Discover the benefits of owning a new build home with Beal and why they are a great option for prospective house buyers.

 

What are the benefits of new build home?
Moving into a new home is an exciting milestone for any prospective buyer, but buying a home can be long, and stressful process. Therefore, choosing the right home for you and your family needs a lot of careful planning and consideration.

The choice is different for many people, and it comes down to what is important to you, but we’ve looked at the advantages of considering a new build home to provide some clarity for prospective buyers. Finding the perfect older home with the correct number of bedrooms and ideal location can take time and often comes with having to make compromises.

From improved energy efficiency, a completely bespoke interior, and the perfect location, throughout this blog we’ll explore why a new build home is the perfect solution to reducing the pressures associated with finding and buying your dream home.

 

1. New build homes are more energy efficient

New build homes are built with sustainability in mind, with good levels of insulation and energy efficient heating systems – including PV solar panels – to minimise your carbon footprint and maximise energy efficiency. This often means cheaper energy bills for the homeowner, which will add up to some potentially significant savings over time.

In a time of volatile energy prices, greater efficiency is an important consideration to bear in mind when buying a home. Without adequate insulation, double glazing, or adding other energy-efficient fittings, homes become less effective at conducting heat in summer and keeping the cold out during winter. This not only helps with lowering your energy bills and enhancing your quality of life, but it also has a wider impact with regards to sustainability.

At Beal Homes, we’re passionate about sustainability and minimising our carbon footprint. One of our values is to ‘create places that enhance and protect the environment’, and we live and breathe this across each home we build. As a result, every Beal home comes with an A or B Energy Rating, which exceeds the industry standard for energy efficiency and can help you save over £2,000 on your annual energy bills.

Our energy efficient homes are designed to retain heat through various means. You can significantly reduce your utility bills with greater insulation, thermally efficient windows, wastewater heat recovery units and roof-mounted PV solar panels. By choosing a new build home from Beal, you can rest assured that you’re investing in a more sustainable future for you and your family.

 

2. New build homes offer more design flexibility

Compared to older homes, new homes are designed with contemporary living in mind and offer far more options to create a bespoke living space designed for your lifestyle. This means you can tailor your home to your desired specifications, which isn’t often possible with a second-hand home. Being involved in the design of your new home is not only extremely exciting but having that level of control over fixtures and fittings really gives your home that personalised touch.

After choosing a non-Beal new build home, you may get the choice of flooring options and finishing touches in kitchens or bathrooms and with some housebuilders, these options are limited. At Beal Homes, customers have unrivalled options to customise and make their dream home come to fruition, from designing your kitchen layout with over 130 different kitchen door options, wardrobes and fitted furniture to landscaping options and luxury bathroom and ensuite designs.

Whilst of course you can decorate an older home, you may however be faced with tackling other issues which need to be addressed first. Whether this is needing to replace older fittings such as an oven or boiler – or even fixing leaky taps – this can lead to increased costs and choices between aesthetics and functionality, which isn’t a concern with a new build.

Bespoke building is where Beal comes in. Take a look at our state-of-the-art Design Lounge, where you can choose from an exceptional range of options to customise your home, choose from an extensive, high-quality array of fixtures, fittings and finishes tailored to your individuality. These options come as standard with any of our homes and are part of ‘The Beal Difference’.

The Beal Design Lounge is our award-winning hub, where our expert team work closely alongside you to create your dream home. You can choose every aspect of your Beal Home, from bathrooms to kitchens, to make your home bespoke. Our designers have carefully selected the latest on-trend looks, demonstrating what we can do for your new Beal home. From modern contemporary styles through to more traditional and minimalist options, we have an array of choices to help make a new Beal Home truly yours. You can even immerse yourself in our virtual showroom to see what makes a Beal home so unique.

Learn more about building your bespoke home and download our Design Lounge Brochure, where you’ll be able to find inspiration to bring your new home to life.

3. A new build home is typically chain-free

Buying a second-hand home can be a stressful and lengthy process that may involve a long chain of potential buyers, as well as multiple legal requirements and considerations. This can extend the purchase time of a second-hand home to weeks or months in some cases. Whilst this may be a price to pay for your dream home, there is a much easier way when buying a new home.

 

Being in a chain-free sale has benefits that are not associated with an older, second-hand home. Speeding up buying or selling takes a lot of stress and uncertainty out of this process, which is appealing to sellers as there is less risk of the sale falling through. In some cases, with older homes, the chains can involve as many as ten, although the average chain is three properties.

Therefore, buying a new home is a much simpler process as you often buy directly from the housebuilder. For popular plots or locations, you may need to reserve your new build home off-plan and wait for the home to be built, but generally the process of buying a new build is simpler and quicker than the associated elements listed above.

While choosing a new home can still of course be daunting and have its own unique challenges, we’re here to give you a hand with our Help for Buyers Guide. We also have a range of solutions and initiatives to take the stress out of moving, such as:

– Own New
– Smooth Move
– Part Exchange
– Deposit Unlock
– Launch Pad
– Key Worker

Our initiatives are designed to give you a helping hand when buying a new Beal Home. Our ‘Own New’ Scheme for example, helps you find a competitive mortgage with just a 5% deposit. Whereas if you have a property you are looking to sell, then ‘Part Exchange’ may be for you as this is designed to help you move up the property ladder smoothly and efficiently. If you are a first-time buyer who is looking for a new build property, our ‘Launch Pad’ scheme may help with deposit contributions and legal fees, making a new build more affordable than ever before for first-time buyers. We also offer incentives if you are a key worker or in the armed forces, for example.

4.New build homes come with long-term peace of mind

Compared to older homes which may show faults or signs of wear, new build homes are built with the highest-quality materials and latest building techniques, and new builds often come with a 10-year warranty to give you peace of mind. This long-term security helps to provide prospective buyers with a more hassle-free living experience. For those looking to make their home a long-term investment, the peace of mind that comes with this extensive warranty is an essential feature.

The 10-year warranty – otherwise known as a structural warranty – provides you with peace of mind and protection against potential issues that might crop up further down the line. This is an essential insurance, as it protects your investment, can help you secure a mortgage, and it means defects in your home can be corrected for as long as a decade after construction. This is a warranty that you would not get when purchasing an older property. When making such an important purchase, it is important to have that peace of mind that your investment is guaranteed to be protected for various means.

Every new Beal home comes with an NHBC* 10-year Buildmark Warranty, giving you assurance that your new home has been built to standards which set out the technical requirements for materials, design and craftsmanship. This means that you can be assured of long-term assurance when you purchase a new build home through us.

5. New builds are in the best locations

A key consideration when buying any new home is the distance from key local amenities such as schools, GP surgeries and supermarkets, and many new developments have these considerations at their core. For example, you might be looking at buying a home nearby a school to make the morning school run that bit easier.

With older homes, you may find a home in the perfect location, only to find it’s too small or too large for your needs, forcing you to either compromise or look elsewhere to find the perfect home for your family. However, new home plots often have two, three, four or five-bedroom options, giving you flexibility with the range of house sizes that are on offer. Being able to choose a home based on your needs is such a strong benefit of buying a new home, as it leaves you feeling less restricted during the buying process.

Beal Homes developments boast convenient locations on the edge of towns, close to key amenities such as schools and supermarkets. This is an important factor when looking for a next home, as prospective homeowners seek the perfect blend between that family-friendly aspect convenient amenities and transport links.

Our stunning developments across Hull, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire include an extensive range of two, three, four and five-bedroom homes and two, three and four-bedroom bungalows, including our stunning semi-rural development in the highly desirable location of North Ferriby, and a range of two and three-bedroom homes at the family-oriented King’s Fold. We also have homes nearby convenient transport links such as those that are available at Gooles The Greenways development, or looking for a home in an up-and-coming location in our Highfields development in Immingham. At Beal, we have a range of options available for all buyers.

 

Conclusion

 

When choosing between a new build home or a second-hand home, the right choice is dependent on many factors and is different for everyone.

However, new build homes generally offer greater peace of mind, more flexibility and often cheaper energy bills. Whilst some new builds may lack the character of an older home, that isn’t the case with Beal Home.

Our Design Lounge means we can make your house bespoke and completely unique to your needs, making it feel like home from Day 1, full of character and those personal touches. We have a dedicated team of experts who will be able to answer any questions you have about buying a new build home through us.

Don’t just take our word for it, though. Discover the Beal difference when you choose Beal Homes or read some of our customer testimonials.