Pre-lease · Party wall · Litigation

Schedule of Condition — the factual baseline that protects you in disputes

A photo-dense, dated record of property condition at a specific moment. Severity-graded (Good / Sound / Fair / Poor / Defective), no opinions — drafted from your inspection notes in minutes.

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Our approach to Schedule of Condition

The factual opinion-free record that protects tenants from end-of-lease dilapidations claims, anchors party wall pre-works baselines, and survives expert-witness scrutiny in disrepair litigation. Built for evidential clarity: severity grades only (no CR ratings), lease incorporation status tracking, BS 7913 heritage support, BRE Digest 251 crack measurement, section-aware image manager.

Lease incorporation

Annexed-qualified vs evidential-only

Tracks whether the SoC is annexed to a lease (with or without qualifying language), provided pre-signing, used as evidential-only material, or annexed to a Party Wall Award. Determines legal force.

Photo manager

Section-aware image manager

Bulk-import from your camera roll. Drag photos to specific elements, annotate cracks with widths to BRE Digest 251, mark for inline or appendix. Photo-dense by design — SoCs live or die on evidence.

BS 7913

Heritage building support

Heritage flag triggers BS 7913:2013 photo density expectations and conservation-appropriate description prompts. For listed buildings, conservation areas, and heritage assets where the SoC may inform an approved-works application.

Your inspection notes

D / external walls / facing brick vertical crack to lintel above front door, ~2mm paint flaking to fascia W elev, fascia sound

AI draft — factual only

External walls

Facing brick. A vertical crack of approximately 2 mm width is visible to the lintel above the front entrance door. Paint flaking observed to the west-elevation fascia; fascia substrate appears sound.

No causation, no remedy — surveyor only

Causation, remedy, and CR-style ratings are never AI-drafted — including them would undermine the SoC's evidential purpose.

AI · Evidence-aware

AI drafts factual descriptions. No causation. No opinions.

Type rough on-site notes. AI drafts the factual description per element. Severity grades you set. Photos and crack widths capture the visible evidence.

What AI does not do: propose causation, recommend remedy, or apply CR-style ratings. Including any of those would undermine the Schedule of Condition's evidential purpose. Strict-literal mode means AI never invents materials, measurements, or causes you didn't observe.

Read our full AI compliance position

What's in the report

Sections A–G — concise structure, dense photo evidence per item.

AInspection detailsSurveyor, instructing party, date, weather, methodology, areas not inspected, BS 7913 compliance flag for heritage.
BProperty & lease contextProperty address, tenure, lease incorporation status (annexed-qualified / annexed-unqualified / pre-signing / evidential-only / party-wall annex / TBD), party identification.
CConstruction & layoutConstruction era, materials, accommodation schedule, listed-building flag, conservation area status.
DExternal condition recordPer element: severity grade (Good / Sound / Fair / Poor / Defective), measurement, evidence photo, crack patterns and widths to BRE Digest 251 if present.

EInternal condition recordPer element: severity grade, measurement, evidence photo, room-by-room layout. Unlimited records per section.
FServices condition recordVisible services: heating, electrics, plumbing, drainage. Photographic record — no testing, no opinion.
GSurveyor's declarationSigned declaration, qualifications, no-opinion attestation, RICS-aligned AI disclosure.

Schedule of Condition FAQs

What's the difference between an SoC and a Building Survey?

A Building Survey contains opinions and recommendations — CR1/CR2/CR3 ratings, defect causation, repair advice. A Schedule of Condition is factual only — severity grades describing what is observable at a moment in time. SoC has no recommendations and no condition rating; it's evidence, not advice.

Why is the "lease incorporation status" field important?

An SoC is only legally protective if it's incorporated into the lease. The field (annexed-qualified / annexed-unqualified / pre-signing / evidential-only / party-wall annex) records whether the SoC has actual contractual force or is just evidential. A "qualified" annex means the tenant's repairing obligation is qualified by reference to the SoC photographs — the strongest form of tenant protection.

Does the SoC use CR1/CR2/CR3 ratings?

No. SoC uses severity grades (Good / Sound / Fair / Poor / Defective) which describe factual condition without implying repair urgency. CR1–CR3 belong to RICS Home Surveys (Levels 1, 2, 3), which include opinion. Mixing the two on a Schedule of Condition would undermine its evidential purpose.

Does it support BS 7913 heritage requirements?

Yes. A heritage flag in Section A switches on BS 7913:2013-aware photo density expectations and conservation-appropriate description prompts. Useful for listed buildings, conservation areas, and heritage assets where the SoC may inform a future approved-works application.

Is the AI aligned with the RICS 2026 AI Standard?

Yes. SurveyorSuite is designed around the RICS Professional Standard Responsible use of artificial intelligence in surveying practice (in force from 9 March 2026). The SoC template specifically excludes causation and remedy from AI output — including them would undermine the SoC's evidential purpose. The named surveyor signs off under s.4.2. See our full AI position.

What happens to my notes? Are they used to train AI models?

No. Your notes are sent to Anthropic's commercial API for descriptive drafting only. Anthropic explicitly commits in their Commercial Terms that customer inputs and outputs are not used to train their models. 30-day Trust & Safety retention then deleted.