Anyone currently building with Platinum Homes Wellington (Mass Construction)

Mass Construction have stopped trading – informed by my mortgage broker, New Build, this morning. Make sure to check your builder’s risk insurance certificate is still valid and renew if not. Also lodge a non-completion claim through your build guarantee so that you can get the build completed by another building company. Not ideal but probably a blessing in disguise having these cowboys out of business and off our sites!

Hi I work in the industry and apparently they have folded. We have three clients caught up in this at the moment. We are getting no comms from Platinum Homes on what is happening. We understand Platinum Homes is going to stop in as there are a number of developments affected. Cannot say i am surprised though given how slow they are to respond to queries.

Sorry to hear what you are going through, we also built with Mass and had to go through a nasty settlement process.

We have been notified by one of the subbies that they’re going into liquidation so would not be coming to do work. This was last week. Was a matter of time to be honest

we are one of those families, we heard first from the digger man I feel so sorry for him, he looked just shattered. Our house was started just last week with earthworks now our back yard looks like a bomb whet off, its just terrible. We have been waiting for months and months for a start. Its terrible. The house we were building is for our disabled daughters. We saw the manager from head office today, he seemed genuine, but I feel I am no judge of character after dealing with Jason, he would charm the pants off a nun. From the crux of it a new contract may be offered with a new builder, but insurance will not cover our cost of getting the lawyer to look at the new contract, we are out of pocket for that. If you have really started then Platinum builders will take over, if you have not really started the build then new builders will take over. No compensation of stress and anxiety or loss of time. We were told we would hear end of next week what they will offer us to move forward. How has it gone for you?

I am interested in getting in touch with anyone who is caught up in the Platinum mess currently and is dealing with insurance trying to get homes completed. Also has anyone been able to get Platinum to step up and do any work to get houses finished?

Not surprised, this guy has been ruining people’s lives for years now……lack of communication, contractors not getting paid, bullying tactics, staff walking out, he has had to operate for way too long and needs to get out of industry so he doesnt ruin more innocent peoples live, its a disgrace that he is still operating.

Hi I am trying to get maintenance issues resolved and I really feel for those that are caught in this

They haven’t closed yet but Jason seems to have gone to ground. It looks unlikely he can come back from this . Owed me money from Dec .

When was this?

Are you building with them currently?

I’d bite the bullet and start with a new builder. Get your deposit back and save yourself several years of anxiety.

Terrible news, I know the owner that was doing your platform. What a nice guy and so trusting now out of pocket for $$$$$$ thousands. Hope your build starts fairly soon with a good building company. MBA should have closed Jason Strange done years ago.

This is not a surprise. Platinum Head Office has been keeping this guy afloat with no credibility whatsoever. They are most to blame for this fiasco people.

Hey – have you received any further information?

Hi Anon, please make contact.

Have you got any further with your house/insurance? I am a previous client and caught up in the mess also

Hi Dayle, Yes the Mass business has gone into liquidation. Got informed this afternoon.

Mass Construction went into liquidation on 5 August. Creditors have until mid-September to make a claim. We live near several homes being built by Mass Construction/Platinum Homes and for quite a while have noticed materials being delivered and then taken away, work starting and then no work for weeks, skips not being emptied (and other MC/PH contractors dumping their waste in those skips). Other suppliers we used ourselves said they hadn’t been paid for work undertaken in January 2019. I feel for the owners – one said they had no set completion date (though I know this is movable, they weren’t getting any information at all from the company).

We signed up in 2016 and have never been given a finish date. Just constant lies & verbal abuse. Our house is still not finished.

Anyone know who the liquidators are so we can contact if we have a claim.? We are waiting on a refund that was supposed ot be done in Jan 2019.

Grant Thornton NZ Ltd.

Where are you at with things currently? I am a client also without a finished house

Thorntons were the liquidators from the South Island collapse and that didn’t go well.