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New Home Guides

New Build Buyer’s Guide

This guide will help you navigate the new build buying process: from selecting a plot, choosing a design through to considering security and parking. This comprehensive guide will help you make the right choices to ensure you find the perfect home.
This 2000 word guide  is the perfect antidote to the marketing material provided by [...]

What is a snagging list?

A snagging list is created by new build buyers in the UK and Ireland to detail the snags and defects in their new home.  Many opt to create their own snag list using a snagging checklist or guide book which represents great value compared to the cost of using a professional snagging company. A [...]

Getting on the Property Ladder

Over the past twelve months the mortgage lending market has stripped around 90% of products off their shelves, meaning that a varied choice of mortgage deals are not available for first time buyers. This means saving a bigger deposit is imperative. In previous years, a 5% deposit was deemed acceptable, however talking about [...]

You make me feel brand new

Buying a new-build property clearly has its advantages – no chain, no DIY, cheaper utility bills. But buying new is not without snags, as Caroline Laws finds out
Getting the keys to a brand-new house that no-one but you has lived in before is a tempting idea. And there are lots of people for whom that [...]

Snagging Top Tips

Snagging.org has just released a new version of its snagging checklist in response to feedback from Snagging.org members and input from professional snaggers. The site, which has been featured on national TV, receives thousands of visitors per day and provides snagging stories, forums, polls and much more to help new build buyers.
Here is the snagging [...]

Find your own new home snags

A new version of a snagging checklist has just been released allowing new homebuyers to create a snagging list on a property for themselves.
Snagging.org has been featured on national TV, receives thousands of visitors per day and provides snagging stories, forums, polls and much more to help new build buyers.
The new snagging checklist includes the [...]

New guide warns of show home tricks

A new guide to make buyers aware of the tricks used to sell off-plan properties, including show homes, has been produced by New Build Inspections (NBI).
NBI say it is common practice for house builders to use show homes to sell off-plan properties, but warn it is essential that home owners are aware that these can [...]

How To Buy A New Home

A pristine blank canvas on which your family can make its mark, a brand new house is an option worth serious consideration for those in the market to move…
If the idea of a brand new house brings to mind rows of identical, boxy houses on estates located too far from the shops, then think again. [...]

Who Should I Get To Snag My Home?

Snagging surveys grow in popularity but with it comes choice and pitfalls.
Stories of leaky, flawed and defective homes and consequential personal suffering have resulted in an explosion in the number of new home snagging companies – it is no longer a question of whether or not to get a snagging survey but rather which company [...]