Property Survey - home purchase

[Lillybobs86]

Are there people out there that haven't instructed Surveyors when purchasing their house?

Nah, I didn't bother. This house is 250 years old. I didn't need to pay £500 for someone to tell me it's not up to the latest regs. No shit! 😂

I had my brother look over it. I come from a trades family. I negotiated a few grand down for one egregious issue that was an actual immediate fire risk and for the rest, I knew what I was buying.

No, they are surveyors - not plumbers or central heating specialists. A survey recommends you get the boiler checked. To be fair it was working at the time - a month later....whole new central heating system!

Not everyone wants future extensions and not every house needs to be extended to its absolute maximum.

Most people though have a vision for their house and it's a shame buying a property and then find out you can't do anything to modify it. Unless you're building a house from the foundations up, I never walked into a house and feel like it was exactly as I wanted it to be

Don't most new houses have a 10 builders guarantee anyway?

We had a survey and ended up with a money pit!

I chose not to have a survey on my most recent purchase, but I did schedule in a "survey visit" when I went in myself to slowly and carefully check the property. I certainly agree that paying a surveyor to cut and paste a load of disclaimers into a document is often not good value for money, but the process of making sure you are going in with both eyes open about the condition is worth following.