I founded Loudwater after a decade in commercial building consultancy where I'd watched the same pattern play out: tenants paying landlords more than they owed, landlords settling for less than the lease entitled them to, and both sides spending too much on advisers who hid behind jargon. The work isn't complicated — but it does require someone who's actually read the lease, walked the building, and understood what the law allows.
I lead Loudwater's dilapidations work for both landlords and tenants. I'm the surveyor who'll quote you, sign the report, and run the negotiation — not the firm's directory of senior names with the work passed to a graduate. That's a deliberate choice and it shapes how we operate.
I'm a chartered surveyor (MRICS) with a building surveying degree from Nottingham Trent University, and my work runs well beyond dilapidations — technical due diligence and pre-acquisition surveys, building pathology, contract administration, reinstatement cost assessments, and planned maintenance, across both public and private sector property. Acting for landlords and tenants in equal measure gives me a balanced view of where a dilapidations claim will really land, and building pathology is the part I enjoy most: working out how materials behave in different conditions to get to the root cause of a defect rather than treating the symptom.