Poor Quality of New Homes

An audit by Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) on housebuilding in the UK has condemned the majority of new developments:

A staggering 82% of new homes built over the last five years aren't well-designed and fail to measure up to the building industry's own benchmarks, says the first national audit of new private housing design. Nearly a third are so poor they wouldn't have got planning permission as they stand.

See The BBC News Magazine for more details.

We at Herts Lettings have always maintained that there is often better value to be had in older properties although this has to be offset by higher maintenance and potentially expensive remedial work to correct poor insulation, particularly on properties with solid walls.