Buy a New Home in Beckenham
What are the benefits of buying a new home?
New Homes in general have the obvious benefit of being new, clean, and hygienic. In general, they are stress-free and offer homeowners future peace of mind.
Newly built houses are safe, they are built to the highest safety standards and include modern hard-wired fire & heat alarms and electrical systems that are fully commissioned tested & certified.
The new houses on the Stables Yard development are also very secure and come with Triple glazed multipoint locking composite windows and doors and are set in a securely gated community that is fully covered by a CCTV network.
No maintenance or repairs are required in a newly built house. The kitchens and bathrooms are all brand new with modern, new and carefully fully fitted appliances. Plus when you buy a new house they are fully decorated in white so you can easily add your own style & colour scheme, to make your new house feel like home.
What does buying a new home mean for you?
When you buy a new home you know that you won’t be inheriting someone else’s carpets and fittings and you definitely won’t be uncovering poor workmanship and faults with plumbing & electrical services. More importantly, you know that the roof and heating system won’t be approaching their sell-by dates anytime soon. This means that you won’t need to start saving for costly repairs the minute you purchase it.
Buying a New Eco Home is Chain Free
These new houses in the Stables Yard development are chain-free, the houses are are complete and ready for you to exchange contracts. This is unusual for a new home as you’ll often find that the usual process when buying a new home is to make a cash reservation and then wait for the house to be completed.
So what?
When you buy with a cash reservation, delays can happen, and prices can fluctuate which means you could pay more for your new house or be tied into a deal that isn’t as good value as it once seemed, you could even receive less for the home you are selling.
These new houses in Stables Yard, Beckenham, are ready to go and it means that the risk of buyers and sellers pulling out or changing their minds is significantly reduced, it also minimises the risk of being asked for more or offered less. It means that what you decide and agree upon today can be planned and implemented with confidence and not just the hopeful start of what could be a fruitless journey.
Comply with the Government’s Future Homes Standard
When you buy a new house today they are built to more stringent standards than those of yesteryear, the very first set of basic Building Regulations were only introduced in around 1965, these were then updated in 1984. Homes built prior to this were not regulated and were built according to what the builder thought best or could get away with and more commonly what materials were locally available at the time. These building regulations did not cover insulation and energy use and consequently it is very difficult to update older properties to the current standards which as regulations tighten will become more of a problematic issue in the future.
Even today, many brand new homes are currently on the market with gas boilers fitted. In 2025 the building regulation will be upgraded again to comply with the Government’s Future Homes Standard, this set of regulations amongst other things will not allow Gas Boilers to be fitted in new homes, eventually gas Boilers will be phased out completely meaning that at some point in the future all homes will have to be upgraded from Gas to a an alternative energy source, this will be expensive and disruptive and quite probably not efficient.
Buy a New Home, it’ll come with a Warranty
The new homes at Stables Yard are built to the very latest and highest standards. The workmanship and design is fully covered for defects by a 10-year full insurance-backed warranty provided by Build Zone, one of the industry’s leading independent warranty providers.
During the first year any issues will be dealt with straight away by the contractor that built the house. During the construction phase, the standard of their work was inspected and fully documented at each stage of the build process. This was carried out by the Build Zone appointed surveying team and also by an independent approved inspector. After the first year, Build Zone (working with the contractor if needed) will take care of any issues that may arise providing full cover and peace of mind to the future owners.
Buy a new eco-home, it’ll save you money
Our homes already have the very latest energy systems in place and were designed for this from the ground up. Stables Yard homes are designed to run on efficient, economical and clean energy.
We all know that recently energy prices have increased significantly, our houses have the latest technology and superior insulation that will save you significant sums of money in future years. Buy a new eco-home and you’ll enjoy the comfort of a warm home at significantly less cost than an older property.
Our new houses at Stables Yard have an EPC / SAP rating of A scoring a very good 96 points out of 100, this is very rare even when set amongst new homes. The EPC illustrates that this will give very low primary running costs.
Buy a new home that’s almost Carbon Zero, get a 0.75% discount on your mortgage with Ecology Building Society.
The new homes at Stables Yard have been designed with the environment in mind, during the construction process products with a lesser carbon footprint were selected, recyclable and renewable materials were chosen, locally sourced where possible. Construction techniques that cause the least environmental impact were utilised and by including superior insulation and the latest renewable energy systems like air source heat pumps, individual room control underfloor heating, Solar Panels and Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery systems and EV Charging points we have minimised the future harmful carbon production the houses generate.
The EPC for the houses show that the Environmental impact will be very close to Zero Carbon, they will produce 0.10 tonne of C02. That is 1/60th less than the average house which creates on average 6 tonnes of C02. Quite an achievement and as a new owner you can be proud to be at the forefront of an environmentally considered building. The financial backer for the project was the Ecology Building Society and in recognition of the houses environmental credentials they are prepared to give a 0.75% discount on their standard mortgage rate to buyers of the houses.