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Expert Witness Surveying for Landlords and Tenants
RICS Accredited Surveyors specialising in Housing Conditions
Expert Witness reports from housing conditions specialists
Fully Compliant
Our reports are fully compliant with both the latest RICS and CJC guidelines. This ensures that you can rely on the evidence they provide at court as they are supported by an experienced, dedicated Expert Witness delivered in a compliant framework.
Confident in Our Abilities
Our surveyors have thousands of hours experience in Housing Conditions cases which is one of the benefits of choosing a practice that is dedicated to this area of law. Our surveyors undergo regular CPD to update them on legislation, changing attitudes to Housing Conditions and pertinent context such as the input of the Housing Ombudsman. This means that they are at the cutting edge of Housing Conditions expertise and at the forefront of their field.
Redacted examples of our reports are available upon request.
Working in Partnership with Your Legal Team
Our Surveyors and support staff understand and appreciate how fundamental the Expert Witness report is to Housing Conditions cases. More than that, how important the entire works programme both before and after issuance of Letter of Claim can influence and affect the progress of the case. For that reason we, uniquely in the market, work closely with your Legal Team on disclosure to ensure that all the relevant facts are brought before the court. This work has helped solicitors speed up settlement of cases and improved outcomes.
From Triage to Survey
If you choose to use us for triage services we have a strict protocol which is designed to build confidence into the process of choosing cases.
Desktop triages can vary in scope and detail across the market and we can offer a range of options to suit you, but whoever you use, they are a process of educated extrapolation, which are capable of occasional error. We build in a safety net where we undervalue our triages by design to make room for such errors. As a result our report outcomes are on average 25% - 50% higher than the triage values.
Tenant Relations
We understand how important your relationship is with the tenant. That's why we make contact with them by email and text as soon as the instruction comes in. We make ourselves available to the tenant for questions and queries by email, phone, text and Whatsapp and regularly communicate with them between the time we receive instruction and the appointment date. This helps to keep the tenant engaged with your Legal Team throughout the process.