Persimmon Homes

Persimmon Homes: The customer is replacable (320 words)
by AnnoyedHomeBuyer - written on 17/10/09
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We were buying a Persimmon Home through their home-mover scheme - where they pay the estate agent and HIP fees. We found a full asking price buyer quickly - twice - but unfortunately due to minor problems they fell through. The property was back on the market for a couple of days with a lot of interest (we currently have a city centre flat, with parking) and within a couple of days we had an offer. Unfortunately, it was well under the asking price. As we had plenty of other interest, we told them we'd wait and see for 1 week. Persimmon (encouraged by the estate agent) then rang and told us we accepted that offer or they would remarket our house. This is despite promising ...  Read the complete review

Persimmon made our house a home! (1891 words)
by - written on 17/10/09 (Very useful, 89 readings)
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A lot of people knock Persimmon Homes, as they do with most home builders. It may be that I've been lucky, or it might just be that people prefer to complain, but I've had very few problems and, four months down the line, am more than happy with my purchase. My Fiancée and I made the decision to buy a Persimmon property back in February when we saw their new developments advertised in the local paper. Not only was there no deposit required (which was vital for me as I'm notoriously bad at saving!), they were also offering a "Helping Hand Shared Equity Scheme". The idea of this is that you buy 85% of the property, and Persimmon owns the other 15% on a ...  Read the complete review

Express Review on Persimmon Homes
by The Duke - written on 22/07/09
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I'm just about to receive the keys to my Persimmon home. Be warned, they changed the look of the house without telling me. It is in the missives that they can do this but I now have a different looking house from the rest of the development so they can save money - they removed the stone features and replaced them with brick. They told me this was because of a defect in the stone then proceeded to build further properties in the development with this stone!! Trying to save money me thinks!!!!!

Express Review on Persimmon Homes
by SarahC1986 - written on 14/07/09
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Never buy a home from Persimmon Homes wouldn't even give it one star!!!!!!!!!- We moved into our property in January 2007 as a new home - May 2008 one of the internal steps collapsed and my partner and 3 month old fell down the stairs. Persimmon came out and said it was a bit of "shrinkage" and that they had effected a full and permenant repair. Beginning of 2009 and we had more movement in our internal stairs and it had dropped, when we had the plaster removed the work was apalling, it was condemned by a structural surveyor, the stairs weren't attached to the wall pieces were missing and structural posts were missing, the permenant repair was a piece of skirting board to cover a gap....never ever buy a home from these cowboys they are a disgrace to the building trade!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Persimmon Homes: The nations biggest housebuilder! (290 words)
by - written on 07/06/09 (Useful, 288 readings)
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I moved into a new home about six months ago and I am still waiting for some issues to be fixed unfortuantely. To be fair I was very impressed with the service that I recieved before I moved in although I was disappointed to find that on the site I was interested in they had stopped supplying things like the over, grass in the garden and house alarms as standard. They tried to sell me a costly extractor fan that I later found out was not really necessary as one is fitted as standard - albeit a more basic model than the one they were trying to push. We discovered several faults after we moved in, the toilets didn't all flush properly and the ...  Read the complete review