Foxtons Group plc is a British estate agency company dealing with both lettings and sales.Foxtons was founded by Jon Hunt in 1981 in Notting Hill, London, as a two-person estate agency.[4] In December 2009, private equity firm BC Partners lost control of Foxtons, less than three years after buying it, after creditors reorganised the real estate broker's debt.[8] In March 2006, the BBC ran an undercover report and revealed many questionable actions taken by Foxtons employees such as faking signatures and purposefully overvaluing properties.[9] In May 2013, BBC Watchdog reported that Foxtons imposes tenancy agreements which demand in the small print that tenants must use utilities supplier Spark Energy Ltd.