The Property Development Team

Whose advice should I seek when I'm planning to convert a property?

There's a number of people that you need to seek advice from before you start with any redevelopment project on your property. First of all, I'd suggest that you engage a building surveyor. They will help you determine the scope of the conversion works that you have in mind and give you a rough idea of the costs you should be looking to pay. An architect will help you with the plans, and get you through the planning process of your property development, so seek their advice quite early on in the process as well. A building engineer will help you with the structural considerations for the whole of the project, and make sure that you're meeting all the building regulations. And, obviously, the estate agent: his advice needs to be sought quite early on to find out what value he would place on the property once the developments are actually completed. That will help you work out if the property development is going to be viable. You also need to get tradesmen and builders in to give you actual quotes and the time frame in which the conversion work can actually be carried out. Get advice from all these people, and your project will be much more successful than if you were to not get this property team them involved at all.