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At RSAM Chartered Surveyors, our surveyors are able to provide building surveys and assist with all types of residential and commercial property for a variety of purposes across the South West.
Our Chartered Surveyors are regulated with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and takes pride in their accuracy, experience and proven track record.
Some of the team have worked in the property industry for nearly 40 years.
At RSAM Chartered Surveyors, our surveyors are able to provide building surveys on all types of residential property and some types of Commercial property, for a variety of purposes.
The local section of the practice covers all aspects of assisting clients with building surveys, acquisition advice inspections, home surveys, house purchase surveys and homebuyer style reports to assist a property purchaser.
At RSAM Chartered Surveyors, our surveyors are able to provide property acquisition advice and building surveys on all types of residential property for a variety of purposes across the Westcountry..
In particular, the practice focuses on assisting clients with building surveys and house purchase reports and acquisition advice.
We also cover a variety of other professional work including building reinstatement valuations to providing party wall advice, commercial property and single fault assessments.
A building survey was formerly known as a
These are the most comprehensive type of non-invasive survey inspection of a house, home or other property you can have if you are a purchaser. As a visitor to the property that is usually a building not owned by the client, the surveyor cannot cause damage to the property. We can however examine a lot more than somebody viewing the property with an eye to purchasing the property. Based on our training and experience in building construction, the survey will enable us to write a full survey report to advise the property purchaser.
Any property that is older than 1900 or is a period and/or listed structure is recommended to have a full building survey.
There are several variations on name of this kind of survey. These include:
These are the most common kind of report carried out on properties typically built from 1900 onwards. These are a survey inspection of all the easily accessible parts of the property which will include such areas as the roofspace. For most more modern properties, this will be the most typical kind of home survey which will put a property purchasers’ mind at ease with a survey inspection and report being provided, often with a list of property defects and an indication of how important these would be to a typical property purchaser.
We are experienced Party Wall Surveyors. We are happy to give advice prior to the outset of a project to assist with the appraisal of your project. This is often best at the outset of a project, although we are frequently asked to advise after a start has been made.
The Party Wall Act provides a legal framework for preventing disputes and resolving building and boundary problems between neighbours and neighbouring properties. This includes new builds, extensions, conversions and building repairs as well as boundary walls and excavations which can affect neighbouring properties. Other considerations include Right to Light and the sheer practicality of the project. Neighbours also include any floors above and below you.
Every adjoining owner or neighbouring property has rights or responsibilities under the Party Wall Act. In a typical domestic scenario, this is usually limited to one other party but, in larger commercial developments in built up areas the Party Wall Act can affect multiple adjoining owners.
In such cases, the process of serving notices, mediating disputes and issuing Party Wall awards can be complex, lengthy and expensive. At RSAM Surveyors, we offer Chartered Surveyors able to work on your project to ensure the demands of the Party Wall Act are dealt with thoroughly and efficiently.
If your neighbour is carrying out building work up to your boundary line, they are required under the Party Wall etc. Act 1996 to issue a formal notice and allow you time to object.
If you want to dispute the works our surveyor can help you manage the process effectively and avoid damage.
If you’re the party wanting to build, we can help you proceed as smoothly as possible, whilst fulfilling your legal obligations.
If you accept that the works will proceed and are happy for us to work on behalf of both parties our surveyor can help you manage the process effectively and avoid damage. If you’re the party wanting to build, we can help you proceed as smoothly as possible, whilst fulfilling your legal obligations.
To protect both the party carrying out the works (known as the ‘Building owner’) and the neighbour (known as the ‘adjoining owner’), it is often good practice to prepare a schedule of condition that can be referred to in the event of a dispute.
If we are instructed to act a single surveyor to assist with a party wall development, we work as though no one party is the client despite the building owner being responsible for our fees. We act as though the buildings are our client’s and we do the right thing by the building having regard to the whole proposal and all the likely scenarios.
An experienced Chartered Surveyor Inspects the property you are looking at purchasing, typically for some half a day. They carry out an examination of the property to a similar depth of a building survey. No report is written up and as such this is not a survey.
However usually the client then arrives at a pre-arranged time and goes around the property in a logical sequence with the surveyor and the surveyor gives a briefing to the client of all aspects that a typical purchaser would want to know prior to purchase. This is drawn to the clients attention in front of the issue. This enables a verbal explanation of the issue to be given to the client from the surveyor. This enables the client to ask questions at any point. Click below for more information:
RSAM is a Right Surveyors Company.
We operate as the coordinating company within the Right Surveyors Group for either work carried out over a larger area England and Wales than a local Right Surveyors Practice, or where when managing larger clients requirements and portfolio.
At RSAM Chartered Surveyors, we carry out certain services throughout England and Wales for clients, sometimes in conjunction with our other Right Surveyors practices.
Our clientelle include national companies, housing associations and public authorities as well as private individuals.
At Right Surveyors Chartered Surveyors, our surveyors are able to provide building surveys on all types of residential property for a variety of purposes across England and Wales. Our Chartered Surveyors are regulated with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and take pride in their accuracy, experience and proven track record.
Bespoke Stock Condition Surveys are carried out when a large number of properties need inspection.
These appraisals greatly assist with management of a number of properties.
These are often required when a portfolio is being created or is being sold as a single group of properties.
We usually use a bespoke inspection system to suit the clients needs which usually include a description of the property, an assessment of its condition and often a maintenance list for the first year or more of new ownership.
This enables clients to adopt a planned maintenance approach to the portfolio and is often a considerable assistance with planned property management.
These inspections are carried out electronically and the reports are created and provided digitally. They are therefore quicker than a conventional survey and their unit cost is therefore cheaper although there is sometimes a cost to the bespoke element.
It is recommended that you call us to discuss the most appropriate type of property survey or inspection that suits you as a client.
Buildings Reinstatement Valuations or replacement buildings insurance valuations of period property to blocks of apartments and flats are carried out for private clients and for management companies and managing agents.
Getting a Buildings Reinstatement Valuation will make sure you only pay for the level of insurance needed to rebuild your property. It does not automatically mean your premiums will increase, and could even save you money if you’ve been over-insured in the past.
Whatever type of building you own, it’s important that the property is insured for the full cost of rebuilding it over the entire lifetime of your policy.
An incorrect insurance valuation can result in a serious financial loss. Your insurance protection may not cover all of your repair costs and could leave you substantially out of pocket.
We can also help property purchasers. An accurate buildings reinstatement valuation or insurance valuation can be incorporated into a building survey for a property purchaser. We are able to discuss your individual requirements with you at any time.
Due to the requirements of testing procedures for external cladding following the Grenfell Tower tragedy and report, we do not carry out reinstatement valuations on blocks greater than five storeys.
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A number of other building surveys and property inspections can be carried out but involve confirmation with our Chartered surveyor. These include:
and several other variations. It is recomended that you call us to discuss the most appropriate type of property survey or inspection that suits you as a client.