My brother put a deposit on a house about Sep '05 and then paid the pre-contract deposit and signed about Nov '05. Original verbal completion date was for Apr '06, but this has passed by. He did his snag in Sep '06 and submitted this but then all of a sudden there was an issue with the site on planning grounds and one thing after another the planning application took nearly 6 months til mid April '07 to get approved.
So obviously nothing was done on site in the period of the planning application and things have limped along very slowly since they came back on site sometime around end of May. Nothing whatsoever has been done on his snag list and excuses based on the bad weather have been used as to why they haven't finished any work.
There are about 6 houses that looked like they are finished from the outside, but only one person has signed and completed, but talking to them, they wish they never did as they have a list as long as their arm to have snags completed.
Is there a standard time that they need to have the property completed by? Should it be in the contract?
Can he contact anyone apart from his solicitor to help with this as the developer is taking longer than than the time it took the Great Wall to be finished?