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Kelly’s Redrow Home

We have been in our Redrow “House From Hell” for 16 months and are finally laying our first flooring (tiled kitchen). We are still living out of cardboard boxes and are about to pay 3k out of our own pockets (all of our savings…) to have our upstairs floors fixed as the beams are at [...]

Tony | March 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Lewis’s Crest Nicholson Home

Me and my girlfriend put down 1,000 on a new house on Saturday 3rd June on a Crest Nicholson development in Suffolk. We only got the house by chance as the person who had reserved the house (and paid the non-refundable 1,000) had to pull out as she could no longer afford it. We were [...]

Tony | March 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Nik Clayton’s Crest Nicholson Home

This is Nik Clayton’s blog of his experience of buying a new Crest Nicholson Homes property. He started blogging in April 2005 and here is an extract from his first blog post: “So we’ve been looking around for the past couple of weeks and think we’ve found a style of house and developer (Persimmon) we [...]

Tony | March 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Kath and Scott Turner’s David Wilson Home

In May Scott and Kath Turner became the proud parents of twins, as such we very quickly came to the conclusion that we had run out of space in our current house and also realised that we are not in a fantastic catchment area for schools. We decided to try and market our house but [...]

Tony | March 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Craig Williamson’s Bloor Home

Craig Williamson is the author of campus comedy novel ‘A Foreign Education’. His uniquely-English perspective on American college life was cultivated during a year spent studying abroad at the University of Colorado. He has since returned frequently to the United States and travelled extensively around the country.    This is his blog about Bloor Homes.  This [...]

Tony | March 10th, 2008 | Continued

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Charles Church: My Little House Horror

A nightmare that began with the purchase of a brand new home from Charles Church (part of the Persimmon Group, which includes Persimmon Homes, Westbury Partnership). The experience Charles Church gave us has been one we regret every day, we wish we had never seen the house, let alone bought it. Years on, we’re still [...]

19Sep2009 | Tony | 2 comments | Continued
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Shoddy Barratt Homes

RESIDENTS of a new Barratt estate claim the house-builder has gone against planning approval for their homes to save cash.
Paula Walter and John Davies (above), backed by other residents of The Haven, claim Barratt Homes promoted 37 top-of-the-range Selsdon properties for sale after being granted planning permission for the house type but actually built bottom-of-the-range [...]

27Aug2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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Persimmon Homes Fined for Polluting Stream

Persimmon Homes and two other smaller developers Allison Homes and Stamford Homes have been fined for polluting a stream in Deeping St Nicholas stream with raw sewage.  The companies were fined £8000 at Grantham Magistrates’ Court last week and were ordered to pay costs.

18Aug2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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New Homes Too Small

Barratt Homes leads the way with the smallest home in the UK – ‘Manhattan pods’ in Harlow  have only 34 metres square of space, and a living room measuring a mere 3 x 3.6 metres.
CABE conducted the research with the owners of 2,500 private new homes, to explore views on the adequacy of internal space.
“The [...]

12Aug2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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Deliquent housebuilders fail again

The housebuilding industry has failed again to get its house in order. First, they failed to improve customer service as set out in the Barker Review, which led to OFT Market Study. Now the industry has failed to keep to the agreed deadline and the OFT will be recommending that the Government introduces legislation [...]

20Jul2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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Barratts Rondabout Blunder

The housebuilders struggle to build quality homes so please don’t let them meddle with the roads. Nice one Barratts
Buckinghamshire County Council spokesman Si Khan said an inspector would be visiting the site to check guidelines had been met but added the junction was the responsibility of Barratts as part of the original planning application.
She added: [...]

14Jul2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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New Build Prices Dropped 50%

According to Paul Farrow of the Telegraph new build house prices began to fall in 2006 and not 2007.   He give an example of a home in East Anglia that was valued at  £246,995 in April 2006 and is worth  £225,000 today.  A reasonable fall of 9pc according to the Nationwide House [...]

13Jul2009 | Tony | 0 comments | Continued
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Barratt Property 19% Drop

The Guardian has reported today that Barratt Homes have dropped the prices of their homes by 19% over the last year.  The outlook for the company does not look good and they have moved to cut costs by closing their final salary pension scheme.    According to the CEO, Mark Clare, site visitors are also down [...]

9Jul2009 | Tony | 1 comment | Continued
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Redrow Homes Defect Woes

Since 2004 the residents of the Redrow Poets Wood housing development in Streetly have been fighting to get their new homes brought up to standard. Some of the homes have been knocked down and rebuilt but the problems persist.
One resident of the estate, Veronica Fitzgerald, exchanged at the beginning of 2004 [...]

8Jul2009 | Tony | 32 comments | Continued
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Boris Makes Affordable London Homes Better Than Private Homes

It has always been the case that residents of affordable housing get a better quality of home as the snagging is addressed in the housing association’s contract with the build. Private buyers do not have this luxury and struggle for months and years to get their home finished to standard.
Now Boris Johnson, the Major [...]

8Jul2009 | Tony | 2 comments | Continued
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