Residential property guides
Flooding
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A useful RICS guide on floods and provides practical advice for you and your family during a flood:
- Preparing for flooding
- During a flood
- Flood survival plan
- Post-flood recovery
Floods are one of the most common and widespread of all natural disasters and are growing in frequency and severity, possibly an adverse consequence of global warming.
Flooding can have a devastating impact on your property and surrounding area. It is important that during a flood you are able to be in a place that is safe for you, your family or work colleagues.
For more information
You can check an areas flood risk by visiting the Environment Agency website which provide maps of flood risk areas and will give an overall assessment of the risk to a home.
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Pages in Residential property guides
- 1. Buying a home
- 2. Extending your home
- 3. Selling your home
- 4. Party Walls
- 5. Helplines
- 6. Property surveys
- 7. Subsidence advice
- 8. Property auctions
- 9. Right to light advice
- 10. Renting a property
- 11. Compulsory purchase
- 12. Letting a property
- 13. Boundary disputes
- 14. You are here Flooding
- 15. Buying and selling art and antiques at auction
- 16. Property Makeoever Guide
- 17. Home Report: A guide for buyers and sellers in Scotland
