Warranty for a new apartment shorter than a car's warranty
Real estate developers offer as part of sales contracts for new
homes warranties of up to two years for finishings, lower than when
you purchase a car, although the life of a home is 50 years on
average, and the investment in a home is much higher than in a
car.
Home buyers are on the other hand protected by the law on homes and
on construction quality, under which responsibility for "hidden
flaws" that emerge over the course of ten years from reception
falls with the designers, the contractors and the suppliers of
construction materials, so the original investor, that the
apartment was originally bought from, is not held
accountable.
"No-one (no developer i.e.) will give you any written guarantees.
With new blocks of apartments, there's always something that goes
wrong. I had a plasterboard wall fall apart and had problems with
the bath tub, it was leaking water," says the owner of a two-room
new apartment in Titan Bucharest district, whose problems were
solved by the developer, who was not, however, forced to do so by
contract.