Stock Condition Surveys for Housing Associations and Councils in London
Element-by-element condition data, 30-year component lifecycle forecasting and a photographic evidence record for every home, delivered by qualified surveyors and exported straight into your asset management system.
Condition Data Your Asset Team Can Actually Plan From
A stock condition survey is only useful if the data is consistent across every surveyor, every home and every month of the programme. Strata delivers high-volume Stock Condition Surveys (SCS) for local authority housing teams, registered providers and portfolio asset managers, using one field standard, one photographic checklist and one QA desk so the dataset you receive for property 1 matches property 1,000.
Our surveying methodology is overseen by our technical lead, who holds a BSc (Hons) in Building Surveying from Kingston University. Every survey records element condition, remaining life and defect evidence (including damp, condensation, mould and movement) so the output feeds directly into 30-year investment planning, Decent Homes reporting and hazard management.
- 01Awaab's Law. Phase 1 (damp and mould) has applied to social landlords since October 2025; Phase 2 on 30 November 2026 adds electrical, fall, fire, excess cold and heat, structural and hygiene hazards. You need a current condition record to act within the statutory timescales.
- 02Reformed Decent Homes Standard. Condition-based (not age-based) component assessment, a standalone damp and mould criterion and child-resistant window restrictors, applying to social housing from 2035 with MEES metrics from 1 April 2030.
- 03Investment planning. Boards and lenders expect a current, evidenced 30-year component plan, not a spreadsheet inherited from the last survey cycle.
Every Component Recorded, Measured and Photographed
Surveyors work room by room through a fixed element list on our mobile field app. Each element gets a condition rating, an estimated remaining life, a replacement year and mandatory photographs before the job can be closed, so nothing is left to memory or a paper pad.
- External fabric: roof coverings, chimneys, rainwater goods, walls, render, windows, doors, balconies
- Internal: kitchens, bathrooms, wall and ceiling linings, floors, internal doors, damp and mould observations
- Services: heating system and boiler, hot water, consumer unit, ventilation, smoke and heat alarms
- Site: paths, fences, outbuildings, communal entrances where instructed
External Building Fabric
Roof coverings, chimneys, flashings, rainwater goods, brickwork and pointing, external wall insulation and render, window and door condition, lintels and structural balconies.
- ✓ 30-year replacement timelines
- ✓ Wall construction and insulation checks
- ✓ Photographic defect logging
Internal Living Spaces
Kitchen and bathroom remaining life, damp and mould observations recorded to support your Awaab's Law response, wall and ceiling linings, floors, internal doors and window restrictors where fall risk exists.
- ✓ Decent Homes Standard pass/fail flags
- ✓ Moisture meter readings where damp is observed
- ✓ Hazards recorded against the revised HHSRS (June 2026)
- ✓ Room-by-room photo evidence
Mechanical & Electrical
Heating system type and boiler age, distribution and controls, consumer unit type, extract ventilation, smoke and heat alarms, and hot water storage, recorded so M&E renewal can be programmed alongside fabric works.
- ✓ Boiler make, model and serial capture
- ✓ Consumer unit and alarm type recorded
- ✓ Ventilation presence and condition
One Appointment. Two Datasets.
Because our surveyors are DEA-qualified as well as trained in stock condition capture, the same visit can produce a lodged domestic EPC and a full condition record. Residents are contacted once, let one surveyor in once, and your programme needs one set of access letters instead of two.
That is how the 356-property programme was delivered across South East London: combined EPC and SCS visits, a 2-day lodgement SLA and zero backlog.
Formatted for Your Asset Management System
We collect and structure stock condition data to your element list and attribute taxonomy, then export it in the layout your system imports, so your team is not re-keying or re-mapping a contractor spreadsheet.
Audited Before It Reaches You
Every survey passes through our central QA desk on the day it is submitted. Photographs are checked against the element list, condition ratings are sanity-checked against remaining life, and anomalies go back to the surveyor before the record is released. You receive a dataset that has already been challenged, not one you need to challenge.
Read more about the field standard, the 18-point photo checklist and the QA process on our How We Deliver page.
Stock Condition Surveys in the Field
Our surveyors work across flats, houses and mixed-tenure estates throughout London and the South East, with resident-first access protocols and corporate ID on every visit.
Stock Condition Survey FAQs
What asset managers, housing directors and procurement leads ask before instructing a programme.
How we get into homes other programmes miss.
Twenty pages on the part of a survey programme that actually decides whether it lands: resident contact, booking, and what happens on the day nobody answers. Includes our live exception log, mobilisation timetable, SLA commitments, and a full page on what we do not do.
Written for councils and housing associations · 20 pages · PDF
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