Southdown Surveyors is an independent firm of Chartered Surveyors and Building Consultants. Providing clients in Newhaven and across the South East with professional building services, we offer a friendly and personal service with extremely competitive fees. Dependent upon your requirements, our services can be tailored to satisfy your specific needs, providing the necessary information for you to make an informed decision on your prospective property purchase.
We specialise in RICS Level 3 Home Surveys. These surveys are essential if you are dealing with a property that is large, old, run-down, unusual, altered or if you are planning major works. It costs more than the other RICS reports due to the level of detailed information it provides about the structure and fabric of the property.
We can add the following services to your RICS Building Survey if required. Depending upon the individual merits of the property, an additional charge may be applicable:
Our consultant surveyors are available to provide further assistance with asbestos surveys including sample testing, both commercial and domestic Energy Performance Certificates, drainage surveys and fire risk assessments.
At every stage of your survey we are on-hand to discuss our services and explain our findings in down-to-earth, simple language! We leave you feeling assured that you are making an educated and informed purchase of your property in Bexhill. If the survey identifies costly-to-repair defects, you may be able to save money by negotiating with the vendor. Furthermore, we can provide Specific Defect reports if an individual issue is identified, such as cracking or water penetration, or snagging assessments for newly built or converted dwellings.
One of our friendly team can provide guidance if you are in any doubt on which survey you need. Alternatively, if you know which type of Home Survey or Building Survey you need please contact us.
My wife and I used Southdown Surveyors during a recent potential house purchase. We had agreed a price on an older, character property and felt it best to fully assess the area and the property. We are both mightily pleased we engaged Southdown’s help as they flagged up some very serious, unseen defects in the property. As inexperienced first time buyers we would have been left having bought a seriously defective property with largely no sell on value and a huge bill simply to make habitable.
Southdown Surveyors were extremely professional, diligent and very helpful. They provide a thoroughly detailed breakdown of the property they survey, from little things like nearby trees that might invalidate house insurance to highly detailed information on the structure and wellbeing of the property.
I think in some cases there might be a tendency on the house buyer’s end to avoid engaging a full survey but with what we have experienced I would strongly advise anyone looking to buy a property to engage a thorough, proper survey. The outlay in doing so is relatively minimal and when you are making such a large financial, and life investment, having professionals on your side, and ones who will help you as Southdown Surveyors did for us, is absolutely invaluable.
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