A new home survey app is to provide sellers and agents – but not buyers – with vital property information in a cost-effective and timely manner during the sales process.

Survey Shack says the app has been designed by qualified surveyors and its reports meet mandated material information requirements.

By providing accurate and comprehensive property data at an early stage, it helps estate agents reduce fall-throughs and renegotiations, ensuring smoother transactions and more completions.

Guides users through process

Survey Shack works by guiding users through the entire survey process and then generates a formal survey report, which includes guidance to relevant specialists, helping avoid unnecessary caveated reports and additional costs.

Brett Ray (pictured with co-founder Evelina Ray) says: “Home buying and selling has become one of the most stressful experiences in modern life.

People deserve better tools to take control of the process”.

“With transactions falling through nearly a third of the time and only 53% of instructions completing, people deserve better tools to take control of the process.

“As a career surveyor myself, I’ve seen first-hand how the system is flawed – buyers commission expensive surveys often only to use them as renegotiation leverage, while sellers are left defenceless.

“It’s time for an alternative that benefits everyone. Survey Shack gives users the data and insights they need early on, reducing surprises and giving them the confidence to make informed decisions – all at a price point that makes it a no-brainer for everyone.”

Cost-effective

Compared to a full survey, the app is incredibly cost-effective – a DIY Property Survey, which is a comprehensive assessment of a property’s condition, costs just £19.99 (currently on sale).

Editor’s note

This article was amended soon after publication following comments from Survey Shack to say articles about their app should not contain the claim that its technology has been developed by ‘RICS-accredited’ surveyors despite their website at one point saying it had been. Survey Shack says RICS have requested that the firm’s website and publicity material highlight that ‘qualified surveyors’ instead have developed the app. Also, Survey Shack says the app is not designed to be used by property buyers despite their original publicity material saying it enables “buyers, seller and agents’ to do their own surveys.