Commercial Building Surveys & Property Services.

Mayfords Chartered Surveyors provides comprehensive commercial building surveys and property services for businesses, investors, and landlords across London, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire. With over 45 years of experience, our RICS-registered chartered surveyors deliver practical, commercially-focused advice to help you make informed property decisions.

Whether you’re purchasing commercial premises, negotiating a lease, planning a refurbishment, or managing landlord and tenant disputes, our team combines technical expertise with commercial understanding to protect your investment.

Commercial Building Survey Services

Commercial Building Surveys

Our detailed commercial building surveys provide a thorough assessment of the property’s condition, structure, and any defects that could affect your purchase or lease negotiation. We identify issues with the building fabric, services, drainage, and compliance matters, providing budget cost estimates for repairs and maintenance.

Our surveys help you understand the true condition of retail units, offices, warehouses, industrial premises, and mixed-use properties. We don’t waste your time or money—if we identify serious issues that suggest you shouldn’t proceed, we’ll inform you immediately and stop the clock. You won’t pay full fees for a survey that recommends you walk away.

Commercial Condition Surveys

Commercial condition surveys document the existing state of a building prior to refurbishment, conversion, or alteration works. These surveys are essential for protecting both contractors and building owners by establishing a baseline condition record.

Often undertaken alongside measured surveys, condition surveys provide photographic evidence and detailed descriptions of the building’s current state, protecting all parties from future disputes about pre-existing defects or damage.

Commercial Measured Surveys

We produce accurate measured surveys and CAD drawings of commercial properties for record purposes, space planning, or as the basis for proposed alterations and development works. Our precise measurements support architects, designers, and contractors in delivering successful commercial projects.

Measured surveys are particularly valuable when planning office fit-outs, retail reconfigurations, warehouse optimisation, or building extensions.

Landlord and Tenant Services

Our chartered surveyors have extensive experience resolving disputes between commercial landlords and tenants, including:

Dilapidations: We assess the state of repair of leasehold premises and negotiate dilapidation claims on behalf of either landlords or tenants, ensuring fair settlements based on actual repair obligations.

Lease Enfranchisement & Extensions: We provide specialist advice and negotiation services for lease enfranchisement and extension matters, protecting your interests throughout the process.

Schedules of Condition: Before taking on a commercial lease or committing to repair obligations, it’s vital to record the property’s condition. Without a schedule of condition, you could face substantial dilapidation claims at lease end for defects that existed before you took occupation.

Insurance Reinstatement Work

We manage complete damage reinstatement following fire, flood, storm, and subsidence incidents. Our efficient, sensitive approach ensures your commercial property is fully restored and you can return to business as quickly as possible.

We also provide advice on future damage protection methods and loss mitigation strategies to minimise the impact of potential future incidents.

Why Choose Mayfords for Commercial Surveys?

Commercial Experience: Our chartered building surveyors have extensive experience across all commercial property types including offices, retail premises, industrial units, warehouses, and mixed-use developments.

Practical Approach: We provide commercially-focused advice that helps you make informed decisions. If we identify major issues, we’ll tell you straight away—we won’t waste your money writing reports that recommend you don’t proceed.

RICS Registered: All our surveyors are RICS-registered, ensuring you receive independent, professional advice that meets industry standards and is accepted by lenders, insurers, and solicitors.

Cost-Effective Service: We don’t believe in unnecessary fees. Our transparent pricing and ‘stop the clock’ approach when serious issues arise ensures you only pay for advice that adds value to your decision-making.

Technical & Commercial Expertise: We combine detailed technical knowledge with commercial understanding, providing practical recommendations that align with your business objectives and budget constraints.

Commercial Property Types We Survey

• Office buildings and business centres
• Retail premises and shopping centres
• Industrial units and warehouses
• Hotels and hospitality venues
• Mixed-use developments
• Healthcare and education facilities
• Leisure and entertainment venues

Request a Commercial Survey Quote

To discuss your commercial property requirements with our experienced surveyors, please contact us:

Phone: 01494 702 173
Email: mail@mayfordssurveying.co.uk
Online: Complete our contact form

Office Hours:
Monday – Friday: 08:00 to 18:00
Saturday: 10:00 to 13:00
Survey Department: 7 days per week

Our team is ready to provide expert guidance on commercial building surveys, condition reports, dilapidations, and all aspects of commercial property surveying across London, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and the surrounding areas.

Our Commercial Building Surveys help you understand the pros and cons of the property, aligned to budget costs for significant items, putting you in an informed position to negotiate the purchase price or the terms of your new lease.

We don’t believe in wasting our client’s money, so if we think you shouldn’t proceed or there are major issues, we’ll let you know straight away and ‘stop the clock’. Why would you want to pay the full fee for us to write up a survey which tells you not to proceed? That’s not the way we do business.

Our team of Chartered Building Surveyors have years of experience, technical know-how and, most importantly, commercial nous behind them. They are on hand throughout the process to give you support in making the right, informed decision.