Advice Needed on Taylor Wimpey

Gunderful

Hi,

I would welcome any experiences/thoughts on Taylor Wimpey new builds are we are about to take the plunge and buy one. Would be interested on whether people managed to negotiate extras, how "snags" were fixed etc.

Thanks

brit1234

Gunderful wrote: »

Hi,

I would welcome any experiences/thoughts on Taylor Wimpey new builds are we are about to take the plunge and buy one. Would be interested on whether people managed to negotiate extras, how "snags" were fixed etc.

Thanks

Poor quality, over priced.

Especially if you are going through their sucidal homebuy scheme, negative equity becons. Wait a couple of months and my a normal property, if you can't afford that save a deposit and don't get sucked into their rip off schemes.

curly_cabbage

Hi

I haven't brough a Taylor Wimpy home but, i live on a new Estate in Kent that is part Taylor Wimpy and Bellway. When the first TW people moved in they found that tile fell off the wall and main scary thing's. Which was mainly due to the work only being completed on the houese only a matter of hours prior to the owners moving in. To cut a long story short they're work wasn't put right correctly for months until the resident got so fed up they got together and mounted boards on the fronts of their properties stating they had been "missold" their properties due to the problem and ignored when they tried to contact TW. As you can imagin TW were not happy as they still had several properties not sold and the sign's wern't helping! 18 months on the sign's have now all come down but severl houses are now up for sale.
We've lived in our bellway house on the same estate for 18 months now, we have had some problems but not the the extent the TW residents had.

I would say to TW that you need a set completion date as they seem to work on the house they have the shortest dealine on and the social houseing. Which you should ask about, we have had a group of 10 properties that are social houseing placed oppersite us 8 of them are fine but, 2 families have children that are left to run around the street playing knock and run etc and they have regular visits from the police searching the house and vehicles ect and the front gardens of their houme's are a complete mess, but this will i'm sure effect use if we try to sell.
My best advise is to go and visit the site in the evenings and weekends if it has anybody living on it
Ask for the location of social housing on your estate.
Ask for as much to be included in the price as possible the worest they will say is no but, we asked for all kitchen appliances (Fridge, dishwasher & washing machine), carpets, ceramic floor tiles, solid garden fence and extre kitchen cupboards which we got at no extre cost to us - They are more likely to chuck stuff in if you are sold as they can get there monthly figures up.
Remember the sales staff aren't your friends they just want you money (a mistake we made).

Good luck

CC

amr_scotland

brit1234 wrote: »

Poor quality, over priced.

Especially if you are going through their sucidal homebuy scheme, negative equity becons. Wait a couple of months and my a normal property, if you can't afford that save a deposit and don't get sucked into their rip off schemes.

I can't understand this "avoid new builds" advice, surely old houses were once "new builds"? Also, if everyone avoided new builds would there be enough homes to go around?

If you like the idea of a new build (like I do), go for it. If you want to buy now (like I do) because you want a home and don't want to wait then that is fine too.

I do agree about the avoiding the Equity Schemes and such.

Jonbvn

The reason why a lot of people don't like current new builds is that their build quality is generally much reduced as compared to older houses, which were built before the 1990's.

There is a whole forum dedicated to GW homes:
http://forum.snagging.org/george-wimpey/

Kyrae

I made a post a while back for people buying new builds... no one else replied, but my advice there still stands!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=30203927

bigkevgray

You'll regret it.

I bought a wimpey and have a very very long list of problems with the house and wimpeys customer service.

Check out www.bewareofwimpey.com

Ionkontrol

My dad finished his building career working for Wimpey as a snagger. Suffice to say, he was overwhelmed with work. He said the quality of the building was shocking. Poor materials, poor finish and no attention to detail. This was in the early 90s. I can imagine the quality of the houses now.

Batchy

my friends have just brought a new house... and love it, they have restored my confidence in all the new build house theorys

at the end of the day like anything, you can get friday afternoon houses or monday morning houses

poppysarah

They're building some near me - right opposite the canal path the noisy motorbikers use every sunday (and during the hols)

I think it's their open weekend this weekend, was planning on going .,... for a giggle. They'll be squeezing about 200 houses onto this tiny bit of land if their first few are anything to go on...
tiny boxes with no privacy or space.

GDB2222

amr_scotland wrote: »

I can't understand this "avoid new builds" advice, surely old houses were once "new builds"? Also, if everyone avoided new builds would there be enough homes to go around?

There's nothing wrong in principle with new build. However, in practice, there's plenty wrong:

• Poor, or at least extremely variable, build quality
• Priced at a premium compared to secondhand, so you lose money as soon as you set foot in the place.
• You don't really know quite what you are getting until it's built, but most people sign a contract before it's built. People who wouldn't buy a pig in a poke do so when it comes to the biggest purchase of their lives.

Really, new-builds should be at a discount compared to secondhand, not the other way around.