When buying your home you really want an all clear from your surveyor but as Profile Club member Richard Ballam of Rickards Oliver explains the price of a report can save you thousands of pounds.
Surveys can save you money. This is a property in Hale Barns that I looked at last year for an RICS Level 2 Home Survey. It was a modern bungalow built circa 1990. It had been empty for a while and condition was cosmetically dated but looked adequate overall.
It should have been a simple survey, but it did not work out that way. In the main bathroom, skirting boards around the shower cubicle were damp – bearing in mind the house had been empty for months and no one had used the shower, this was something to raise my surveyor’s sixth sense.