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Hmmm - I wouldn't buy a new development / off plan house. As far as I can see, all modern developments of at least the last 10 years are garbage.
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Err, I'm pretty sure there are some good quality developer builds in the last 10-15 years, maybe more so than the 20 years prior to that. 80s and 90s was pretty shit for new-build quality.
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As far as I can see, all modern developments of at least the last 10 years are garbage.
Yeah that's always a risk. They'd already put up two identical sets of houses there so we made some friends there and looked at their places. They were actually quite happy with them. The residents association was actively getting TW to fix stuff, so on that front it seemed OK.
The things that put me off were the fees the LDA wants to charge you for living there, the management of the area by a shit housing association who also want to charge you, and that the third stage in particular contained a disproportionate bulk of the social housing. Yeah, on that last point, I'm clearly evil, but I'm kinda done with mixed stuff, it's just bad and depressing watching the inevitable few bad eggs making life utterly miserable for everyone else who lives there.
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Howard
Well it was off plan so you can’t negotiate anyway. But I might revisit when they are built, drive the van over, see if it fits then make an offer now they might be really desperate to shift them.
It’s an odd development with lots of problems if you look carefully though. The will the van fit thing was the straw that busted its back etc.