House Purchase - What Type of Survey?

marybishop

Make sure you use an RICS chartered surveyor who has professional indemnity insurance. That way you'll be covered if he is negligent. As I said earlier look on the RICS website - there's a link called 'Find a Surveyor', click on that and find someone in your locality, phone around and get a few quotes, that way you'll have some comparisons.

thescouselander

I just had a look at a Homebuyers report that my parents had done on a house they were going to buy last year. To be honest I wasn't impressed, the level of detail wasn't great and my dad said the report didn't tell him anything he hadn't already noticed himself, it certainly wasn't worth the £400 it cost.

Given the age of the house I'm buying and the fact I have checked for most of the common problems that can occur I have decided to give the homebuyers survey a miss. Had the house been older I probably would have had it done but in this case I think the risk of anything being wrong is fairly low and I am pepared to accept that residual risk.

Thanks for all the advice anyway.