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The whole point of the chartered system is that they should not be wind up merchants - they are disinterested professionals who will be delivering to well understood standard.
Fine, but back in the real world, if your price chip request is backed up by an opinion from a known quantity that has seen many properties of similar construction in the local area, you are going to have more success.
NickCJ-
Fine, but back in the real world, if your price chip request is backed up by an opinion from a known quantity that has seen many properties of similar construction in the local area, you are going to have more success.
No - the defining factors for success are entirely down to buyer's and seller's position. That the information came from '25 years somehow doing the same boring shit job in Ealing Steve' or 'Ken from Putney, chartered four years ago' makes it neither here nor there - both are chartered in this made up scenario, both are equally capable. Ken's hands are free because he doesn't drink at the same pub as Bob the EA who has to unpick the mess the buyer makes when they try to drop their offer based on the waffle that Steve produced (whilst missing the fact that the roof was totally fucked).
Howard
This is the conclusion that I came to.
And save a wedge to account for the issues that can’t be identified by surveyor, like the great example above.
This is total conjecture though. The whole point of the chartered system is that they should not be wind up merchants - they are disinterested professionals who will be delivering to well understood standard.
The chummy connection to the EA is basically an anathema to me.