According to a 2018 article on the This Is Money website, one in five home sellers has experienced a sale gone wrong and on average a collapsed sale costs the seller £2,727. More than 300,000 property transactions collapse each year. And some of those failures are down to ‘bad’ surveys. As professional registered…(Read More)

If you’re buying a flat or apartment it might well be leasehold, where you own the lease of the property but not the actual freehold. The difference? Picture an empty box. As a freeholder you own the whole box, outside and in, but as a leaseholder, you only own the inside of the box…(Read More)

If you’ve ever had anything to do with a party wall, you’ll already know complicated things can get, and what you need to do to in advance. If not, it’s wise to be prepared. Here are some of the most popular questions we get asked about party wall surveys, from your trusted…(Read More)

Full and detailed property surveys are really handy things. They’re about much more than establishing a fair market value for a property you want to buy or sell, a snapshot of the way things are now. You can also use the resulting document as a ‘snagging list’ for the property, and it makes a…(Read More)