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[quote][i]Originally posted by MarkM[/i] Few tips as I bought a new build 3 years ago.... 1. Unless you really feel you need to don't take any of the options they offer. They're overpriced and for the same price you can buy much better quality items yourself. For example we were offered a gas fire for £1,500 on the purchase price as the house didn't come with a fireplace. A class 1 chimney was on the outside of the house and all the gas pipework was in the cavity ready for a fire to be installed but unless you accept the offer they plasterboarded over it so you just had a blank wall. The option offered was a standard gas fire with wooden surround. We decided against it and had our own installed. We got a solid limestone surround and much better fire (on a remote control etc) than the builders option and we only had to pay a bit more than the £1,500 the builder wanted. We did the same thing with carpets - we got much better thicker carpets for the same price, wooden flooring, chrome light switches instead of white and turf in the garden etc etc. Yes it may take a while to have it all done but the end spec will be much better and you won't have the cost of those things on the mortgage which you'll pay interest on. In the end we paid approximately 30k lower than the asking price because they builder could finish the build a lot quicker - it was also because we were due to complete at the end of the third quarter and our house was in the final phase on the estate. 2. If you have already agreed to pay the purchase price ask for stuff extra thrown in like better quality appliances etc. I know you've reserved the property and probably paid £500 to do it but the builder won't want to risk losing the sale for he sake of installing better quality stuff. 3. Try and time paying the deposit and then completion until the end of a financial quarter as you'll have more chance of the builder bending over backwards to meet your demands as they'll want the sale in the accounts for that quarter. 3. Make sure before you complete the purchase (pay the balance for the house) that all of the snagging has been completed as once you have the keys you transfer to the builders after sales team. Let's just say the threat of delaying completion because an issue needs to be resolved is the best way to get a builder to pull their finger out! After completion everything takes ages and you dont becaome a priority anymore. 3. If you will be living in the house and they are still building ask the builder to pay for a window cleaner to visit every week until the site has been finished. Again do all this before you pay your deposit (nto the reserve fee). Your windows will be full of dust and they'll be happy to pay the £5 odd a week if it means the sale goes through. To make the buying process go smoothly ask you solicitor for everything to be done over email so you can print, sign, scan and email documents back to them when required. It just speeds the whole thing up so you don't have to wait for 3-4 days at a time for the post or have to drop things off at their office. Obviously there are a few documents that need hard copies sent to you for signing but the majority of the stuff can be emailed. I think we paid around £1,250 for solicitor fees including disbursements for searches etc for our purchase. I had them emailing everything to my work email so I could print everything off in work and put it into a folder so that way I still had a hard copy of everything. If I think of anything else I'll let you know. [Edited on 09-10-2015 by MarkM] [Edited on 09-10-2015 by MarkM] [/quote]
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