Persimmon has announced it will extend the length of time customers can check for faults in their new homes to the first week of occupation.

Following a barrage of complaints from customers about the quality of their new homes the housebuilder announced in March it would offer buyers the chance to hold back 1.5% of the purchase price of their new home until faults identified on the day they moved in had been rectified.

The scheme had been due to start this month but in a trading update published today the group said it would extend this from a day to the first week of occupation.

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