Abels Surveyors provide Valuations for various purposes.  Much of our work is Valuations for Help to Buy purposes. Most Help to Buy providers will call this an “RICS Red Book Valuation” in their communications with customers.  To provide a “Red Book Valuation” a surveyor must be a Registered Valuer with the RICS. Abels Surveyors provide […]

Recently, we have been instructed on a number of Probate Valuations.   One client required two properties valued quickly.  We arranged to visit the houses and produced the reports.  Here is the response we got from this grateful client : “Thank you for the excellent valuation reports and for releasing them so soon.” Dealing with Probate […]

John Dyer, of Abels Surveyors, helped arrange the Parkinson’s UK Golf Day at Cirencester Golf Club on 16th May 2025.  The event raised £8200 all of which is given to Parkinson’s towards research into finding a cure for this awful condition. We continue to be busy with Help to Buy  and Shared Ownership Valuations across […]

Probate Valuations Sadly, when a person dies, a valuation for Probate purposes may be required.    We are very conversant with the requirements of these documents and provide several Probate Valuations throughout our area each month – Stroud, Bristol, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath, Thornbury, Moreton in Marsh. Help to Buy and Shared Ownership Valuations The provision to […]

What is a Probate Valuation? A property valuation for Probate is the value of the deceased persons’ property at the time of their death.  More specifically, it is the amount the property is likely to sell for if it was listed for sale on the open market. Why would you need a Probate Valuation? The […]

Help to Buy We carry out several Help to Buy or Staircasing Valuations each week.  There are several organisations that these reports are sent to e.g. Homes England, Sovereign, Brighter Places, Cottsway, Guinness Homes etc.    If you need a Help to Buy Valuation whether it is because you are selling the property or just buying […]

Probate Valuations Sadly, when a person passes away leaving a property a valuation will possibly be required as part of the application for Probate. Need some help in this direction?   Our practice can assist with the relevant Red Book Valuation required.    Our surveyors are Registered Valuers and well qualified to prepare Probate Valuations as required […]

Sadly, following the death of a loved one it is quite normal to require a Probate Valuation on their property.   Abels Surveyors carry out Probate Valuations on a reugualr basis and this monthe we have done : a Probate Valuation in Yate. a Probate Valuation in Stroud. a Probate Valuation in Bristol. a Probate Valuation […]

Here are a few examples of the thanks we recieve from our customers: Hi John, Thank you for responding so fast!   It’s been a real help being able to provide this information so quickly to Homes England. Regards Jessie and Sam   Hi John, That is fantastic, thank you so much for turning the report […]

Central Bristol Property Market   The center of Bristol property market  has shown a decline since a peak in 2021. The average price of a city center property in 2021 was £398500.  In 2022 the average city center property price was shown as £335000.  (Ref : Bristol World) Many developments are planned in the central […]