Your price depends on one thing: how your neighbour responds
Start for £25 per neighbour. If your neighbours consent, that's almost always all you pay. If not, you'll pay one fixed total, shown below before you spend a penny more.
£25
per neighbour to start
3 outcomes
each one a fixed price
In writing
before anything extra
What will I pay?
Tell us how many neighbours you have and how you think they'll respond. Your total updates instantly, no arithmetic, no small print.
Your total price
£25
If your neighbours consent, that's the end of it and there's nothing more to pay.
- Notices served (1 × £25)
- £25
Totals include any applicable taxes. Every dissent price already includes that neighbour's £25 notice fee.
Get your fixed-price quoteThree outcomes. One fixed price each.
Everyone starts the same way: £25 per neighbour to serve the notice. What happens next is entirely down to your neighbour.
Your neighbours consent
£25 per neighbour
Your neighbour agrees to the works in writing. No surveyors need to be appointed and, in almost every case, there is nothing more to pay. Job done.
Agreed Surveyor, one surveyor for both sides
£895 total
includes that neighbour's £25 notice fee
Your neighbour dissents but is happy to share a single, impartial surveyor. A legally-binding Party Wall Award is produced to protect both of you.
+£545 per additional dissenting neighbour
Your neighbour appoints their own surveyor
£695 for our work
⚠ You also pay their surveyor's fee, typically £700–£1,200. We scrutinise and negotiate it before it's agreed. This is why the Agreed Surveyor route usually costs less overall.
+£395 per additional neighbour on this route.
How the price is decided
Two simple steps, then it's up to your neighbour.
Step 1
You pay £25 per neighbour
Every notice drafted and served within 24 hours, subject to all required information being provided at the time of instruction.
Step 2
Your neighbour responds
They have 14 days. Then one of three things happens:
They consent
£25, done
Usually nothing more to pay.
They dissent
£895 agreed surveyor
or £695+ their surveyor's fee if they appoint their own.
Optional extras
Only if they apply to your project, always shown in your quote.
Schedule of Condition
A photographic record that protects both sides if damage is alleged. Whether it’s required is at the discretion of your surveyor or the adjoining owner. Per neighbouring property, produced remotely from your photos or from a site visit.
£395
Retrospective works
Works have already started and need regularising. Added once to whichever total applies.
+£295
Could anything cost more?
Rarely, and never without telling you in writing first, with an estimate.
After the Award: damage claims, disputes, variations
The fixed fee covers everything up to and including the Party Wall Award. Once the Award is served, anything that comes up while the works are being carried out is billed separately at the hourly rates below. That means damage claimed by a neighbour during or after the build, disputes between the parties that need a surveyor to intervene, and variations to the Award scope where the works change on site. These are rare on most jobs, but they do happen, and the honest answer is they cannot be included in a fixed-fee-up-front price because we don't know before the works start whether or how often we'll be called back. We always confirm the scope and estimate in writing before doing the work.
Hourly rates for rare out-of-scope work
Travel time, where it applies, is charged at 50% of the relevant hourly rate. Disbursements (car travel at £0.45/mile, public transport and other costs at cost) are passed on without mark-up, and anything over £75 is notified to you in advance.
The same rates apply to any time we spend helping a neighbour consent. When a neighbour is unsure, a little time explaining the notice can win their agreement and save you the far greater cost of a formal dispute. Any such time is recorded as we go, in 15-minute units, and set out for you on a clear itemised statement, so you can always see exactly what was done, why, and how long it took. To be completely fair, it is capped at what a dissent would have cost you, and in practice it is rarely anywhere near that. Full and fair, with nothing hidden.
The full fee schedule
Every activity across the life of a case. Most clients never reach a single row below “If your neighbour consents”.
Serving your notice
Drafting your statutory notices (Sections 1, 3, 6)
Serving notices, per neighbour
If your neighbour consents
Everything is done, no further fee
If your neighbour dissents, Agreed Surveyor (one surveyor, both sides)
First dissenting neighbour (incl. their notice fee)
Each additional dissenting neighbour
If your neighbour appoints their own surveyor
First dissenting neighbour, our fee
Each additional dissenting neighbour, our fee
Your neighbour's own surveyor's fee (we scrutinise & negotiate it)
Optional extras
Schedule of Condition, first neighbouring property (remote or site visit, up to 2 hours)
Schedule of Condition, each additional property recorded on the same visit
Neighbour liaison, talking a hesitant neighbour through the notice to help them consent. Optional, added only if you ask for it, and capped at what a dissent would have cost.
Retrospective works (works already started)
Rare, exceptional work (never without telling you in writing first)
Third Surveyor referral
County Court appeal (Section 10(17))
Addendum or further Award (e.g. design changes)
Damage claims investigation
Special foundations consent (Section 7(4))
Litigation, mediation or expert witness work
All fees are inclusive of any applicable taxes. Once a surveyor is formally appointed under Section 10 of the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, the appointment cannot be cancelled by either owner and the surveyor is required by law to see the matter through to a concluded Award. Your fixed fee still covers that Award; only work outside the standard scope is charged separately, and we agree it with you in writing first. The full terms are set out in our Terms of Business.
What your fixed fee covers (up to the Award)
Everything below is included. Anything after the Award is served (damage claims, disputes, variations to the Award) is billed separately at hourly rates, always in writing first.
Getting started
- Initial consultation and case setup
- Drafting your statutory notices (Sections 1, 3 and 6)
- Serving the notices on every neighbour
Your neighbour's response
- Managing your neighbour's consent
- A 10-day letter if your neighbour doesn't engage
- One appointment letter on your neighbour's behalf
The Award
- Drafting a single Party Wall Award
- Recording consents where no Award is needed
- Routine agreement of your neighbour's surveyor's fees
- All correspondence to settle the matter
What this normally costs
Most party wall surveyors bill by the hour.
Party wall surveyors normally charge by the hour. Independent guides put typical rates at £150 to £300 an hour, with no cap and the total settled when the work is finished, so the figure you are quoted at the start is an estimate rather than a price. A straightforward matter commonly lands between £1,000 and £3,000, and that roughly doubles if your neighbour appoints their own surveyor, because you pay both.
A typical party wall surveyor
£1,000–£3,000
for a straightforward matter, billed at £150–£300 an hour
- Quoted as an estimate, not a price
- No cap on the total
- Final bill arrives when the work is done
- Roughly doubles if your neighbour appoints their own
Party Wall Online
£25–£895
£25 per neighbour if they consent, £895 fixed if one objects and accepts a shared surveyor
- A price, agreed before you instruct
- Fixed to your Award, whatever it takes us
- Every out-of-scope rate published up front
- Nothing extra charged without your written agreement
We do it the other way round. You get one fixed figure before you instruct, it covers everything up to and including your Award, and it does not move because the case turned out to be harder than we expected. That risk is ours.
Market figures are the published guide prices of independent consumer sites, not our own estimates, and were checked in 2026-08: HomeOwners Alliance, Checkatrade, MyBuilder. Our own prices are the ones set out above and are what you pay.
Full transparency
What is not in the fixed fee
We are not going to pretend nothing can ever cost more. It can. Here is the whole list, so you can see it now rather than find it on an invoice.
A Schedule of Condition, if one is needed
£395 for the first neighbouring property and £195 for each additional property recorded on the same visit. We tell you whether one is needed before you commit.
Rare escalations before the Award
A referral to a Third Surveyor, an appeal to the county court, an Addendum Award if you change the works after the Award is made, or engineering review of special foundations under section 7(4). These are unusual. Most cases never touch any of them.
Anything after your Award is served
Damage claims, arguments between you and your neighbour during the build, or changes to the Award. Once the Award is done, our fixed fee has done its job.
Work outside the fixed fee is charged at £250 an hour for an MRICS surveyor and £175 an hour for supporting staff. We publish those rates so you can check them against anyone else's.
And we tell you first, every time.
Before any work outside your fixed fee starts, we email you saying what it is, what it is likely to cost, and why we think it is needed. You decide. Nothing outside the fixed price is ever charged without that email and your agreement.
Talking to your surveyor
Included in your fee: up to 25 emails, 25 messages and 45minutes of calls with your surveyor across the whole matter. A typical case uses about four emails and a quarter of an hour on the phone, so you are unlikely ever to come near it. It exists so that the rare matter needing an exceptional amount of our time does not get priced into everyone else's fee. If you did reach it, we would tell you and agree what happens next in writing before anything further was charged.
The only exception is where the Act itself compels us. Once a surveyor is appointed under section 10, the appointment cannot be cancelled by either owner and the surveyor has to see the matter through to a concluded Award. We will still tell you what that involves and what it is likely to cost, but we cannot stop, and neither can you. That is the Act, not our terms.
Why we are this specific. Party wall surveyors normally charge by the hour, with no cap, and you find out the total when the invoice arrives. We would rather show you the whole picture now, including the bits that can cost more. If a party wall quote does not tell you what falls outside it, ask why.
Our pricing promise
The price is the price
The figure you see is the figure you pay for the standard scope, up to and including your Party Wall Award. It does not go up because the case took longer than we expected or your neighbour was difficult. That risk is ours and we price it in.
Most pay just £25 per neighbour
Most neighbours consent. When they do, the matter is closed and there is nothing more to pay.
Nothing extra without your say-so
Before any work outside your fixed fee starts, we email you what it is and what it is likely to cost. We do not begin, and you are not charged, until you agree in writing.
We publish our hourly rates
£250 an hour for an MRICS surveyor, £175 for supporting staff. Check them against anyone else's. Most firms will not tell you until the invoice arrives.