Local construction firm pledges support for first time buyers

With a degree of normality returning to the regional property cycle there has never been a better opportunity for first time buyers to consider taking their first steps toward home ownership.

With average property prices significantly adjusted from the previously unattainable highs of 2007, the opportunities for first time buyers are excellent.

Acorn has traditionally been a company that has proven itself on delivering quality construction coupled with industry leading customer service and in the new post recession landscape of 2010 those values still set the tone for all the companies operations.

Having recently won a coveted Pride In The Job award for construction excellence at their flagship Cornmill Country Estate in Kells and Connor, site foreman and local man Alan White said: “I am delighted to receive this prestigious award on behalf of the whole Acorn Homes team and its great to be recognised for all the hard work we have put into the development, this is a really exciting and innovative scheme - a real first for Co Antrim.”

Connor Dinsmore, marketing manager for the company, says: “We identified that the primary need for new homes in the short to medium term would be for quality, affordable first buyer starter units. With Cornmill we are fundamentally committed to demonstrating that quality does not have to be compromised to deliver affordability and its great to see that this has been recognized by the NHBC through their Pride in the Job award, which was a great honor to receive.

“This year we have helped 15 local first time buyers to buy our award winning homes through a range of innovative affordability schemes such as “Rent-to-Buy’”.

Based on the grand country estates of the past CornMill will feature all the key buildings that you would expect to find within such a setting with each property benefitting from its own unique sense of style and identity.

All the properties will be finished to a full turn key specification and with all new Acorn Homes you can be assured properties will be constructed to NHBC’s Pride In The Job award winning standards.

From detached stone gate lodges to the sympathetically styled coach house, or from the game lodge to the grand manor house there will be something for everyone.

Ideally suited to first time buyers with turnkey townhouses starting from just 122,750 and a range of affordability options including Rent-To-Buy and Co-Ownership, these exclusive new homes have been exceptionally popular with 18 snapped up so far this year.

For more information please contact either Acorn Homes on 028 2589 2777, McAfee Ballymena on 028 2563 7733 or visit the web site at www.acornhomes.co.uk.