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My latest VIDEO is a simple look at potential pitfalls when searching the web for decent professional, property survey advice. I take a quick look at “lowest bid survey fee” websites and the “panic sites” that play on your fear and sell you short. Click here to view – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMrvVyu5g5A

Contact Stuart Parrett for specific advice on survey types, when to have a survey, fee quotations. See www.proinspect.co.uk

I have consistently advised clients what type of survey is best for them and when they should commission it. By this method my clients get the best value-for-money they can afford and reduce the chances of the survey cost becoming abortive (eg – because loan finance wasn’t forthcoming or was offered but under adverse terms).

At http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaJ7TWsIXA I have produced another VIDEO that gives fuller information and a personal touch to the whole subject of surveys. ENJOY.

For more details or for a survey quotation in the HAMPSHIRE south coast areas, call me, Stuart Parrett on 078 3636 3040 or +44 (0)1489 896 174 or use the CONTACT FORM on my homepage.

Independent thought and action rely upon professional integrity and a genuine belief that the “client should come first”.

I passionately believe this is true and it drives my thinking and how I conduct my life. Recently I have self produced a YouTube video so I express my thinking to a wider audience. I invite you to take a look and give me some feedback.

To access the video click this link — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n5Cj5yliRI

I emphasis that as a Chartered Surveyor I am heavily regulated and abide by a Ethical Code: it is not the words that are important here as it is my believe in such matters that counts – others seem, at times, to stand for a lesser code and these are the Surveyors who get into trouble and I find myself working against them in Court.

Typically I work for Buyers but increasingly Sellers are requesting surveys. the latter to flag the home has no serious faults OR to define exactly what is wrong and so begin to manage the damage to saleability and potential purchasers expectations. As stated above I also, increasingly, work against Surveyors and Valuers when cases of alleged negligence raise their ugly heads.

So- nothing is more important to anybody involved in housing than receipt of unbiased professional advice: your own surveyor or valuer should only receive a fee or commission from YOU and nobody else (often behind the scenes commissions are paid by Surveyors/Valuers for the initial introduction from an Estate Agent – an action that I strongly object to).

Remember – a loan valuation is not a survey and you are advised to separate out the private survey from the loan valuation: why would you think that a simultaneous survey and valuation could ever be in your best interests – THINK, you are telling the loan company what is wrong with your home and they may, as a result, not issue the finance you need.

The most popular form of UK survey product is the R.I.C.S. HOMEBUYER REPORT (and Valuation) but remember the stat – only 1-in-12 home buyers take any independent professional advice on purchases.

The choice is yours: buy with good advice behind you or take a serious gamble.

Take my advice – call me find out what are your survey options – the call will cost you next to nothing and you might just save yourself a lot of money or a giant headache.

Stuart Parrett +44 (0)1489 896 174 or 078 3636 3040.