{"id":42143,"date":"2017-01-28T14:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-buying-a-bovis-home-came-with-hundreds-of-snags\/"},"modified":"2017-01-28T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T07:03:28","slug":"how-buying-a-bovis-home-came-with-hundreds-of-snags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/how-buying-a-bovis-home-came-with-hundreds-of-snags\/","title":{"rendered":"How buying a Bovis home came with hundreds of snags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nBuyers say housebuilder sells properties \u2018not fit for purpose\u2019 and pressures them to move into unfinished homes When Helen Batt went to view her recently purchased \u00a3389,995 Bovis-built home in Maidstone, Kent, for the first time before Christmas, she was expecting to see a spanking new four-bedroom house.Instead, the property in the Orchard Fields development was barely finished and littered with rubbish \u2013 two days before the scheduled completion date of 20 December. \u201cIt was a complete shock,\u201d says Batt, a 32-year-old partner in law firm Buss Murton. 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