Watsons & Property Developers

We recognise that property surveys and valuations are often vital in realising your development projects, impacting your strategies and decisions.

Working with Property Developers

In the dynamic realm of property development, your vision and expertise shape the landscapes where people live, work, and thrive. 

We recognise that property surveys and valuations are often vital in realising your development projects, impacting your strategies and decisions.

At Watsons Property Services, we offer a valuable partnership that seamlessly integrates property survey and valuation services into your property development ventures. 

Our commitment is to provide property developers like you with comprehensive property survey and valuation services that perfectly align with your development objectives.

Whether you’re planning new constructions, conversions, renovations, or addressing the property aspects of your developments, our experienced RICS Chartered Surveyors and Registered Valuers are here to lend their expertise. 

We aim to help you make well-informed decisions, ensure compliance with regulations, and maintain the highest standards of professionalism. 

Our team is dedicated to delivering precise, impartial, and efficient services that benefit both you and your projects. 

We look forward to the opportunity to collaborate with you, supporting your property development projects by ensuring that property-related matters are managed with the utmost care, accuracy, and efficiency

RICS Qualified

All of our surveyors are RICS qualified and Registered Valuers with the following qualifications: FRICS (Fellow), MRICS (Member), AssocRICS (Associate).

RICS Home Survey Level 2

This service is for clients who are seeking a professional opinion at an economic price. It is, therefore, less comprehensive than a Home Survey Level 3 service.

RICS Home Survey Level 3

This level of service is for clients who are seeking a professional opinion based on a detailed assessment of the property.

Watsons Bespoke Survey

A Watsons Bespoke Building Survey is our most in-depth report and includes details of the structure and fabric of the building. Also, useful if there are numerous outbuildings

Snagging Survey

Should you be in a dispute with a purchaser, a snagging survey can provide you with an independent report for a property. We offer a comprehensive snagging survey available on new-build properties.

Capital Gains Tax Valuation

The current approach to Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on property in the UK is complex. Watsons Registered Valuers and Chartered Surveyors are on hand to help you through the journey.

CML Certification

Watsons provides Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) Certification for a variety of builders, self-builders, and developers of housing projects.

Help to Buy

As a developer you may be involved in purchasing a potential buyer’s existing home in order to facilate a sale of a property within your development. If the potential buyer’s existing property was purchased through the Help to Buy scheme, in order to move forward a RICS regulated valuation will be required

Shared Ownership

Whether a client is selling or staircasing a property, we are here to help with the required valuations.

Commercial Valuations

Watsons can offer clients commercial valuations for acquisitions, sales, and lettings, secured lending purposes, balance sheets, taxation, development appraisals, compulsory purchase, matrimonial and partnership purposes, pension fund valuations, and expert witness work.

Planned Preventative Maintenance Survey

Our Planned Preventative Maintenance Survey isn’t just a routine check; it’s the best safeguard of long-term efficiency and value for your properties.

Development Land Valuation

Land can be a valuable commodity, especially if there is an interest in developing it into housing. There are a few best practice steps in preparing to value land for development that can help both landowners and developers maximise value and minimise risk.

Energy Assessment Including Retrofitting

Our energy assessment and retrofitting service offer professional surveyors who specialise in evaluating the energy efficiency of buildings and providing recommendations to improve your energy performance.

Expert Witness Report

We are often appointed as an Expert Witness to provide impartial professional opinion where a dispute has arisen between two parties. We are experienced in undertaking these and are familiar with reports addressed to the court if required, when a litigation claim is being pursued.

Insurance Reinstatement Valuation

A reinstatement valuation is the estimated amount for which a clients building should be insured and the cost associated with its reinstatement should the property be destroyed (in a fire, for example).

Land Registry Plan

If you need to register a property or land, want to convert a house into flats, sell a portion of a back garden for development or renew a seven-year plus lease, you will require a Land Registry Compliant Plan.

Schedule of Conditions Survey

Often it’s essential for you to have a detailed snapshot of your property’s condition at a specific moment in time, whether residential or commercial in purpose. These invaluable records are commonly referred to as ‘Schedules of Condition.’

Lease Extension Valuation

As proud ALEP (Association of Leasehold Enfranchisement Practitioners) members. If you have retained a leasehold property it will be important to check the reminaing legth of time of the lease.

Portfolio Valuation

Our property portfolio valuation service provides clients with professional and accurate assessments of their investment portfolios

Retrospective Valuation

A Retrospective Valuation is a valuation of the property at a date that pre-dates the Surveyor’s inspection. The valuation will provide the customer with an accurate price at the specified date in time.

Desktop Valuation

A desktop or remote valuation refers to an inspection that is conducted using information accessible via online platforms and does not require the surveyor to physically attend the property at any stage.

External & Internal Inspection Valuation

This valuation uses the same valuation tools as a Desktop Valuation, this type of survey further includes a physical external, and internal inspection of the property to provide a specialist opinion on the property’s worth with a visual appreciation of the property and the local area.

Specific Defect Survey

We have extensive experience and expertise in identifying and remedying building defects in a wide range of commercial and residential buildings

Asset Disposal Valuation

A disposal valuation refers to an inspection carried out to determine the value of a property at which it should be sold or disposed of.

RICS Red Book Valuation

The ‘Red Book’ is the name given to the RICS’s Valuation Professional Standards. Published every 2 or 3 years, the valuation standards are a set of mandatory rules and guidelines for RICS Registered Valuers to follow when they are undertaking valuations.

Desktop Valuation

A desktop or remote valuation refers to an inspection that is conducted using information accessible via online platforms and does not require the surveyor to physically attend the property at any stage.

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Client Partnership Programme

Download our Client Partnership Programme brochure to find out more about our referral scheme, commission types available to you and the benefits of joining up to our referral partnership programme.

How to Create Account

Download our How to Create a Watsons Account to find out more about signing up to our referral scheme as an Introducer, allowing you to manage your referrals and commissions all in one place, online.

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PLEASE NOTE

Our Offices Will Be Closed Over the Festive Period From the 25th December 2024 - 2nd January 2025​

For out of hours contact/emergencies please see information below:

  • For Tenants/Landlords – Please call our main lettings number – 01603 751555 – and follow the instructions. These instructions will provide you with an out of hours contact number, plus the number of an emergency plumber.
  • For Leaseholders – Please call our main Block & Estate Management number – 01603 226500 – and follow the prompts. Listed are numbers for various contractors, depending on the type of emergency.

From all of us at Watsons, - Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!​