Persimmon Scotland - anyone who has recent experience?

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Looking at buying a new home from these guys and hoping someone out there has some recent experience of their Scottish developments?

Would be moving from a 2 bed new build we bought 4 years ago to a 4 bed we are looking at off plan, as two babies in two years means we have run out of room.

Our current place was built by a local firm who were great and we had no issues with, but we are priced out of buying from them again to get the space we need, so wondering if it's realistic to negotiate hard to get a finished house (turf, fencing, enough tv points, some extra kitchen cabinets) for asking price? Is it worth trying for carpets? Tiling?

The plot we think we want has foundations but that's all atm and ideally, we don't want to move before DC2 is born in July. How much pressure will they put on to move sooner? The house is about 50 plots into a 280 plot development.

I'd love to part exchange/do an assisted move, as with everything that's going on we don't want the hassle of selling on the open market. On the other hand, our current property is quite desirable in our area, so we're confident we could sell in 30 days if we put it on ourselves.

Is it pie in the sky for me to hope this can be quite straightforward?

Any thoughts welcome!

I’ve not lived in a persimmon home, but haven’t heard anything bad about them (apart from the £100m bonus the directors got on the back of the government help to buy subsidies increasing sales ). WRT negotiating, if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Good luck.

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I know 2 things about Persimmon but nothing about the Scottish side of things.

1. Someone I know bought an off-plan Charles Church property for £3m and it was in such a bad state upon completion he purchased just one Persimmon share which enabled him to attend the AGM to be heard and acknowledged.

1. Persimmon were featured 3 weeks ago on my local radio station which covers 3 counties, on a consumer programme because the properties were all sold on leasehold land which the Council couldn’t adopt & as such, there was no sewage, no street lighting & no finished roads. There currently is no legal requirement for the developer to finish the development (including the afore mentioned) despite their sales blurb stating play areas, shops etc would be built.

Thanks baby

I have to have faith in the local authority oversight up here. Not going to 280 houses I can see realistically being the case, but I think they would be made to make the place adoptable. Still, point taken about unfinished development. There's an unfinished estate in the area we're looking in but we think it's overpriced for the local market (40k more for the same house, basically and the people selling are selling for less than they paid, I just don't fancy either that development or undoing someone else's decoration).

Going to have to travel for a showhome of the type we're looking for, so it'll be a chance to see the extent of other sites, I guess.

Any positive stories out there? (Not using help to buy. Think it's a bad deal, and while we're stuggling, we've got too much equity to qualify anyway).