Chartered surveyors in North Yorkshire
1 RICS surveyor covering 3 towns and 4 postcode districts across North Yorkshire. RICS Home Survey Level 2 and Level 3, and RICS Residential Valuation.
Our North Yorkshire coverage is deliberately compact, taking in Harrogate, Knaresborough and the Aire valley at Cross Hills and Steeton, and it is the one county on our patch with no coalfield beneath any of the towns we cover, so the ground searches that dominate conversations elsewhere rarely arise and the building itself takes the whole of the attention. A fifth of the stock here pre-dates 1900, Victorian and Edwardian houses that ask for solid-wall thinking, breathable repairs and a hard look at how a century of alterations has been carried out. The Nidd passes Harrogate and Knaresborough while the Aire runs by Cross Hills, where the flood-area count is the county’s highest at 22, so the maps are checked on every instruction. Our records here are honestly young, around twenty reports since the Harrogate file opened in 2024, so for now it is the county’s stock we can speak to with confidence rather than patterns of our own.
Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants
What North Yorkshire's housing is made of.
Valuation Office Agency records around the 3 towns we cover in North Yorkshire, weighted by stock. The age of a house decides what a survey looks for first, so this mix is the county's casework in outline.
- Pre-190019.9%
- 1965–198218.8%
- 1945–196415.2%
- 2000 onwards14.6%
- 1983–199911.8%
- 1900–192911.1%
The largest stocks sit around Harrogate, Knaresborough and Cross Hills and Steeton.
Flood mapping is checked on every instruction here, and it earns its keep: the Environment Agency maps run thickest around Cross Hills and Steeton (22 designated areas nearby), Harrogate (9 designated areas nearby), Knaresborough (8 designated areas nearby).
Where we work in North Yorkshire
Every town below has its own page, with the local housing stock, flood catchments and ground conditions a survey there has to account for. The era shown is the largest share of housing within 2.4km of each town centre, from Valuation Office Agency records.