Company Profile

We only choose the best Independent Chartered Surveyors, only approximately one in ten meets our standard. Using this system for your important property purchase you get the Director of the company doing the survey. So you get real customer service.

We have developed over many years a patented system that is only available to our surveyors - compare our surveys here "link to compare our surveys page"

Beautifully Naïve Thoughts
Originally the company was set up with some beautifully naive aims - these being that if we offered the best surveys we would make a good honest living (to view our first website...

Big Business
However we soon discovered that all is not as it seems in the property world - property is very big business and the lending of money to finance the property purchase is equally big business. This has lead some of the biggest companies to, shall we say, 'protect their interests' (we have to be careful what we say because one of these very big companies has tried to take us to court for our comments previously - maybe they don't like people to know how they are protecting their interests!).

We have the "interesting" situation where the Estate Agent can be owned by or own the Chartered Surveyors and in turn all be owned by the Lenders - or we are probably safer (from the being sued point of view) to say they have 'close links with each other'. So, this means the Estate Agent can recommend to their client the Chartered Surveyor to carry out the survey and they can also recommend the Mortgage lender - all 'owned', ultimately, by the same company.

Sometimes the Lender may give you the "choice" of companies on their panel. These companies usually/often have reciprocal agreements with the recommending company - they make it very difficult for you to use anyone outside this group - just try asking.