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Housing giant Bovis ‘pressured customers to move into unfinished homes before Christmas’ and even offered cash incentives

Those who took the offer faced 'missing windows, workmen in the house, holes in ceilings and unlaid gardens'

HOUSING giant Bovis pressured customers to move into unfinished homes before Christmas, it is claimed.

The firm offered £2,000 to £3,000 in cash to ­complete purchases.

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The firm offered thousands of pounds to customers willing to move inCredit: PA:Press Association

Those who did faced problems including missing windows, workmen in the house, holes in ceilings and unlaid gardens, it is claimed.

Fed-up customers joined the Bovis Homes Victims Group on Facebook. The 650-strong body plans to protest at Bovis’ HQ in Longfield, Kent.

Member Mark Holden, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, said: “We got lots joining just before Christmas who were posting of being "encouraged" to complete by December 23. Some were offered money.”

Its chief executive David Ritchie quit on Monday and admitted a 'limited number' of customers were offered an incentiveCredit: UPP

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City analysts said Bovis had offered bonuses in a bid to meet targets because it gets its money only when a house has been finished and the buyer has completed on it.

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