Barratt Homes Reviews

IN THE BEGINNING Following the death of my dad at last Christmas, my mum decided it was time to come back to the UK after about 18 years in Cyprus. Her decision was also influenced by the much higher cost of living over there (following the conversion to the euro) and the increasingly hot summers. I was therefore the man on the ground ...  Read the complete review

Combine a black eye mask and a couple of flintlock pistols with a ten gallon hat and spurs. The result would look pretty similar to Barratt Homes! Start to finish (and still ongoing) disgusting service and attitude. I fully accept that newly built houses will have some snags but it would seem that they take the attitude that it is a chore for them to put them right. Take your money and then turn their back, considering that earlier in the year they were laying off staff to soften the blow of their £600 million crisis. It would seem that those who are left haven't got the message. Rude, patronising, unsympathetic (and pathetic) dismissive of any complaints, I get more respect from the staff in my local co-op! DO NOT BUY FROM THEM!

We bought a home from Barratts last year we have a had several small problems but thought we were doing well compaired to the horror stories from our neighbours. Barratts are now building behind our property & start work before 7am including on weekends and to top it off now the site manager has told us when the fence in our back garden was put up it was in the wrong place & they want to move it reducing our garden size. PLEASE DO NOT BUY A BARRATTS HOUSE!!

We bought a home from Barratts last year we have a had several small problems but thought we were doing well compaired to the horror stories from our neighbours. Barratts are now building behind our property & start work before 7am including on weekends and to top it off now the site manager has told us when the fence in our back garden was put up it was in the wrong place & they want to move it reducing our garden size. PLEASE DO NOT BUY A BARRATTS HOUSE!!

We are really fed up customer's who recently bought from Barratt's and are feeling pretty much cheated upon since the day before we moved into our new property.

Read the full nightmare at:- www.barratthomes-exposed.co.uk

The bottom line is that our housed was rushed through to completion just so Barratt's could get our money in time for their End of Financial Year!

To say that I was disappointed when I saw the property was an understatement - I was totally deflated. We were handed a pile of crap

Essentially, we were crapped on from great height and now we want our say. We want to make you aware of our plight (www.barratthomes-exposed.co.uk) and YES
Barratt's trod on us like a piece of dirt on their shoes!

We strongly recommend that you do not buy from Barratt Developments plc (David Wilson Homes, Ward Homes or Barratt Homes)

We bought a flat in CV1 Coventry a year ago and from day 1 we complained of a nasty smell coming from the en-suite. After several excuses as to what was causing it I had to find the problem myself! I traced it back to a leak in the soil pipe, every time the flats above flushed their toilets raw sewage was leaking into our flat! I lifted the ...  Read the complete review

ive recently moved into a 2 bedroom flat in basingstoke built by barrett homes. we dont actually own it as its now owned by sentinel housing. it is totally full of faults. for starters they left the whole flat with just concrete flooring. secondly the boiler doesnt work, it keeps losing pressure to which barrett have said there is ...  Read the complete review

Scholars Gate, Stafford. I was in the process of buying a property there before my solicitor found that Barratt's had not approached the local council for Road Adoption and had not paid for an indemnity for Clause 38. As it stands the council has no obligation to adopt the road nor have Barratt's any obligation to complete it, leaving the new ...  Read the complete review

I bought a 2 bed flat from Barratts in Woking, Surrey in Sept 2005. I have had very few problems with them I employed Inspector Home who identified 19 snags (problems) with my flat and got them rectified before I moved in, All of these were very minor. I also employed my own solicitor who asked to see a lot of paperwork (which wasn;t ...  Read the complete review

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE CONSIDERING PURCHASING A BARRATT HOME I bought a large 4 bedroom detatched home in Lanarkshire, Scotland 18 months ago. For 7 months now my ensuite shower has been leaking through my livingroom ceiling and I have been left with a damaged carpet in livingroom/dining room, no carpet at all in my ensuite bedroom and ...  Read the complete review

I am currently in the process of buying a Barratt's appartment and what a nightmere the whole process has been. I am 23 and a first time buyer. After agreeing to buy the property i had a independent valuation carried out which confirmed the appartment was £23,000.00 over price. Anyone else had this issue? I then rang barratts and they said ok ...  Read the complete review

Last year I purchase a Barratt house off plan, I have tried to sell my current house privately but to no avail. Barratts offered me their "100% part exchange" to aid me in my move to the new house. The sales man TWICE offered me £118k and this had been signed off by his boss but then retracted the bid stating that they didn't know that I ...  Read the complete review

We moved into our new Barratt house on the Ashdale estate in Kilmarnock on 29/01/07 and 16 months later we are still waiting on items on the Pre-Move Inspection being sorted. A summary of our problems are: Squeaking stairs on the day we moved in. 1. Light switches incorrectly wired. 2. Sockets on the ring main ...  Read the complete review

well were do i start.barrett house 5 bed detached lovelly setting ect.crap house.we moved in dec 2005,house was freezing cold windows are dropping radiators wrong sizes for rooms ect the house itself looks greay from the outside but inside is a total freezer.ive had a thermal imiging report done and to my horror were heating up the whole of the ...  Read the complete review

I bought a barratt 3 story house on 17-12-07 it took us 6 months to buy it and get past all the LIES e.g. you can get a 2 year mortgage at 3% as well as trade in LIE trade in is easy Lie it took 6 months they said they would give 97% of value ours was valued at 160k we got 129k they even tried to take the toilet roll holders off us, they promised ...  Read the complete review

We bought a Barratt townhouse in Cumbernauld in June 07 and unfortunately it is riddled with problems, water coming in through ceilings, water penetration through windows followed by a whole host of serious defects, including cracks, woodwork hanging off, bad paintwork, ill fitting lights, wobbly bannister in fact at one stage we had 34 separate ...  Read the complete review

We recently part-exed our property for a new Barrat Home just before Christmas. The problem was that due to incorrect figures being passed to solicitors the sale price of the new property went through at the full amount and not at a discounted amount as agreed. So we were left almost £4,000 out of pocket on monies due from the sale of our ...  Read the complete review

This isn't a review on a Barratt Homes, it's about Barratts themselves. I bought a new Barratt House in 'Dove House Meadow' in Sudbury, so called because of all the doves in the area, which are very beautiful. However, tonight (15 Nov), Barratt's have a arranged for a shooter to come along and kill them all. Why? beacause according to Barratts ...  Read the complete review

Balkerne Heights is deemed a luxurious development of 3,4, 5 bed houses ranging from approx £350,000 in a wonderful town centre location with one major problem. THERE IS NO PARKING. We are allowed 1 parking space which is inside our Garage. We cannot have visitors as they have nowhere to park. Barratts have issued us with Parking Permits and ...  Read the complete review

It is unfortunate that problems are sometimes found with new properties but these are a minority and there are a lot of happy stories about new properties from barratt but people are not as quick to praise something and write about it. They only write to slate thing off. It is a shame.