Frequently Asked Questions

Your survey will be carried out by an AssocRICS or MRICS qualified Surveyor. Each Chartered Surveyor on our small team has decades of experience, and all of our Surveyors - both AssocRICS and MRICS - live in the areas where they practice, so they are familiar with your local market and the building stock in your area. The same one surveyor handles your case from start to finish.

Yes, all of our surveyors are qualified to AssocRICS or MRICS status from the surveyors’ professional body, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). If you are having a valuation done they will also be an approved Registered Valuer under the RICS Valuer Registration Scheme (VRS). This means our work is regulated, and we adhere to the strict professional and ethical standards defined by RICS. We carry comprehensive Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII).

Absolutely! Surveyors are happy to talk through the results with you. We understand that buying a property is a big decision, and sometimes having the expert on the end of the phone can help put your mind at ease.

Your lender’s valuation is a document produced by a surveyor acting exclusively for them, and is really just there to protect their loan security. They are often done very quickly – sometimes without a surveyor even visiting the site (a ‘desktop’ valuation) – and they usually only pick up the highest level of detail. In any case, most of the time you as the buyer will never even get to see it.

Given that for most of us, buying a property is one of the biggest financial decisions we’ll every make, we think it’s a good idea to have someone on your side. We will take a thorough, impartial look at the property and advise you clearly on what issues we find and what their implications might be.