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SurveyChoice brings homebuyers to RICS-regulated practices for Level 2 and Level 3 surveys. Clients book your practice at a fixed price, accept your terms and pay your practice directly. You inspect and report.
Read the welcome guide →WHO IT IS FOR
SurveyChoice is for surveying firms regulated by RICS that carry out RICS Level 2 Home Surveys, Level 3 Building Surveys, or both, and want more residential work in the areas they already cover.
Clients book a named practice, never an individual surveyor. Your practice is the supplier: the client’s contract is with your practice, on your own terms of engagement, which the client accepts before paying. Your practice assigns a suitably qualified surveyor and names them in the report.
HOW IT WORKS FOR YOU
Clients find your practice when they check a postcode you cover, see a fixed price and book. Every instruction then runs through your practice workspace.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
You do not need them all to apply. We work through them with you during setup.
Your practice must be a firm regulated by RICS. You upload the registration certificate.
An in-date certificate or schedule. We re-check certificates and email you 30 days before one expires.
Whether you are a sole trader, partnership or limited company, with your company number if you have one.
The director or practice manager who sets the practice up, with their own login. Coordinators confirm terms, accept instructions and manage the team.
The terms your clients accept for a Level 2 and a Level 3 survey. We provide model terms for you to adapt.
Your bank details and, for a company, the directors’ details for Stripe’s identity checks. You can create the account during setup.
For example HD1, HD2 and LS1. We approve them before clients can book you there.
THE STEPS TO GO LIVE
Each step is shown as a checklist in your practice workspace, so you always know what is left and who it is waiting on.
MONEY
No invoicing us, and no waiting for us to pay you.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
No. SurveyChoice sets one fixed price list, the same for every practice, so a client sees the same price whichever practice covers their property. Prices are set by survey level, purchase-price band, property type and size, with area adjustments. Listed, thatched and non-standard properties go to a manual quote instead.
Yes. Every practice on SurveyChoice is a firm regulated by RICS, with in-date professional indemnity insurance. We check both certificates before you go live and whenever they are renewed.
With your practice. Clients accept your practice’s terms of engagement before they pay, and the fee is paid to your practice. SurveyChoice arranges the booking; your practice provides the survey and the professional advice.
No. Clients book your practice, not a named surveyor. Your practice assigns a suitably qualified surveyor to each instruction and names them in the report.
Yes. Invite your surveyors and administrators from the Team page and each person gets their own login. Coordinators manage access; team members work on the instructions they are given.
It depends mostly on how quickly your certificates are checked and your Stripe account is verified. Each step on your side takes minutes; the welcome guide gives a typical time for each.
Upload the new certificate on the Compliance page of your workspace. We check it and keep your practice live. We email a reminder 30 days before a certificate expires.
Yes. Several practices can cover a postcode district, and SurveyChoice may make one of them the preferred practice there.
A platform fee is deducted automatically from each payment. The fee is set out in your commercial terms, which you see and confirm before you go live. There is no charge to apply.
APPLY TO JOIN
It takes about five minutes. We read every application and call you to talk it through. There is no charge to apply and no commitment until you confirm your terms.
Already invited? Follow the link in your invitation email, then use the welcome guide to work through setup.