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Building Surveys Articles

Top 5 tips for choosing a Building Surveying Business

It's well known that buying a new home can be a stressful experience but often the focus centres on mortgages, solicitors and estate agents. Having the property surveyed by a building surveying business seems to fall down the moving list but our experience is you...

British Assessment Bureau

Chawton Hill has once again achieved certification to the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2015 standard, establishing us as one of the leading businesses in the Chartered Surveying field. This independent assessment was conducted by the British Assessment Bureau,...

Updating a John Nash Regency House

Designed by architect John Nash, and built in 1808, this Regency house is situated within a conservation area, so we had to approach the updating project with a simple overriding objective - our design had to 'enhance and preserve the area'. The brief was to design...

Why Do I Need a Building Survey?

Our own Steve Holmes (FRICS) explains the benefits of a building survey. "It’s very easy not to see the ‘wood for the trees’ when we view a property for the first time. Not only do we have all the time pressures of the viewing, there is also the knowledge that there are...