What if your survey says you need to get a ‘specialist report’?
Specialist reports Where your surveyor has spotted any significant defects – which are normally highlighted with a red condition rating – they may advise you to get quotes for the repair work before you buy the property. It’s also quite common for...
Survey reports – how to read them
Interpreting surveys Surveyors are sometimes regarded as the ‘Doctor Deaths’ of the property world, with barely a positive word to say. But it’s important to bear in mind that the surveyor’s job is to highlight defects and flag up future maintenance...
Choosing a surveyor
What type of surveyor? Surveyors come in assorted shapes and sizes. Anyone can call themselves a ‘surveyor’, a title that’s sometimes adopted by double-glazing salesmen for enhanced credibility. Qualified surveyors, however, are always the chartered variety...
What’s the right type of survey to get?
Wealth warning: People sometimes pay more than they need to on surveys! What type of survey? In the last blog we looked at why a mortgage valuation isn’t a proper survey – essentially it’s just a quick look round to advise the bank whether the...
What exactly is a survey?
Mortgage valuations are sometimes mistakenly called ‘surveys’ So what’s a survey? Most buyers require a mortgage. And before handing over shed loads of cash, the mortgage lender will want to be sure that the property you’re buying with their money...Save money by cutting out the banks
By arranging your home survey directly online - rather than via a mortgage lender - you can save the large chunk of the survey fee that the banks normally keep. They may still want to instruct a valuer to carry out their mortgage valuation, but don’t let them try to sell you an expensive Homebuyer or Building Survey from one of the large, target-driven, corporate firms on their 'panel'.
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