Chartered Building Surveyors Consultancy
Over 30 years of continuous trading
Location: Kent
Asking Price: £190,000
Asking price includes:
2025 Turnover: £260,655
2025 Net profit: £120,000 (before a single owner’s drawings)
More than 30 years historic trading.
No commitment to office premises.
Excellent repeat customer base.
Knowledgeable, experienced and motivated team.
Comprehensive and detailed website.
The Business:
This business is extremely well established as Chartered Building Surveyors and a specialist consulting business for building and project management services, providing these services to clients throughout the London & South East of England. Many clients have been so for many years and are considered reliable long term prospects.
It was founded in 1995 by one of the vendors and in the time since it has grown to become an established consulting firm of 3 x surveyors, including the two vendors covering but not limited to the following service areas:
Specification of Works and Contract Administration
Leasehold Dilapidations
Building Dispute Resolution - expert witness and single joint expert reports
Stock Condition and Life Cycle Surveys
Property Asset Management Planning
Party Wall Surveyor Service
Commercial Pre-acquisition Surveys
Schedules of Condition
The business does provide its portfolio of services to private clients but more usually client projects and consultations relate to commercial and institutional clients such as business owners, solicitors, ecclesiastical bodies, residential property managers, schools and colleges, developers and architects.
The rigour applied to the formation and management of the business has resulted in a lean and cost-managed company with robust processes for consulting, client management and payments.
Customer Service:
The business offers an excellent standard of service and is proud of its attention to customer care, offering professional advice and high-quality solutions. This is evident in the very high levels of repeat business enjoyed and the fact it the practice has always been busy and profitable.
Regulated by RICS, the business provides a full range of non-domestic professional and project services.
Management
The two owners job-share and could be replaced by a single owner-manager. The business employs one other chartered surveyor who has been with the business for more than ten years and is very well respected.
Key Strengths:
The business has many strengths including:-
- Enviable reputation throughout London and the south-east
- Customer base
- Exceptional levels of service
- Repeat business levels and referrals
- Significant investment in infrastructure
- Small & highly skilled team
- Profitability
- Location
Growth and Expansion:
The business has enjoyed steady trade over many years and this is expected to continue in light of its loyal customer base.
The business has opportunities for expansion and this could easily be achieved if a new owner wished to employ further personnel as the demand is already there.
The business has a comprehensive and attractive website that includes an online enquiry facility and uses Google AdWords effectively. It could certainly expand this activity with a more proactive approach. The business is well positioned to take maximum advantage of growth as it occurs as it has the necessary infrastructure in place.
Reason for sale
The business is for sale due to the current owners’ wishes to retire.
Financials
2025 Turnover: £260,655
2025 Net profit: £120,000 (before a single owner’s drawings)
On the basis that the Business is being sold on a zero cash-zero debt basis, full and up to date accounts are available upon request.
Asking Price:
Offers are invited for 100% of all the issued capital of the company with a balance sheet showing zero cash and zero debt.
