Owning your own home

surveyor with local knowledge may pass comment on local things, e.g likelihood of mini moped trouble that another not local surveyor may not mention, not vital stuff, and again full of caveats but good to know. could always ask your furure neighbours that sorta stuff.

In my case the local surveyor had done our block quite a few times already so knew exactly what the condition of everything was. Buying again I'd probably not bother with a survey unless it was a special or particularly old building.