Building surveys, RICS HomeBuyer Reports & Other Inspections

Purchasing a house or other property to live or work in is the biggest financial commitment most people make in their lifetime, astonishingly as many as 80% of purchasers do not commission an independent building survey or inspection. A building survey will almost certainly draw your attention to defects that you didn't know existed or the seriousness of which you may not have appreciated. They enable you to make an informed and considered decision and in many cases to renegotiate your purchase price.

Identified defects may require considerable immediate or future expenditure, or in the extreme make a property virtually impossible to sell. Suddenly a modest investment in a building survey or homebuyer report becomes money well spent in protecting your biggest asset. On average, we estimate that our property survey clients save around £4,000 on the purchase price.