it through with a member of staff is very helpful. You are contacted quickly whenever a question comes up for clarification. A clear concise breakdown of costs are easy to understand.
Leonora Asaeva
Mar 31,2024We used Oceans Lawyers and estate agents for the legal arrangement for our sale, they were great from start to finish. We had a straightforward sale which was completed in about 7 weeks, which we were very happy about. We were kept updated and in the loop with everything and everything moved smoothly. Great experience with our sale.
Lesley Herbert
Mar 29,2024Amazing service from Jemima friendly professional we were kept up to date with our new tenant at chapel mill every detail explained fully we would recommend oceans at Downend to anyone very quick to pay fees to us emails and statements easy to understand 5star could not fault in any way thank you
Louise Deady
Mar 29,2024We used Ocean Finacial Services, Victoria made the mortgage application process very straightforward and stress free and Claire kept us informed of all the progress of the application. We have previously remortgaged through Victoria and would do so again in the future. Would recommend.
187-189 Whiteladies Road, BS8 2RY, Bristol, GB
http://www.oceanhome.co.uk
Zoe & Alex
Apr 10,2024Managed to complete the purchase within the planned time frame, but this was with us being first time buyers with no chain on either side of the purchase. Ocean estate agents really pushed for us to use ocean solicitors as a way to expedite the process as they could hand documents between themselves, but in reality communication both within ocean and to us (especially with the solicitors) was really disappointing, considering we were recommended to use them and were paying a premium because of it. The solicitors were hard to get hold of and unsupportive of our queries unless it suited their timeline and were very clearly reluctant to explain and explore any uncertainties we had as first time buyers. This was made worse by the fact some of our assumptions of the property were incorrect ever since the initial viewing due to what was claimed by the estate agent. The last comment is on the frustrating portal everything has to go through, it is really difficult to track updates and see progress, and there was a moment when Ocean had left it a week before asking why something wasnt signed in the portal. I would recommend Ocean solicitors to use direct communication more rather than relying on a portal like this which many might find confusing to use for everything. All in all, while we don't have much experience with other solicitors and estate agents, I would encourage others to do research and not trust all the claims and recommendations made by the estate agents, and that if you do need anything checked by the solicitors know it will be the last thing they reluctantly do all while urgently pushing for you to complete.