The UK's Leading Snagging Site

We have had coverage on Tonight with Trevor McDonald, GMTV, in the Sunday Times, the Telegraph, in the Mail on Sunday and many more.

Snagging.org is the UK's No1 New Homes Snagging Site and aims to empower new home buyers by providing:
1. Snagging Forums
2. New Homes News and Snagging Stories
3. Great value Snagging Inspections and the Snagging Guide
4. Snagging Photos and much more

Don’t Get Done Dom’s Back

Are you being treated unfairly by a retailer, company, organisation or local council? Are you caught up in a bureaucratic storm or being wrapped up in red tape? Have you complained, but feel like you’re getting nowhere? If your answer is yes, why not see if the BBC’s Dominic Littlewood can help you out? Don’t [...]

In need of repair

Builders Bellway Homes North East jumped into action when I asked for an explanation about Andrew Hutchinson’s complaint. Andrew told me how his new home needed various repairs after he moved in. Now the Newcastle-based company has given Andrew top priority to clear his list of outstanding problems. Bellway will re-surface the crumbling drive at [...]

Stress Free Bryant Homes

With our third child due in September, January was the ideal time to think about buying a new home. Despite not being offered full market value, trading in our old home under Bryant’s part exchange scheme would be the most stress free method of moving, or so we were told. We reserved the house in [...]

Homing in on the pitfalls of buying a newly built house

Many people think a relatively easy option is to buy a new-build house as they expect to be able to move in on a set date and have no work to carry out to make it liveable. This, in theory, means they should be able to calculate a pretty precise budget as they will not [...]

Row over lack of luxury at apartments

Investors who paid deposits before building work was complete say the luxury flats are overvalued and projected rental values are well down. They claim Beetham’s promise of five-star standards have not been met. Completed apartments do not contain several features promised in the sales literature, and an independent housing inspection firm called in by an [...]

Antler Homes Fiasco

I have not seen anything about Antler homes on this site before so let me be the first to dispel the myth that they portray of being a company at the upper end of the quality marke with ‘renowned attention to detail’. See their website at Antlerhomes.co.uk for more hype. My wife and moved into [...]

Redrow Homes Blog

Lee Cripp has just exchanged on his new Redrow House and will be posting regular updates on his progress through the new build buying process. This newsfeed is pulled from Redrow Homes:

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 [...]

Anger over new Bellway Homes

They say home is where the heart is – but a fed up group of residents today claimed buying new property on an Ipswich estate has left them wishing they had never bothered. All 16 homeowners in Cranberry Square, Ravenswood, have levelled an angry blast at Bellway, criticising the developer for failing to deliver the [...]

Couple’s Persimmon Homes Nightmare

One of the UK’s largest builders has apologised to a couple after they reported a catalogue of serious faults with their new home. Suzanne and Richard Dewar-Smith have suffered since April when they moved into their home in Copperfield Close, on the Fairfield Park estate, Stotfold, built by Persimmon Homes. The couple say problems started [...]

What does the NHBC say about ‘Snagging Companies’

Which? interviewed Imtiaz Farookhi in August 2006 and one of the things he talked about was snagging companies. Although it was more like an ill-informed attack on the business model, rather than a well balanced discussion. Unfortunately, to read the article you have to sign up for a free trial, but you do get a [...]

David Wilson Homes Blog

Follow Scott and Kath Turner as through the process of buying a new David Wilson Homes house. Hopefully, like most of the other bloggers they will get a house finished to a better standard than most. Or maybe not… David Wilson Homes

Bellway Homes lands £10,000 bill for polluting beck near building site

Newcastle-based Bellway Homes was fined at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to the pollution of Knoll Beck at Brampton near Barnsley. The company, of Dudley Lane, Seaton Burn, was also ordered to pay full costs of £2,119.87 to the Environment Agency, which brought the case. James Keeley, for the Environment Agency, told the court [...]

Persimmon Homes Reneged

We have a snagging issue with our kitchen worktops that has taken almost 2 years to resolve with Persimmon, even though it was quite a straightforward issue. Because of this, two separate Persimmon Customer Care reps offered us a goodwill offer for some minor alterations to our kitchen on two separate occasions. Unfortunately, before this [...]

Poor quality housebuilders

Richard Simmons said: Launching CABE’s (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) latest annual report this week, chief executive Richard Simmons warns that organisations need to work harder to ensure good design. Richard Simmons said: ‘Over the past year, too often we have seen the drive for good design within organisations coming down to one [...]

Countryside Properties Asbestos Scandal

Countryside Properties commissioned an environmental assessment on the site of what was the world’s largest asbestos factory in Spodden Vally, which stated: Of particular note is the absence of any asbestos contamination. A separate report commissioned by Rochdale Council in July 2006 painted a very different picture. I am sure it was just an honest [...]

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 [...]

Inconsiderate Persimmon Homes

I am currently living next door to a Persimmon Homes site called Tagwood View in  Ramsbottom, Bolton)  and wish to complain about the state of the site throughout the working day and later on in the evening. During the day our road is constantly blocked off by diggers and such, not to mention workmen who [...]

Crest Nicholson Blog

Well it seems Crest have now changed their minds. They phoned to confirm our completion date yesterday for 5th October 2006. But when I mentioned snagging they said it was against policy and I should not have been told it was ok. After talking with 2 different people on the matter they have completely ruled [...]

Persimmon Homes Blog

A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I visited the Persimmon Homes Admiral Heights Estate in Rosyth, north of Edinburgh. We’d been looking at a few houses on the market, and just vaguely thinking about moving from our (100 year old!) house near the centre of Dunfermline. This newsfeed is pulled from Persimmon Homes: