Belgravia Building surveys, Belgravia House surveys, Property defect survey, Building disputes survey,
To find out some interesting facts about Belgravia and places to visit in Belgravia and the surrounding areas you can click on the boxes below.
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We carry out residential structural surveys and commercial surveys in Belgravia. If you are planning to book a building survey on a property you are purchasing in Belgravia then we would like to assure you that we always send a suitably qualified and experienced surveyor to carry out the job. This ensures that you get expert advice on any issues that we may find with the property we are surveying. All our surveyors are members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - RICS - and are Independent Surveyors. Being 'independent' means that they are working for you and you alone; they do not work for a mortgage company or an estate agents, so they have your best interests at heart.
Belgravia is an affluent and much sought after area of west London in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
It began life as a marshy area named Five Fields, which was used for grazing sheep and the growing of fruit.
It was then turned into a habitable renamed as Belgravia in the early 1800's. A prominent family from the area, the Grosvenor family, the Duke of Westminster; the family are still synonymous with the area. They developed the area and named the area Belgravia after the village Belgrave in their family estate in Leicestershire. The architect overseeing the project was Thomas Cubitt
At the centre of Belgravia is Belgrave Square . Queen Victoria 's mother, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, resided in No. 36 Belgrave Square, which brought great prestige to the area. Belgrave Square borders Knightsbridge, where the shop of worldwide repute Harrods is based.
The nearest London Underground stations are Hyde Park Corner, Knightsbridge and Sloane Square, London Victoria station, with National train stations nearby.
A building boom in Georgian times saw brick built houses crop up, with bricks being used instead of wood after the Great Fire of London had destroyed so many properties in the City.
The area is now fashionable for billionaires, celebrities. The roll call of residents in Belgravia past and present is very impressive; Noel Coward, Lord Tennyson, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Lillie Langtry, famous for being the mistress of Edward VII, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Roman Abramovich, to name but a few!
Mozart is said to have lived at 180 Ebury Street around 1764 and Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond spy books, lived at 22b Ebury Street .
Belgravia as a vast array of stylish shops and numerous places to each with cafes, restaurants and bistros.
Lower Belgrave Street just off Eaton Square and Lyall Street are both places we have visited as Independent Surveyors to carry out residential building surveys. As properties in Belgravia command a high premium we would strongly advise that you have an independent building survey carried out prior to committing to a purchase. We have vast experience in all eras including Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian properties to name but a few and would be pleased to give our expert advice on your potential property in Bayswater. So if you require a building survey in Bayswater and the surrounding area please contact us on free phone 0800 298 5424.
You may wish to buy a buy to let property in Belgravia for the many students living there. If you need any help or advice or a survey carried out on the property then phone 0800 298 5424. We specialise in properties of multi-occupancy and can advise on buying properties for this purpose and carrying out surveys on them. We also produce surveys on Leasehold properties as well as Freehold prperties.
We always recommend that people have a building survey carried out by an Independent Surveyor. It is laughable to expect that a mortgage owned / estate agent owned surveyors will give impartial advice. Call an Independent Surveyor on 0800 298 5424 for an impartial survey.
Our Residential Building Surveys are tailor made to suit your requirements. When you book your survey we will ask you to grade your building survey knowledge from 1 - 4, with 1 being 'next to no building survey knowledge' and 4 being 'excellent building survey knowledge'. From this we can tailor make your building survey. Depending upon your knowledge level we will add additional photographs to the building survey or will give you more definitions of building terminology, or add extra sketches to help describe particular areas of concern or to show you for example what type of roof your proposed property has or what type of brickwork the property is built in. By doing this we can make sure that you completely understand the property you are buying and that you understand what the issues are.
Our Commercial Building Surveys are also tailored to suit your property requirements. When you book your survey we will ask you to grade your commercial property knowledge from 1 - 4, with 1 being 'next to no commercial property knowledge' and 4 being 'excellent commercial property knowledge'. From this we can tailor make your building survey. So depending on how much knowledge you have of Commercial building surveying and typical problems arising from commercial building surveying our building surveyors can adjust their building survey report accordingly and include more photos and detail descriptions of the issue and your best course of action to fix them.
1st Associated provide building surveys for residential property, commercial surveys, engineers survey reports, property training and more. All carried out by RICS surveyors in Belgravia and the surrounding areas.
Contact us today for a free, no obligation Building survey quote, including building surveys, structural surveys, homebuyers reports and pre sales survey reports, for Belgravia and the surrounding towns and villages.
At 1st Associated our surveyors use a system called the 'Pro Survey Database'. This is a database of property problems built up over many years from knowledge of many decades or surveying. This system gives the Surveyors carrying out independent building surveys a vast selection of reference materials from which to draw and this enables them to give the best informed advice in our surveys for any problems that we have found at the property we are surveying.
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Our surveyors carry out Structural Building Surveys on Residential properties and Commercial properties throughout Belgravia.
Whilst a lot of this is written from general knowledge and local knowledge of the area and here are some websites that we think will be of interest to you in the Belgravia area some of which we have used for information and we would like to give them credit for this.
maps.google.co.uk, kensington-chelsea.com, kensington-chelsea.com/history.htm, .royalparks.org.uk/parks/kensington_gardens; Llondondrum.com;
rcpsych.ac.uk; bb-belgravia.com