Snagging Reports
Obtain a snagging list from the snagging service chartered surveyors and/or other qualified/accredited surveyors to ensure your developers repairs all your new home’s defects in time for your arrival.
What is a Snagging List?
A snagging list is a report that covers all the issues you need to address after your developer assumes their task is completed. You can use it to ensure your developer follows through with its obligations.
New builds in London often experience post-completion problems, and past professional snagging service jobs have highlighted issues such as:
- Cracking to Plaster Finishes
- Unfinished Fittings
- Uneven Floors and Stairs
- Poorly Installed Windows, Doors and Frames
Obtaining a Snagging List
Protecting Your New Home
Buying a home in London implies committing to decades of monthly mortgage repayments, many families choose new structures that should be in near-perfect condition. However, according to some surveys, more than half of newly built homes have problems. Obtain a snagging list from one of the property snagging service chartered surveyors to ensure that your developer addresses all faults in your new home before your arrival.
The average new home has between 50 to 150 issues, ranging from shoddy paint finishes to uneven floors and faulty wiring. The developer should complete any outstanding work before you move in, but they’re often slow or unwilling to do so after receiving payment for the home.
Instead of moving your family to a potentially dangerous home, have one of the RICS chartered surveyors or other qualified/accredited surveyors create a snagging list with the snagging services that identifies all of the flaws your developer must fix.
Benefits of a Snagging List from our property snagging services
Ensure the Developer Acts Properly
Keep your builders on schedule. Ensure all problems are resolved before the purchase is complete.
Allow the Surveyor to Identify Problems
Instead of relying on a developer to find issues with a property build, why not use professional snagging service chartered surveyors and/or other qualified/accredited surveyors who have your best interests at heart?
Protect Your Investment
Be sure to ask your developer to cover any necessary repairs for the sake of your family's comfort and safety.
Snagging Lists for New-Build Homes
The most expensive asset you’ll ever buy is likely a house, but despite that, homebuyers are barely protected by consumer laws. If a product doesn’t live up to your expectations, you have the right to request a refund under the Sale and Supply of Goods Act. However, properties aren’t covered. Builders should identify and fix any defects before moving into your new home, but they don’t always do that.
Snagging services involve inspecting your new-build property for as little as a few hundred pounds, identify problems that could cost thousands of pounds to resolve, and support your builders, so they stay within the law.
Professional Standards
Our panel of experts are regulated by the following regulatory bodies including but not limited to: the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), The Property Ombudsman (TPO), Society of Operations Engineers (SOE), Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE), Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors (FPWS), the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) and the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
Get in Touch
If you want to know more about snagging lists for new builds in London, please don’t hesitate to reach us to learn more about the property snagging service.