There are lots benefits to buying a new home instead of buying an already lived in, second hand one. When you move into a new home, you are the first owner. There is no one else’s wallpaper on the bedroom walls and no old carpets on the floor. The home is yours, and it feels like yours too. All you need to do is move in!
When trying to decide to buy a new home over a second hand one, consider the following few points:
- New homes are built to comply with modern energy legislation and will come with a Building Energy Rating (BER). This will allow you to take the energy performance and energy cost of running your new home into consideration prior to purchase. Not only is this good for the environment, but this will also result is actual savings over the period of ownership of the home. The benefits derived from better insulation, modern window construction and more energy efficient appliances will reduce energy use, resulting in lower household bills.
Also, should you wish to sell on your home in futures years, a BER makes the energy performance of a home visible to prospective buyers
- Your new home can be decorated to your taste and style. You will have no repairs to worry about and no old kitchens etc to replace.
- Your new home will be safer, with little or no maintenance due to new modern plumbing, electrics, roofing etc.
- The quality of new homes has never been better. They will have been built in adherence with modern building regulations which ensure that only well built, well finished homes are released on to the market for sale.
- Modern estate design means that new homes are often located near purpose built amenities and convenient bus and commuter routes, which increases the quality of living for those who buy them.
- The majority of new homes will have the Homebond 10 Year structural guarantee
- All the new homes on www.chap.ie are built by members of the Construction Industry Federation (CIF).
