RICS regulated building consultancy with offices in Liverpool, Manchester and London
Lansdown Associates is a firm of RICS regulated chartered surveyors in Liverpool, with offices in Manchester and London and coverage across Birmingham, Leeds and Northern Ireland. We provide residential surveys, damp and mould investigations, Awaab’s Law compliance surveys, housing disrepair expert reports and commercial property advice, including dilapidations, schedules of condition and technical due diligence.
We are a building consultancy made up of Chartered Surveyors, Architectural Technicians, Property Managers, Developers and Certified Drone Pilots. That mix means we look at a building the way the people who design, build, own and maintain it do, and we give advice that is commercially sensible as well as technically sound.
Our work covers building surveying, legal and regulatory matters, and design and development. We are regulated by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and our director, John Jackson MRICS MEWI, is a member of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI), so our reports are written to stand up to scrutiny, whether that is from a lender, a landlord, a tenant or a court.
A condition report for newer, conventional homes in reasonable condition.
Our homebuyer survey (without valuation) for most standard houses and flats.
Our most detailed inspection, for older, larger, altered or unusual properties.
Find out what is causing the damp, with a written report and prioritised recommendations.
Independent hazard investigations that help social landlords meet the legal timescales.
CPR Part 35 expert reports for tenants, landlords and solicitors.
Preparing, defending and negotiating dilapidations claims for landlords and tenants.
Record a building’s condition before a lease or building work starts.
Technical due diligence for buyers, investors and funders of commercial property.
We also provide independent damp surveys, vendor surveys, damp and mould surveys for housing associations, landlord damp and mould surveys, damp surveys in Liverpool, damp and mould expert witness reports, dilapidations provision advice for accountants and planned preventative maintenance surveys.
Awaab’s Law is named after Awaab Ishak, a two-year-old who died in December 2020 from a respiratory condition caused by prolonged exposure to mould in his family’s social housing flat in Rochdale. It requires social landlords in England to deal with serious hazards within fixed timescales.
Damp and mould presenting a significant risk of harm, plus all emergency hazards
Adds excess cold and heat, falls, structural collapse, fire, electrical, explosions and domestic hygiene hazards
All remaining HHSRS hazards except overcrowding
Emergency hazards must be investigated and made safe within 24 hours. Significant hazards must be investigated within 10 working days, with a written summary to the tenant within 3 working days of the investigation concluding and safety work completed within 5 working days. Read our Awaab’s Law timeline for the detail, or see the government’s Awaab’s Law guidance for social landlords.
Our chartered building surveyors work to RICS professional standards.
We do not sell damp-proofing, building work or treatments, so our advice is impartial.
Our director is a member of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI), which matters when a report may be relied on in a dispute or claim.
Surveyors, architectural technicians, property managers and developers work together on each instruction.
Offices in Liverpool, Manchester and London, with coverage in Birmingham, Leeds and Northern Ireland.
We act for a wide range of clients, including homeowners and home buyers, property developers, institutional investment and pension fund managers, corporate and social landlords, national solicitors, national service providers, logistics providers and other property occupiers, the NHS, insurance organisations, the Diocese and accountants.
“Lansdown Associates represented us on a Dilapidations and Lease Surrender matter. John was very thorough and provided astute advice throughout. The settlement we received was over and above what we had expected. We would definitely recommend”
“Lansdown Associates helped us with a Dilapidations settlement on our Office in Liverpool. Our Landlord had provided us with a Schedule of Dilapidations asking for £85,000.00. We couldn’t afford this, so we asked for help. We managed to settle the Dilapidations for £15,000.00 and can’t thank Lansdown Associates enough for their help. We will always use them in future”
“We work with John on a regular basis. The service provided to our clients is second to none. Our clients are often first time buyers so having quality Surveyors on hand to assist with pre-purchase surveys is a massive benefit.”
“We have worked with John on a number of property related matters, most recently on a Dilapidations and Lease issue. We find the service very thorough and professional and cannot fault the way in which John explains things to us. We wouldn’t use anybody else”
“I have an investment company that predominantly buys residential property in auction. We use Lansdown Associates to undertake pre-purchase surveys on every property we intend to buy. Most recently, John identified significant issues on a property in Anfield and saved us £180,000.00. We were literally about to buy until we read the report. We can’t thank him enough”
“I have worked with John for years on property development. As well as being a good friend, I would consider him to be a brilliant surveyor and he definitely knows the property industry inside out. If I was buying a house, I would use John.”
Rodney Chambers, 40 Rodney Street, Liverpool, L1 9AA
Unit 4, Hurricane Drive, Estuary Business Park, Liverpool, Merseyside, L24 8RL
Peter House, Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 5AN
85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, W1W 7LT
Call 0151 374 0905 or email office@lansdownassociates.co.uk, Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00. Quotes are free, and we usually respond within one working day. Office visits are by appointment only.
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