Assess My Property Ltd

It’s the condensed observations of experts in construction and property development applied specifically to your property of interest. Giving insight and inspiration, objectively, when you need it most. And that is quickly.

Unashamedly focused on buyer-concerns in easy-read format but with depth and aware of the pressures around purchase deadlines. If you want an expert team on call this service is for you.

It is designed to supply expert opinion on your property of interest. Benefit from our 30 years plus experience in both construction, development, and property assessment.

Our aim is to raise awareness on the property to help you reach a decision. We appreciate that most buyers aren’t expert on maintenance or construction work and often overlook options to improve the property and add value. By sharing our expertise, we can get your property search off to a flying start.

Perhaps you are confident on the practicalities, or the property is a must-have regardless of condition. Or for the lucky few its ‘money no object’. Even if this is the case a small investment here will assist. Use our ideas for comparison with your own, confirmation or to find new inspiration.

Whatever your situation our practical, creative third-party views will help your decision making. Our ideas might reveal new potential or assist with your own.

£250 gets you an appraisal in 2 workings days. Full of content which you will find invaluable in assessing your property to decide on next stages.

An in-depth, objective report within days, not weeks. We aim to return your appraisal within two working days.

We use a traffic light system to highlight areas of concern. We annotate your agent’s brochure and images to cover areas of concern or to sketch out how you might want to reconfigure/remodel/extend. We also indicate ballpark costs.

We cover everything from the cosmetic to the structural, comment on overall condition and hope to inspire if we see that reconfiguration work or extending would be beneficial.

No, we raise your appraisal from the property documents you share. The beauty of this appraisal is: Not just early-stage but also non-intrusive, so you get insight without needing agreements from other parties.

We look online to assess the location and property prices to generate our views. We check location statistics, search location and environmental concerns then raise our suggestions accordingly. Our views are tailored to assist with your decision, balancing suggestions against the investment needed and their value.

Once you have committed to the service and payment is received the appraisal is with you in just days.

If we cannot achieve this in 48 hours, we will let you know and, if it is a significant delay, refund you or raise an additional report at no extra cost.

Director Thomas (TC) Jefferson. TC has worked extensively in the construction industry and more recently, is involved in city financial sectors. His experience is both practical, having undertaken many property projects and now focused on the financial. This combined experience allows TC to offer a pragmatic, property-specific overview on return-on-investment factors. Working alongside both constructors and developers with contacts in the financial sector TC brings an objectivity to property-values, either current or predicted. With contacts in the property-finance sectors on call he adds a shrewd overview, including expert opinion from others when needed. Head of the team, TC works daily with document manager Simon Dunning to hone your appraisal document.

Content Manager Simon Dunning. The content on all things practical and creative will be raised by Simon Dunning. Simon has worked in the construction industry-only since the early 1980s. His experience has been gained from 35 years of construction-only activity and is comprehensive. Initially as a multi-trade hands-on builder with practical experience on all trades until nature suggested a desk job. Then as company director of a successful construction company for over 20 years. The company covered ambitious residential projects and commercial developments ranging in value from £250,000 to £2.5 million. As director and onsite construction manager his experience has covered every aspect of the industry. In administrative roles he gained comprehensive knowledge of the logistical, contractual, and financial aspects. His observations and suggestions are raised from this knowledge base, are property-specific, realistic, and achievable. He has bought, renovated, and sold many properties, successfully isolating both the pitfalls and potential in each. We are confident his advice will continue to prove invaluable, either through the document or one-to-one video discussions on your viewings.

Document coordinator Flora Benkada. Flora is focused on punctuality and customer relations, ensuring your document is returned having passed quality-control and with you on-time. Flora prides herself on attention to detail and meeting deadlines. It’s a vital part of our work; making sure content is well placed, easy to interpret and with you when needed. Flora coordinates activity in the office, brings together the finished appraisal and ensures swift delivery. Alongside this she handles correspondence making sure everything is acknowledged, actioned and receives a swift reply.

Both parties can and will assist but they prioritise the transaction, not the property. Agents chase commissions and hope to unlock chains, solicitors charge to reflect their accountability on all points and new queries will have cost implications. Beyond our fee we have no personal stake, so our advice is objective and, if merited, blunt. We believe our views are well informed and we want you to share the benefit.

Moving from early interest to “sale agreed” is nerve wracking. It’s a stage you want to move to confidently, knowledgably. Once you commit to an offer cost accumulate and perhaps to find out weeks later the property is more ‘money pit’ than ‘nest egg’. We do not suggest our service removes risk, but we can get you clued up from the outset, able to decide on that offer, aware of costs you could need to factor in. The cost of the appraisal represents a fraction of the costs should you need to restart your search. The unavoidable costs for professional services and those reflecting your own time, effort, and frustrations.

Most ‘buyers’ are also ‘sellers’. Part a chain, weighing concerns on their new property against the needs of their purchasers. Hesitation has a twofold risk: Firstly, that you miss securing the new property and, secondly, that you compromise the sale of the old. We cannot eliminate risk, but we can minimise it, helping you make a swift, well-informed offer we know will pay dividends.

No, it is an appraisal with our observations and suggestions. Its pragmatic advice for customers, providing easily accessible views based on their best interests.

It is not lender or solicitor targeted dialogue to fill checklists, it is for you to understand the properties downsides and potential as both an asset and, perhaps, a home. It’s better than a survey insomuch as we cover all areas adding suggestions and budgets. The easy-read format is specifically for you on the property you are interested in and for guidance only. We don’t visit the property, our report is not a legally binding but our team of seasoned experts in property will raise the appraisal to inform and assist you, the buyer. Its opinion to help at the early-decision stage. It fast, inexpensive, free of disclaimers and pragmatic.

We are not surveyors, engineers, or architects but this appraisal will give you invaluable help before you move on to those services

It’s conducted remotely, no need to coordinate diaries for access or wait on others. You simply click on “Buy Your Report” and upload the estate agent particulars for the property you are interested in.

You can add links, photos, and brief notes on areas for us to focus on. Our team review the information and use online tools to gain insight on the area to assess the value of any improvements.

We can tell a lot and look beyond the obvious and the well-presented images of the brochure. What’s omitted is often as useful as what is shared so be assured our content isn’t swayed by presentation. For every positive a property offers there may be an associated concern and for every negative we can suggest options. We will isolate and define them all. Perhaps making positives seem of less value but showing the negatives as valuable opportunities.

Every picture tells a story, so the images allow us insight and not just on current condition but also period of construction. We focus on the issues with buildings of that era to highlight the shortcomings you could expect, or that we can see. From floor plans we’ll assess sections of the property to optimise, reconfigure, improve, or extend. Suggestions are realistic: We understand the planning and building control constraints, party wall and boundary issues, access and environmental concerns relating to any future work and make suggestions accordingly. Using a multitude of online resources covering geography, values, utilities, and local government guidelines we check boundaries, values, environmental risk, and neighbouring properties, both adjacent and local if alterations are suggested. We accept and understand your attachment to the property and prioritise return on investment with all our comments. Through this document we share our years of construction and development experience, all targeted specifically on your property of interest. Let us surprise you with what we see from the details you share; we know you won’t be disappointed.

1: For your discussions: raising the content with the vendor and agents your position will be recognised as knowledgeable and your offer will be taken more seriously. The condition issues you flag from the report will provide significant leverage with that offer. Value: In the thousands. Knowledge is Power and your offer will be well considered when you show your awareness of issues and the cost implications.

2: Your increased confidence: Means that your offer can be made sooner and ahead of rival buyers. Value: In the thousands. No more frustrating searches, time off work, new advice from solicitors, surveyors. Stop those meters running.

3: Your happiness: Questions answered from the outset, doubts covered, and a feeling of confidence having taken control from day-one. Value: For you to decide

4: Your chance of success: In a competitive sector this increases hugely. Consider frustrated searches, losing out to rival buyers, arranging new viewings, coordinating with perhaps your partner, the time off work? Value: Again, for you to decide

5: Your future in the property: Our report arms you with knowledge but also suggests options to reconfigure, extend and improve the property. Take those suggestions forward to save money with professionals in the future. Impress them with the ideas and see their service improve. You will be off to a running start. So, close your sale quickly and look forward confidently to the potential your new home offers. Value: On just early-stage advice from architect, engineer, designer..a thousand plus?

Five good reasons given and for now, at a cost of just £50 each.

Because we assist your decision in the early stages of your property hunt. A critical stage where you compete against the clock if other buyers are involved. With questions unanswered and doubts lingering you will be proceeding based on hope and trust. A poor strategy for such a big transaction. We offer early stage help to raise awareness, saving you the disappointment buyers often experience when they hesitate with an offer.

We cover all the UK. Being a remote-raised service distance isn’t an issue and our knowledge base can be applied across the UK, and elsewhere on request.

With online sources local research is easily achieved and the AMP team are all UK-familiar. All properties will be appraised thoroughly regardless of age, location, or condition. We enjoy the challenge the quirky, one-off properties present and the scope for improvement often increases as a result.

Being London-based the local housing stock and market are well known to us but our views adapt to apply nationwide and will prove invaluable regardless of location. 

We recommend you contact us as early in your hunt as you can. Typically, a buyer has three or four properties in mind and one as their goal. So, the field has been narrowed down but doubts remain.

That is the stage when you should reach out. Whether you ask for a report on one or all properties is up to you. Generally, a buyer will focus on their preferred property and work back from there. If you have isolated a property, but need third-party advice or reassurance before you formalise an offer: This is the time to contact us.

With our advice at your fingertips your decision will be easier so committing to an offer will be done confidently. Please check: ‘The house-buying process isn’t easy?’ FAQ for more details.

That’s good news but perhaps a one-off offer and unlikely to be formalised. With each appraisal we offer comprehensive advice, clearly formatted and with you quickly. And if your property searches are multiple, it is unlikely you will be able to rely on others for feedback.

Our appraisal also covers more than the practicalities and unlike advice from elsewhere is completely objective. Our interest is solely in making you well informed and aware.

We could not agree more, so we created this service to make some elements at least easier for you, the all-important ‘Buyer’. The UK property purchase system marginalise the buyers’ interests. It is an archaic, obtuse system which has come to serve the agents more than the customer. We can’t fix that, but we can minimise the impact on you.

Our early-stage appraisal document and/or real-time guidance on viewings helps you clear early-stage hurdles. In sharing our overview within days, you proceed well informed and swiftly. The benefits are twofold:

Firstly: Your discussions with the vendor and agent will be recognised as knowledgeable so your offer will be taken seriously. The condition issues you flag from the report will provide significant leverage with that offer. Secondly: Your increased confidence means that offer is made sooner and ahead of rival buyers.

Following the traditional route you formalise an offer, then have weeks of discussion with surveyors, vendor, and agents. Unless you have trusted helpers or proceed blind this is unavoidable, until now. You may then find the surveyors view a few weeks later, is less positive than yours. During that period, you miss out on your other properties of interest and, if you must restart your property search, your time will come at a cost. If you have buyers waiting in a chain, you risk compromising it as you wait. It is a protracted and inefficient system: The equivalent of dragging an item ‘to basket’ without reading a review, then waiting weeks for a delivery date. That isn’t customer orientated.

You will eventually need to comply with legal and financial conditions to complete your purchase but, with our help, you commit to that process with eyes wide open and in a position of confidence

No, the appraisals are rarely negative. We understand you are interested in the property and want to help on all levels. So, we share positives and the potential with development opportunities.

With over 30 years’ experience we can suggest alterations and improvements to enhance your property and add value. This element lifts our service above the generic, tick-box surveyor-reports few homebuyers even read but must commission for lender approvals.

Take advantage of our insight and imaginative suggestions to make your decision well informed and inspired. We enjoy spotting both the issues and potential in any property.

We understand it is a difficult decision so if you receive our appraisal document but still have doubts around an offer, or whether to look elsewhere, please contact us.

Invest in a real-time video discussion on a return viewing. Send us a video, photos, queries for a follow up report. Ask us to meet you and view together? An invaluable hour on a significant investment and one we are happy to help you with. Or ask for a report on property number ‘two’, we might surprise you

For an additional cost we offer real time video calls as you go on your viewings. Often our report is enough but for a second viewing you might need to focus on key areas and the cost of the call is a small investment, demands little of your time and will allow you to have live, expert views as you proceed. Test the link, switch to headset or buds and start the call. We accompany you giving clarity on issues as you raise them.

Hold the phone steady, give the overview, ask the question, pan slowly. We will give feedback, ask for focus on certain areas, ask you to show the area from different perspectives or take notes to share with the vendor if the problems are concealed. We will cover most issues in real time but, with your permission, and if needed we record the call and prepare a follow up report. That’s an additional cost and dependant on the depth of the advice needed but as reasonably priced as our other services. We will attend in person if needed, with costs on request. If our service has reassured but you feel you need us on site, we will be there.

Real-time viewings with us alongside on video are invaluable. As you make your way around that new, unfamiliar property you will recall the areas that concerned you and working together we will isolate and analyse. If you would like to skip the appraisal document service in favour of real time assistance share the property details in advance so we can familiarise ourselves with your property to give you maximum benefit from the call.

We will guide you to areas which concern us as you share your queries. Whatever we can’t cover in the call can be investigated after, usually with additional information needing to be sent. But with a good phone-camera, a steady hand, and a list ready we can make these 30-minute sessions very productive and reassuring.

You should absolutely get a survey once you have your offer accepted. But getting a survey before that offer is awkward, expensive and time consuming.

What you need at this early stage is an overview from a knowledgeable, objective team. We share our expertise in property and construction, applied specifically to your target property. We will help you decide whether to make that offer armed with invaluable information. Too many buyers miss out on their property of choice as they hesitate, and rival buyers move in. That’s both disheartening, and costly.

If you proceed confidently from the outset the vendor will recognise this. Your offer will be well considered putting you in the driving seat from day one.

Some estate agents will add a link to a virtual reality walk-through of your property. Please share this with us as it gives us the chance to scrutinise certain areas in detail. If not don’t worry, we can work from the estate agent brochure, our online resources and, of course, any photographs you would like to upload and share.

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Make sure agents documents are easily accessible for us. Add some notes to narrow our focus if needed. Share additional documents if your agents’ details on the property are limited.

If your property is marketed with a virtual reality survey included, please send the link. See the ‘Matterport’ section on the ‘Buy my report’ page. These VR scans of properties are extremely helpful, so please share if your agent has a link.

Alternatively, make a video on your first viewing and send that with the agent’s details for your appraisal report. But please edit well and cover areas of concern clearly.

Yes, we offer other services, like the video appraisals but this document is a standalone product. Our sister firm, Elypsius Ltd is a development and construction firm which will happily follow up, provide quotes and advice with contact entirely at your discretion. No spam, repeat emails. We don’t believe in that approach and leave the decision with you. 

For confirmation of our credentials please follow the Elypsius website link to get an idea of the experience behind your ‘Assess my property’ appraisal. All of the Elypsius Ltd work showcased was delivered in the main contractor role by your document providers here. The range of services will reassure we won’t just cover blocked-gutters or injection DPC’s. We see beyond the obvious to focus attention on areas you could easily have overlooked, but should consider.

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If the location works, we can quote for your project. If beyond reach we will take instruction, guide you to a local contractor and discuss your needs with them directly and on your behalf. We can help with architects, structural engineers, contract administrators, planning, building control to name but a few. We can refine to suit your needs, and at your discretion only.

The product: We have great feedback on our assessments, but our reputation relies on customer satisfaction so all comments, good or bad, are useful. We want to deliver on your behalf so if the report does not cover its own cost 10-fold…let us know. We are confident enough in our service to offer you another report for free, or your money back if you feel disappointed.

The process: Timing is important for you so the report will be actioned as soon as you instruct with your payment. Our staff are dedicated to customer satisfaction so be assured your order is our priority and we’re ready to assist when contacted.

Privacy: We appreciate online transactions can be a concern and payment are asked for in advance. We will acknowledge your payment immediately with a reference number and if for any reason we are unable to deliver will refund you in full. And don’t forget if you pay on a credit card, you get additional protection from your credit card company. Your payment is secure, our systems are robust and confidential.