Why do people buy Persimmon / Barratt / New-built houses ?

wannabe_a_saver

Apodemus said:

Scotbot said:

Not true, my 60 yr old house...

1961?  Pah! That is practically a new-build! 

1960s houses are fantastic though.  Old enough to have lovely big square rooms and big gardens, new enough to have things like drives, garages and downstairs toilets.  I love my 1960 house, even though it is pretty ugly from the outside, I can't see that bit while I'm enjoying it!

moneysavinghero

weeg said:

And the flood plain thing? Red herring. In order to get planning you need to demonstrate that the houses won't flood.

As with anything they always find ways to get round it.

This site in construction with flooding all around it seems to suggest getting PP was not an issue (even though all locals knew it was a floodplain)

billy2shots

Most home owners have lived in a non new build.

Some home owners have lived in a new build.

A smaller proportion have experienced both yet most negative comments are from those with no experience.

Sure there will be owners or previous owners of new builds who have had bad experiences but the majority are happy.

Everyone is obviously allowed an opinion but I always take the opinion of someone who has never owned a new build with a shovel full of salt.


Me personally, I'm more than happy in my new build. Getting away from the last couple of older properties was a weight off my mind. An older house needs plenty of TLC and investment over the years and I just wasn't prepared to carry on and pay for the next round of jobs that were coming up fast.

My 4 bed (plus 4x4m kids room/5th bed/office) was better value than any 'older' house for sale when I was buying. 2 ensuits and large kitchen / dinner (16m wide) blew everything out of the water.

The property was one of the last on the development and I did a deal a couple of days before Christmas 2 years ago. Up at £590k I agreed £555k with the developer paying stamp duty. The house and garden was finished, no 'extras' like flooring or turf needed so I was happy with the deal.

2 years on and 3 similar houses have resold on the development (all paid more than me). All have sold for more than they bought for. Actually I've jumped the gun, 1 I don't know yet as the info isn't available but it sold within days so I'm guessing there wasn't much movement on the price.

Maybe I'm lucky?



Final thought.

All homes were new build once!

Bonniepurple

I’m unlikely to go for a new build because a) locally they are being built on the outskirts of the village, too far for the girls to walk to school and back (yes, I know that in the olden days people would walk 6 miles each way through 6 foot snowdrifts to get to school but I am not having my daughters walk along a busy road in winter!) and b) builders tend to build up, and the largest bedroom with en-suite is on the top floor.  I struggle with stairs.  Yes, I could let one daughter have the top floor,  but then the strops from the other one would be heard several miles away, regardless of insulation.

I’m also  not fussed about decor.  So long as something is functional, I don’t care what it looks like.

JJR45

Going for a new build again. Had 2x 60s/70s houses and they were money pits to get up to standard.
Last new build we spent nothing on it in when we had it.
It's total tosh new builds are smaller, some are but most 4 bed detached are bigger than their older piers, but The plots are smaller though in general.
But I hate gardening, so it's a win,win.

teachfast

Mickey666 said:

teachfast said:

I think many of the comments on here are born out of jealousy. 

Unlikely, when many of the people on here could easily afford a modern new build but for some reason have decided against it.


Actually, I've got nothing against newly built houses.  I've seen plenty of 'self build' new houses that are really quite stunning, mainly because the people who built them actually cared about the design.

But the builders of 'breeding boxes' for the mass market seem to care about nothing but profit and huge bonuses for their directors, which means poky identikit houses with tiny rooms, crammed into every available acre and postage stamp gardens . . . . which is fine as a starter home.  My first house was a 1970s equivalent because it was all I could afford at the time, but I only stayed there for three years and I don't recall jealousy being the reason why I moved on as soon as I could 

As with any generalisation, wildly inaccurate. 

Mildreds_Earrings

rik111 said:

The idea of something shiny and new and general stupidity....

Sadly, I agree with @rik111
I show clients around shared ownership show homes and one of the first things the client says is, everything's brand new, brand new toilet, wow! They don't ask me about neighbours, the development, the property etc, just fascinated that everything is new and nobody has lived in their new home. A month after buying, they phone to complain they can hear next door toilet flushing and people coughing, laughing, speaking next door. Ah well.... 

teachfast

Mildreds_Earrings said:

rik111 said:

The idea of something shiny and new and general stupidity....

Sadly, I agree with @rik111
I show clients around shared ownership show homes and one of the first things the client says is, everything's brand new, brand new toilet, wow! They don't ask me about neighbours, the development, the property etc, just fascinated that everything is new and nobody has lived in their new home. A month after buying, they phone to complain they can hear next door toilet flushing and people coughing, laughing, speaking next door. Ah well.... 

Another complete generalisation, topped off with a lie to add some credibility. Classic.

woodsford

moneysavinghero said:

weeg said:

And the flood plain thing? Red herring. In order to get planning you need to demonstrate that the houses won't flood.

As with anything they always find ways to get round it.

This site in construction with flooding all around it seems to suggest getting PP was not an issue (even though all locals knew it was a floodplain)

Exact same situation around here.

The area gets flooded a lot and the locals know it.

The area is a floodplain and the locals know it.

Somehow they've found a way around it and managed to build 500 or so houses on it.

Now the houses get flooded quite often.


I just don't get it.

lookstraightahead

Old house, new house - whichever, there is so much emphasis on bricks and mortar in your post.

sorry that's to mickey666