What You Need To Know

SURVEY TYPES

Mortgage lenders, financial advisors, solicitors and conveyancers all recommend that you get independent advice about the property you are about to buy. But all too often, survey reports have failed to deliver the information
you need.

Because it’s the UK’s only quality-controlled, fixed-format full survey, you can rely on your Survey report to help you make informed decisions about your new home. And because it’s written on ground-breaking photo-driven surveyor
software, it’s competitively priced and delivered in a consistent and reliable format.

Your lenders’ valuation (often incorrectly referred to as a “valuation survey”) is done by their valuer solely to allow them to assess the risk of their loan. The valuer may spend as little as 15 minutes on-site.

Your building surveyor is a residential property specialist who will carry out a thorough inspection and clearly explain the condition of each element of the building and give you advice on the urgency of repairs and maintenance.

A Level 3 Building Survey and a Level 2 Home Buyer Survey are suitable for all property types and offer you… Clear and jargon-free information and advice.

A detailed inspection to reduce caveats and exclusions at competitive pricing.

Upon completion of the report, we will send you an electronic copy of the report. Upon receipt, we are proud to be able to offer to arrange a mutually agreeable time and place to meet to discuss the report’s findings, and this can
also be conducted by telephone or via a video call if time doesn’t allow for meeting face-to-face. This allows you time to talk through the report’s findings directly with the surveyor who carried out the inspection and ask as many
questions as you like.

A NEW-BUILD SNAGGING SURVEY

A must for any newly constructed home

• The ONLY survey of its type based on industry-compatible standards
• Identifies “snags” in finishing quality
• Designed to help avoid buyer/developer conflict by impartially identifying incomplete or cosmetically unacceptable works
• Focus on the parts of the property you see, touch and use every day

If you have recently purchased a new build home or are in the process of purchasing a new home, you will probably be expecting the house to be near perfect. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case, even with the best new home developers.

PARTY WALL ACT 1996

The helpful bit…

If you intend to carry out building work in one of the following categories

• Work on an existing wall or structure shared with another property
• Building a free standing wall of a building up to or astride the boundary line
• Excavating near a neighbouring building

Then you must find out whether that work falls within the Party Wall Act. If it does, you must correctly notify all affected neighbours by sending a Party Wall Notice.

If you have received a Party Wall Notice then you must respond correctly to avoid prejudicing your position.

WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP

We specialise in Party Wall matters and not only serve Party Wall Notices upon behalf of our clients, we also undertake comprehensive Schedule of Condition Reports and legally agree Party Wall Awards, which are commonly referred
to as Party Wall Agreements.

We cover the whole of the Kent area from our Faversham office, so if you are planning on undertaking work that falls within the scope of the Act or have received a notice informing you of proposed works that may affect your property
you are very welcome to contact us for some advice.

• Party Wall Advice
• Party Wall Notices
• Party Wall Awards
• Building Owners Surveyor
• Adjoining Owners Surveyor
• Agreed Surveyor
• Schedule of Condition Reports