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Buying a New Build
mopat_3
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Hope others that have gone through a similar experience can help me!
Buying a new build in Scotland at the moment. Missives were signed 6 weeks ago and we were told at that point (verbal approval only) it would take 6-8 weeks to finish the house and have the house handed over.
The house was built and just had to be fitted out inside (they had stopped fitting out until they had confirmed buyers for the homes).
Based on this information we informed our solicitor to proceed with exchange and completion of our current house for w/c 16 March; now been told that the new house will not be ready until end of March. Could be left without a house for a week or two, not ideal obviously.
When buying a new build we have been informed that they cannot confirm a date of entry until 14 days before due to the granting of Habitation and NHBC certificates.
Is this correct? And also, how do people manage to arrange a move (we are moving 500 miles from England to Scotland) with only 14 days notice. I find this vagueness and lack of clarity astounding for such a large commitment.
Thanks
Buying a new build in Scotland at the moment. Missives were signed 6 weeks ago and we were told at that point (verbal approval only) it would take 6-8 weeks to finish the house and have the house handed over.
The house was built and just had to be fitted out inside (they had stopped fitting out until they had confirmed buyers for the homes).
Based on this information we informed our solicitor to proceed with exchange and completion of our current house for w/c 16 March; now been told that the new house will not be ready until end of March. Could be left without a house for a week or two, not ideal obviously.
When buying a new build we have been informed that they cannot confirm a date of entry until 14 days before due to the granting of Habitation and NHBC certificates.
Is this correct? And also, how do people manage to arrange a move (we are moving 500 miles from England to Scotland) with only 14 days notice. I find this vagueness and lack of clarity astounding for such a large commitment.
Thanks
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Yes, i had a nightmare with this back in 2001/2. We exchanged contracts incredibly quickly (in December 01), at Bryants insistance. We bought the show home, and had to make a right fuss for them to stop letting strangers walk around it with grubby shoes on. Anyway, they were building a house right next door and said it wasn't safe for us to move in until it was finished. So we kept being given dates and then they kept shifting. Eventually it took our mortgage company coming in and saying that they were going to pull out if we didn't complete by the 31st May 2002. So they agreed to that, and we did eventually move in that day only to discover that the neighbours each side had move in weeks and days before us?! couldn't have been that unsafe next door then if people were allowed to actually live in the house they'd been building.
Apparently it's standard practise for new home builders to mess you around as much as possible!
Make sure you make a right fuss when you go through your snagging list and make their lives as difficult as they made yours!saving up another deposit as we've lost all our equity.
We're 29% of the way there...0
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