What must a RICS Home Survey Level 2 report include?
Level 2 is the most commonly instructed home survey in the UK, and the most commonly queried. Here is what the report has to contain, and where surveyors most often get pulled up.
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Practical guidance on survey reporting — report standards, workflow and the craft of writing up an inspection.
Snagging list vs snagging survey: what's the difference?
Buyers and developers use the terms interchangeably, but they are not the same thing — and the gap matters when a defect is disputed.
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Damp survey reports: recording findings that stand up
Damp is the defect most often misdiagnosed and most often disputed. The difference is almost always in how the findings were recorded.
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Is AI-assisted survey report writing compliant with RICS rules?
The short answer is that the tool is not what is regulated — you are. Here is how AI drafting sits against your professional obligations.
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How long should it take to write a building survey report?
Most surveyors underestimate write-up time by a wide margin — and it is rarely the inspection that runs over. Here is where the hours actually go.
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