Chartered Surveyor
What do we offer through our role as a Chartered Surveyor?
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Mark Pearce can offer over 30 years of experience and extensive knowledge about Property Boundaries, assisting Clients to understand their property boundaries and helping them to avoid or resolve Boundary Disputes with their neighbours.​
​When it comes to Registering Land, or Transferring Ownership of Land, or Determined Boundaries it is important to meet with the requirements of HM Land Registry Plans and the Practice Guide LRPG40, we provide plans for use with these Applications, with site assessments where necessary, or as a desk-based service.
​Since 1997 Mark has been providing Party Wall Surveyor Services, through the range of Agreed Surveyor appointmets, Building Owner's Surveyor, and Adjoining Owner's Surveyor. In addition we can offer to review proposals to advise on the required Notices under the Party Wall etc Act 1996, and Serve them on the owner's behalf.​​
​Where Homeowners have concerns about Defective Building Work we can assist by inspecting the work and giving opinions on the quality of workmanship. This is not limited to Homeowner instructions, Builders also instruct us where they believe that the Homeowner's concerns are unfounded.​
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Building Defects can be worrying for Homeowners, and they can affect buildings of any age. Whether it relates to cracking, degrading of materials, water ingress, dampness, or condensation and mould, we can offer an initial appraisal, involving an inspection and report, which aims to establish for owners whether it is an issue, or something which is not of great concern. If it is a matter needing action or further investigation we will assist with what next steps ought to be taken.​​​
If you have recently had a Survey Report provided by another Surveyor, on a home you are selling or one you have recently purchased, and you are unsure whether the report is accurate in its findings and reporting on Building Defects then we can check their reporting and give you further advice. Purchaser surveys by Chartered Surveyors should be 'benchmarked' as to whether the detail is intended to be to 'Level 1', 'Level 2', or 'Level 3' - if the reporting is not meeting the requirements then we can explain the steps you might wish to take to resolve the matter. ​​​
Landlords and Tenants must have tenancy agreements in place that set out how the property, whether that is a house or flat, should be looked after and maintained. ​Where a property is not in a suitable condition then there could be a Claim for Housing Disrepair, covered by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, which also deals with Unfitness for Human Habitation. Mark is experienced in reporting, which could be for either Landlords or Tenants, with the necessary understanding of the requirements of the Conditions, Risks and Hazards that fall within what are known as Sections 9A & 10 and 11.​​
​Chartered Surveyors will have gone through appropriate higher education (normally a relevant under-graduate degree such as a BSc in Building Surveying), followed by work-based training, and then an assessment process. Once qualified and elected as a Member the Chartered Surveyor will be bound by exacting standards of the Rules of Conduct and Ethics laid out by The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - 'RICS'.
Firms that employ Chartered Surveyors and offer Services to the public also need to be Registered and Regulated by RICS, so not only is the Member held to account, but the firm is too. Look out for the use of the RICS Lion logo, and the words 'Regulated by'.
Only a Chartered Surveyor can use the 'post-nominals' MRICS (Member) or FRICS (Fellow) with their name, to denoted that they are Chartered. So you will see, for example, Mark Pearce is 'MRICS'.
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The technical ability, professionalism, and experience is not defined by whether the Survyeor is MRICS or FRICS, you might find an MRICS who is way more experienced in a subject area than an FRICS, or the other way around.
What becoming FRICS means is that they have 'acted to further RICS and the profession'; 'acted for the benefit of a third party to reflect RICS' public interest mandate', and 'promoted RICS objectives and the profession'. These are respected distinctions, but they should never be confused with meaning more experience or greater skill.
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AssocRICS by contrast is an Associate of RICS, they are not Chartered and are not permitted to describe themselves as 'Chartered Surveyors', as have not become a Member through the same route as Chartered Surveyors. You may also come across RICS status of students, and retired surveyors who keep their post-nominals.​
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Whatever the 'grade', what is so important is that they abide by the Rules of Conduct, and have the appropriate training and competence in the area of Surveying work.