The HomeOwners Alliance have collaborated with King’s College London in order to launch a guide for homebuyers who are looking to purchase a new build property. The new guide is 28 pages long and is called ‘Buying you new home: your rights explained’.

This publication is the first of its kind and will explain to the reader in clear and concise language the process of buying a new home and the rights that the buyer has. Included in the booklet is how a buyer can complain when things go wrong and how to resolve disputes with developers and how to make a claim under the warranty.

The launch of this information has taken place following the Chancellor Philip Hammond’s commitment to building 300,000 new homes each year in the Autumn Budget. Speaking about the creation of the new guide, Philip Britton from The Centre for Construction Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, has said that the information will help new homebuyers know and understand their rights. People who buy new homes often find that they have less protection that they previously thought. Buying a new home is a bit of a minefield and it is often difficult for homebuyers to know where to turn. As an extension of the service offered with the release of this booklet, the School also offers the King’s Legal Clinic, which is a free service that will offer legal advice to the public.

The new build sector has a range of challenge, from complicated contracts to bad quality of work amongst other contractual restrictions. Because of this, buyers need to be better informed of their rights, with the publication of the ‘Buying your new home’ guide answering a large number of questions, taking some of the complexities out of the process.