Snagging News
How Buying a Bovis Home Came with Hundreds of Snags
When Helen Batt went to view her recently purchased £389,995 Bovis-built home in Maidstone, Kent, for the first time before Christmas, she was expecting to see a spanking new four-bedroom house. Instead, the property in the Orchard Fields development was barely finished and littered with rubbish – two days before the scheduled completion date of 20 December. “It was a complete shock,” says Batt, a 32-year-old partner in law firm Buss Murton.
New home owners gagged over poor build and compensation claims
NHBC forcing buyers to sign agreement preventing them from contacting media about problems with their property or discussing with neighbours
NHBC ‘gagging orders’ claim symbolises construction industry’s “structural flaws”, suggests Farmer Review author
The NHBC has come under fire for allegedly using gagging orders to stop homeowners speaking out about poor build quality in new homes; an allegation the warranty provider has denied. A report in the Guardian, yesterday, accused the NHBC of seeking to silence homeowners making successful compensation claims through its Buildmark warranty insurance scheme.
Bovis to pay £7m to compensate customers for poorly built homes
Bovis Homes is to pay £7m to repair poorly built new homes sold to customers, raising fresh questions about the standards of new-build properties across the country and the regulation of the market.
More than half of new-build homes in England 'have major faults'
More than half of the buyers of new homes have experienced major problems with their properties, according to research, which comes after Bovis Homes agreed to pay £7m compensation to customers for poorly built houses.
Unfinished Wrexham homes 'blight on community'
A housing development put on hold for a decade has been called a "blight on the community". Harron Homes said the scheme at Heol Berwyn, Cefn Mawr, was left unfinished following the 2007 financial crash.
Why are Britain’s new homes built so badly?
Weak mortar, faulty drainage, unfinished fittings … for many buyers of newly built properties in Britain, their dream home quickly turns into a nightmare. Last week, it emerged that residents had to move out of a recently completed Manchester apartment block, Islington Wharf Mews, because it breaks fire safety rules.
New home nightmare for 300 families every week: Buyers' complaints soar as properties riddled with faults are increasingly sold by builders cutting corners to meet 200,000-a-year target
Nearly 300 families a week are being forced to move into shoddy newly-built homes that have not been finished as builders cut corners to meet targets, it has been claimed.
Bovis Homes offered £3,000 incentives to customers to move in before Christmas ahead of profit warning
Housebuilder Bovis Homes offered customers up to £3,000 to move into incomplete homes before Christmas shortly before it issued a surprise profit warning to investors.
BOVIS AND BUTTHEAD: Housing giant Bovis ‘pressured customers to move into unfinished homes before Christmas’ and even offered cash incentives
Fed-up customers joined the Bovis Homes Victims Group on Facebook. The 650-strong body plans to protest at Bovis’ HQ in Longfield, Kent.