Chartered surveyors in the West Midlands

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