Buying a new build house from a large developer rant

cm1179 said:
i'm referring to mmc timber frame builds
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Old old houses simply show that wood as a material is simply very very very durable and will last hundreds and hundreds of years if treated well. MMC isn't bad in any way at all, I'm sure there are companies that make crap houses but more and more do it the prefab way which kind of, well, its just so easy to get it right doing it the prefab way. As before the way a factory puts together the panels makes it so easy to get right as opposed to on site where things get forgotten, tools run out of power. In a factory it becomes paint by numbers style construction with ever improving materials.

Engineered beams are stronger than natural wood, wood construction has only gotten better with modern methods.
 
To be honest i think timber framed is rubbish, ive worked on quite a few and prefer good brick/block building, even the quality of brick theses days are poor.
They only use cheap wood in new houses, its cheaper to build and if the roof leaks due to cheapo tiles after say a few years and leaks into the cavity your trusting the quality of the wood not to rot.
Quality wood is ok, but most site tend to use cheap immature imported stuff.
 
I read something like 40% of those new builds in London are being sold to Asian investors before they are even built. Apparantly they can get mortgages over there which let them do that.
 
Timber frame is good IF you do it right and the house can breath with the correct vapour barriers and correct flashings.
 
kwerk said:
I read something like 40% of those new builds in London are being sold to Asian investors before they are even built. Apparantly they can get mortgages over there which let them do that.
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Quite true of larger developments, Canary Wharf residential would never have been built if it were not for non UK investment, when they started building there no one wanted them as it was commercial / industrial and scruffy, now it's a desirable place to live.

Most developments in London at the moment are shared ownership, key worker or housing association rental there's very little totally private development.
 
maccapacca said:
Most developments in London at the moment are shared ownership, key worker or housing association rental there's very little totally private development.
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That should read ALL developments as it currently a planning condition for all new developments over a certain size that they contain a percentage of social housing. This is about to change however - thankfully.
 
On the site i was looking at 66% was shared ownership / housing association.

It was a joint venture with the builder and the government they told me.

Thus the cheap price of the houses Vs the size of them. There is a totally private development just down the road similar size houses cost £415k Vs the £260k I was looking at.
 
hate new houses. walls made of paper. tiny rooms, poor layout, poor fittings, always crushing in too many bedrooms and on-suites because it sounds good in the marketing blurb. always crushed together on the estates they build them, always overlooked, the roads always half finished for years after the last house is sold... and then they go and build social housing on the same estates for the plebs (i know its gov rules, still crap) and build 200-400k homes next door. utterly crazy.
 
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