Persimmon Homes Extras (Finishing Touches)

juliako

Hi all, 
Soon we are to reserve our persimmon house and we were told that we'll be able to get money towards the finishing touches etc. Of course, I'm planning to negotiate how much they give us and the asking price of the house. However, prior to that I would like to know how much roughly people have spent on their finishing touches for their Persimmon home so that I know roughly what a certain amount of money will give us.  So yeah I'm just wondering how much you guys have spent on your extras just so that I have a rough idea before i negotiate. Depending on how much money we get towards our finishing touches will determine whether we will do the flooring ourselves. Things I'm considering are ;

• Upgraded kitchen
• Integrated appliances 
• Flooring (carpets upstairs, tiles downstairs)
• turf in the garden
• Downlights in bathrooms/toilets/kitchen
• half glass doors going into the kitchen
• Upgraded shower 

Thank you:):) 

RelievedSheff

Flooring you will definitely get cheaper by getting a local company in to do it for you.

Don't bother with integrated appliances. They will put the cheapest they can in. You will be better off providing your own appliances when you move in. Plus there is far more choice when it is time to replace them with free standing appliances.

I would expect turf to be included in the price of the house not as an extra.

We didn't buy with Persimmon we bought with David Wilson but watch them with prices for extra like USB sockets. David Wilson wanted £85 per socket to replace standard double 240V sockets with USB versions. We found out the brand of the sockets and bought 16 of them ourselves and did the job far cheaper for around £10 per socket.

Same went for the outside socket. Davis Wilson wanted £150 for that. We got the job done by a local company for £55.

Caramac

There is a blog called mynewhomeblog.com which has a section called downloads where you can download a 2019 Finishing Touches brochure. This will give you some idea but the brochure varies with each development (and probably prices too) and this relates to a development in Harrow with prices around £600k. When my daughter bought her house I can’t remember her having as much choice but it could be we ignored everything she wasn’t interested in.

PERMOTIO

Persimmon wanted almost £700 to install turf in a new-build I was interested in.

That enough put me off. The sales assistant was really transparent and said EVERYTHING was extra.

To get the middle-of-the-road kitchen/bathrooms/en-suites the way we wanted them, we calculated around 25k in extras.

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You would be better off getting the cheapest possible things in (including kitchen) and then upgrading as you wish.  Will save a fortune and get what you actually want.., not overpriced rubbish a house builder like Persimmon install, and not always as well as you'd like because the contractors cut corners to meet time constraints.  If anyone has moved into the estate, go and ask them about upgrades and finishes.

If you do go to this meeting, say firmly and repeatedly you need exact models and type of any upgrades on their list, and compare them by looking online, see if they are what you want and how much they are when bought privately.

bucksbloke

 Not all developers do fit basic appliances and some will give you a choice between a mid range and a high end. We had top of the range appliances fitted throughout. Freestanding appliances in my view are really ugly!

tim9966

Here's the price list.
https://www.persimmonhomes.com/admin/libraries/assetitems/xassethandler.axd?aii=52331

tinytiddles

Also, bear in mind that if your developer incentives are in excess of 5% of the purchase price your lender can reduce the LTV accordingly. 

annetheman

holyrottweiler said:

Why would you buy a Persimmon home?

Prices around here are ridiculous and they're £50k or more than normal nice homes around here. Plus they're smaller and garden is usually smaller as well.

Really can't understand why people buy new homes....is it social climbing/aspiration thing? Don't think I've ever seen middle class people making these moves, its always from lower middle / higher working classes. Wonder if it is solely down to lack of deposit and over-reliance on HTB etc.

Wow. Judgey McJudgesteroo, why not let people do what's right for them? It's their money and their lives. If that was a genuine attempt to be helpful (it clearly was not) you need to sound a lot less aggressive.

Enjoy your new home OP, hope it doesn't turn out to be anything but lovely!

juliako

Thank you everyone

Iwantanewlife

Tomorrow I will also be putting in an offer for one of their properties. When I went to the showroom the sales assistant was less than helpful when it came to quoting me the upgrades and so I used the pdf in this thread. I want about £12k worth, although I will be reviewing as mine includes upgraded sockets etc. For me, I want to move in and have everything done! When I place my offer, I will be trying to do a deal with the upgrades to get the price down! Good Luck x