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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 company [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Redrow Nightmare

1. Moved in June 2004 with a combined snag list of over 200 items 2. At present we still have no floor coverings upstairs due to unlevel floors. We are facing a bill of ?3000 to pay for someone else to fix the floors. Redrow are ignoring our phone calls and are refusing to pay [...]

More than one in three new home buyers will not buy new again

Survey from ‘snagging’ information site reveals plague of faults in new homes is putting buyers off More than one in three new home buyers would not consider buying a new home again, according to a survey conducted by new home buyers information service Snagging.org. Snagging.org founder Tony Bright, whose own experiences with a new home [...]