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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

‘I feel sick’: couple say new-build home turned into disaster valued at £1

Dayle Dixon and Mark Lee outside their home in Ivybridge, Devon.
Dayle Dixon and Mark Lee have an extensive paper trail of their complaints about their house in Devon. Photograph: Jim Wileman/The Guardian

When Dayle Dixon and Mark Lee bought an attractive new house on the outskirts of Ivybridge in Devon in 2018, they believed it would be their forever home. But less than six years later it has been valued at just £1, and the couple are desperate to move out.

Dixon, 53, and Lee, 59, had not owned a property before, and bought their home using, in part, almost £55,000 borrowed through the government’s help-to-buy scheme.

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