Linden South West Exeter reviews

★★★★★ 1/5

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Thanks but no!

Let’s start on the positives - the salesperson at the site was very accommodating and good to deal with. The rest was awful. We were going to px our house. We expected a lowball offer, but not 20% less than our valuation from local estate agents. Still we figured it would be less effort than trying to sell, yet we came home to our historic house having had signs screwed to our wall without permission. Twice. The “incentives” were pulled because it had already had grass laid and bits asses which we didn’t want (which is never worth £10k!).In the end after much effort and complaints we pulled out and got our deposit back and pulled the plug. I’d avoid.

Alec · 7 September 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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DO NOT BUY A LINDEN HOME!

Bought my flat as new build four years ago. It’s clear that Linden do not invest in build quality or safety. The place is falling apart. They installed an Orona light duty lift as the only lift in the whole complex and of course it is constantly breaking down because it’s not fit for purpose. There are leaksWe rarely have hot water because they appear to have installed a job lot of boilers that are all obsolete so it’s cheaper to buy a new boiler than try and source a new part. The central heating does not work.How they got the design of the building through fire safety regulations I don’t know. We are at one end of the corridor while the fire escape and lift are at the other end. If there’s a fire in one of the five flats between, we’re doomed. The main entrance door has never closed properly meaning anyone can come in …and they do. We have been burgled. My neighbours have been burgled. On top of that, thieves came in and helped themselves to a job lot of bikes in the bike storage because obviously the locking mechanism on the storage did not work. The finishing in the flat feels cheap and nasty. Linden? Never again!

Vincenzo · 6 September 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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We bought a Linden Home property and…

We bought a Linden Home property and have had ongoing issues with leaks for years. All my neighbours have reported the same issues. Today when the plumber came to look at a shower tray he confirmed that the pipework underneath was an absolute joke and does not meet UK standards. The tray was also not sealed in. The buildings warranty won't cover this either. I would recommend to steer clear of this developer as I've read so many stories about leaks and shoddy pipework.

Tanya · 31 August 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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My experience with Linden in Bishops…

My experience with Linden in Bishops Cleeve , Cheltenham has been fantastic, initial point of contact was Gemma and the team who dealt with all swiftly and then AJ , a top man , top of his game, any queries or doubt he’s on it, always there to assist. Thank you all at Linded.

Jay · 12 January 2020

★★★★★ 5/5

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Boorley Park - would definitely recommend

Can’t fault linden at all. From Joel in the sales office through to Ian the site manager. We had a very smooth moving process, and all our snags were handled very quickly, quicker than we ever imagined would happen! Ian even knocked our door every Friday for weeks to check we were all ok and whether we neededanything. Would definitely recommend.

Donna · 30 July 2024

★★★★★ 1/5

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Poor quality build and appalling customer service

We've lived in our Linden Home for around 18 months and wish we had never bothered. Definitely not a 5 star builder.We expected there to be a couple of issues regarding snags around the house, but nearly 2 years in and barely any of them have been resolved as the customer service team seems to have a revolving door in regards to staff. It's near impossible to get hold of customer services and should you be lucky enough to speak to someone, they are unbelievably incompetent and unable to resolve any problems. The problem also seems to extend to the site team who, according to customer services, don't answer their mobiles, so make it difficult to get answers.

Jess · 17 May 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Considering a Linden / Vistry property, I would look elsewhere

Considering a Linden / Vistry / bovis property. Prepare for a nightmare, poor work, lack of communication, being left frustrated, angered and little support. From aggressive sales, clear lying ahead of purchase to what was delivered, including lack of support from customer care. Constant changing of options after selection and confirmation, then pressure to change many months later. Communal areas left in dangerous state, exposed wires, Sharpe rubble & aggregate across whole estate, walls falling down, sewers & drains not fit for purpose as Thames Water will not take over ownership 4 years on, photo evidence of concrete, tarmac, rubble poored down various points in drains, plus many more.Drive took 4 years to be laid. Multiple contractors walk off site over non payments. Inside the build, so many corners cut, from uneven floor- 2 inch in some places, incorrect screws in every door handle allow them to fall off with screws exposed, not great for a small child! Poor work all round as contractors on pricing work so rush everything, all ceilings require re doing, skimming, reviewing then painting. Skirting all round messy, cracks and holes exposed then painted over. Waste water re enters one toilet, creating all sorts of hazards, due to poor plumbing. Electric points and sockets incorrectly fitted leaving wires exposed. Many other issues, if you wish to view photos, then you can see the sites photos under homeviews website. Or read articles published in the Mail, the Sun, Apple news, Get Surrey just type the following with appropriate dots. www daily mail co UK/news/article-8698191/Father-spent-life-savings-dream-home-says-estate-looks-like-scene-Aleppo.htmlUpdated 1/5/23 - nearly 5 years in and still many problems, snagging not complete, finally had drains re dug up and laid due to multiple failures of the developer.

Tony · 1 May 2023

★★★★★ 4/5

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Looking for a new home, we visited Harrington park. I was in love with one of their ranges of 3 bed houses called Becket, but sadly they didn't have one available for me. I only found out after many many calls and emails. No one manned the show home when we turned up to check on availability. This has caused me to have to look elsewhere for a new home. The area is quiet and the location is good but sadly no houses are ready.

Anita · 16 April 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Bought my new home in market harborough…

Bought my new home in market harborough nearly 5 years ago on the pre inspection there was a list of snags given to the sales rep on the day none of them were ever fixed,I then emailed customer services with a list of complaints and fixes in Aug 2019 which included all the fixes from above and others however never received any answer or solution to this date and the problems still exist, on top of that my garden fence is about to fall down due to very very poor fitment so yet another cost. Come on linden you list yourself as a five star builder which should also include the team who construct the property. And as for customer service they would struggle to obtain 1star rating shocking aftercare is all I can describe it as get a grip please

Customer · 29 March 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Poor craftsmanship and customer…

Poor craftsmanship and customer service. I have now been living in my home for two years and finally have the funds to repair the botched jobs done from the builders.To start when we moved in we chose to install our own flooring and we had plastic and dirt left all over the floor despite being told they had a ‘professional cleaner’ in. We had several snags such as:Poor painting almost everywhere - skirting boards looked as though the brush was dipped in sand. Dents all over the walls.Toilet seats were broken - someone came to fix them then they broke again. Leaking shower screen - this was repaired multiple times and still leaked and has now ruined my flooringBroken electrical sockets.Poor grout in shower - never fixedEven though we had tradesmen come out to fix some of these issue they weren’t to a good standard and I have ended up having to fix things myself.Overall I would not buy again with the poor finish. A new build home has no excuse to be done poorly so please sort this out!

Miss · 15 March 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Disgusting customer service

Disgusting customer service, the basics of human decency have been long forgotten with thisMoney grabbing bunch. Avoid them if at all possible there are better house builders and for sure you will get better customer service from rats although I feel that may be insulting to rats - avoid if you want to be treated like a human being or kept informed - I mean it’s only the biggest purchase you ever make after all - if slap dash service with linden homes always winning then go for it - if not avoid at all costs - totally disgusted with this company.

Tina · 27 February 2023

★★★★★ 4/5

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Helpful staff from start to end of…

Helpful staff from start to end of buying/moving in process. Good support once moved in as well. We didn't have a perfect buying process but I don't think any house purchase goes without a few bumps. This was mainly due to a new member of staff who didn't seem to know the process so we missed out on selecting some extras and I assume Linden missed out on extra income. The replacement sales staff were excellent. Regardless, the property was built and completed on time. The site team aftercare has been good, despite a number of minor snags to be resolved. You have to expect snags on any new build and equally have to expect disruption when they are fixed.

Vicci · 25 February 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Beware

Beware. If you have issues then customer services do not want to help. I had to top my boiler up for the past year or so, and I thought nothing of it as there was no visible leaks, until I noticed that the pipework in the tank cupboard was leaking. Phoned customer services up and it was agreed with one woman that although I was out of warranty by 6 weeks they would send a plumber round. Rang back next day as I hadn't heard anything, to be told they're doing nothing as its out of warranty. Another problem is that my front door has been hitting the frame since we moved in, and they have been out to it 3 times to try and fix it, which works temporarily then it goes back to hitting the frame again, you can see in the photos that the door isn't square in the frame. But as I'm outside of the two year warranty now no one wants to know. I have fixed the leaking pipe myself, because Linden are too rubbish to help a customer over the sake of 6 weeks outside of warranty. The door, I guess I'll have to pay for someone to come and fit one properly so it doesn't hit the door frame.

S.pawneygmail.com · 21 February 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Awful customer service

Awful customer service. During sale process Linden were late. I had no communication on build status and Linden did not care about my buyers concerns.After sales is even worse. Two years to resolve simple snags. Months with no acknowledgment or communication. Whole customer care team from Emma Lane down are simply not fit for purpose. Managing Director, Alex Jordon doesnt have the customer respect to reply to emails dispute several attempts to contact him.Just awful.

Mat · 18 July 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Amazing team at Kirkleatham Green!

A great experience from start to finish! Ben, Jack and Karl have been amazing throughout and made the whole experience really enjoyable. Really friendly and helpful people who put me at ease from the start and went above and beyond to make sure everything went right.Really happy with the house and the estate is lovely as well. You can tell Ben, Jack and Karl are really customer focussed and want the estate and the homes to be great for the customers, and its shown in the build quality and the success of the estate. Thanks a lot for everything! So glad I decided buy my first home with you!

Josh · 16 January 2023

★★★★★ 5/5

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Fantastic team on kirkletham…

In buying a linden home on kirkletham green, I have found the whole experience great, Ben jack, Karl and kev have been helpful from start to finish, yes we have had snags to get completed but that was to be expected, but working together we have solved most, we had no internet for 6 weeks (due to open reach) but Ben and Jack let us use there dongle for the whole time. Nothing is too much trouble.If I was to put a suggestion forward for the company it would be to have a team of work people who can do your snags when your home but when you work Monday to Friday this is not the case at the moment. Ben jack Karl and kev keep doing what your doing and thank you for making our move into our forever home a good decision.

Claire · 15 January 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Uncontrollable leak in our new build

After logging a leak coming through our bay window in our new build on 2nd November, we’re still waiting for a repair.No contractor has been sent out to attend the leak and we now have water pooling in through our ceiling, pulling off the plaster and damaging our floor. What can I say - their team are helpful when they’re on site and want you to rate them highly in their customer satisfaction surveys. But when there’s a real issue, their customer service team aren’t exactly responsive. I sat on hold for over an hour to the out of hours emergency line and no answer.

S · 14 January 2023

★★★★★ 1/5

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Visited the partridge walk site at Stafford at…

Visited the partridge walk site at stafford to view 2 houses on the 30th Oct An elderly woman sat behind the desk made no attempt to engage with us we then walked around the site came back and still made no attempt. We are cash buyers looking around to buy .Left a bad taste as we like the look of the cypress house .Very disappointed with so called service

Dean · 31 October 2023

★★★★★ 2/5

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Very Poor Communication/Service - Don't waste your time.

One of the worst companies I've dealt with for general communication - You go through the motions for share-to-buy but when it comes to signing up and paying a deposit, can you get hold of them? Three times, with three (phone) eligibility interviews, numerous personal data sent and then they are impossible to contact and just don't return calls, voicemails & e-mails. They then call out of the blue asking if I am still searching for a property. I said yes I am, just not with them anymore because of the above. This lot are ranked joint bottom with Bromford (New Homes) for basic communication/courtesy. Just not worth the time as they appear to not be interested and/or any good.

SP · 10 November 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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Avoid

Would definitely consider looking at other new-build companies and homes in Bristol and avoiding this one. (Taylor Wimpy, Brabazon, Barrett and Bellway all have new build sites across Bristol) When purchasing they don’t tell you the kitchen is a bog standard white, and all you’re choosing is the doors, they sell it like the kitchen would match the doors (like it should) so all other panels like the corners, centre posts, ends and top edging is in the cheapest bog-standard white. A massive cost saving issues which seems to be their main priority across the board, which isn’t what you’d expect when paying the prices you do. I’m now left with a grey and part while kitchen that looks odd and not done properly. When contacting Vistry and linden, was told they’re not willing to do anything whatsoever and if I wanted it sorted I would have to get it done myself. Only reason I’ve given 2 and not 1 stars is because the sales woman Tina has generally been excellent and helpful, but the money saving over customer satisfaction mentality is very disappointing.

Gavin · 1 October 2022

★★★★★ 5/5

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Manor Park

Manor Park, Pontefract.Noone has asked me to do this review. We bought our house earlier this year, was a few problems with the house but they where sorted really quickly. Everybody is really polite. All the negative reviews makes me think quality differs from site to site.

Sarah · 21 August 2019

★★★★★ 1/5

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One of the worst built houses I’ve ever…

One of the worst built houses I’ve ever seen. A three year old could make a better construction with cardboard.The builders are using such random cheap crap from Germany and it’s impossible to source to fix. Snag work? Don’t get me started. The builders are stupid, lazy and use apprentices with no supervision.The building architect must have been high as a kite designing a house with a super flat roof made of some plastic crap that leaks!My garden was buried full of crap from the builders. The walls are so thin that an ant could far and blow them down. Customer service is a joke, they just want your money and they don’t give a toss. They’re flogging honest to god death traps with fault after fault and I can see someone being seriously hurt or worse. Profits before bloody people indeed. Don’t buy a house from these fools, don’t rent one, don’t even look at them. Summary here, houses are cheap and built with Mickey Mouse materials. The builders don’t sort snags, and when they do, they ultimately make them worse. Houses are badly designed by what I’m assuming is a Child architect.Customer service is like chewing a brick.It’s just not worth the stress. If you sell up, you push the rubbish onto the next poor undeserving sod.Awful experience.

Craig · 10 September 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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Affordability check even before seeing a show house, first time I have seen.wanted to know all the details…

They wanted to know all the details about ourselves even before showing us the show house in the name of affordability check which was the first time I had seen any one doing. They wanted to know our date of birth , value of previous house, whom we are lending with etc etc. Comeon guys we just wanted to see your show house before we can decide to go ahead and if we do not like it what do you want to do with all our information.

Nandita · 9 September 2022

★★★★★ 1/5

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We purchased a house from them 3 years…

We purchased a house from them 3 years ago. The first few months customer service was excellent then went completely down hill. Had nearly 100 snagging issue some of which we still have but LH ignore my emails. Had an issue with high water bill due to the fact they laid dead turf in our back garden so was instructed by site manager to water for hours a day and ended up with £1400 water bill. First they accepted responsibility but dragged out paying, then refused to pay altogether. Will never buy from LH again and advise people not to

Dave · 18 August 2022