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Trying to buy with Redrow

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  • Haylescom
    Haylescom Posts: 342 Forumite
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    If the sales staff are so rude I wouldn't be considering doing business with them.
    On another point I don't think they're trying to pull a fast one; they'll put houses on the market for whatever price they think people will pay. My new build is detached with a garage; the same sized semi detached with no garage that went on sale 2 months later is £15k more.
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    Atirez wrote: »
    This whole conversation has been a waste of time.

    That's what happens when one has a closed mind. I'd guess that the sales staff haven't been rude either. Just fed up with your constant badgering. People doing their job can only have so much patience with customers.
  • Atirez
    Atirez Posts: 27 Forumite
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    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    That's what happens when one has a closed mind. I'd guess that the sales staff haven't been rude either. Just fed up with your constant badgering. People doing their job can only have so much patience with customers.

    How have I been close minded? And now I am the reason the sales staff have been rude. Amazing.

    I will run there now and say. Thanks. I know you indicated it was 260, I felt as if I was robbing you and was going to give you more anyway. Thanks for increasing the price. But maybe the house will be worth even more than that and call it half a mill. Hey you may be selling bigger houses for less money but I've been a royal !!!! and I deserve your condescension.
  • marksoton
    marksoton Posts: 17,516 Forumite
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    I honestly don't know why people deal with developers and new builds.Just a costly hassle.

    Especially FTB's....
  • AdrianC
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    Atirez wrote: »
    How have I been close minded? And now I am the reason the sales staff have been rude. Amazing.

    I will run there now and say. Thanks. I know you indicated it was 260, I felt as if I was robbing you and was going to give you more anyway. Thanks for increasing the price. But maybe the house will be worth even more than that and call it half a mill. Hey you may be selling bigger houses for less money but I've been a royal !!!! and I deserve your condescension.
    I'm starting to feel sorry for the sales staff.
  • fashionvictim
    fashionvictim Posts: 185 Forumite
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    I just wanted to say this is the same with all developers each release the price will increase.

    The new build I'm buying with Taylor wimpey exactly same house in same road show on land reg sold prices as selling in
    Oct 2015 for £ 387k
    Dec for 395 (I reserved in Dec for £ 419k)
    Reserve now for next release ready April 2016 at £425K

    I had no problem with the mortgage valuation and it was valued off plan/show home as at the point was only at first level of brick.

    It's what you can afford, and what you are prepared to pay. If it's over priced then everyone will struggle to get mortgages.

    I could buy something for the same price in the area but it's not all new. And all house buying pre-owned or new has stresses, vendors like sales staff just want to sell the properties.

    I should be in my new build now but it's been delayed, these builders are a law to themselves. They don't care there is 10 more people waiting to take your place. You either want to play the game or you don't.
  • Atirez
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    AdrianC wrote: »
    I'm starting to feel sorry for the sales staff.

    congratulations you have !!!!ed me off. I was pretty annoyed when I came on the site and I was looking to get help of people. You have done exactly what you set out to do. Derail the conversation and annoy me. This is why you continue to post because I will bite. But this is pretty funny.

    We all know you have no idea how I have been with sales staff. So congratulations I am annoyed and this has just made me realise (or probably just remember) that this site and most forums on the Internet are not a place to get help or information as it is full of trolls like you with huge post counts wasting people's time and derailing conversations.

    Well done.
  • makeitstop
    makeitstop Posts: 295 Forumite
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    Atirez wrote: »
    How have I been close minded? And now I am the reason the sales staff have been rude. Amazing.

    I will run there now and say. Thanks. I know you indicated it was 260, I felt as if I was robbing you and was going to give you more anyway. Thanks for increasing the price. But maybe the house will be worth even more than that and call it half a mill. Hey you may be selling bigger houses for less money but I've been a royal !!!! and I deserve your condescension.


    Northampton is not quite the same as the area I'm in, and as was pointed out previously, is suffering from spill over from London. Prices are going to be far less stable there than my part of the country, but even so, to be told one price one day and then another the next day is disappointing, especially when the difference in price is so substantial.

    They are clearly getting significant demand for their product, and so are adjusting prices accordingly to maximise their profits. not a new story from developers, or many other businesses, but annoying for the consumer for sure.

    In your position, I'd be inclined to buy the larger house at £295, but then again, if it's not the house you really want (which it clearly isn't) then it's hard to know whether that's the right move or not. If it's a long term house, then perhaps pass on it, but if it's shorter / medium term, it might pay to go for it, especialy in view of the fact that the latest releases appear to be marketed for significantly higher prices.
  • marksoton
    marksoton Posts: 17,516 Forumite
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    Atirez wrote: »
    congratulations you have !!!!ed me off. I was pretty annoyed when I came on the site and I was looking to get help of people. You have done exactly what you set out to do. Derail the conversation and annoy me. This is why you continue to post because I will bite. But this is pretty funny.

    We all know you have no idea how I have been with sales staff. So congratulations I am annoyed and this has just made me realise (or probably just remember) that this site and most forums on the Internet are not a place to get help or information as it is full of trolls like you with huge post counts wasting people's time and derailing conversations.

    Well done.

    The problem is Adrian hasn't posted anything that isn't true....

    And frankly i can't understand what resolution you think you're going to achieve...
  • makeitstop
    makeitstop Posts: 295 Forumite
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    marksoton wrote: »
    The problem is Adrian hasn't posted anything that isn't true....

    And frankly i can't understand what resolution you think you're going to achieve...



    Maybe not but the posting style leaves something to be desired.
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