home surveys
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Regulation & Law
Mandatory surveys could create sales logjam
Property Inspect’s Siân Hemming-Metcalfe warns a 40% increase in demand for surveys would mean ‘hundreds of thousands of additional surveys.'
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Products & Services
‘We can help estate agents prepare for sales-process reforms’
Early property condition checks will help estate agents reduce delays and fall-throughs, says boss of survey app Survey Shack.
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Housing Market
RICS brings big home surveys overhaul step closer
A consultation on a new 'standard' for surveys closes next week ahead of the revised rules being published early next year.
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Products & Services
Just 45% of homeowners have EVER paid for a survey
New research highlights just how difficult it is to persuade home buyers to pay for a HomeBuyer Report, Building Survey, or Condition Report despite the negotiating edge it can provide.
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Products & Services
Home survey app ‘catching on’ as it reaches download milestone
Over 1,000 buyers and sellers are now using Survey Shack to help them make informed decisions early-on in the transaction process.
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Products & Services
Estate agents help proptech ‘disrupter’ hit 40,000 survey reports
The RICS-endorsed property survey portal has now completed surveys on properties with a combined value of more than £12 billion across England and Wales
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Products & Services
Big property firm says surveys ‘don’t hinder sales or prices achieved’
Research by Countrywide Surveying Services found only 9% of buyers received a valuation below the agreed purchase price and just 2% pulled out of a deal as a result of one.
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Products & Services
Big firm ‘alarmed’ over dwindling use of paid-for home surveys
Matthew Cumber of Countrywide Surveying Services says fewer than 10% of buyers pay for a Level 2 or 3 report.
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Regulation & Law
RICS promises to tighten up home survey ‘malpractice’
Standards & Regulation Board says where dodgy practices have occurred they invest significant time and resource into probes to implement effective sanctions.
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