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Right, I'm soon to begin the process of purchasing a new build house. The house isn't due to be completed until next March which is a time frame that works great for us.

We've lived together for a few years now in a rented apartment so I'm pretty savvy with all of the bills and general living things, however I was hoping that some members might be able to give me some advice from experience on things that I should be looking out for during the purchasing process. Questions to be asking and things to check. As its the first time that I've been through this process I dont want to be missing something obvious out :)
 
cheers folks. There definitely some on there that I should have considered that I hadn't thought about yet.The builder is a fairly big one, Taylor Wimpy so I'm confident enough in their guarantees.

As for the deposit, we are going to go the way of the help to buy scheme. Initially we were just going to stay in our rented accommodation until we had enough saved to pay for a deposit, however I am wary that while we are doing that we will still be paying allot out in dead money rent. This way we will be able to move out of the rented accommodation sooner and will easily have the money available at the end of the 0% interest five-year period.
 
Some great points here folks, much appreciated, allot of which I'm kicking myself that I hadn't actually thought about them myself. Hey ho, that was the point of the thread :)

DTWD said:
If it's a woman be aware that you're pretty much bouncing off the limiter already. Once your moved in she will go bat **** crazy and then it's kids and all the crap that comes with that...GET OUT NOW!

Source: Experience

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I can see where your coming from with that one however, we have been together since we were 17, its taken her 11 years to to get me to this position, surely I deserve some points for holding out this long :p


maccapacca said:
What developer is it from? that would inform what I would be looking for.

What CODE rating is it? how many points did they get and how did they achieve it.
How are they achieving the renewables?
What heating system?
Is there RW harvesting?
Are the roads adopted?
Any maintenance charges?
Covenants?
Parking
Boundaries
Flood risk or flood aleviation measures

It shouldn't matter if it's built on contaminated ground i.e. it should have been remediated to a clean standard but it could be useful to know.

Also the Master Plan, is there any more to come, i.e. that nice little hedge could suddenly become a through road to another 500 houses.
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The developer is Taylor Wimpey, they seem rather proud of their 5 star home builders federation rating, for whatever thats worth. I'm going to pop down and raise some of the questions that I've got from you folks, I'll report back when I have some answers. It's great (and much appreciated) to get some impartial advice from you folks who have 'been there, done that' :)
 
maccapacca said:
When I mean first hand experience I don't mean I've bought one and had a bad experience I mean I've seen them being built, hundreds of them, in the site cabins, in the site meetings etc etc
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Interesting, thanks for the advice mate, could you elaborate more? I'm guessing we're talking poor build quality, corner cutting etc?
 
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