How Residential Surveyors Can Help You With Your Property

Professional land surveyors can be invaluable resources when it comes to your property. From clarifying where property lines exist and assessing land areas accurately to helping determine exact acreages of your land.

Residential surveyors specialize in purchasing, selling and valuating real estate, managing portfolios of properties strategically, offering investment advice, development advice and conducting design surveys that provide architects and building designers with vital land, spatial and structural data for their projects.

Boundary Identification Surveys

Know where your property boundaries are is essential to making smart property investments and decisions. Boundary identification surveys (also referred to as cadastral surveys) can accurately outline a piece of land’s real limits by marking their exact positions with offset marks on the ground and creating a boundary recognition certificate that depicts its relationship to any nearby constructions and the border itself. Boundary surveys can especially helpful if you plan on adding structures or subdividing your land – they will help prevent future difficulties when selling or subdividing and avoid potentially expensive fees related to encroachment disputes and protect against future difficulties with selling/subdivision issues or subdivision disputes arising as these surveys can identify any possible issues before investing time or money is wasted in litigation fees caused by disputes over property encroachment disputes and help protect from costly fees related to encroachment disputes arising later down the line.

Surveyors will identify each property corner by using existing monuments or installing new ones as needed, before spray painting each corner with pink paint for easy visibility. Afterward, those commissioning the survey can select whether to include improvements such as homes, buildings, sheds, pools and fences on their boundary drawing before the surveyor takes note of any potential encroachments or incroachments on its boundary drawing.

Lease Surveys

Lease surveys measure the lettable area within a building according to the Property Council’s Handbook “Method of Measurement for Lettable Areas”, and are required of all commercial buildings or tenancies with lease terms exceeding three years that are valued per square metre.

Lease surveys can also be performed for entire tenancies in shopping centres or strip shops as well as warehouses, stand alone supermarkets and office spaces. Measurements will typically take place to the interior surface of walls unless otherwise stipulated in a lease contract.

Our licensed surveyors can provide title advice, preliminary and final survey plans for your development. Additionally, they have expertise conducting surveys for Easements and Covenants such as access easements to allow vehicles, tractors or other machinery to cross allotments, light/air easements or utility service easements.

Easement Surveys

At an easement survey, the land surveyor carefully inspects a property to locate any monuments or markers identifying its boundaries as well as easements or rights-of-way that impact it. He uses this information to develop a survey plan illustrating their placement relative to its boundaries.

This service is invaluable to anyone considering buying either land or homes, as it will reveal any easements which might impede how a property can be developed or utilized – this could include utility easements for water or power lines as well as access easements or conservation easements that affect how they can be built or used.

Conducting a property survey can also assist with verifying its acreage for tax purposes, and is usually necessary when borrowing money to purchase property from financial institutions. Surveys may also prove invaluable in settling boundary disputes with neighbours – saving time, money and stress in the future as well as protecting against erosion, landslides or earth collapse damage to both sides.

Topographic Surveys

Topographical surveys (feature contour surveys) are comprehensive mapping exercises designed to highlight all natural and manmade features on the land. To conduct one, highly specialised equipment such as robotic total stations, network GNSS receivers and laser scanners must be utilized in order to produce an accurate drawing of the site.

Survey results can be presented in various forms, from 2D plans or CAD data with photorealistic point clouds to 3D digital terrain models. Their main output – contour lines that represent every valley and peak on the land surface.

Topographic surveys are widely utilized for construction projects, real estate transactions, land planning and civil engineering design. With such surveys at hand, sound decisions can be made that ensure projects are efficiently planned out and cost effective. Topographic surveys also serve as an important tool for Building Certifiers when assessing proposed buildings against local government height restrictions.

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