A grumble on unprofessional surveyors

[RogerS]

I am so.o.o fed up. Having had our flat on the market for a few months we finally agreed a purchase price. Unfortunately the surveyor who came along had seen the Whistleblower programme the previous evening and allowed his own prejudices/chips on shoulder/emotions to affect his judgement and seriously undervalued the flat as to quote him from a conversation ."these estate agents are all the same, grossly overvaluing property".

He even claimed that the building had major subsidence which is complete rubbish since we've just had a firm of top-rank professional surveyors and builders (they refurbished the Royal Albert Hall) crawling all over the building for the last year and they reported nothing about subsidence. So a formal complaint to RICS will happen but that does not help me.

I NEEDED the equity to fund my woodworking purchases :evil: :evil:

 

[matt]

Surveyors base their prices on the local market, as dictated by the prices for "similar" properties in the area being sold by estate agents. The irony...

 

[RogerS]

Surveyors base their prices on the local market, as dictated by the prices for "similar" properties in the area being sold by estate agents. The irony...

or in my case 'selectively' and subjectively