Chartered surveyors in the West Midlands
1 RICS surveyor covering 5 towns and 9 postcode districts across the West Midlands. RICS Home Survey Level 2 and Level 3, and RICS Residential Valuation.
The strongest post-war concentration on our books belongs to the West Midlands, where more than a quarter of the homes around the towns we cover went up between 1945 and 1964, a bigger share than in any other county we work in. Housing of that period was built at pace and sometimes in non-traditional forms, so we make a point of confirming what a wall is actually made of before commenting on anything else, and we judge sixty-year-old components on what has been renewed rather than what was original. Our coverage sits in the county’s north-western corner, centred on Wolverhampton, Willenhall and Bloxwich, with Brownhills at the edge of the Cannock Chase Coalfield, where the mining record joins the checklist. The Tame and a set of local brooks carry modest flood designations by the standards of our patch, and we still confirm the position on every job. This is a newer corner of our coverage, so we are quoting the county’s housing here rather than patterns from our own records, and that will change as the file fills.
Chris Bloor MRICS · CJ Bloor Property Consultants
What the West Midlands's housing is made of.
Valuation Office Agency records around the 5 towns we cover in the West Midlands, 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.
- 1945–196427.1%
- 1965–198218.6%
- 2000 onwards14.2%
- 1930s13.9%
- 1900–19299.7%
- Pre-19008.4%
The largest stocks sit around Wolverhampton, Willenhall and Bloxwich.
1 of our the West Midlands towns sit over the Cannock Chase Coalfield, so mining history is a standing question there and we say plainly when a Coal Authority report is worth commissioning.
Flood mapping is checked on every instruction here, and it earns its keep: the Environment Agency maps run thickest around Willenhall (13 designated areas nearby), Bloxwich (10 designated areas nearby), Rushall and Shelfield (10 designated areas nearby).
Where we work in the West Midlands
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.