The person looking for websites for surveyors in Dublin has usually just gone sale agreed. The solicitor or the broker told them to get a survey, the closing date is a few weeks away, and they are searching “pre-purchase survey Dublin” or “snag list Dublin” on a lunch break. They want four things: what the survey covers, what it costs, how soon you can get to the house and how soon the report comes back. A site that answers those gets the enquiry. A logo and a phone number sends them to the next name.
We build and run the site, set up the Google listing and send you the numbers each month. You do the surveys.
Six weeks to closing
Property is bought against a clock. The buyer has loan approval with a date on it, a solicitor waiting on contracts and a seller who might take another offer. So the two numbers they want from you are the days until you can inspect and the days until the report lands. Put both on the page, beside each type of survey. A buyer choosing between two surveyors picks the one who gave a turnaround in working days over the one who wrote “contact us for details”.
Fees work the same way. A pre-purchase survey on a three-bed semi is a standard enough job and buyers know it, so a from-price with the things that move it (size, age, a period house, an extension, access to the attic) saves everyone the ring-around. The rest of what belongs on a professional’s page is in what a small business website should include.
Each survey, in the buyer’s words
Surveying is a trade where the customer does not know the names of the things they need. They say structural survey when they mean a pre-purchase building survey. They say snag list before the development is finished. They have been told to check the boundary and do not know that means a mapped survey.
So the page lists what you do in their words and yours: pre-purchase surveys for second-hand homes, snag lists for new builds, defect inspections for damp, cracking or a tired flat roof, measured and boundary surveys, and whatever else you take on, with a sentence on what each one is not. A downloadable sample report, address removed, does more than any paragraph about standards. Buyers want to see how you write, whether there are photos, and whether a person who has never read a survey could follow it.
If you are a chartered member of the SCSI, say so beside your name on every page. Solicitors and lenders tell buyers to look for it, and the buyers look.
Spring, autumn and the estate that completes on a Friday
Surveying follows the property market. Enquiries build from February to the summer holidays, go quiet in August, run hard from September to early December and stop at Christmas. Snag lists ignore the calendar entirely: a developer hands over a phase of forty houses and every buyer wants a snagger in the same ten days. A line on the site saying which estates and phases you are booking for, kept current by you from the edit page, gets those buyers in before they ring anyone else.
A growing share of these questions are typed into ChatGPT and Google’s AI answers rather than scrolled through in a results list. “Do I need a structural survey for a 1930s house” is exactly the sort of thing people ask, and a page that answers it in plain words, with your name and your area attached, is what those tools read. We set up the structured data and the question-and-answer content behind that, and there is more in how to show up in ChatGPT answers. No promises about where you appear, only the work done and the numbers reported.
The people around the sale
The buyer’s solicitor, the mortgage broker and the estate agent all get asked “do you know a good surveyor”, and a link they can forward beats a name scribbled on a form. A short section on how you work alongside architects on extensions and planning, or with brokers on valuations if you do them, tells those referrers you understand their side of the file.
What we need from you
Your list of surveys with from-prices and typical turnaround, a sample report or two with the details removed, your SCSI membership and qualifications as you want them shown, the areas you cover, a photo of you with the kit or the van, and ten minutes on the phone. We write the explanations in plain words and you correct anything a surveyor would wince at.
Plan and cost
Essentials is €499 to set up and €50 a month, and for most one or two person practices it is enough: the site, the Google listing and the enquiry form landing in your inbox. Complete, at €1,499 and €100 a month, adds card payment for the fee before the inspection, a review request after each report and the chat box. The pricing page sets the two side by side. Outside Dublin the first chat is a phone call and everything after works the same way.