Anyone a property Surveyor?

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As per title anyone here a property surveyor, more exacting a residential property surveyor?

Looking into retraining and wanting to hear what poeple's day to day roles are. Up here in Scotland one needs a home report to sell a house and would like to be the person that does that. Apart from my love/keen interest in property and buildings in general one major appeal is that it'll be close to a standard Mon-fri 9-5 and won't be stuck in an office for most of the day.

Does this sort of role have an "earn and learn" type positions, if so any tips where to look for them. Going to send off an email to some of the big companies up here but hoping for some leads.
 
basically you want to copy and paste the same generic report and charge people hundreds for doing so.

i inspected the roof visually where possible without the assistance of ladders or other equipment (so basically you looked at it from the ground). it looks okay from down here but you may want to look into a proper survey by an actual expert who knows what they are doing to be sure though.

you then apply the above to basically everything in the home. inspected such and such and it seems okay but you may want to get in an actual expert to do a proper survey as i only know how to copy and paste.

i think i have found 1 home report that was useful after looking at about 40 of them.

also i judge the value of this home to be. licks finger and places in the air. about x amount. seems about right.

i'm amazed at the amount of sellers that think the people that do these are actual experts. they are basically con men.

basically if you buy a house and there is something wrong with it that they didn't note down. their get out of jail free is the generic bit about you may want to hire an actual expert to look at it properly. basically the only thing they verify is that it's not absolutely falling to bits. e.g. if there was a huge hole in the roof which I imagine anybody with eyes could spot. basically there is no need for them what so ever. just added costs for the sake of it.

i can see why you want to get into this field though. drive about, fart around for half an hour. copy and paste. charge them £200-£300 for the pleasure.
 
Admittedly this is part of the draw to it, although don't know how easy it is to go freelance type for this sort of thing.
I'm hoping there would be more stimulating aspects to this sort of role. I've seen the odd bit saying the role offers planning support too.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
basically you want to copy and paste the same generic report and charge people hundreds for doing so.

i inspected the roof visually where possible without the assistance of ladders or other equipment (so basically you looked at it from the ground). it looks okay from down here but you may want to look into a proper survey by an actual expert who knows what they are doing to be sure though.

you then apply the above to basically everything in the home. inspected such and such and it seems okay but you may want to get in an actual expert to do a proper survey as i only know how to copy and paste.

i think i have found 1 home report that was useful after looking at about 40 of them.

also i judge the value of this home to be. licks finger and places in the air. about x amount. seems about right.

i'm amazed at the amount of sellers that think the people that do these are actual experts. they are basically con men.

basically if you buy a house and there is something wrong with it that they didn't note down. their get out of jail free is the generic bit about you may want to hire an actual expert to look at it properly. basically the only thing they verify is that it's not absolutely falling to bits. e.g. if there was a huge hole in the roof which I imagine anybody with eyes could spot. basically there is no need for them what so ever. just added costs for the sake of it.

i can see why you want to get into this field though. drive about, fart around for half an hour. copy and paste. charge them £200-£300 for the pleasure.
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its not his fault the gov made this a legal requirement for a homeowner to have. you might not like it, but at least he has identified a job he could enjoy.

@ OP sorry i cant be of help, but i would imagine your local estate agent would be the first port of call for people wanting a home survey done.
 
gjrc said:
its not his fault the gov made this a legal requirement for a homeowner to have. you might not like it, but at least he has identified a job he could enjoy.
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he has identified a job which requires no real work to be done and could be done by anybody and is probably the easiest part of an estate agents job to do. copy and paste, i'm sure many 12 year olds could do the job.

why would an estate agent want to give this out to a third party to do? unless it was for peanuts and then they have the added security of not being liable should anything go wrong.

maybe he should aspire to do a real job? hell even a traffic warden would be more beneficial to society. gets to walk about and work 9 til 5.
 
Up here it's farmed out to surveyor companies (Graham and Sibbald, Allied Surveyors) plan would be to use this as an entrance into a wider role of a property surveyor. But as been pointed out for hundreds per house even at this stage freelance is tempting :P
 
ash_scotland88 said:
Up here it's farmed out to surveyor companies (Graham and Sibbald, Allied Surveyors) plan would be to use this as an entrance into a wider role of a property surveyor. But as been pointed out for hundreds per house even at this stage freelance is tempting :p
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it might sounds it... but you need to get the work... not an easy task.
 
I'm confused... Is Property Surveyor something completely different to Chartered Surveyor? As my friend is the latter and spent 3 years at uni studying to become one and then did exams to enter the Chartered Instutute of Surveyors or whatever it is. It's certainly not a copy and past 10 minute job an estate can do...
 
I don't think he means a proper Chartered Surveyor but rather some semi-skilled job described in the second post that anyone with a few GCSEs ought to be able to do. IIRC there were supposed to be homebuyer packs in England and Wales at one point but they got scrapped by the government. IIRC a bunch of people who'd paid for training courses in the hope of earning an easy £50k a year were left disappointed and presumably went back to something they were better suited to like pushing trolleys around ASDA car park.
 
I'm FRICS and it's taken the best part of twelve years to get there. Admittedly in Quantity Surveying however most of the university lectures were shared


There is a distinct lack of qualified surveyors of all disciplines at present but only because the industry is so knee jerk that in a recession the industry nose dives and there are lots of lay offs. It's not particularly attractive.

I'm now freelance and it's the best thing I've done for myself ever.
 
Yeah, to me, chartered surveyor is different. I think I've seen vacancies offering with a minimum of an HND level and many companies out there have APC schemes for further career development. Other half is a planner and had to complete post grad vacancy and an other qualification before he was a member of the RICS (or something similar). I was hoping there may be roles available where "earn and learn" would be an option for the early level roles with long term work studies to achieve a greater level of qualification.
There's also SAVA as an option too, but really need to read into it more.
 
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