Persimmon Homes...

My mate has just bought one in Wilthorpe and he says they're brilliant.

 

Wilthorpe.

Heard a few things about the Penistown office, had one woman in to complain as we were buying ours!

What extras you after? You should be able to blag stainless steel kitchen and tiling to bathroom wi shower over bath etc with platinum package unless you want integrated appliances.

Anything outside of that, save your wedge and get someone in once you complete.

 

I live in one and apart from a few minor snagging issues initially after moving in we've never had a problem.

 

You maybe surprised to know but a lot are being turned into HMO's especially closer to the town centre.

 

Ten years doesn't sound like a lot for a house to me. Seems like you could get away with extremely poor build quality if you're off the hook as long as it lasts a decade.

 

Is that Sherlock's brother?

 

Strata , the company trying to rape barnsleys green belt

 

Given the barnsley developments are on brownfield sites is amusing.

 

Bought one two years ago, I've heard horror stories from elsewhere but I've been impressed with my Persimmon house; after sales have been good as well.

 

I think initially they tried flogging us the same property.

 

So they have yoy believe

The are the drivers behind the mu1 scheme currently been proposed in pogmoor, higham barugh green and Redbook

 

Mu1

 

Me and the Mrs bought a Persimmon 3 Bed Semi Detached in December 2014 in Royston and we’ve had issues and initially the after sales was good but then after a few months they couldn’t care less. Luckily the father in law and Mrs’ uncle are builders so have sorted any issues.

 

Strata are the main promotors of the barnsley west consortium

 

We've been upgraded to the platinum package, however, our complaint has been that we paid the reservation fee, completed all the paperwork and they then told us there is no door in the utility room (a Building Control requirement due to the proximity to the adjacent property). The sales girl then lied to her line boss telling her that we had been made aware of this from the outset. We subsequently argued the toss with them and they finally agreed to box out the boiler and provide an outside tap as an extra incentive. Following this we've had further issues such as lack of communication and taking 8 weeks to answer some very basic enquiries including providing a quotation for additional tiling (some of the enquiries were not fully answered with information sketchy and vague at best). We weren't willing to exchange contracts when so many questions remained unanswered, however their legal representatives have now backed us into a corner setting a deadline of this Friday to exchange contracts (or the reservation will be cancelled) even though Persimmon have booked in the mortgage valuation for the day before leaving us no time to sort everything!

 

Tell them where to stick it

Are they really leasehold as well?

 

The Harcliff Meadows site is leasehold, I'm not sure about the other sites in the area but would assume they are all 'sold' on the same basis. There is an option to buy out the freehold after 2 years.

TBH we could get more for our money from buying an existing property so just debating what to do!

 

Do you already know the price of the freehold in two years