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Home buyers surveys are useless, generic, arse covering rubbish. Don't waste your money. Get a full survey instead. Speaking as a chartered surveyor who has reviewed plenty of each.
Currid-
My immediate reactions to the reports of full buildings surveys that have been shared with me was more or less this to be honest.
useless, generic, arse covering rubbish.
If you knew very little about buildings or couldn't practically see the building yourslelf, then sure, maybe they are quite useful. If you are are on your second or third property and you gave a good idea of what you are actually buying, I got the impression that they couldn't really help you, and would take longer to produce, contain more words, be harder to schedule, and cost three times the amount but provide pretty much equivalent value for the purpose, i.e. having a disinterested party eyeball the place and to large extent confirm what you had already identified and your expectations of a building that's x years old.
It's an interesting game, sure.
Howard
Not sure what a full fat can reveal that a homebuyer’s won’t - in terms of the really fundamental stuff anyway.