Muir Homes

Muir Homes is a family-run house builder, committed to delivering new homes for sale across Scotland. Muir Homes has more than 40 years of experience building communities of new homes in Scotland, with a focus on innovation and development.

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  • No. of developments: 5

  • Development locations: Scotland

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Developments by Muir Homes

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Development image of Riverside of Blairs, AB12

Riverside of Blairs, AB12

3.75

(6 reviews)

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The Grange, AB30

3.48

(12 reviews)

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Development image of Sovereign Gate, AB42

Sovereign Gate, AB42

3.63

(7 reviews)

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Queens Gait, ML5

3.27

(10 reviews)

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Castlebank, PA14

4.20

(2 reviews)

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Latest Reviews

3.53

37 total reviews

Stats

Overall

3.59

Facilities

3.08

Design

4.00

Location

4.19

Value

3.51

Management

2.62

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Great house in a great area!

KM (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Sovereign Gate, AB42

Jul 2024

Great house in a great area! Most the rooms are large and all are finished to a high standard. For a four bedroom house, the kitchen area is quite small - however we are not affected as we are a small family. But I would have expected bigger for a 4 bed house. No other complaints - house and development is lovely. No issues with noise or antisocial behaviour

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Beautiful large spacious 4 bedroom home in a great area of Peterhead. The development is away from the town centre but not too far to go in for the day. Supermarket within a few minutes away and lots of lovely walks nearby. Large rooms, plenty of storage. Great house in a great development

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Road conditions on the development are still poor and will take a while until completed.

What is the best feature of your home:

Large spacious rooms; private drive for parking; large garden.

5

Facilities

5

Design

5

Location

4

Value

4

Management


Great area in Peterhead

LG (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Sovereign Gate, AB42

Jul 2024

The houses are absolutely immaculate - with large spacious rooms, great storage, and modern design. The kitchen area is quite small given this house would be suitable for up to 6 people, but it doesn’t affect us as we are a small family at the moment. Due to the construction workers being on site, it is very easy for any issues to be reported and resolved, with matters being dealt with the same or next day.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

New development in a quiet area of Peterhead with a local supermarket nearby. There are never any issues with traffic, noise or anti social behaviour. On the main road there is a bus link into Peterhead town centre. There is no (or I haven’t discovered it yet) nearby pubs, or restaurants - we need to go into the city centre if we want to go out for food or drink.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

The roads are still in the process of being completed and on speaking to the construction manager he advised this work would take up to 6 months - wish we had known this before moving but it’s not too much of an issue.

What is the best feature of your home:

Large spacious rooms; large garden; modern design.

4

Facilities

5

Design

5

Location

5

Value

4

Management


Poor experience with Muir Homes. Wish I had bought with another developer.

JCM (Owner)

Verified Resident

Queens Gait, ML5

Jun 2024

Purchased a Newark house type from Muir in January 2024 and thought we were moving into the house of our dreams, how wrong could we be. Overall we l love the layout of the house. The layout is exactly what we wanted with a spacious living room / diner, large south west facing garden, kitchen and utility room with space for offices upstairs. We love how bright our living room is with the sun and the internal doors are really good quality. The management and after care from this company is very poor, and possibly the most unprofessional group of people I have ever met. (Bar one site manager Alan who is absolutely great and helps out a lot where he can). We had a major issue with our floor which became apparent when our flooring contractor came to install our LVT. They applied a layer of ardex primer to the concrete floor which didn’t take and peeled off, Muir didn’t really want anything to do with it initially and said “a competent flooring contractor should know what’s in the concrete”. This is after the flooring contractor asked the site manager on the measuring day what the concrete mix was and he gave incorrect information to our flooring contractor which meant the material ordered were incompatible with what was in the concrete. It then became apparent that a concrete curing agent had been used on the floor, which I understand is common practice however the technical data for this product advised if any flooring is required to be installed by adhesion then the top layer formed must be mechanically removed. Eventually Muir came back “as a gesture of goodwill” and mechanically sanded the floor to remove the top layer. Queue a few visits back and forward as they hadn’t done it correctly before it was finally ready for the flooring to be installed. Notwithstanding the damage caused to the skirting boards and walls which have yet to be fully rectified, as the painter only turned up for a few days instead of the week promised. The painting work to “touch up” damaged area is very frustrating. Areas have been filled in and not painted over with no dates for the painter return to paint over and also the wrong paint was used on areas on the wall and is noticeable. Finally, we got our flooring contractor back and they applied a new primer (£1300 extra due to Muir’s incorrect information) and left for the weekend. Alas we thought we were on the home straight and it turned out some more patches had been missed and required further sanding as the primer hadn’t taken in a few areas. I asked the Muir Homes site manager if he could help, to which he agreed. Until the contracts manager decided he wasn’t to help as we had been paid £1000 for the additional material by Muir. The £1000 apparently was Muir washing there hands of it, even though there remedial work hadn’t fixed the whole floor. Overall, one of the most unprofessional days I have witnessed from a serious company. Overall Muir are a poor company to deal with, sub standard trade work carried out across the property, bad customer service and rude managers. The contract manager had my fiance in tears in her own home which is disgraceful, all down to his derogatory attitude to which he has yet to apologise. I would describe some of the trade work in the property as sub standard. It looks like somebody semi skilled (or the apprentice) has completed the taping and painting in the house, so many bits have been missed and not yet rectified. Our property had large cracks and chips in the brickwork at the front which have yet to be repaired after nearly 4 months and the sealant work to the external of the property was installed incredibly poorly. In addition to this we have had windows which have been defective since the day we moved in and it took over four months for this to be fixed. From a customer care and communication perspective please expect emails to go without response for weeks. We have had emails which have gone unanswered for 2-3 weeks (with weekly chasers) until you receive a generic response which doesn’t provide any clarity to how the issue will be fixed or repaired. There is no after care plan to fix snagging either, we still don’t know when snagging repairs are planned in for and have no foresight of this. Generally trades people randomly turn up at your door to “do snagging” and disappear without telling you they’ve completed it or to give you the chance to inspect the works. To put it into perspective, the external side light has been broken since the day we moved in and is yet to be fixed. Such an easy fix but nobody has appeared to fix it. Reinforcing the point they are poorly organised and un-interested. Six months we have been in the property and once they have your money, you may as well forget any type of after care or customer service. As much as I love the lay out of the property and the location, if I had the chance again I wouldn’t buy a Muir Homes. I would spend my money somewhere else.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

The transport links are great for the motorway, and a bar and takeaway in Glenboig which are busy. Train station easily accessible.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

How bad the Muir homes customer service and after care was.

What is the best feature of your home:

Layout is probably the only good thing about the property.

2

Facilities

1

Design

3

Location

1

Value

1

Management


Generally a nice neighbourhood to live in.

Ionut (Owner)

Verified Resident

The Grange, AB30

Apr 2022

The development is in a great quiet place with access to general facilities, but the attention for details on our case I think it has left place for improvements, since we already had different issues in the first year of construction, like the shower cabin liking, stone chips under vinyl, cracks on the walls, etc

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

The location is great, but we could do with one of the bigger supermarkets chains like Lidle, Aldi, etc. since the town is getting bigger.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

I wish I should've know more about the roof solar panels

What is the best feature of your home:

It's great having two heating thermostats for different heating requirements

5

Facilities

5

Design

5

Location

5

Value

5

Management


The houses are beautifully designed

M.Kiernan (Owner)

Verified Resident

Queens Gait, ML5

Apr 2022

The houses are beautifully designed and well spaced out Each house has the latest design features including solar panels which helps quite a bit with bills.Any snagging difficulties have been followed up but sometimes you have to wait a few weeks. It is a very peaceful place to live.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Plenty of open spaces...nature reserve and loch. Minutes from Gartcosh train station and motorway. Plenty of parking spaces. Caring, friendly neighbours. Not many amenities locally but new Co-op being built.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Linda, the saleswoman, is extremely helpful and friendly Any problems she sorts them out.

What is the best feature of your home:

Everyone who comes into the property comments on the interior doors.

5

Facilities

5

Design

4

Location

4

Value

5

Management


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