Non Disclosure Agreements

Non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”) are not inherently good or bad, and they do have their legitimate uses, but they are liable to be misused to silence victims of harassment, criminality or wrongdoing.

Used at scale as they undoubtedly are in the housebuilding industry including when settling disputes with customers over construction defects and related ordeals, they also have the effect of keeping a lid on the true nature and scale of problems faced by owners, preventing prospective buyers from making informed decisions and of course enabling housebuilders to maintain a reputation that might not necessarily be entirely deserved…

Their wide use can even lend confidence to housebuilders to tolerate ever falling standards or engage in mistreatment of customers in the expectation that they will be able to use them to avoid adverse publicity or other consquences down the line.

Sadly, they are for the foreseeable future likely to remain a common feature of how housebuilders ‘do business’.

An important ancillary benefit of using our New Home Buyer Claims service is that you are much less likely to become victim to mistreatment or wrongdoing of the sort that might motivate the housebuilder to want to impose an NDA on you at some point.

Please get in touch to find out how we may be able to help with your situation.