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Helen Thring
Marketing & Operations Manager
Helen is Nick’s sister and she successfully set up and established our Lettings Department back in 2013. Having spent much of her career prior to DY working in marketing, Helen now heads up our Marketing & Operations department. This suits her organisational skills, creativity and keen eye for detail perfectly! She loves taking long walks with her Labrador Finn and when time permits, travelling and visiting new places around the globe.
Top of my bucket list is…
To keep travelling, visit more new countries and ultimately, one day explore Europe in a (very comfortable!) camper van.
My guilty pleasure…
Ben & Jerry’s cookie dough ice cream. Probably best to just not buy it!
When I was younger, I wanted to be…
Less shy/more confident. Still working on it…
If I were a superhero, my superpower would be…
To help find a cure for cancer and dementia. Here’s hoping.
On Sunday morning, you can usually find me…
Up bright and early for a long dog walk in the countryside.
You might be surprised to know that…
One of my earliest qualifications as a teenager was as a Clarks trained shoe fitter. Ohh, all those back to school shoes!
27 Jan 2016
A Homebuyer’s Report is a valuation undertaken by an approved professional valuation surveyor and member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Qualified members have the designation MRICS or FRICS after their name.
The Homebuyer’s Report will include a report on the general condition of the property, a market valuation, a valuation for insurance purposes (an estimate of the cost to rebuild) and may also include reference to items requiring attention or maintenance.
Nowadays, most lenders have approved ‘panels’ of valuers. It is important to make sure that your surveyor is on the appropriate panel for your lender, otherwise the report will probably not be accepted.
It’s worth trying to instruct an approved panel surveyor in Bracknell who will familiar with the type of property you are buying. By definition, they will be better placed to provide an accurate valuation as they’re valuing that type of property every week. However, whilst you will be required to pay the costs of a Homebuyer’s Report, it is usual for the lender to instruct the valuation surveyor and in large part the report is for their benefit.
The lender is simply interested in making sure that the valuation indicates that the property is worth enough to satisfy their lending criteria (e.g. Loan to Value Ratios, etc). This does not necessarily mean that the property is worth the sum that you have offered and it certainly does not mean that the property is necessarily structurally sound.
If your Bracknell property is older or more unusual you would be well advised to consider a more detailed ‘building survey’ sometimes also referred to as a ‘structural survey.’ Such a survey is more detailed in nature and will cost more as a result. It will look in more detail at the structural condition of the property you are buying but the terms and conditions of such a report are likely to vary from a Homebuyer’s Report.
In most cases, especially when buying a new home, a Homebuyer’s Report is considered sufficient. We can recommend a well established independent Chartered Surveyor, so please contact us on 01344 860 121 for further information.
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