Surveying Blog

The Victorian corner property in Scarborough we surveyed for Dads Behaving Madly. At Skyline Property Surveys, we believe good surveying is about more than bricks, slates and moisture readings. It's about helping people make one of the biggest decisions they'll ever make with confidence. So when a local charity approached us to carry out a commercial building survey in Scarborough ahead of securing its first permanent home, it was exactly the kind of work we're proud to take

Ruins of Fountains Abbey reflected in the River Skell, near Ripon, North Yorkshire On 22–23 June 2026, the RICS Yorkshire & Humber region held a two-day technical event on lime mortar at Fountains Abbey near Ripon, a little under an hour's drive from us here in Scarborough. Led by the conservation specialist Nigel Copsey, the event combined technical lectures with hands-on demonstrations of traditional hot-mixed mortars and limewashes, and carried four hours of formal CPD. It

A characterful Edwardian detached home in Scarborough, recently inspected under a RICS Home Survey Level 3. There is a particular satisfaction in surveying an older home. Beneath the decorative plasterwork, the leaded fanlights and the original timber staircases lies a building that was designed and constructed in a fundamentally different way from the houses we build today. Understanding that difference is the single most important thing a buyer of a period property can do,

The Filey semi-detached home featured in this Level 2 Home Buyer Survey, recently refurbished with a new slate roof. When you commission a survey, you're not just paying for someone to walk around a property with a clipboard. You're paying for a complete, honest picture of the home you're about to buy. So when something gets in the way of that, the right thing to do is simple: go back and finish the job properly. That's exactly what happened on a recent Level 2 survey I carri