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 maintetance...
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 does a mortgage valuation involve?
If the mortgage valuer ‘downvalues’ your property it could blow the whole deal out of the water. It pays to be nice to the mortgage valuer! Banks and Building Societies normally appoint chartered surveyors to carry out valuations for mortgage lending...
Speeding up your purchase – before the deal falls through!
You now have one single overriding objective: to get to exchange of contracts as quickly as possible. Once you’ve exchanged you’re pretty much legally home and dry, and can afford to relax a little, but until then every extra day of unnecessary delay means a greater...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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