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Re: Foresters, real estate agents, and others marking property boundaries
Posted by jeevanswaraaj on May 11, 2012 3:01 am
Thanks for all your inputs! One of the first thing a real estate agent does when listing a property for sale is to visually inspect the property boundaries. If the agent notes any discrepancies or potential abnormalities, he might reference a plat map and the legal description, measure the property boundaries, and suggest that the seller contact a survey professional. Let me know that what will be the soultion for, if a property boundary problem is found and that can not be remedied?
If you clicked the link at the end of the post (which you didn't copy and paste here) you'd see that the poster's business was in the U.K.. From the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) website:
RICS Residential Property Professional Group
About Residential Property
House sale
The RICS Residential Professional Group is the pre-eminent professional voice across the Residential Property sector.
The Residential Professional Group represents the following services within private practice and in both government and non-government agencies:
Agency practice and law
Valuation
Condition Reports
Home Buyer Surveys
Building Surveys
Property lettings and management
Rent reviews and lease renewals
Residential property purchase surveys
Management of leasehold flats
Housing supply
Housing affordability
Social housing.
Across the pond, Geomatics is only one of seventeen professional groups that come under the umbrella of RICS
well, I'd say we should only wish that realtors cared that much about looking into property boundaries. But I see this wasn't even the US, so that might make a huge difference, eh?
Thursday, 6/21/12, Brian Glanville will be speaking at our monthly WSS-ACSM meeting about RICS.