Can a Building Inspection Report (Structural Survey / Full Survey) be carried out on a residential flat?
Some surveyors are of the opinion that a full survey cannot be carried out on a flat because it is never possible to gain access to all the flats in the building and therefore they feel they cannot comment properly on the entire building.
Of course to carry out a survey on a block of flats would ideally mean that every flat was seen and reported on but in practice this cannot be achieved. In addition the cost of seeing every flat within even a medium sized block would be prohibitively expensive.
At Langley Byers Bennett we feel it is possible to carry out a Building Inspection Report (Structural Survey / Full Survey) for clients by inspecting the individual flat concerned (which becomes the purchasers’ responsibility under the terms of a lease) and inspecting all the exterior and common parts of the block as a whole (which the purchaser will assume responsibility for by paying a share of the buildings’ service charge). This gives us the ability to report all the essential information a purchaser may need to form an informed buying decision regarding the flat.