Home Insight Survey – The survey that pays you back
Understanding the challenges in house sales
Around a third of all house sales fail before they reach completion, causing stress, inconvenience and cost to everyone.
Often the cause of a buyer pulling out late in the transaction is because their survey revealed something they didn’t know when they made their offer.
And even if they don’t pull out, they will often demand £10,000’s off the price you thought you’d agreed.
How the Home Insight Survey helps
The Home Insight Survey prevents that ever happening because it’s commissioned right at the start of the process, when the property goes to market. And unlike traditional surveys, it’s commissioned and paid for by the seller, not the buyer.
But why would a seller incur the cost of a survey and reveal all the defects about their property?
Imagine a scenario where a buyer comes to look at your property, and you hand them a survey report. If they choose to make an offer then they are doing so in the full knowledge of everything that’s likely to be a reason to withdraw later on.
And because you’ve had the opportunity to either fix the problems highlighted in the survey report, or get quotes to have the work done, everyone has an intelligent discussion with all the facts at their fingertips.
It means that you can price the property realistically, and because the buyer was fully informed there is a significantly reduced risk that something comes to light later on which causes them to renegotiate the price.
It pays for itself
The chances are, therefore, that your higher, and more secure, final selling price more than covers the full cost of the survey.
But what price stress?
But even if we put the cost to one side, the reduction in stress cannot be exaggerated. Knowing that a survey weeks into the transaction could highlight something that would result in a hefty price drop or, worse, the buyer pulling out altogether, just creates uncertainty and anxiety which no one needs.
How it works
The Home Insight Survey is and simply quickly arranged and delivered through our network of specialist residential surveyors.
After a thorough visual inspection, your surveyor creates your Home Insight Survey report that contains valuable information for you, the buyer, your estate agent and your conveyancer. And even though you paid for and commissioned the survey, your buyer can fully rely on it and save the cost, inconvenience and doubt of getting another surveyor involved.
