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Residential
We have a great experience and depth of knowledge of the residential property market in the south Greater Manchester and North Cheshire areas. We would be delighted to offer advice to you and possibly even tailor a report format specifically to suit your needs but broadly speaking the range of services we offer are as set out below:- VALUATION
VALUATION
The most common is the MORTGAGE VALUATION where a purchaser looks for financial assistance from a Bank or Building Society to afford the property. The mortgage valuation is very simply designed to confirm whether or not the property represents an acceptable security for the loan. It is produced in a very brief format and these days, the purchaser sometimes doesn’t even get a copy. Other
residential valuations are offered HOMEBUYERS
REPORTS It is intended to offer an economy survey package that still deals with such items as roof space inspections, drains, services Etc... without going into too much detail. It is obviously therefore less costly for the purchaser. BUILDING
SURVEYS This style of report is more suited to older properties or perhaps those that have been altered or converted over time. The report will normally comprise a breakdown of the construction type and materials, together with identification of the significant defects and advice on remedy and thereafter on the maintenance of the building. Although the building survey is generally not Valuation orientated, as an added benefit to our clients an open market valuation and Building Insurance figure is included. See also, our section on sellers surveys. CHARTERED
SURVEYORS VOLUNTARY SERVICE (C.S.V.S.) Clients are introduced through the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) who assess whether the clients are eligible for this free advice in advance. Typically, landlord and tenant disputes, dampness and other building defects are areas where help is more commonly required. Peter Cunliffe and Philip Wilson are both founding members of the CSVS and both still sit on its Steering Group. EXPERT
WITNESS REPORTS Recent reforms of the way we must give evidence in such cases, commonly referred to as the 'Woolf Reforms', were intended to improve the speed and fairness of the system and to reduce unnecessary litigation. We are now often asked to act in the capacity of 'Single Joint Expert', whereby our advice (which always should have been intended to help the Court arrive at the right decision rather than offer a more partisan view) is now effectively commissioned by both parties. Registered on the Law Society's Directory of Expert Witnesses, both partners are also members of the Society of Expert Witnesses. |
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The
more popular style of survey for a typical 20th century house or flat,
the Homebuyers Survey and Valuation is a format of reporting that was
designed by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.