Does anyone want to join me waiting for new build to be built and complete

As much as I hate defending a developer, the utility companies are a law upon themselves and the developers have little to no control over them, I'm afraid.

In my previous newbuild purchase, the gas company had put the main in the wrong place, meaning myself and my neighbor couldn't get hooked up. To rectify this, they had to dig up 300 feet of pavement and put in new gas main. It took the gas company 8 months to get round to it, luckily we only got delayed around 6 weeks over it as the builders managed to get permissions etc. sorted to put gas bottles in the back gardens to feed our houses while we all waited for the gas co to get off their behind and rectify their mistake.

The developer I am now buying off has also told me it's always a question if the utility companies will show up to hook up a property when they are supposed to. Having them booked in is apparently no guarantee they will actually come...

Also, have you gone over the long stop date yet (Did read back, but couldn't find mention of it)? If you haven't, not much you can do, if you withdraw, you probably be liable for 10% of the full purchase price. I'd probably be trying to get a goodwill gesture of 1 month's worth of rent as that is something you can quantify, but more than that would probably be unreasonable.

Hmmm, that's different then. Might be worth talking to your sols about it, telling them if they don't complete before your mortgage offer runs out you will withdraw and chase them for all quantifiable losses you have suffered as a result. Might wake them up out of their drunken haze, but I would sort this through your sols to show them you mean business. Could maybe include a list of costs so far to show them what they stand to lose (extra rent, legal/search fees, mortgage fees, etc.).

Came across this thread and thought I'd join in too! All excited for everyone here!

We are also FTB in the south west (so no extras for us! What we saw is what we got), and exchanged contracts in April with an estimated completion date of July/August.

Its starting to get real now that the roof timbers are on. Just looking forward to getting in and seeing what it looks like as we bought off plan. We've been taking pictures every week since we reserved so I'm going to make a collage of all the photos for the downstairs cloakroom

Hi there!

My boyfriend and I have started the process of buying a Bellway new build property - eek!

I'm phoning up to fill in reservation forms tomorrow. We managed to get them to agree to pay our stamp duty plus give us £1k towards extras. We were quite surprised that a lot of the items we thought we would have to pay for are included as standard in the property we have chosen, so that was also a bonus.

I'm nervous about the mortgage application and probably won't be able to get fully excited until that is sorted but obviously am still excited!

:rotfl:

We're still waiting to exchange on our new build...our solicitor has made 2 mistakes now on the HTB Authority to Exchange request and each time they've pointed it out on day 3 and we have to restart the process....


We're supposed to be completing on 3rd June and because of delays with our mortgage, have to be out of our rented house on 6th June!!!


Getting a bit panicky now...