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Back from holiday
I’m back from holiday now, and surprisingly I had no post about the house. I suppose no news is good news!
I have a new picture that I will upload shortly. We sneaked on-site thanks to a friendly builder!
All Done
Everything went through ok last week which was nice. We also received the mortgage offer through the post, and it is at the correct rate of 4.65% which is good, as the rate went up to 4.79% last week!
I’m off on holiday for 2 weeks on friday, but I’ll be back in the last week [...]
Contract Exchange day
We found out on Monday that the mortgage has finally been approved wtihout a problem. So today I am going to the solicitors to hand over the signed contract and the remaining 7,250. Which will be hard. All that money….
We are happier with the contract now that we know all the restrictions are pretty standard [...]
Contractual restrictions
We received the contract that is due for exchange on 30th June yesterday, and I am very annoyed. Firstly it seems that the solicitors are charging a 100+VAT (why can’t they just say 117.50!) ‘engrossment fee’ for printing out the contracts. Scandalous!
Also Crest have put in the contract that we can’t erect any structures [...]
Hello Lewis
I am in the process of buying a house from Crest Nicholson in Somerset. Considering the fall in the ...
I used New Build Inspections. What a change it made to the builder's attitidue! 
I bought a Redrow home and had many problems getting my small faults ammended. This was mostly my fault because ...