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Homebuyers queue all night

Eager homebuyers keen to purchase the first eight properties released at a Gosforth development formed a 24-hour queue last Thursday, according to Sanderson Young estate agents. The queue of potential buyers at Peter Cussins’ Fencer Hill Square development at the Northern Rugby Club site is thought to be the first queue for new homes in Newcastle for more than three years.

Sanderson Young’s managing director Duncan Young, who spent time handing out wine, sleeping bags and chairs, said the queue reflected both the attitude of the market and the quality of the development.

He said: “I am absolutely delighted that another Gosforth scheme has been such an overwhelming success, Peter Cussins and his son Jabin are the third and fourth generation of Cussins builders and they are extremely proud of Gosforth. “They have produced many excellent schemes in the past which are still as popular today.”

Four people started the queue at 5pm on Thursday and by 5am the next morning that had doubled to eight, all hoping to reserve the first properties released. One man, who was first to purchase one of the five sold, has lived in a Cussins house for more than 35 years – spanning all generations of the family of builders.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .