Time to move on...not getting hopes up too much though!

We've recently done the same and we move in next month. Our house sold within 3 weeks for not far off asking price so fingers crossed for yourself.
 
Bit of an update, had one estate agent round and very confident with selling our house.

Says he sees at a minimum £195k is easily achievable, £200k all day long, if we were not in such a rush to sell he would actually market the property at £210k with a view to accept no less than £205k.

I guess once it goes to market we will get a feel of the interest but says our house type is in serious demand, especially after the recent tour de france coming by our area.

Quite chuffed with the valuation and if we decided to sell it on open market without being pushed by the deadline and achieve £210k we would have gained £25k in equity over 4 years which is pretty decent in the current climate!
 
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I just said to check the deeds as I have been involved in several where permitted development rights have been removed.
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I know that there was something in the deeds of mine when I bought it (new build) that meant you were not allowed to extend it, including things like conservatories, for the first 5 or 10 years after it was built unless you got permission from the developer.
 
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That garage is ridiculous! Even behind a fiat 500 it looks tiny! I wonder why garages are still common if they are useless for their primary purpose.

House looks great otherwise :).
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Should see the garages on the new build behind me - I literally thought they were some kind of over-sized side porch til they put the garage doors in - even a smartcar would struggle to fit in one.

The original plan they sent around had each plot sharing 1 space in a fair sized, stand alone, double garage overlapping the properties so dunno what happened to that idea.
 
Watch out for the extras you will probably need to pay. Stuff like flooring, landscaping, spot lights, upgrades to units etc.. You can't add these onto your mortgage so will need cash to pay for them.

The photos you posted above will include upgrades from £500- £xk per room.

That garage will make a nice home cinema conversion ;)
 
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^One thing you can do regarding the 'extras' if you haven't got them thrown in already is when a buyer is found for your house, assuming the offer comes in under asking price make noises to the developer about how that reduced offer means you haven't got the necessary funds to outfit the new house. In order to seal the deal they may offer you £xxxx allowance towards their extras (which will cost them far less than the list price) as they would rather get a sale in the books than risk losing out.

Then again when we bought our new build it was a totally different climate (2008!)
 
Re the extras they are already including the down lighters which is around £1000k.

Once our house sells we will be in a much better negotiation position. The picture above shows the oak doors which are extra but I can source these at £90 each anyway so not a deal breaker!

Just waiting to hear back from Taylor Wimpey now as to what happens moving forward.
 
Imy said:
If the house isn't built yet, can you get the plans amended to include a wider garage and the space upstairs extended out also?
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SDK^ said:
Watch out for the extras you will probably need to pay. Stuff like flooring, landscaping, spot lights, upgrades to units etc.. You can't add these onto your mortgage so will need cash to pay for them.

The photos you posted above will include upgrades from £500- £xk per room.

That garage will make a nice home cinema conversion ;)
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Just going through buying a Taylor Wimpey house and can offer my experience in these......you will not be able to change the plans. We wanted to add an extra window onto an end gable wall so that we had natural light coming into the landing, but this was turned down as they have to go back to the planner to make nay ammends and this takes time and costs money, all of which Taylor Wimpey do not want.

They are (and this is in the words of the site manager and sales woman) 'bulk housing producers and do not do bespoke'

As for extras, they do add up. The basic stuff that the houses come with is just the very basic. We have added £6665 of extras to ours and all that was really was upgrade to the bog standard kitchen, carpeting for upstairs and stairs and then a few extra sockets and lights. To put a light and switch under the stairs was £60......an outside socket £60 and the LED downlights were £70 each).

Yes they are pricey, but weighed up the fact that due to the construction of the house (all walls and ceiling voides are rammed with insulation and sound deadeing materials) it would be a complete mare for me to put in the extras, plus all the make good work, so better for them to carry it out during the install.

Finally, if you are thinking of getting some structured cabling run in during the build forget it. I asked for this and they again said no as it was not an extra they provide. When I said I would provide the cabling they again said no as they did not know the providence and conformity of the cabling. Will be putting it in when I lay the flooring...will be running it in gaps between the underlay to required points. Would have been very handy having it buried in the walls, but hey ho. You may get lucky and have a different manager with different views.....if you do let me know so I can goi back to them with this and get them to change their ways...

Good luck with the sale and move
 
They are very sneaky with the glossy surfaces and LED lit show homes.
In reality the standard house is a lot different. This is a £350k new build house close to where I live.

Web Site picture of the show home kitchen with £10k of upgraded items.

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The standard kitchen with no upgrades.

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Shelster said:
Just going through buying a Taylor Wimpey house and can offer my experience in these......you will not be able to change the plans. We wanted to add an extra window onto an end gable wall so that we had natural light coming into the landing, but this was turned down as they have to go back to the planner to make nay ammends and this takes time and costs money, all of which Taylor Wimpey do not want.

They are (and this is in the words of the site manager and sales woman) 'bulk housing producers and do not do bespoke'

As for extras, they do add up. The basic stuff that the houses come with is just the very basic. We have added £6665 of extras to ours and all that was really was upgrade to the bog standard kitchen, carpeting for upstairs and stairs and then a few extra sockets and lights. To put a light and switch under the stairs was £60......an outside socket £60 and the LED downlights were £70 each).

Yes they are pricey, but weighed up the fact that due to the construction of the house (all walls and ceiling voides are rammed with insulation and sound deadeing materials) it would be a complete mare for me to put in the extras, plus all the make good work, so better for them to carry it out during the install.

Finally, if you are thinking of getting some structured cabling run in during the build forget it. I asked for this and they again said no as it was not an extra they provide. When I said I would provide the cabling they again said no as they did not know the providence and conformity of the cabling. Will be putting it in when I lay the flooring...will be running it in gaps between the underlay to required points. Would have been very handy having it buried in the walls, but hey ho. You may get lucky and have a different manager with different views.....if you do let me know so I can goi back to them with this and get them to change their ways...

Good luck with the sale and move
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Hey dude, TW ran CAT 5 for me (it was on the options too). They refused to do CAT 6 though but CAT 5 was good enough for me really.

If you have something you want them to do really badly you can always try to escalate it, they will kick up a fuss and give you the story about "not being a bespoke" builder like they did to me, but they changed loads of stuff on our site so that is clearly rubbish. Another idea that someone did was to get them to run some plastic tubing between places so they could run their own cables later on, I thought that was good too.

I did some stuff myself rather than getting them on the options, for example for me to source carpets myself was cheaper than having them do it, and much better quality too. The stuff they put in was some polyprep blend with crap underlay, which was nowhere near as good as the 11mm underlay and wool carpets I got installed for less. I just arranged the carpet fitters to come in day after I got the keys.

For the most part though I do agree, getting them to install stuff when building is easier.
 
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There was no mention of the CAT5 in the Options book we had from them.

Did have a look at the carpeting from another source but was coming out roughly the same for waht we were after. Have polyprop in place were we are now and is sufficient for our needs...spend 90% of our time downstairs, so is only really there to cover the boards up. Am spending some on the downstairs flooring though. The only options from TW were laminates, but they were not that great tbh, so am going for solid oak covering all downstairs, bar the cloakroom.

Only issue I had was that I wanted them to leave the skirting boards off so that I can lay floor then fit for a proper job finish, but due to the inspections they have to pass from NHBC they cannot leave it off as teh house would be classed as 'not liveable in' so they would not be able to release funds from mortgage. Not even if I signed to say this was what I wanted would they be able to do it.

Have reached a compromise where as they are only going to tack it to the walls so I can easily remove it and then fit....will see if they get this sorted or not. The hopefull part of me thinks it will, yet the realist of me says I will be pulling skirting that has been glued on off the walls along with tons of plaster......

Also have to cut the doors down too as they will not do this prior to me laying floor despite me passing on the height the floor will come up. Having the cloak floor tiled I also reckon I will have a level difference even though I have asked them take this into consideration.......as they said, not bespoke, bulk
 
Well for the CAT 5/6 you could always try and speak to the sparky on site and see if they would do it. It was definitely on the options for me but that was about 2 years ago now, maybe they removed it for some reason.

It is one of the best things I've done though.
 
Did think of having them run conduit too....will ask them when down next. We are at 'slab' level now, so should be able to get them to put some stuff in. Am thinking they already run this in for normal electrics and cabling as all walls stuffed full of rockwool so may be needed for fire regs or what not
 
I wonder if it is a US thing but all the US newbuilds come with all these etras. Cat5 is standard, more lighting and power sockets than you can shake a stick at, outside power, granite kitchen surfaces, steel kitchen units. And that is why I wanted a new build, not an old house I would have to gut, upgrade and suffer damp issues etc.
 
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