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Total number of properties at Parva Green, which is located just outside Chelmsford in Essex
Properties at Higgins Homes’ Parva Green development in Broomfield Village start at £459,500
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part-exchange deal with house builder Higgins Homes delivered asia awlis, her husband ell and their two children ia and asimba from an unforgiving market. The helmsford famil were able to move from their two-bedroom flat into a larger, new-build propert despite the pressures of rexit on the housing market. “ ur daughter is eight and our son is nearl five, said asia. “The flat we were living in was ust becoming far too small for our needs. “ t was a t pical first-time bu er or investor flat and we felt that these two groups of bu ers would potentiall want to wait until after rexit to see how the market would react. “However, we didn’t want to wait that long, so put our home up for sale earl in the summer holida s. ctober, when we still
didn’t have an offer, we did start to panic.” The couple wanted to remain in the helmsford area so started to look at properties with at least three bedrooms and a garden. “ work as a paralegal in a law firm and although currentl work in helmsford, do go to m firm’s other o ces in ondon and orwich, so it was important to me to have good travel connections close b , said asia. “ ur flat was a new-build and particularl wanted a house that was energ e cient, eas to keep clean and low maintenance. “ ith older properties ou can get nast surprises when ou move in such as mould in the bathroom, so we were keen to avoid an expensive problems. After looking at a few homes, the were attracted to a propert at Higgins Homes’ arva reen scheme in roomfield illage, ust outside helmsford. “The ualit of the internal specification and external design of the homes was ver evident, said asia. “The attention to detail
Kasia Szawlis with husband Welly and their kids, Mia, eight, and Masimba, four, in their new home