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Finding new build sites

notafan
notafan Posts: 269 Forumite
in House buying, renting & selling
What's the best way to find new build sites other then checking developer websites or places like right move ?
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  • kinger101
    kinger101 Posts: 6,314 Forumite
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    If you're looking in a specific area, perhaps the council's planning department might be a good start.
    "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius
  • notafan
    notafan Posts: 269 Forumite
    Thanks Kinger

    No specific area - just looking for sites that aren't built yet and that are maybe even a year away. I've looked at council planning sites but either there are thousands applications with no way to narrow them or i've noticed some of the bigger guys sometimes use shill names or companies so you can never tell.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    If you had a plot, possibly suitable for development, how would you sell it?

    You'd talk to EAs, wouldn't you?

    So... where do you think a good place to start looking is? Talk to EAs. Regularly. Ask them what they've got, what they've heard rumours of, and please let you know if they do hear of anything.
  • notafan
    notafan Posts: 269 Forumite
    AdrianC wrote: »
    You'd talk to EAs, wouldn't you

    Not if i could help it ;)

    Would rather try and find the info myself then rely on an agent if possible.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    notafan wrote: »
    Not if i could help it ;)

    Would rather try and find the info myself then rely on an agent if possible.
    <shrug> Your loss.

    Put yourself in the position of somebody selling the land. Who is the first person they're going to ask about selling it? An EA.
    What's the first thing THEY will do? They will phone around their list of people they know to be interested.
  • notafan
    notafan Posts: 269 Forumite
    Well not really. Housing developers probably already own the land and have done for quite some time.
    They all have huge landbanks http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/30/revealed-housebuilders-sitting-on-450000-plots-of-undeveloped-land

    First call on their list is not gunna be a middle man to let them know what they're doing, it'll be planners or some other LA thing.

    Plus if they dont own the land already, the size/value of land developers buy wouldn't be dealt with by the local agent dealing with individual house sales. More likely to be specialist commercial agents that dont usually have the office to go chat to anyway. Or they'll buy it direct from another business without any EA involvement at all.
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    edited 16 April 2016 at 6:56PM
    notafan wrote: »
    Well not really. Housing developers probably already own the land and have done for quite some time.

    Then you need to be asking those developers to sell. Which they won't.

    Are you talking about a plot to build 30 properties on, or one? Because a single-property plot is not something the kind of land-banking developer you mention is going to be remotely interested in.

    They do exist. There's one in a nearby town to me, advertised as having OPP for 11 (I think) properties. Another in another town that's just sold - OPP for 25. But this isn't the SE.
  • notafan
    notafan Posts: 269 Forumite
    AdrianC wrote: »
    Then you need to be asking those developers to sell. Which they won't.

    I think we have crossed wires - new build sites/developments.

    Not plots of land for sale to develop, otherwise i agree!
  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    notafan wrote: »
    I think we have crossed wires - new build sites/developments.

    Not plots of land for sale to develop, otherwise i agree!
    OK, I think we are at cross-purposes

    Do you want to build your own home, or do you want to buy a new-build home?
  • notafan
    notafan Posts: 269 Forumite
    To find new build developer sites(by the national developers) before any building has begun.

    It's to buy not build.
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