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Residents anger at damage to new homes

Residents on a Lancashire estate have slammed house builders Redrow, saying roof tiles have fallen off homes they built for the third time in two years.
Homeowners in the Old Lane Park area of Penwortham say dozens of homes on the estate suffered roof damage when gales battered the county last week.
Amazingly, no-one was injured by [...]

It’s time to learn a few home truths

Wrong size, wrong shape, wrong place: developers are building tiny inner-city flats when buyers want three-bed family houses. Meanwhile new apartments stand empty and are losing value. Susan Emmett reports
Britain needs new homes and developers are more than happy to oblige. But they are not building the homes we want. Families, couples, singletons and even [...]

The pros and cons of buying new build homes

With over 160,000 new homes being built across the UK every year there is an enormous amount of choice when it comes to buying new.
Many people will only buy new, claims New Build Inspections, and return to buy another new home despite the problems of getting building snags fixed.
A short guide from the firm outlines [...]

Newbuild, new headache?

Even new homes will throw up nasty surprises for the unwary, says Catriona Bright, founder and MD of New Build Inspections, who says that Britain is amongst the worst countries in the EU in which to buy new property. In Ireland, she says, the process is much easier, as it is normal custom and practice [...]

Builders leave home buyers in the dark

Homebuyers are not being given the information they need and are legally entitled to about the energy efficiency of brand new homes, according to the National Energy Services (NES) and De Montfort University.
Undercover researchers discovered that 98% of house builders’ sites fail to comply with the current Building Regulations to display SAP energy ratings. Three [...]

Should Housebuilders be More Responsible?

Professor David Adams (October 2005):
Housebuilders are now expected to deliver much higher standards of urban design, energy efficiency and brownfield development, reflecting the increasing expectations of both government and society so that they can achieve sustainable patterns of urban development rather than merely build housing estates.
He goes on to say:
Although most housebuilders have been slow [...]

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. [...]

What defects are there in your new home?

New homes finished in the first half of 2005 have an average of 80 defects per property – up over 50% on 2004, and this at a time when some large house builders are announcing vast profits for the first half of 2005 (in excess of £39,000 per home).
This is according to academics at the [...]

Who wants to buy a new home now?

Buy a new motor and you expect it to lose value as the sheen comes off its bodywork and it picks up a few dents in the supermarket car park. But a new house? When homebuyers take the keys to a brand new home they tend to take it for granted that its value will [...]

Lack of protection highlighted for Scots buying new built houses

This situation is criticised today by the Scottish Consumer Council in a report
which outlines a series of changes designed to give greater protection to
Scots who buy new houses.
Newly built houses are not covered by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 which
applies to most purchases made by consumers.
The Act states that goods
must be of satisfactory quality [...]

Why do people buy new-build housing?

Little is known about the relative importance house buyers attach to price, location and property size nor how they trade them off to arrive at a final choice of property. Even less is known about how people value and trade off more detailed aspects of the design of housing or estates as a whole.
Why do [...]

New house, same old problems

One of the main reasons people buy a new house is because it’s, well, new. And therefore, presumably, free of the repair headaches – and cost – associated with older or period homes. Read more

Get your hankies out…..UKNBOA dissappears into the ether…

There are several reasons for this decision prime amongst them being that we just cannot devote enough time to updating the
site, answering email and generally helping everyone that approached us.
So, with a tinge of sadness, we have today redirected all our traffic to the truly marvellous and very funky snagging.org.
This means that, for [...]