Rebuild Cost Assessment Services
Options to have your property’s rebuild cost valued online or in person
If the unexpected happened, would your Funeral Director Insurance cover the full cost to rebuild your business premises? Many funeral directors unknowingly face the risk of underinsurance because their premises rebuild costs are outdated or inaccurate.
SEIB can arrange a professional Rebuild Cost Assessment with trusted RICS-accredited surveyors through our partners at RebuildCostASSESSMENT.com (RCA). Contact us today to book your assessment and protect your premises from unexpected financial risk.
Choose from three assessment options below, and get in touch with our team to discuss which one best suits your funeral home.
Explore Your Assessment Options
Online assessment designed for properties with a reinstatement cost/declared value of up to £5m.
Designed for convenience, as it requires no contact between you and the surveyors.
Please note that this option is not suitable for Grade I, Grade II*, Category A or Grade A listed buildings.
Online assessment designed for properties with a reinstatement cost/declared value of up to £5m.
This service also includes a telephone consultation between you and a RICS-accredited surveyor, enabling a discussion of the property’s interior, layout, and any specific details, providing greater insight.
Please note that this option is not suitable for Grade I, Grade II*, Category A or Grade A listed buildings.
For properties with a reinstatement cost/declared value of up to £100m or those requiring a physical inspection, and is suitable for any building type.
A RICS-accredited surveyor will visit your property at a convenient time to complete the assessment.
Terms and conditions apply.
Have a question, or ready to arrange your assessment?
Simply fill in the form by clicking the button below, and a member of our team will be in touch.
For more information, please contact our team at 01708 850 000 or email us at info@seib.co.uk.
Frequently Asked Questions
There is a lot of information about land and property that is now publicly available. Think Land Registry, Google Street View and Ordnance Survey, to name just a few, and you begin to get the picture. When you combine this information with the experience and expertise that exists within RCAs Chartered Surveyors (RICS), they can produce a reliable and, more importantly, an insurance industry-trusted assessment of your building’s rebuild cost without a visit to your property.
Put simply, it’s a desktop assessment with an added phone call from one of RCA’s RICS-accredited surveyors to discuss the property in further detail. Previously, when a desktop assessment was not suitable for a property, a site survey was the only alternative. Now, with Enhanced Desktops, this is no longer the case.
A site visit arranged for RICS-accredited surveyor to assess and gain a full understanding of the property.
The declared value (sometimes referred to as ‘Rebuild Cost’ represents the estimated cost to rebuild your property at the start of the insurance period without (and here’s a really important part) factoring in inflation. The sum insured, on the other hand, is the maximum amount your insurer will pay out in the event of a claim. Find out more about what this means in our blog here.
The buildings are assessed to include as much information as possible, utilising the tools available to RCA at the time of the assessment. The notes within the Rebuild Cost Assessment report will set out what is and isn’t included.
You can leave things like measurements to RCA, even when it’s a desktop assessment.
All of the Rebuild Cost Assessment reports are quality assured prior to release by a member of their experienced team. The team have access to up-to-date rebuilding cost data available to guide them, such as the Building Cost Information Service compiled and maintained by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Yes, the assessment will include all units/outbuildings within the boundaries of the property up to a limit of 7 and they will be separately recorded. If on receipt of the report a unit/outbuilding has not been recorded, please notify us immediately.