Allcott Associates LLP

Allcott Associates LLP is a limited liability partnership in England and Wales. It is an independent firm of RICS Chartered Surveyors and Structural Engineers. All surveyors are members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and its engineers are members of the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) or Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). The firm is regulated by RICS. It has an in-house team including experienced structural engineers.

Allcott Associates provides RICS Level 2 and Level 3 building surveys and structural engineering expertise from one company. It provides RICS property surveys across the Bristol region, covering from Tewkesbury down to Weston-Super-Mare and across to Shepton Mallet and Wells. It also provides commercial property advice to private investors, business owners, estate managers and local authority clients, and works across sectors including retail, hospitality, healthcare and education.

It has a sister company, Allcott Commercial. Allcott Associates has office locations in Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leamington Spa, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield and York. It provides RICS Level 3 building surveys and Level 2 homebuyer reports to clients across England and Wales. Team members undertake regular professional training and development. Allcott Associates offers one-to-one advice and support before and after the survey.

In Bristol, the surveying and structural engineering work handled by Allcott Associates LLP draws consistent praise for the depth of its reports and the way findings are explained. Clients regularly name Chris Dunstan, describing him as thorough, professional and easy to deal with during housing surveys, including the more detailed Level 3 assessments. An aspect raised across a number of reviews is the structure of the written output: documents are broken down area by area and illustrated with photographs, making the condition of a property straightforward to follow. Buyers report that this clarity helped them understand defects that were not immediately obvious, and in one instance supported a renegotiation of the purchase price.

Communication is another recurring strand, with customers noting that they were kept informed as the inspection progressed and contacted afterwards so that remaining questions could be answered by telephone or e-mail. Fair, transparent pricing and convenient appointment times are also mentioned, and those buying for the first time describe the experience as reassuring rather than stressful. Victorian and period properties appear among the instructions alongside ordinary purchases. It is the combination of detailed reporting and accessible follow-up advice that clients tend to emphasise.