Proptech surveying platform Houzecheck has reported a sharp increase in activity during 2025, with completed survey volumes up 75% year-on-year.
The growth follows investment by Beach Capital at the end of 2024 and a series of senior appointments aimed at strengthening the business as it scales. These included the appointment of Paul Latham, former chair of the RICS residential group, as chairman, alongside the hire of mortgage valuation specialist Richard Sexton from e.surv.
Sexton (pictured), commercial director at Houzecheck, said: “Beach Capital’s investment has supercharged our growth engine – we have seen volume rise by 75% in the last year.
“The market is hungry for faster, smarter surveying. By blending chartered surveyor rigour with proptech speed, we have cut the average time it takes to get a report completed and delivered down to between 2¾-3 days – which is not bad considering a building survey takes a day to complete.”
He added: “And we aren’t sacrificing quality in our quest for speed; the quality of Houzecheck’s reports remains high and we still haven’t had a PI claim.
Our tech insists that the i’s are dotted and the t’s are crossed by prompting surveyors to report accurately and consistently and offering suggestions linked to their inputs. That combination of speed and quality is proving very powerful.”
INTERMEDIARY PARTNERSHIPS
The business said it has grown faster than the wider residential property transaction market by building partnerships with intermediaries, enabling them to refer surveying work and earn an additional passive income stream.
Houzecheck said this channel has tripled since January 2024, with growth accelerating particularly strongly over the last 10 months.
Amit Bansal, founder and chief executive of Houzecheck, said: “Once they’re registered, it can take a broker as little as 20 seconds to mention it to their client, and 10 seconds to click a link to send them the details.
“It’s very little effort to earn some extra cash. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, much of our growth over the last year has come from our mortgage broker partners who tell us the system is friction-free and seamless.”
TECH-LED SURVEYING
Houzecheck operates a cloud-based surveying platform using digital and AI technologies to improve both surveyor workflows and the customer experience.
The business has completed more than 40,000 surveys over the past seven years and works with a panel of around 150 fully RICS-accredited surveyors. Its product range includes property valuations, RICS Level 2 Homebuyer Surveys and RICS Level 3 Building Surveys.
