Surveying

Building Surveying Services

Building surveying encompasses a wide range of areas giving valuable advice to existing owners and occupiers as well as those considering new residential and commercial property.

If you are buying or renting residential or commercial property you will be directly or indirectly responsible for the maintenance of that property. Advice on this before committing to a deal can allow you to negotiate with a better understanding of your future liabilities.

Strong demand in the UK commercial and residential property markets has allowed landlords to insist on longer term leases - tenants will need to look closely at the service charge provisions in their lease and the condition of the property to assess what the future costs could be.

• Building surveying: For commercial property for purchasers and tenants including diagnosis of defects and damage assessment, service reports on electric's, heating, air-conditioning and other services
• Reports: On maintenance and property maintenance planning.
• Specification: Initiation and management of building works for property maintenance and repair.
• Party-Wall Matters: Implementation of the Party Wall Act 1996 which now encompasses works on the line of junction or adjacent to the junction of all UK property.
• Dilapidations: Advice to tenants and landlords, including negotiation of dilapidations for both interim and terminal schedules.
• Schedules of Condition: Record the condition when taking a new lease.
• Assessment: Of building costs for insurance and reinstatement purposes.
• Structural Engineering: Advice on building defects, subsidence claims, engineering solutions to alteration and refurbishment work.