Richard Fisk, Surveying Operations Director at Legal & General Surveying Services, explores the increasing reliance on digital property valuations conducted remotely, the risks to...

CSS has described the poor take-up of home surveys with recent property purchases as a "highly alarming statistic."

Despite new buyer enquiries remaining low, surveyors have predicted a positive net balance of housing sales over the next 12 months, according to March's residential market survey.