Role of Land Surveyors in Land Purchasing

Posted by Calvada on June 3rd, 2016

Land is a huge investment, so you need to make sure that you are buying something that is suitable for your project and will fetch excellent returns in the long run. For this reason, surveying is an important aspect of land purchasing. Whether you are buying land to build a home or commercial property, hiring land surveyors will help ensure a high-quality purchase by validating, plotting, and defining structures and boundary lines within the specific area. Land surveyors are certified and licensed to perform land surveying. With their help, you can be sure that all details in any existing property deed are up to date and completely accurate.

The Importance of Land Surveying with Professional Surveyors:

Land surveying is valuable when you want to protect your investment and money. Professional land surveyors provide the critical information you will need to determine if the land you are purchasing is safe for your structure. Moreover, they help determine if you are buying something that can provide the best value for your money. Surveyors identify boundaries and property lines of the land that you want to buy, and the information can be helpful in determining the structures and areas that are part of the deed. By hiring land surveyors, you can be sure that you are getting everything you are paying for.

Learn everything about the land before you buy it:

All improvements and features listed in the deed can be verified by land surveyors before you finalize the sale. Even if there is an existing survey of the land you want to buy, that does not guarantee accurate details. It does not matter whether the previous survey on the land was conducted a year ago. Hiring land surveyors should be mandatory, so you can be 100 percent sure of all the details of the land that you want to buy. The property owner may have omitted specific details from an old survey, and this could affect the value of the land. When you work with experienced land surveyors, you can detect if there are any encroachments and other issues with the land and correct them before they cause expensive problems, like a lawsuit.

Hire Professionals:

Land surveyors should be a part of the process of land purchasing. That way, you can prevent costly mistakes associated with buying land that may cause you problems in the long run. Land surveying guarantees that you are getting what you pay for. Skilled and seasoned land surveyors rely on the elements of engineering, geometry, physics, and mathematics to accomplish the goals of land surveying, and they use high-end equipment like GPS surveys and 3D laser scanning to finish the job faster and accurately.

About the Author:

Armando Dupont, a professional land surveyor, started his career in surveying in 1977 and has extensive experience in managing personnel and projects. His experience includes: topographic mapping, boundary surveys and analysis, construction and control surveying, preparation of tract and parcel maps, earth work calculation and quantities, targeting and control for photogrammetric, and land title surveys in accordance with the American Land Title Association and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping. Mr. DuPont founded Calvada Surveying, Inc. in 1989 and is a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in the State of California.