The cost of a survey, say £600, £800 or even £1,000 is small change compared to the cost of repairing defects that could cost thousands more. To put it bluntly, opting to not obtain a quality survey, could cost you a lot more money in the long term.

The quality of the survey is important. Cheap survey fees mean the surveyor has to carry out quantity to meet monthly fee targets, which can impact on quality. We feel that charging more for our services, allows us time to write better quality since our surveyors have less surveys to undertake. The upside means we can give you quality information to help you renegotiate on the property. We typically find £10k, £15k, £20k worth of defects.

Now ask yourself this, if you were given these costs for defects, does a high survey fee sound reasonable? This is the main reason we only give our surveyors 5 surveys a week as opposed to 10 like most firms do.