how do 'new builds' work ?

daveyjp

Friends bought a new build 18 months ago. Exactly the same house types being completed now are £100,000 more.

Land_Registry

Bluebeary - you refer to Inverness in the original post but in England& Wales everything tends to start with the local authority who decide on the road names/house numbering and everything else then flows from there. The electoral roll is the starting point for the council.

How long the processes take I do not know but once the development is ‘up and running’ then as to road/house number, Royal Mail will update as appropriate and third parties can then glean the info from them.

paddyrg

You can give your address descriptively in the meantime - I stayed at an apartment block in the UAE whose address was 'XYZ apartments, ABC Road (Facing Sea), Nearby Aquarium, <district name>'!!

Sparx

Crikey, my new build home I am moving into next month was not listed on Royal Mail. So Sky, EDF, British Gas, etc amongst everyone else say they can not find my house address on their systems to setup accounts.

The postcode is recognised up to so many houses but not all the way up to mine.

I emailed Royal Mail last night through their online address finder page and they added it by 3pm today.

Good service RM.

bluebeary

thanks for all replies, it was a lovely property and i really liked it and my only concern was the garden after the viewing but we really dint need a property that big amongst other issues i had but your replies totally swung me and i was going to properly reserve it

after more research were not going for a new build after all for several reasons, were viewing 7 older properties at the weekend instead

the one i really want to see came on the market the day after this post, whats for me wont go by me

thanks again x