Cavanna Homes Reviews 

222
TrustScore 4 out of 5

4.2

While we don't verify specific claims because reviewers' opinions are their own, we may label reviews as "Verified" when we can confirm a business interaction took place. Read more

To protect platform integrity, every review on our platform—verified or not—is screened by our 24/7 automated software. This technology is designed to identify and remove content that breaches our guidelines, including reviews that are not based on a genuine experience. We recognise we may not catch everything, and you can flag anything you think we may have missed. Read more

See what reviewers are saying

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

From the time i viewed houses, Rachel in Bude office was super friendly professional and I felt no pressure. Throughout the process they have been helpful and easy to deal with. All my questions were... See more

Company replied

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Recently completed on our second purchase at Tavistock. Karen and her team have all been brilliant. Nothing too much trouble. Current purchase is our main home. The house is excellent, really impresse... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Very impressed with my new Cavanna home. Beautifully designed! Large ceiling heights on the ground floor (which is unusual for new builds) and a quality build finish. The onsite team have been proact... See more

Company replied

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

We have recently exchanged on our property at Equinox 2 and have been dealing with Kevyn Dixon. Kevyn has been fantastic throughout the process, guiding us through making difficult decisions and nev... See more

Company replied

Company details

  1. Home Builder
  2. Construction Company
  3. Housing Development

About Cavanna Homes

Written by the company



About Cavanna Homes

Cavanna Homes was established 100 years ago by PD Cavanna and has been building beautiful new homes across the Westcountry ever since.

We are one of the largest independent house builders based in the South West and take great pride in constructing quality homes safely and to the highest standard.

We bring forward new neighbourhoods in excellent locations close to city, coast and countryside, and support new and existing residents through Section 106 community contributions, as well as through donations to local charities and good causes.

About our homes

We strive to provide homes for our customers that will be a solid foundation for their families, for years to come.

Our 2 to 5-bedroom homes are modern and energy-efficient to keep the warmth in and to help keep energy bills down.

Our customer service

At Cavanna Homes, we pride ourselves on our local knowledge, quality of work and friendly, professional approach.

We will guide you through the buying process from reservation, right through to the final handover of keys and for two years after you move in.

Our dedicated Customer Services Team will be on hand to discuss and help rectify any issues with your home. You can contact them by calling 01803 618780 or via customerservices@cavannahomes.co.uk.

Contact info

4.2

Great

TrustScore 4 out of 5

222 reviews

5-star
4-star
3-star
2-star
1-star

Asks customers to review

This company invites their customers to review, whether positive or negative

Replied to 100% of negative reviews

Typically replies within 2 weeks

How this company uses Trustpilot

See how their reviews and ratings are sourced, scored, and moderated.

4.2

All reviews

(222)

7 reviews in the last 12 months

Write a review
Companies on Trustpilot aren't allowed to offer incentives or pay to hide reviews. Reviews are the opinions of individual users and not of Trustpilot. Read more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The team at Cavanna Bude “5” stars

The team at Cavanna Bude are superb. The build was on time and snagging dealt with in a professional and timely way. Chris and John have been amazing throughout the whole sales and delivery process. The house is lovely. Thank you .

12 March 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Louise, thank you so much for your excellent review and for sharing your experience of buying with Cavanna Homes. We’re so pleased to hear that you’re loving your new home and wish you many happy years ahead at Bellevue.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

An amazing company to deal with

An amazing company to deal with. The quality of our house is superb with only 7 minor snagging items, all of which have been viewed and will be addressed. Our purchase journey was far from smooth as we encountered issues with meeting the deposit deadline due to our own buyers' use of the Scottish legal system. However, Cavanna's senior management took our situation on board and, after their own investigation, readily came to an agreement with us to resolve the matter to our mutual benefit. Later there was an issue with the render colour due to COVID supply delays, but again, after an on-site meeting with us and the build management team, the matter was immediately rectified to our satisfaction. The sales team at Broadleigh Park, Karen & Tom have been brilliant throughout, handling difficult situations, (such as having to inform us of continued delays in the build due to COVID, etc!) with not only a professional, but also a genuinely friendly manner. All in all, Cavanna Homes has much to be proud of, great quality product and a great quality team from management, sales through to the guys on site. We could not be more delighted with our new home. Thank you to all at Cavanna for making our dream come true.

11 March 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Linda, thank you very much for the brilliant review about your experience of buying with Cavanna Homes. It’s fantastic to hear that throughout the process you have received support and quality service from Karen and Tom in the Sales Team as well as the Site Team, we will be sure to pass this onto them all. Enjoy your new home and we wish you many happy years ahead.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Buying a new home from Cavanna has been…

Buying a new home from Cavanna has been such a good experience so far.

Both Tom and Chris are exceptional members of your team. They go the extra mile to answer any questions or queries we may have. They are always flexible and able to spare time to meet us onsite to go through any updates or progress, which is important for us as we do not currently live local to the area.

Email responses are always prompt. We can't wait to move in and are very excited to soon own a Cavanna home.

7 March 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Scott, thank you very much for sharing your excellent review of buying with Cavanna Homes. It’s great to hear that you have received exceptional service from Chris and Tom in the Sales Team, we’ll certainly pass on your feedback to them both. We look forward to handing you the keys to your new home soon.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Cavanna Homes - a great experience.

So pleased with using Cavanna Homes. They have been first class throughout the process from initial enquiries through to completion. The moving made easy service was great. Karen and Tom as sales advisers have been brilliant- so very helpful. We have mostly dealt with Karen and she has done a fab job but if not available Tom has always stepped in to support. They are a great team. We would recommend them and the whole Cavanna Homes experience without reservation. Lovely build quality and a great place to live.

27 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Karl, thank you so much for your excellent review, we’re so pleased to hear that you’ve had a great experience moving into your new home and that you’d recommend Cavanna Homes to other home seekers. We’ll make sure to pass on your great feedback to Karen and Tom too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent

We are going though our house purchase at the moment at equinox 2. Kevyn the sales advisor has been extremely helpful though out the whole process

20 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Georgia, thank you for sharing the excellent service you have received from Kevyn, we’ll be sure to pass on your feedback. We look forward to handing you the keys for your new home soon!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Broadleigh Park - Tavistock

We moved into our new home in October 2021 and as at February 2022 we are very happy. Karen and Tom in the sales office and Roger on site have been helpful and friendly throughout. Any concerns have been dealt with swiftly with the exception of some turfing issues which I believe are to be reassessed once the weather improves. Our only complaint is the lack of pavements in our road.
We love our house and now have both friends and family who have taken our lead and are buying with Cavanna - we should have negotiated a referral fee!

11 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Katie, thank you for your great feedback. We’re so pleased to hear that the Sales and Site teams have been helpful and friendly throughout the process of buying your new home, and that your friends and family are also buying with Cavanna! Our Customer Service Team are aware of the outstanding turfing issues and will be back in touch once the weather improves to organise a time to assess and discuss the work needed.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Shocking just shocking customer…

Shocking just shocking customer services . Once they have your money they don’t want to know ! I have been begging for the last 14 months to please rescue my garden from turning into a vast pool of mud , soggy water and grass destroyed . They sent an engineer out who said the problem occurred because the grounds people hadn’t put sufficient drainage in ! He left the company and now nothing , I have begged , pleaded to no avail . Yesterday I was told we don’t send people out in the winter this has been going on since last winter ( 2020) . I have a serious medical condition my garden was my sanctuary and I put so much time and effort into it. . The bottom of the wall by my kitchen had green mold growing on the outside the retainer wall is wet through ! Cavanna company you have totally taken the joy of living on plot 6 Lyme view . I will not stop banging on doors until some one listens .

8 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Sian, we understand that our Customer Service Team are in communication with you and have visited your home recently to help resolve the issues. All groundworks were carried out as per the agreed specification and our team will be back to review the situation once the winter months have ended, as it’s currently not the right time of year to assess groundworks.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic Experience - Exeter

After hearing the horror stories of purchasing off plan I was apprehensive at first but Cavanna homes and Kevyn in the Exeter sales office have been amazing. Throughout the process all of our queries and concerns have been met with complete and quick answer giving us piece of mind. I honestly couldn't of expected such a great service allowing us to focus on the bits that really matter. Kevyn has gone above and beyond making sure we are fully satisfied and kept in the loop with all updates. Cant wait to move in!!!

8 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Lewis, thank you so much for your excellent review. We are so pleased to hear that you’ve had a great experience purchasing your first home off plan and that Kevyn has made it an enjoyable process. We look forward to handing you your keys soon!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bellevue Bude

We will be moving into our new house on the Bellevue estate in Bude end of this month. We would like to thankyou to Chris Hodder for all his help during site visits as well as regular up dates during the build.
We had a site visit last week & were impressed with the build so far & that all the additions & extras were completed as per our specifications.

Alan/Maron

6 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Alan, thanks for your great feedback, we’ll be sure to pass it on to Chris. We’re really pleased to hear that you’re happy with the build so far and we look forward to welcoming you to the Bellevue neighbourhood soon.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible customer service

Terrible customer service have lived in our new build 17 months broken front door broken bath and now have been accused of causing damage to the vinyl when we moved our washing machine to clean underneath. We have a front door that you have to bang to lock it but was told by customer service it’s fine (specialist completely disagreed) was told nothing was wrong with our bath but when then a carpenter found our bath is bowed. We have had a new build previously built by Barrats and we had no issues like this!
It’s a constant battle and chasing I think cavanna are forgetting we have paid for our house they didn’t give it to us for free!! The door and bath have been ongoing for 17 months and we are still awaiting for the issues to be resolved. Unfortunately we didn’t have a choice at the time we bought the house in hindsight I would be looking at different developers. Lots of issues on Broadleigh Park!

3 February 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Deirdre, we understand that our Customer Service Team are aware of the outstanding issues, and that you are now in contact with our Head of Customer Services to discuss a resolution.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

TERRIBLE customer service

At the very start the sales office were fantastic and really helped with any questions we had, making buying our first home super easy! However since we’ve moved in the customer service is shocking nobody ever gets back to you, you get told something will get done and then wait another 6 months for no updates/no fixes - they really don’t care once they’ve got your money.

24 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hello, please could you let us know your first initial, surname and which of our developments you live at? We can pass this information on to the Customer Service Team who will be able to provide an update.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Absolutely outstanding customer service…

Absolutely outstanding customer service from the first minute I walked into the sales office, to when I was handed the keys to my dream property and even now still ongoing with Becky Carruthers who is the most organised, accommodating, understanding person I’ve ever had the pleasure of dealing with, she really can’t do enough to ensure and minor issues are dealt with swiftly and professionally.

24 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Steve, thank you very much for your fantastic feedback. We’re so pleased to hear that you’ve had a great experience buying your dream home with Cavanna and we’ll make sure that we pass on your review to Becky too.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Bellevue - Bude

We are hoping to move into our new home in February 2022. We can’t stress enough how helpful, informative and accommodating Chris at the Sales Office has been. We have been regularly updated and shown our house at every step of the process and we can’t wait to get the keys!

22 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Nicky, thanks for sharing your experience of buying your new home with Cavanna and for the excellent feedback about our Sales Advisor, Chris. We’ll make sure we pass this onto him.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Broadleigh park

After visiting our plot today we have come away very excited and happy with the quality of work.

We have dealt with Karen through the whole process who has been very helpful when answering any questions that we had and reassured us when issues came up. Karen has been honest with us from the start regarding delays, which is what you want especially when buying your first home.

The whole process and has been positive from the start and are now very excited for the moving date.

21 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Dan, we’re so pleased to hear that you had an excellent site visit and that Karen has been a great support to you. Wishing you many happy years ahead in your new Cavanna home.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Pre completion @ Broadleigh Park

We early bird reserved back in February 2021 hopefully due to complete by the end of February 2022. After going to view our plot today, thought I would review our experience with Karen and the team before all the chaos of moving begins.
It has been a long process from reserving our plot but we do understand the current situation is very much out of their control. After viewing our soon to be new home today we came away feeling very positive. Pleased we had the opportunity to view our property before completion. Communication between us and sales team has being relatively good. Karen has been helpful along the way, making the reservation process easy, giving suggestions when choosing extras & when showing us around.
Keeping our fingers crossed for the end of February. 😊

21 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Brandon, we’re pleased to hear that you had a positive site visit. We wish you all the best with moving into your new home!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Cavanna Homes Experience Review

Our experience with Cavanna Homes has been overall really positive. When we were going through the process of purchasing. Janine Dixon at Cavanna was always on hand, really personable and went above and beyond for us. She was great!

Before our hearts where set with a Cavanna Homes Build, we looked at other new build estates with other companies and felt they did not meet the standard that Cavanna produces for estate layouts, space and quality of the houses built.

Have already and will continue to recommend Cavanna to my friends.

12 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Leo, thanks so much for sharing your positive experience of buying with Cavanna and your brilliant review of the service you received from Janine. We’re so pleased to hear that you’re recommending Cavanna Homes to friends too. Enjoy your new home!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent sales team

Having viewed the show homes in Exeter I was very impressed. Excellent quality, good size rooms. External design and appearance was very modern. Kevyn showed us around and was knowledgeable and friendly, he was more than happy to answer all our questions in the search for our next home.

12 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Katie, thank you for your excellent review of our homes in Exeter, it’s great to hear Kevyn was able to answer all your questions and that you enjoyed your tour of the show homes!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

2 years from reserving to moving in!

Our purchasing experience was pretty turbulent- but on reflection that’s should have been expected when buying a house during a Pandemic.
That being said, we are beyond delighted with our finished house at Barley Meadows. The quality of the build finish is excellent. Our Plot is better than we ever expected and the customer service since moving in has been great.

We have had a few issues since moving in but nothing has been too much trouble for Cavanna to fix. They have gone above and beyond at times for us.

We want to give Kevyn and Ian a big thank you for their great customer service….. We still owe you that beer!

10 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Libby, we’re so pleased to hear that you’re delighted with your home at Barley Meadow. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and we’ll be sure to pass on your thank you to Kevyn and Ian.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Couldn't be happier with our Cavanna…

Couldn't be happier with our Cavanna home.

Right from the moment we walked into the show room and met with Kevyn, the sales advisor, we knew we were in safe hands.

The process was smooth and any snagging issues we did experience, were dealt with promptly.

Couldn't fault the process from initial deposit to completion.

We've lived here 4 years now and love our home!

10 January 2022
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi Aley, thank you so much for sharing your great experience of buying a Cavanna home – we will pass on your review to Kevyn. Wishing you many more happy years ahead in your home.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Untrustworthy

We arranged for Cavanna to show us a completed house of the type we wanted. They agreed to hold the house for us until then, so we were happy to wait those few days before signing.

Then the next day somebody else expressed an interest in the house and we quickly discovered what Cavanna's word is worth...

15 December 2021
Unprompted review
Cavanna Homes logo

Reply from Cavanna Homes

Hi John, we understand our Sales Team have been in touch with you to discuss the situation and our reservation policy. A property can only be held once a reservation fee has been paid. Should you have any other questions about our processes, please contact customerservices@cavannahomes.co.uk

The Trustpilot Experience

Anyone can write a Trustpilot review. People who write reviews have ownership to edit or delete them at any time, and they’ll be displayed as long as an account is active.

We use dedicated people and clever technology to safeguard our platform. Find out how we combat fake reviews.

Learn about Trustpilot’s review process.

Here are 8 tips for writing great reviews.

Verification can help ensure real people are writing the reviews you read on Trustpilot.

Offering incentives for reviews or asking for them selectively can bias the TrustScore, which goes against our guidelines.

Take a closer look