What Is a Stock Condition Survey?
A Stock Condition Survey (SCS) is a comprehensive assessment of the physical condition, compliance, and remaining life of housing assets. For social housing registered providers, stock condition surveys are essential for understanding the performance of homes, planning investment, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering safe, decent, and sustainable housing.
Our stock condition surveys provide accurate, up-to-date data on the condition of your housing stock, supporting informed decision-making, long-term asset management, and effective financial planning.
Why Stock Condition Surveys Are Important for Registered Providers
Stock condition surveys help registered providers to:
- Meet Regulator of Social Housing expectations
- Support business plans and investment strategies
- Inform 30-year asset management and lifecycle planning
- Identify and manage health, safety and compliance risks
- Prioritise works to achieve Decent Homes Standard and other standards
- Improve tenant safety, comfort and satisfaction
Our Stock Condition Survey Process
We deliver a structured, auditable and proportionate approach tailored to your portfolio, whether you manage a few hundred homes or a large, diverse housing stock.
- Survey Design & Sampling Strategy
We work with you to define:
- Survey scope and objectives
- 100% surveys or statistically robust stock condition sampling
- Property types, tenure and geographic considerations
- Data requirements aligned to your asset management systems
- On-Site Property Inspections
Our experienced surveyors carry out internal and external inspections, assessing building elements including:
- Roofs, walls, windows and doors
- Kitchens, bathrooms and internal finishes
- Mechanical and electrical systems (visual inspection)
- Fire safety, asbestos indicators and HHSRS risks
- Energy efficiency and sustainability attributes
Surveys are carried out with minimal disruption to residents and in line with safeguarding and access protocols.
- Data Capture & Quality Assurance
All data is collected digitally, ensuring:
- Consistent component coding
- Remaining life and condition grading
- Robust validation and quality checks
- Compatibility with leading housing asset management software
Expected Outputs & Deliverables
Our stock condition surveys provide clear, usable outputs that directly support your operational and strategic needs.
Typical deliverables include:
- Comprehensive stock condition dataset
- Condition ratings and remaining life for all key components
- Planned and cyclical maintenance forecasts
- 5-, 10- and 30-year investment programmes
- Component-level replacement costs
- Decent Homes and compliance reporting
- Exportable data files for asset management systems
- Executive summary and insights for boards and senior leadership
Supporting Asset Management & Compliance
Our surveys are designed to integrate seamlessly with your wider asset management strategy, helping you to:
- Optimise investment decisions
- Demonstrate regulatory compliance
- Support funding and business planning
- Improve stock performance and sustainability
- Reduce reactive maintenance costs
Why Choose Us?
- Extensive experience working with housing associations and local authorities
- Surveyors with strong knowledge of social housing standards and regulation
- Flexible, scalable approach for portfolios of all sizes
- High-quality data you can trust for long-term planning