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You are here: Home / Latest News / Now four in five homebuyers avoid new-builds … after ground rent scandals and shoddy build quality, that’s no surprise

Now four in five homebuyers avoid new-builds … after ground rent scandals and shoddy build quality, that’s no surprise

August 25, 2017 //  by Sebastian O'Kelly

Four in five avoid new build homes

Inside Housing, news, analysis, and comment about the social housing sector in the UK.

Research commissioned by bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) revealed that 81% of adults would rather live in an older home than a new build, Inside Housing reports.

And 79% of those responding to the survey said the government prioritise refurbishment of run-down existing homes to boost housing supply.

The majority of the study’s 2,000 respondents – or 60% – felt there are too many poorly built and unattractive new homes emerging, while 23% said they would only consider buying a new build as a buy-to-let investment.

There is now ever growing awareness that national housebuilders set out to rip off their customers with onerous lease terms, maximising the value of the freehold which could then be sold on to anonymous, murky speculators, often based offshore.

Issues of build quality appear in the survey.

In blocks of flats, housebuilders routinely frustrate leaseholders from taking control of the sites – where they are even permitted to do so via residents’ management companies – until they are safely out of the two-year warranty period. Another eight years is covered by the NHBC or Premier Guarantee warranty.

Invariably, housebuilders sell the management to blocks of flats to one of the larger property management companies, whose task is to keep the residents quiet and disempowered.

Here is Bovis Homes dumping the management giant Countrywide from its sites after leaseholders in Swindon rebelled … prompted by independent managing agent Cherry Jones.

Countrywide ‘ripping off’ leaseholders, MP tells Commons. And it is given the boot by Bovis Homes

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  1. Leaseholder

    August 26, 2017 at 9:01 am

    Post war everything got smaller and shodier. The newly built flats & houses are airless, crammy little holes which are seen as ‘investments ‘ with no consideration that actual people have to live there.

    What happened to design values that built homes with good proportions and natural light?

  2. Trevor Bradley

    August 31, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    Wow, just watched my recording of last nights Channel 5s “Nightmare New Builds” at 10pm.
    Part 2 is next week.
    Absolutely unbelievable major defects (the builders call them “snags”, ha ha) in brand new properties.
    All these properties passed of by not only the builders inspectors but also the NHBC.
    Taylor Wimpey and Bovis, to name just a couple of major players, building absolute rubbish quality “homes”.
    The NHBc are as useless as a chocolate house brick being used in the Sahara desert, but what do you expect, just another “club for the boys”.
    Totally meaningless statements coming from these developers and the NHBC.
    So many thousands of people being mislead into thinking what the NHBC is there for, or rather not there to do anything.
    It is certainly not just onerous leases that are ruining peoples lives

  3. Trevor Bradley

    August 31, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    “And 79% of those responding to the survey said the government prioritise refurbishment of run-down existing homes to boost housing supply”
    Well, the government had better not use the employees and inspectors of the builders mentioned in the “Nightmare New Builds” programme else we will be no better off!!

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