Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706 (2002)
- Citation
- Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706 (2002)
- Parent Document
- Albrecht v. Clifford, 436 Mass. 706 (2002)
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts (state)
- Effective Date
- 2002-05-07
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1,082 charsThese sound policy reasons lead us to adopt an implied warranty of habitability that attaches to the sale of new homes by *711builder-vendors in the Commonwealth.9 The adoption of such a warranty is also consistent with the protections that our law affords consumers in other contexts. See Boston Hous. Auth. v. Hemingway, 363 Mass. 184 (1973) (implied warranty of habitability in residential leases); George v. Goldman, 333 Mass. 496 (1956) (implied warranty in construction contracts to do workmanlike job and use reasonable skill). See also G. L. c. 106, § 2-314 (implied warranty of merchantability for goods). Its purpose is to protect a purchaser of a new home from latent defects that create substantial questions of safety and habitability. While the scope of this warranty must be left largely to case-by-case determination, a home that is unsafe because it deviates from fundamental aspects of the applicable building codes, or is structurally unsound, or fails to keep out the elements because of defects of construction, would breach the implied warranty we adopt today.