Legal & General Surveying Services - Barnsley

Jon Guy

We recently used L&G for our house purchase survey.
Our surveyor, Chris Morley - Smith was absolutely outstanding. He carried out a very comprehensive & detailed survey that was well written & illustrated with photos. Lots of very useful defects & areas needing maintenance were highlighted.

Chris also followed up his survey by answering some additional questions we had. He always responded quickly to emails & returned calls very promptly.

All in all we are extremely pleased & would highly recommend Chris.

Adam Walters

As all the other reviewers have said, an appalling company providing an abysmal service. Despite there being only minor issues with my property, they deemed that the property was worth £25k less without any proper justifcation. In fact the surveyor outright lied to my face whilst conducting the survey, telling me "there was nothing to worry about, I've found some minor things which you would expect." He also specifically said that I don't need to show him any certificates and that I should provide them to my solicitor. The report then highlights the lack of certificate as a serious problem! They also stated their was no significant outbuildings, only a shed. I have a huge summer house in the back garden. He spent 2 hours looking at my house, how he missed this is staggering. As most other reviewers have said, stay clear of this company. They have cost me the sale of my property. I will not let anyone with their logo in or near my property again.

Chalk

DO NOT use these guys to value your properties. I recently (2024) had my property valued at £45k lower than it was valued in 2021 ‍♂️ despite similar properties in the area and condition selling for £315k. This is not regulated and seems to be an industry issue and scam service to lowball property prices on purpose so the bank can capitalise if ever foreclosed .

YAKUB ALI

Survey was carried out in 9 mins. Disgusting service. All it shows is this Survey company and the housing association are working together to make a good profit from the house sale.. my house should have valued at about 120k.. instead.. it's 170k.. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS SCAM OF A COMPANY.

Midi Amin

Surveyor sent over by Natwest for revaluation
Property last valued at 335k in October 2022
Competed a double story extension costing 106k in over 13 months time before moving
Havd the property valued by 2 independent Estate agent to be wort in excess of 450k
Surveyor from L&G turned and spend about 10mins, wasn´t even bothered to see new double bathrooms & a massive new kitchen
He said this was a massive house with circa 2500sq ft on a nice plot but only valued my house on his report as follow:
Purchase or estimated value 435k
Market value 375K
I am simply outraged for the difference in valuation
Spoke to Natwest, they said that´s final
Spoe to L&G who said that I should speak to Natwet first

I am on a 2 year tracker deal with Natwest and coming to end of terms, was trying to do a product transfer
This undervalutaion by L&G has in effect stoppedme from take advnatage of 60 20 40 LTV deal by Natwes, even though I have more that 40% equity!
I think it´s nothing but a scam or a back door deal between L&G & Natwest aimed at existing customers to keep us on as higher interest rate as they possibly can.
Never use these guys ever again

chris johnson

I’m in the process of selling my property, this company sent a surveyor round to value the house on instruction of the potential buyers lender.

After spending less than 10 minutes in my property the valuer has deemed my house to be worth £20,000 less than 3 estate agents had previously valued it to be sold at.

After trying to query this with Legal and General I was told to take it up with my potential buyers lender, how is this possible!

Asked my estate agent how the valuation could be so different and they said they think the surveyor has just gone away and used the house opposite me that has recently sold and quoted that price, the house opposite has no off street parking like mine and needs a new kitchen and bathroom fitting when my property had these done new less than 4 years ago.

These cowboys have cost me the sale of my property and I would avoid using them at all costs.

Bash Ahmed

Really poor experience, the Surveyor from Legal & General has valued a 2 bed property at £0, just because the loft (not a bedroom) had a bed stored in there. No plausible explanation and when me and my wife went to challenge, they said, you're not our client, your lender is! Shocking behaviour but quite consistent with other peoples' reviews on Google.

Shine Guy

Absolutely low life people's companies use them because they are cheap please go with my words if you see they are coming to values your house simply refuse it otherwise you will be very upset like me