How do boundary surveys help resolve property disputes?
posted 22nd October 2024
Boundary surveying is a specialist surveying process focusing on identifying property boundary lines, helping to resolve property disputes between neighbours. This is essential when it comes to building projects, including when you extend your existing property. Accurate measurements are vital to the process, ensuring you have accurate and updated information at hand.
Dispute resolution is an important process that helps to resolve disagreements that arise due to a possible encroachment on a neighbours property. We use a variety of techniques and approaches that are designed to provide you with an unbiased and objective report. Boundary surveying is the best way to ensure you resolve your neighbour dispute.
Why Are Boundary Surveys Important?
Boundary surveys are instrumental in providing you with legal protection, clarity and security. It involves accurately identifying and marketing your property boundaries, helping you distinguish between your own property and your neighbours. Boundary surveys provide a range of excellent benefits:
Ownership
The main benefit to boundary surveys is that they provide you with demarcation of your boundaries, enabling you to determine the extent of what you own. This clarity is very important when you are dealing with disputes relating to shared responsibilities, such as fences or hedges, encroachments, and rights of way.
Informed Decisions
These surveys provide you with valuable information when you want to extend your existing property, sell your property, or build a new property. It ensures all decisions are legal and legally compliant.
Prevent and Resolve Neighbour Disputes
With accurate boundary surveys you can reduce the risk of a dispute arising due to incorrect understanding of property lines. When disputes occur, the boundary survey is used as evidence, providing accurate information for a fast resolution.
Tips to Resolving Property Disputes
Boundary disputes are common, frustrating, and stressful. No one wants to be in bad standing with their neighbours. Over the years, we have learned some strategies you can use to address disputes, while maintaining a good relationship with your neighbours:
Communicate
The first step to handling boundary property disputes is to discuss it with your neighbour. This is sometimes all that is needed to resolving any disputes. Share your concerns calmly, which can lead to an amicable agreement without the dispute escalating.
Examine Existing Surveys
When you purchased your property, you would have been given a lot of paperwork, including your ownership documentation, land registration records, and possibly, previous boundary surveys. These are valuable evidence to support you and resolve any potential disputes.
Hire an Experienced Surveyors
If the dispute continues and your current boundary survey is outdated, it's a good idea to hire an experienced surveyor that can carry out the survey objectively, helping to resolve any agreements. The expert report, along with the updated boundary survey can be used as evidence, helping to support your case.
Conclusion
Property boundaries demand a comprehensive survey. When carried out accurately, it helps to prevent disputes, clarify your ownership rights, and enable you to continue your build without hassle or fuss.
MB Survey Solutions is a team of surveying professionals, with over twenty five years of combined experience. We provide accurate surveys, including boundary surveys. We are committed to accuracy and precisions, ensuring you receive the updated, accurate, and reliable information you need regarding your property rights. Contact us today to arrange your property boundary survey.