Preparing your home for winter: maintenance tips for cold weather
Avoid frozen pipes and mould growth by following our winter checklist. Find out how to get your home ready for the cold weather. What temperature should you house be? How should you insulate? What can you do to prevent damage?
High-level inspection finds “swimming pool” where flat roof used to be
It might have been wet recently, but flat roofs should not look like this.
The new RICS Home Survey Standard: what it means for anyone getting a survey
Yesterday, the RICS published new rules and guidance on home surveys, which will come into effect in June next year. Known as the RICS Home Survey Standard, the document sets out mandatory steps and standards that surveyors must stick to when carrying out home surveys.
On the Ladder: young professionals find their forever home in Holmfirth
Welcome to our new series looking at real property moves. This month, a couple of young professionals from West Yorkshire describe their step up the ladder from a small semi near Wakefield to their forever home: a large detached property near Huddersfield
Paranormal property: freaky facts to celebrate Halloween
With Halloween just around the corner, our thoughts have turned to haunted houses, pesky poltergeists and ghostly goings on. Allcott Associates’ chartered surveyors have put their heads together to come up with some freaky property facts (and useful advice) to celebrate one of the spookiest dates on the calendar.
Ain’t no mountain high enough
Stuart Scoffin MICS has been following in the footsteps of James Herriot, going above and beyond to survey farmhouses across West Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Networking pays off for ex estate agent starting a new career in Bristol
Local property professional Ross Wheeler has recently quit his position as an estate agent branch manager to embark on a new life as a surveyor, with the support of local building surveying firm Allcott Associates.
New survey report design unveiled
Allcott Associates has today released their new look survey report designs.
Classroom complete: what’s next for our budding valuation surveyors?
Last month, Allcott Associates’ trainee valuation surveyors successfully completed their classroom studies. Kerry tells us about what’s next for her on the road to becoming a fully-fledged AssocRICS valuation surveyor
On the Ladder: a couple buying a £300K first home in Oxfordshire
Welcome to our new series looking at real property moves. This month, first-time buyers Charlie and Bethany tell us about their purchase of a listed thatched country cottage in North Oxfordshire.
