If a property lease is approaching the end of its lease term, both the landlord and the tenant will want to ensure that a Schedule of Dilapidations is prepared. The Schedule of Dilapidations will ensure that the landlord has a full understanding of the defects and...
Party Wall Drawings
Thank you for clicking on today’s property blog. In this week’s instalment of our informative surveying blog post, we are going to be taking a deep dive into party wall surveying. Here at Stokemont, our party wall surveyors deal with hundreds of party wall jobs on a...
Do I Need to Serve a Party Wall Notice for Chimney Breast Removal?
Hello and welcome to today's property surveying blog post, in today’s topic we are going to be looking at whether it would be necessary to serve a Party Wall Notice for the removal of a chimney breast. The simple answer is that if the chimney breast is on the Party...
Property Dilapidations
In this week’s instalment of our weekly surveying blog, we are going to be discussing commercial property dilapidations. Dilapidations are the resolution procedure in place for both landlords and tenants, as the contracted lease term approaches its completion. The...
Dilapidations Claim
In this week’s Property Surveying blog, our surveyors are going to be taking a deep dive into commercial property dilapidations. Commercial property dilapidations can happen at two key intervals within the process of the landlord and tenant’s lease. First and...
Quick Guide Dilapidations
Dilapidations procedures come into play at the end, or alternatively, during the interim stages of a landlord’s and tenant’s lease. Dilapidations procedures only apply for commercial properties. Dilapidations are the process whereby the landlord will take stock of...
Home Survey Direct
Thank you for clicking on today’s Property Surveying blog post. Today we are going to be looking at pre-purchase surveys and defect analysis reports. Here at Stokemont, we are very proud to assist numerous different clients each and every week with their...
Do I need a Property Valuation?
Good Question, and actually a rather conventional question that we’re presented with week on week! A property valuation is an Property Surveyor’s opinion, assessment and appraisal of a subject property's value. This opinion, or valuation, is going to be made up...
RICS Valuations
In this week’s Property Blog we are going to be discussing RICS Property Valuations. More often than not, if you’re about to purchase a property, or are a property owner, you’re going to have to call upon the expertise of a an RICS Property Valuer. We thought we would...
Dilapidations Advice
In today’s Property Surveying blog, we are going to be looking at commercial property dilapidations. Dilapidations are the penultimate exchange between landlords and tenants as the end of the lease term approaches. The purpose of the dilapidations report is to...










