A Surveyor's Guide to RICS Home Surveys

Author: Phil Parnham
Publisher: RICS
ISBN: 9781842196427
Published In: July 2011
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The RICS Home Surveys brand was launched in 2010 and is fast becoming recognised by the industry as home to the definitive property reports. The series includes the RICS HomeBuyer Report and the new RICS Condition Report. Understanding the reports, and putting theory into practice, presents a challenge for all practitioners involved in delivering these services. A surveyor's guide to the RICS Home Surveys is here to help.

This step-by-step companion guide gives expert advice and helpful tips for contracting with the client, conducting and recording the inspection and writing reports, along with useful suggestions for marketing your services.

Expanding on the official RICS guidance governing the reports, this book gives clear explanations, illustrated with examples, of each stage in the process of delivering the services, including checklists, site notes and complete samples of each report.

This book will help you to:
- adapt your business to deliver RICS Home Surveys
- apply advice on pre-inspection checks and research
- avoid the common pitfalls of conducting inspections
- improve your marketing activity, at minimal cost
- embrace a best practice approach using helpful tools, including a complete sample report with RICS sample phrases and sample site notes templates for elemental and room-by-room hand-written inspections.

Phil Parnham is a Chartered Building Surveyor and a Director at BlueBox partners. He has many years' experience in higher education where he developed a range of training services for those working in the residential sector. At BlueBox, he continues to develop this work as well as a comprehensive diagnostic service for property owners with a particular specialty in resolving 'hard to solve' dampness problems.

Phil has also co-written a number of other books including Residential Property Appraisal for Spon Press, The Home Inspector's Handbook and Domestic Energy Assessor's Handbook, Survey Writer sample phrases for the RICS HomeBuyer Report and Survey Writer sample phrases for the RICS Condition Report, all for RICS.