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its great to hear some good feedback with new builds!!
Kyrae - thanks for the link, ive not seen it before and was really interesting and useful to read! thanks.
Laurasavon - £35k off price, wow that would be great! not sure i will get anything like that off if i buy but will do my best to try! have you got any tips on haggling the price down with you doing such a good job with yours?
Gabyjane & tabskitten - thats really good to know they are good for energy saving! thats really made me think that a new build is my best option now, i just thought they would be the same as any house!
thank you all for the really useful information, im a first time buyer so this is all really new to me and any information that anyone has will be great! The company which are building havent started yet so im taking the oppertunity to save save save and find as much information about new builds as i can!0 -
"10 year gaurentee on everything..........."
Obviously not tried to claim yet! This is far from true.0 -
100k off would be a start...It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.0 -
Lol daveyjp and geoffky not fans then?!! I am still very glad we bought ours, i have always said if we had the choice to buy another house i would still buy this unless i won the lottery then the world is our oyster!.
In 3 years we have had no costs at all other than a boiler service of £89! we have had the odd niggle fixed under snagging and still to this day love our house and everything we got with it. We NEVER hear our neighbours nor them us and this is a big point for me as i guess nothing worse than hearing people in your own home. I have actually just remembered there is one problem with this house and it is the kitchen sink as it bows and collects water! the whole development was the same and we will eventually get round to getting it changed.
The garden is a good size, we have parking and a garage, a shed!good off rd parking, it is very quiet too 90% of the time..well i could go on but won't!
Good luck with your hunt wilky26 we had a smaller company build the houses where we are and they tend to put more effort in as opposed to Barrett etc who seem to just bulk build one and move on!0 -
mundibananas wrote: »they waited until I moved in until the turf was laid so that I could look after it - it's lush but I'm dreaded my water bill !!!!!
All new builds have water meters don't they?0 -
poppysarah wrote: »All new builds have water meters don't they?
Our turf was laid only a few weeks before we moved in and we haven't had any probs. We are on a meter and as far as i know most new houses are now.0
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