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Bovis to pay £7m to compensate customers for poorly built homes
Bovis Homes is to pay £7m to repair poorly built new homes sold to customers, raising fresh questions about the standards of new-build properties across the country and the regulation of the market.
More than half of new-build homes in England 'have major faults'
More than half of the buyers of new homes have experienced major problems with their properties, according to research, which comes after Bovis Homes agreed to pay £7m compensation to customers for poorly built houses.
Unfinished Wrexham homes 'blight on community'
A housing development put on hold for a decade has been called a "blight on the community". Harron Homes said the scheme at Heol Berwyn, Cefn Mawr, was left unfinished following the 2007 financial crash.
Why are Britain’s new homes built so badly?
Weak mortar, faulty drainage, unfinished fittings … for many buyers of newly built properties in Britain, their dream home quickly turns into a nightmare. Last week, it emerged that residents had to move out of a recently completed Manchester apartment block, Islington Wharf Mews, because it breaks fire safety rules.
'Taylor Wimpey sold our freehold - it will cost £40k to buy it back'
A group of home owners who believe they were “mis-sold” their properties are preparing to sue the builders and the solicitors they used when they bought their homes.
New home nightmare for 300 families every week: Buyers' complaints soar as properties riddled with faults are increasingly sold by builders cutting corners to meet 200,000-a-year target
Nearly 300 families a week are being forced to move into shoddy newly-built homes that have not been finished as builders cut corners to meet targets, it has been claimed.
Your New House Nightmares: Black Mouldstains, Builders' Mugs Left Behind and Leaks Everywhere - Buyers of New Build Homes Reveal Their Property Horrors
Families from across the country have revealed their horror stories to MailOnline after buying newly built homes that have not been finished. Homeowners, some of them first-time buyers, have told of picking up the keys to find leaks, badly fitted doors, mould and gaps in the guttering.
Bovis Homes offered £3,000 incentives to customers to move in before Christmas ahead of profit warning
Housebuilder Bovis Homes offered customers up to £3,000 to move into incomplete homes before Christmas shortly before it issued a surprise profit warning to investors.
BOVIS AND BUTTHEAD: Housing giant Bovis ‘pressured customers to move into unfinished homes before Christmas’ and even offered cash incentives
Fed-up customers joined the Bovis Homes Victims Group on Facebook. The 650-strong body plans to protest at Bovis’ HQ in Longfield, Kent.
Housebuilder Bovis Homes apologises to customers at Queens Hills and Round Hosue Park developments
Customers have told of how when they picked up the keys to their dream homes they discovered a string of issues and work unfinished – leading a housebuilder to apologise. A young couple finding their home was missing its oven and a mum having to make an 18-mile trip to do her washing are among a litany of complaints laid at Bovis Homes’s door.