Building Surveying Services
Building surveying encompasses a wide range of areas giving valuable advice to existing owners and occupiers as well as those considering new commercial property.
If you are buying or renting commercial property you will be directly or indirectly responsible for the maintenance of that property. Advice on this before committing to a deal can allow you to negotiate with a better understanding of your future liabilities.
Strengthening demand in the London commercial property market has allowed landlords to negotiate longer term leases - tenants need to look closely at the service charge provisions in their lease and the condition of the property to assess what the future costs could be.
- Building Surveying for residential and commercial property for purchasers and tenants. Diagnosis of defects and damage assessment. Service reports on electrics, heating, air-conditioning and other services.
- Party Wall matters. Implementation of Party Wall Act 1996 which now encompasses works on the line of junction or adjacent to the junction of all UK property.
- Dilapidations advice to tenants and landlords. Negotiation of dilapidations for both interim and terminal schedules.
- Schedules of condition. Record the condition when taking a new lease.
- Reports on maintenance. Property maintenance planning.
- Specification, initiation and management of building works for property maintenance and repair.
- Assessment of building costs for insurance and reinstatement purposes.
- Structural engineering. Advice on building defects, subsidence claims, engineering solutions to alteration and refurbishment work.
Meadowcroft works in association with the surveying practice of Marshall Lodge Patch Associates (MLPA). MLPA was formed in early 2005 by Hugh Marshall and Mark Lodge Patch from the Surveying and Construction division of Meadowcroft which Hugh Marshall had run as a partner since 1983. The wealth of experience and the contacts that are part of a 30 year history of the original Practice remain and the two firms, working in the same building, closely co-operate through their cross consultancy to offer a wide range of surveying fields to existing and new clients.
Please contact us on 020 7938 2341 for further information on these services.
