Barratt Homes Complaint

davidmcn

DawnR123 wrote: »

In Scotland they are not allowed to do stuff like that

Oh yes we are

richard2511

solidpro wrote: »

I'd go with that. Cash is king. If you can afford to sit it out, prices are forecast to be the same in 2 years, so stands to reason you're unlikely to be worse off inbetween and more likely better.

Although this may be the case, we will NEVER do business with Barratt Homes or David Wilson again, which limits our options.

We will have to keep our fingers crossed something else comes up. We are now living with parents, which isn't great for a 28 year old married couple.

AdrianC

richard2511 wrote: »

Although this may be the case, we will NEVER do business with Barratt Homes or David Wilson again, which limits our options.

No, it doesn't.

Apart from all the other new-build houses out there, there are quite a lot of non-new-build on the market.

It limits your choices as much as you want to let it.

richard2511

AdrianC wrote: »

No, it doesn't.

Apart from all the other new-build houses out there, there are quite a lot of non-new-build on the market.

It limits your choices as much as you want to let it.

Let me rephrase that, sorry. When you live in a relatively small town, and you wish to purchase another house within the same town that you were born and raised, it kind of does limit your options.

We are aware of other developers, we have been round them all and nothing ticks all the boxes. We will be on rightmove every hour and fingers crossed something else comes up.

AdrianC

richard2511 wrote: »

Let me rephrase that, sorry. When you live in a relatively small town, and you wish to purchase another house within the same town that you were born and raised, it kind of does limit your options.

We are aware of other developers, we have been round them all and nothing ticks all the boxes. We will be on rightmove every hour and fingers crossed something else comes up.

You're talking about Corby, right?

A quick google says the development you were looking at is 4bed, £250k to £350k.
If you look at just "Corby" (+0 miles), there's 23 properties for sale, most of which are Barratt's new-builds.

Add a three mile radius, and that rockets to 57. Even if you bring the upper price down to £290k - I'm assuming it was the "Halesowen"-style, £280k, you were looking at - there's still 33 properties. Many of them aren't new-build. You've not mentioned HTB so far in this thread, so I presume that you aren't restricted to NB.

solidpro

Having lived in a new build - (unless it was some very unsual circumstance - like a once in a lifetime sea view apartment!). I'd never buy new build again. Overpriced, poorly managed process. We changed some of the light fittings after 6 months and found 'car boot sale' stickers on the old ones selling for 10p each.

Pipes leaked because they've been simply slotted together and not joined properly (I'm no plumber, but the plumber showed me how the pipes are not made to just slot together and walk away - they needed some kind of sealant).

About an inch under the lawn was rubble and waste making it difficult to do anything with the lawn, which basically died due to the poor quality of the soil.

A massive hold in the corner of the roof, where birds would get in and mess and destroy parts of the loft....

You don't tend to get all that when it's more than 10 years old...

richard2511

AdrianC wrote: »

You're talking about Corby, right?

A quick google says the development you were looking at is 4bed, £250k to £350k.
If you look at just "Corby" (+0 miles), there's 23 properties for sale, most of which are Barratt's new-builds.

Add a three mile radius, and that rockets to 57. Even if you bring the upper price down to £290k - I'm assuming it was the "Halesowen"-style, £280k, you were looking at - there's still 33 properties. Many of them aren't new-build. You've not mentioned HTB so far in this thread, so I presume that you aren't restricted to NB.

No it was the cambridge style home. Believe me, we are looking at alternative properties and have viewed a few of those 33 properties you mentioned. As I said before, they do not tick all the boxes.

We may be picky, we admit that. But we want something that ticks all the boxes like the Cambridge did. We won't just buy another property for the sake of it.

AdrianC

richard2511 wrote: »

No it was the cambridge style home.

So you're already down to 16 out of 96 plots on this development.

richard2511 wrote:

Believe me, we are looking at alternative properties and have viewed a few of those 33 properties you mentioned. As I said before, they do not tick all the boxes.

We may be picky, we admit that. But we want something that ticks all the boxes like the Cambridge did. We won't just buy another property for the sake of it.

Then you need to accept that your decision to stay living with parents is ENTIRELY your decision. Or move out from there and rent until you do find something that ticks all your boxes.

richard2511

AdrianC wrote: »

You're talking about Corby, right?

A quick google says the development you were looking at is 4bed, £250k to £350k.
If you look at just "Corby" (+0 miles), there's 23 properties for sale, most of which are Barratt's new-builds.

Add a three mile radius, and that rockets to 57. Even if you bring the upper price down to £290k - I'm assuming it was the "Halesowen"-style, £280k, you were looking at - there's still 33 properties. Many of them aren't new-build. You've not mentioned HTB so far in this thread, so I presume that you aren't restricted to NB.

AdrianC wrote: »

So you're already down to 16 out of 96 plots on this development.




Then you need to accept that your decision to stay living with parents is ENTIRELY your decision. Or move out from there and rent until you do find something that ticks all your boxes.

We know there are not many cambridge style houses, which is why we done everything in our power to buy the one we reserved and feel let down and heart broken that it was taken away from us through no fault of ours.

The choice for us to move in with parents was solely because we did not have it in us to pull out of our sale when we had already attempted to get the chain ready for exchange on two occasions. Some people may have decided to pull out, but we didn't want to do that to our buyers and their buyers. Maybe we were wrong to do that?

stueyhants

Have you completely ruled out non new builds. As someone who has done both, it's 2nd hand houses for me from now on. Typically you get bigger and better houses when buying 2nd hand, It would have to be something special to tempt me back.