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Yeah seen the "we'll part ex your homd guaranteed" kind of a deal going on for a while, but actually hearing folk going though with it. A pure win win for developers.
There are so many factors to it, all can be amended with time if folk are keen to make it better. Shortage of trades, shortage of materials (less just now), estate and letting agents making up stories about how many people have already expressed interest in the last 30 seconds *, mortgage and interest rate issues, the way lenders catogerize new vs older homes, the govs way of calculating gdp/national growth is adversely affected by new homes completed, people being people and want everything brand new just for them etc.For me biggest issue is the fact we are still allowing private developers (who make more than the obvious numbers suggest due to the way they operate) to build on vast swaths of green field sites, developing them in the cheapest possible way for the most personal gain, and with the most detrimental environmental and social impact.
So many folk I've known my whole life have moved off to a new build in a horse field and then within a year lost contact with them as they just stop ever really leaving their 3 bed barret home, or can't easily leave as no trains, buses, cycling is essentially too dangerous (right out into a 60mph a road) and driving is busy as a small 500 count village now has over 10k and no infrastructure change have been made.Cities arw always going to get bigger, but after 70 years post war of building these sprawling estates, why do we as a people allow it.
BrickMan-
Everyone in UK : We need more homes!
Govt.: Developers! Build homes!
Everyone in UK: Not those types of homes!
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Because that's what people want!
It sucks. All over Brandenburg they build whatever wherever and then people realise they have a carport but the next supermarket/school/whatever is very far away.build on vast swaths of green field sites, developing them in the cheapest possible way for the most personal gain, and with the most detrimental environmental and social impact
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green field sites
It's rarely green field, usually brown field. Ex rubbish tips, contaminated ex-industrial land, flood planes. Barratt homes are shit, I know I used to live in one, but they're also often in places that are actively hostile to humans.
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My main issue with the new developers homes is they squeeze as many homes on the pieces of land as possible and folk are happy to pay it. From 100k to 750k they are fucked together its absolutely mad folk are happy with it because its a new home.
Howard
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konastab01
The problem is a lot of people want to move into a brand new place, they dont want to do work and want everything box fresh but also a lot of these devlopers are offering deals to get people to buy and for people who maybe are getting priced out the market by others going 20 percent above asking.
Its a complete shit show the now