Pre Acquisition Building
Condition Surveys
Acquisition of a commercial property on either a freehold or leasehold basis often represents a major step for any business or individual, a sizeable financial commitment and onboarding of potentially onerous and costly liabilities to repair and maintain.
Our pre acquisition building condition survey inspections and reporting outputs act to both protect your interests and enable informed decision making by way of detailed inspection by our team of highly experienced, specialist, chartered building surveyors. Having a detailed understanding of construction principles, a thorough appreciation for matters of building pathology, together with appropriate remedial measures and / or the need for further specialist advice or investigations, our survey reports provide a comprehensive assessment of condition and compliance.
Ensuring our services provide true commercial benefit, our pre acquisition building condition surveys provide for remedial action, compliance attendance and further investigation estimated costs. Compiled using published cost information such as the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS) and our own cost data collated through numerous ongoing tendering exercises, our cost estimates provide greater context to the wider condition survey commentary.
Clients are empowered through the identification of prospective property acquisition shortcoming identification and cost data to revisit and inform forward acquisition terms negotiation, often extending to purchase price, acquisition conditionality or pre acquisition actions required of the vendor or landlord before the parties move to exchange and complete.
At Node Building Consultancy we perpetually strive to ensure that our building condition surveys and all technical due diligence outputs provide focussed, succinct and valuable direction. Seeking to focus on those matters of genuine material significant, a targeted and concise approach to inspection and reporting enables otherwise time intensive inclusions to be set aside and best value derived from those fees expended by clients.
