Taking care to understand the purpose of a survey report prior to freehold or leasehold purchase means our reports are specifically tailored to suit our client’s requirements.

LarterSmith Associates reports can cover:

• Structural Assessment
• Defect Identification and Repair Schedules
• Internal & External Condition
• Statutory Issues
• Deleterious and Problematic Materials (Asbestos etc)
• Services Assessment
• Boundaries
• Legal Matters
• Budget Costs for Repairs

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Combining our skills of building pathology, legal understanding and commercial acumen allows us to provide leading Dilapidations advise acting on behalf of Landlords or Tenants.

Dilapidations is a complex and ever evolving discipline and may require multiple professionals to become involved through to resolution. LarterSmith Associates are able to manage this by acting thoroughly and diligently in inspection, lease analysis, strategy and negotiation and where required combine specialist advise to detail a landlord’s loss or defend a tenant’s liability.

LarterSmith Associates regularly act for landlords and tenants in one off instructions or across large portfolios and are often referred instructions via existing clients.

Producing photographic and descriptive Schedules of Condition which can be inserted into a lease agreement to limit a tenant’s leasehold liability.

Our Schedules are typically very detailed and extensive and in turn are difficult to ignore as part of Terminal Dilapidations negotiations.

LarterSmith Associates guide our clients through pre-contract matters and due diligence including identification of project risk and contract selection. We specify and tender works to suitable contractors and administer the works on site through to completion.

We typically administer maintenance and repair or refurbishment works to all manner of properties of values through to £1m. Acting as Employer’s Agent on Design and Build projects and we have experience of larger Standard Form projects and acting as the lead professional on full Project Management instructions. 

Accurately assessing and calculating the re-build cost of a property to ensure your own insurers or your Landlord’s insurers are accurately covering liabilities.

LarterSmith Associates follow RICS guidelines on accurate measurement techniques and manipulate either AutoCAD or Revit drawing packages to produce plans/elevations and proposals for our clients.

Undertaking thorough due – diligence on developers and their proposals for lender clients in order to establish risk and how best to manage risk as part of development. We typically liaise closely with developers and their design team/professional team throughout the build ensuring key milestones are agreed and met and overseeing valuations and drawdown payments.

LarterSmith Associates have acted as independent and joint experts on numerous instructions providing reports in accordance with Civil Procedure Rules on a multitude of issues.

We work with a number of leading Law Firms based in Yorkshire.

LarterSmith Associates provide responsive and proficient advice on the legal process between adjoining owners of property where one owner wishes to undertake works affecting a shared structure or a nearby structure or along a boundary.

Party Wall Surveyors can serve and respond to notices and go on to agree award documents to safeguard owners and their properties.