Why do people buy new builds??

Dan-Dan

my house is 1976 , its from a period , for sure , just not a very flamboyant or interesting one !

PasturesNew

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

With newbuilds...

1. Tiny plot sizes
2. Thin walls
3. Chipboard everywhere, except
4. Where there's plasterboard
5. Thin roofing timbers
6. Upvc with 20 yr lifetime
7. Claustrophobic Low ceilings
8. No character.
9. Few round features - nearly everything is square. Builders can't understand PI
10. Selling on. Older and wiser buyers wont be interested, only young ftbs
11. Cheap bricks that are likely to spall over time
12. And then some

All in return for...

1. Warmer rooms

Also, less likely to have a garage or ORP, just an "allocated parking space" that any 4rse of a neighbour/visitor can decide to park in and get aggressive with you if you point out to them it's your spot .... usually with the irrelevant response "park somewhere else", while you think "why the f*** didn't YOU do that then you c***"

I'm not good with people.... I'd get bullied and walked over by the first neanderthal that decided to park there, park badly next to my space, park half in theirs/mine.

HariboJunkie

Not all new builds are the same.

We always lived in old period properties and never considered a new build because of lack of character, small plots and small rooms.

However we have just moved to one that has a huge plot with over half an acre of garden, massive rooms (4.5m x 4.5m main bathroom), and is beautifully corniced and has solid panelled doors. Add to this, the air source heat pump underfloor heating, wood burning stove, dressing room, huge kitchen, pantry, laundry room, three bathrooms and four large double bedrooms and you wouldn't get me back in my period property with its draughts, lack of parking and huge maintenance bills for all the money in the world.

Our house is a one off build though. Perhaps that makes a difference.

danielanthony

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Not all new builds are the same.

We always lived in old period properties and never considered a new build because of lack of character, small plots and small rooms.

However we have just moved to one that has a huge plot with over half an acre of garden, massive rooms (4.5m x 4.5m main bathroom), and is beautifully corniced and has solid panelled doors. Add to this, the air source heat pump underfloor heating, wood burning stove, dressing room, huge kitchen, pantry, laundry room, three bathrooms and four large double bedrooms and you wouldn't get me back in my period property with its draughts, lack of parking and huge maintenance bills for all the money in the world.

Our house is a one off build though. Perhaps that makes a difference.

So its not a Bovis or Wimpey home then, like what this thread is discussing.

Nice description of your pad though, thanks for your input.

HariboJunkie

danielanthony wrote: »

So its not a Bovis or Wimpey home then, like what this thread is discussing.

Nice description of your pad though, thanks for your input.

Oh sorry. I didn't realise the thread was about specific builders.

Please excuse my ignorance.

donfanatico

so which ones do decent newbuilds then?

System

bclark wrote: »

What is a genuine period though? It just refers to an undefined perod of time.

What period does period cover?

You are correct. I should have said something along the lines of classic period property or Victorian etc

phoebe1989seb

claire16c wrote: »

4m by 5m is spacious??

Hear hear :T

Our 200 or so year old house has the following living spaces downstairs - 12m x 5.3m, 8m x 5.3m and 6.75m x 3.75m - and I don't consider them *spacious*

This isn't a *grand* period house either (just a Georgian village house that happens to have some good-sized rooms) we sold one of those in order to be mortgage free

We paid £250k for our current house (in Wiltshire) in unrestored state in 2011 and it's currently valued at around £400k so not an expensive property by comparison to new builds locally which sell for a similar amount but are less than half the size.......

BeenThroughItAll

I just don't understand the anti-new-build philosophy; people say they want period features, and they'd never buy a new-build. They really need to think about that...

What a good job some people are more open minded, otherwise those others would not have the period features that were new 10,20,100,200 years ago.

ging84

HariboJunkie wrote: »

Oh sorry. I didn't realise the thread was about specific builders.

Please excuse my ignorance.

It wasn't there was never a mention of such companies, the previous poster seems to have imagined that
the thread is about "new builds" nothing more specific than that has ever been mentioned