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Posts
- A million new homes by 2020?
- A personal plea to Construction Minister Nick Boles
- A Tenant’s guide to renting a home
- Advantages and disadvantages of buying a show home
- Advice On Becoming A Landlord
- Affordable home building has dipped to a 24-year low
- Affordable housing axed as house builders challenge planning agreements
- Annual Report 2015/16 – Consumer Code for Home Builders
- Another Government gift for the housebuilders!
- APPG Inquiry – ten recommendations to improve the quality of new homes
- APPG Inquiry Into Quality Of New Homes
- APPG New Homes Ombudsman “Secret” Inquiry
- APPG push for Implementation of New Home Inquiry Report Recommendations
- Architects in the UK launch campaign for more spacious homes
- Are annuities really the best option for your pension pot?
- Are house builder CEOs fit for purpose?
- Are new homebuyers taken in with bogus builder star rating?
- As the NHBC publish the 2013 Quality Award winners its another successful year for Barratt and a disaster for Persimmon Homes
- Attending The APPG Inquiry Into The Quality of New Build Housing in England
- Barratt withdraw its unique five-year warranty
- BBC Radio 4 ‘You and Yours’ – What needs to be done to protect consumers in the housing industry?
- Berkeley boss Pidgley blames planning for lack of new homes
- Beware if buying a new home off-plan
- Beware of buying a new home rushed for the house builder’s year-end figures
- Blame the rich and housebuilders for rising house prices
- Bloor Homes – OTE Park, Burgess Hill
- Borrowers stress-tested as mortgage approval gets harder
- Bovis fail to win a single NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Award.
- Bovis give buyers £3,000 cash incentives to move into unfinished new homes.
- Bovis Homes CEO David Ritchie “Resigns”
- Brandon Tool Hire – Why employees should be careful what they sign!
- Bricklayers pay up 20% in six months
- Britain’s incredible shrinking new homes
- Builders shares crash as Britain votes to leave the EU
- Buyers from 60 different Persimmon developments contact BBC Watchdog, revealing poor quality and customer service issues are a nationwide problem.
- Buyers should not rely on ultra low interest rates
- Buying a home without a full survey is a false economy.
- Buying a new home? How to choose a snagging inspector
- Call for a Windfall Tax on House Builders
- Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Risk In New Homes
- Christmas comes early for house builders as government caves in
- Claiming Compensation From Housebuilders
- Commons Debate Leasehold New Houses Scandal
- Completion inspections not carried out on at least 24 new homes.
- Consumer Code For Home Builders Revised
- Consumer Code for Homebuilders – Causing the Confusion!
- Corbyn appoints Taylor Wimpey CEO Redfern to advise on housing
- Councils to tax house builder’s landbank to force them to build
- David Cameron announces Help to Buy to be brought forward
- Defective Taylor Wimpey new home causes injury to 10-year-old girl
- Desirable Edinburgh lock-ups come complete with hefty price tags
- Despite builder’s profits, not enough new homes are being built.
- Disrespectful Bellway Homes Fit Signs Over Remembrance Poppies
- Do not renew your home insurance without getting alternative quotes
- Do the NHBC give Quality Awards only to site managers building high quality new homes?
- End Help-To-Buy ‘subsidies’ for house builders
- Environment Agency publish new flood risk maps
- Eric Pickles outlines help for self-builders.
- Estate Agents are after easy sales not best prices
- Estate Agents start charging house buyers fees as well as sellers
- Evidence that Help to Buy is helping house builders more than buyers
- First-time buyers under the age of 40 are to be offered 20% discounts on 100,000 new homes.
- Fitting carbon monoxide alarms in new homes should be mandatory
- Five reasons why ‘Help-To-Buy’ is a bad idea
- Flood victims are still waiting for insurers to pay their claims
- Floorplans are now essential to sell a home
- FREE cavity insulation for 9 in 10 homeowners
- Gallifiord Try and Crest Nicholson benefiting from Help to Buy
- George Osborne says Help to Buy unlikely to affect house prices
- Good advice for anyone considering renting a home
- Government Consultation – Apathy, Ignorance and Lack of Publicity
- Government caves in to pressure from housebuilders as Zero Carbon Homes policy is dismantled
- Government initiated house price bubble “perfect storm”
- Government invites house builders to apply for £400million Build to Rent fund
- Government push to build prefabs to meet its housing target
- Government scraps zero carbon requirement for new homes.
- Have Persimmon Tried To Buy A Better HBF Star Rating?
- HBF 2014 Customer Satisfaction survey results published.
- HBF claim the number of new homes built is being under-reported by government.
- HBF mislead the public with misinformation, spin and ignorance on BBC Radio 4 “You and Yours”
- HBF National New Home Customer Satisfaction Survey 2015
- HBF Satisfaction Survey shows number of buyers reporting defects as high as ever
- HBF Survey Housebuilder Star Rating 2015
- HBF Survey Shows New Home Satisfaction Levels Are Falling
- Help to Buy – builder dividends to shareholders rise 50%
- Help to Buy a helping hand to another house price bubble and crash
- Help To Buy Helps Trigger Large Bonus Windfalls
- Help to Buy ISA for first-time buyers in 2015 Budget
- Help to Buy Mortgage Guarantee
- Help to Buy scheme advertised on television.
- High stamp duty costs result in fewer homes being sold
- House Builder Star Ratings: Can you trust them?
- House builders are cheating new home air leakage testing
- House builders continue to refuse access to snagging inspectors.
- House builders facing curbs on construction of ‘rabbit hutch’ homes
- House builders forced to hire bricklayers from Portugal on £1000 a week.
- House builders kick back against proposed minimum space standards
- House builders react as Ed Miliband re ignites his land grab mandate
- House builders report profit rises due to Help to Buy
- House builders report profits double.
- House builders to be forced to build new homes or lose planning permission
- Housebuilders’ Recommend A Friend Schemes
- Housebuilding industry attempts to derail the setting up of an independent new homes ombudsman.
- Housebuilding Prestigious “Bodgers” Awards 2015
- Housing minister Kris Hopkins, looking after house builder’s interests regarding Help to Buy
- Housing Redress Consultation – Government finally publish response
- How poor site managers win NHBC Quality Awards
- How the house builders could improve the quality of new homes
- How to avoid being conned when house prices are rising
- How to live more economically in your home
- How to make sure your mortgage is approved
- How to protect your home from storms
- How to switch energy suppliers in your new-build home
- Interview For BBC Radio 4 “You and Yours” On New-Build Homes
- Is the Consumer Code for Home Builders fit for purpose?
- Is the Government Consultation to delay a Statutory New Homes Ombudsman?
- Jeff Fairburn, Persimmon CEO e mail address is taken down
- Labour To Abolish Stamp Duty For First-Time Buyers
- Latest HBF Customer Satisfaction Survey shows new home quality is still falling
- Leasehold homes are rapidly losing their value
- Leasehold new houses – the next mis-selling scandal?
- Local Authorities approve building of new homes on flood plains
- Make sure new development estate roads are being adopted by the council
- Make Sure Your New House Is Not Leasehold
- Mark Clare Barratt CEO wants even more help for house builders
- Micro Homes – Smaller Than A Hotel Room
- More homes – Fewer complaints : APPG Inquiry Report
- MPs back plan for New Homes Ombudsman
- New Homes Ombudsman – APPG Inquiry 2018
- New Homes Ombudsman should be set up – An APPG Inquiry Recommendation
- New Homes To Have Home Quality Mark
- New mortgage strict affordability stress tests for borrowers
- New National Space Standards For New Homes Not Compulsory
- NHBC and David Wilson Homes on BBC Radio 4 You and Yours
- NHBC CEO Mike Quinton Quits NHBC
- NHBC hand millions in cash-backs to housebuilders
- NHBC say new home buyer’s feedback is increasing
- No Problem With New Home Quality Says HBF Stewart Baseley
- No Regulator or Ombudsman for complaints about house builders
- Noisy neighbours: the number-1 off-putting factor
- Number of new homes built in 2014 up just 8 per cent to 118,760
- OFT advice on buying from door step traders
- Pay row at Persimmon over Director’s share incentive plan
- Persimmon and Bovis benefit from Help to Buy
- Persimmon CEO Jeff Fairburn £93m bonus windfall
- Persimmon counter claim against their buyer for £8,000 for the cost of repairing his house!
- Persimmon escape prosecution after four-year-old boy died in defective new home
- Persimmon fail to fix defect in new home for 9 months
- Persimmon Homes Announce Independent Review
- Persimmon Homes Employee Reveals All In Secret Recording Of Meeting
- Persimmon Homes profits are up but not the quality of their homes
- Persimmon Launches Homebuyer Retention Policy
- Persimmon pulls out of South Wales valleys
- Petitions to Government – Are they a waste of time?
- Plans To Axe Red Tape – Another Gift From Government To Housebuilders
- Preliminary announcement of findings and recommendations of the APPG Inquiry into the Quality of New Build Housing in England
- Proposed Statutory Levy On Housebuilders That Fail To Train
- Quality compromised in rush to build new homes
- Reasons why new homebuyers should never use the house builder’s choice of solicitor
- Redress? When will New Homes Ombudsman be operational?
- Redrow are whinging about planning conditions – again!
- Redrow Steve Morgan dismisses Help to Buy bubble as “silly”
- Redrow’s Steve Morgan – always moaning!
- Response to Consultation Government Delay with New Homes Ombudsman
- Reward for failure as ex Bovis CEO David Ritchie stands to receive nearly £2m pay off
- Rules regarding house builder’s yellow ‘direction’ development signage
- Sajid Javid’s Housing White Paper – Britain’s Broken Housing Market
- Selling your house yourself without using an estate agent
- Shocking example of standards at Taylor Wimpey
- Sign The Petition For Better Quality New Homes
- Stamp Duty is not a fair tax but have Scotland got it right?
- Stamp Duty reform in Autumn Statement – effective from 4 December 2014
- Statutory New Homes Ombudsman Announced
- Strengthening consumer redress in the housing market – A Consultation.
- Summary Of Proposals To Ensure Better Quality New Homes.
- Summer Budget – Buy-To-let Landlords To Lose Their Tax Breaks
- Taylor Wimpey Announces £130m Leasehold Sticking Plaster Solution To Housebuilders’ PPI
- Taylor Wimpey CEO Peter Redfern suggests there is scope to increase prices of new homes even in a falling market!
- Taylor Wimpey threaten to take buyer to court over Help To Buy non-payment
- Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern reacts to Ed Miliband’s “use it or lose it” land grab ultimatum
- Ten reasons why buying a new home is a bad idea
- The ‘Buy to Let’ boom ends as new rules come into force
- The average family home shrinks two square metres in 10 years
- The Buy-To-Let Boom Is Over
- The Chameleon Consumer Code for Home Builders now plan their own “Ombudsman”
- The Consumer Code For Home Builders Is Failing New Homebuyers
- The day Taylor Wimpey ruined my life
- The HBF is still whinging about planning rules
- The Help to Buy madness is being extended by four years to 2020.
- The new NHBC ‘Register of Site Managers’.
- The psychology of selling a home.
- The Redfern Review – How Is CEO Peter Redfern Doing At Taylor Wimpey?
- The top 20 mistakes made by UK new home buyers
- The total of 115,620 new homes were built in 2012.
- Three star Persimmon homes get off lightly on BBC Watchdog 21 May 2015
- Tolerances used by builders to defend poor quality new homes
- UK house prices rising at the fastest rate for 3 years
- UK mortgage market is back to “normal”
- Ultra low interest rates a stealth tax on savers creating a house price bubble
- We can all do without estate agents and buying agents!
- Weak mortar – Britain’s crumbling new homes
- Weak Mortar In Taylor Wimpey New Homes
- Weak Mortar New Homes Scandal
- What are the house builder CEOs doing about the poor quality of their new homes
- What do the house builders really mean?
- What to do if you find you have rats or mice in your home
- When the time comes to sell your new home
- Why a certain types of person buy new homes from particular housebuilders
- Why a New Homes Ombudsman is now essential
- Why are house builders and their agents still deliberately mislead buyers
- Why are private roads so common on new housing developments?
- Why Britain has become a nation of renters
- Why Buy To Let Need Landlord Insurance
- Why do so few new homebuyers complain and go public?
- Why house builders will never build enough new homes
- Why is the Conservative government dragging its heels over housing reform?
- Why most UK home buyers would NOT buy a home built after 2003
- Why new home buyers need a New Homes Ombudsman.
- Why new home buyers should have their homes independently inspected
- Why saving in an ISA is better than a Pension.
- Why the government like rising house prices
- Why the least expensive solicitor is never the best.
- Why the UK is not building enough new homes
- Yet more taxpayers cash for housebuilders