Seriously everyone who bought these flats should be given a total refund and compensation. Absolute con.
How did the council let the construction company self inspect. Council should be on the hook for letting the building pass.
It’s clearly not worth “nothing” though, is it? I’d give them £1000 for it, no questions asked.
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Once again, construction firms doing a slapdash job on the cheap, and yet everyone except those incompetent fucks will get the blame.
Honestly never buy a new build.
I have worked for these companies.
Do not buy them.
It amazes me the reviews..
The reviews are left by people who have visited the sales office and home! Not lived in an actual house they have built!
They then 90% of the time update their reviews but they get deleted!!
I can’t even begin to tell you how bad they are…
I’m just putting in an offer on a place, I do not like to see this right now, shtap
The companies that build houses should be on the hook for the core specifications of the building to ensure that it is fit for purposes for a minimum period (such as 15 years) and it should be up to them to insure themselves against loss in the case of something going wrong. If the companies that build the places aren’t held financially responsible then we are not going to see change.
Actual link to the article that doesn’t require you to use the daily mirror or give them marketing options that you can’t uncheck.
Don’t use the mirror newspaper site. Ever.
I work in construction. Electrician now and carpenter before that. I cannot express how well built things used to be, in comparison to how they are now.
I AM NOT complaining about the methods, or the new tech or new designs. Im talking about the workmanship. Furthermore, I AM NOT blaming the workers! As hard as that is to believe, i promise it is not their fault. I guarantee you any tradesman would hate a rushed/poor job. But WAY too often, when we are working, we are told “its good enough” not just by managers but by the builders themselves.
Overall, i do not believe that the old proverb ‘we need X new builds so we need to rush it’! This is not a political issue of the lack of properties, in my humble opinion. This is due to the amount of full on corruption and back handers that occur between different deals, which is what is ultimately leading to these new builds being the way that they are.
Most tradesmen, can walk into a new build and straight away start to inspect (almost unknowingly) how things are done i.e. door frame cracks, skirting paint, electrical outlets level and not painted over, lights centered and clean off of paint, maintenance cupboards in good nick, flooring lines correct, kitchen tops lined up and doors plumb and so on and so on.
Im worried that big firms that do domestic properties have bred a culture of young management with corrupt ideals and a lack of practicable knowledge of actually inspecting workmanship and pass it through.
I dont know, maybe im just venting, but fuck me….no amount of of flashy granite worktop and fancy lights can make up for a wall made of plasterboard between neighbours, theyre like £10m² for soundproof boards🤦♂️ these are million pound properties for fuck sake.
Snaggers – those people that survey new builds and uncover shocking failures, they are not allowed into a property till you buy it and send them in. Need a few more of these stories before the law can be changed unfortunately.
We live in a 200 year old granite built house, and it was cheaper than the small local newly built houses.
I don’t understand – these are leasehold – why is the building owner not held accountable
That’s awful. I live in a flat where the construction company “forgot” to add fire repellent in the walls. Result: a fire destroyed a building on my block. The company had to basically refurbish all the flats, including mine. And to make things worse, the moving company in charge of my stuff when I moved to a temporary flat damaged a lot of furniture and items. Just shows the quality of services in the UK…
If it’s the ones behind her, what on earth possessed her to make her think it was worth anything even close to £900,000?
Another case of criminals running away with the money and the government standing by and just watching. Always buy freehold if you can the land my house is on is a good proportion of the building price
Prime Metro Properties based in Islington, north London. Best give anything built by them a miss then.
It’s an absolute joke that any other purchase of goods that turns out to be faulty is covered by the consumer rights act, yet property isn’t covered but is arguably the most important purchase anyone will make in their lives.
If the building cannot be put right, then they need to have 100% of their money returned to them!
Renting a Bellway flat constructed in 2016. Issues our complex is having are identical.
>Since Margaret Thatcher privatised building control in 1985, homes no longer have to be signed off by local authorities and instead, developers can choose private firms to do it.
Of course
It seems almost everything that’s wrong with the country started with her.
Privitising building control leads to situations like this
Privitising water services has lead to the ocean pumped with shit and sky high divvys
Privitising the trains has crippled the network and funneled money into foreign governments and private companies
Both the Tories and labour support this and refuse to consider any change.
It’s almost as if theres an immense of foreign landbanking and money laundering running through the properties of the UK especially within London.
Anyone wonder why Jenrick wanted to try and keep £40mil tax revenue for buildings away from Tower Hamlets, or why the Boris Johnson/Tory government illegally prorogued parliament in an attempt to avoid publishing the Russia report? Hmmm….!
£900k **flat** … Evidence of a broken housing market if ever you needed one.
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“Why don’t British people want new builds?”
Seriously everyone who bought these flats should be given a total refund and compensation. Absolute con.
How did the council let the construction company self inspect. Council should be on the hook for letting the building pass.
It’s clearly not worth “nothing” though, is it? I’d give them £1000 for it, no questions asked.
[removed]
Once again, construction firms doing a slapdash job on the cheap, and yet everyone except those incompetent fucks will get the blame.
Honestly never buy a new build.
I have worked for these companies.
Do not buy them.
It amazes me the reviews..
The reviews are left by people who have visited the sales office and home! Not lived in an actual house they have built!
They then 90% of the time update their reviews but they get deleted!!
I can’t even begin to tell you how bad they are…
I’m just putting in an offer on a place, I do not like to see this right now, shtap
The companies that build houses should be on the hook for the core specifications of the building to ensure that it is fit for purposes for a minimum period (such as 15 years) and it should be up to them to insure themselves against loss in the case of something going wrong. If the companies that build the places aren’t held financially responsible then we are not going to see change.
https://worldnewsera.com/news/uk/flats-bought-for-900000-in-trendy-suburb-are-now-worth-nothing/
Actual link to the article that doesn’t require you to use the daily mirror or give them marketing options that you can’t uncheck.
Don’t use the mirror newspaper site. Ever.
I work in construction. Electrician now and carpenter before that. I cannot express how well built things used to be, in comparison to how they are now.
I AM NOT complaining about the methods, or the new tech or new designs. Im talking about the workmanship. Furthermore, I AM NOT blaming the workers! As hard as that is to believe, i promise it is not their fault. I guarantee you any tradesman would hate a rushed/poor job. But WAY too often, when we are working, we are told “its good enough” not just by managers but by the builders themselves.
Overall, i do not believe that the old proverb ‘we need X new builds so we need to rush it’! This is not a political issue of the lack of properties, in my humble opinion. This is due to the amount of full on corruption and back handers that occur between different deals, which is what is ultimately leading to these new builds being the way that they are.
Most tradesmen, can walk into a new build and straight away start to inspect (almost unknowingly) how things are done i.e. door frame cracks, skirting paint, electrical outlets level and not painted over, lights centered and clean off of paint, maintenance cupboards in good nick, flooring lines correct, kitchen tops lined up and doors plumb and so on and so on.
Im worried that big firms that do domestic properties have bred a culture of young management with corrupt ideals and a lack of practicable knowledge of actually inspecting workmanship and pass it through.
I dont know, maybe im just venting, but fuck me….no amount of of flashy granite worktop and fancy lights can make up for a wall made of plasterboard between neighbours, theyre like £10m² for soundproof boards🤦♂️ these are million pound properties for fuck sake.
Snaggers – those people that survey new builds and uncover shocking failures, they are not allowed into a property till you buy it and send them in. Need a few more of these stories before the law can be changed unfortunately.
We live in a 200 year old granite built house, and it was cheaper than the small local newly built houses.
I don’t understand – these are leasehold – why is the building owner not held accountable
That’s awful. I live in a flat where the construction company “forgot” to add fire repellent in the walls. Result: a fire destroyed a building on my block. The company had to basically refurbish all the flats, including mine. And to make things worse, the moving company in charge of my stuff when I moved to a temporary flat damaged a lot of furniture and items. Just shows the quality of services in the UK…
If it’s the ones behind her, what on earth possessed her to make her think it was worth anything even close to £900,000?
Another case of criminals running away with the money and the government standing by and just watching. Always buy freehold if you can the land my house is on is a good proportion of the building price
Prime Metro Properties based in Islington, north London. Best give anything built by them a miss then.
It’s an absolute joke that any other purchase of goods that turns out to be faulty is covered by the consumer rights act, yet property isn’t covered but is arguably the most important purchase anyone will make in their lives.
If the building cannot be put right, then they need to have 100% of their money returned to them!
Renting a Bellway flat constructed in 2016. Issues our complex is having are identical.
>Since Margaret Thatcher privatised building control in 1985, homes no longer have to be signed off by local authorities and instead, developers can choose private firms to do it.
Of course
It seems almost everything that’s wrong with the country started with her.
Privitising building control leads to situations like this
Privitising water services has lead to the ocean pumped with shit and sky high divvys
Privitising the trains has crippled the network and funneled money into foreign governments and private companies
Both the Tories and labour support this and refuse to consider any change.
It’s almost as if theres an immense of foreign landbanking and money laundering running through the properties of the UK especially within London.
Anyone wonder why Jenrick wanted to try and keep £40mil tax revenue for buildings away from Tower Hamlets, or why the Boris Johnson/Tory government illegally prorogued parliament in an attempt to avoid publishing the Russia report? Hmmm….!
£900k **flat** … Evidence of a broken housing market if ever you needed one.