About us

We're the building surveyors that clients and deal teams call when they can't afford to miss something

For decades, we've been finding the structural defects, compliance gaps, and hidden liabilities that impact commercial property transactions and maintenance choices.

Our clients are institutional investors, private equity firms, and corporate real estate teams acquiring and managing properties across the UK – from single assets to multi-property portfolios worth £500M+.

Why clients choose us

We catch what matters

Not just code violations – we identify the issues that actually affect your deal value, your capex budgets, your timeline, or your post-acquisition costs. Structural problems. Deferred maintenance that's been cosmetically hidden. Dilapidations exposures landlords haven't quantified yet.

Our reports are written for decision-makers

Your investment committee or budget holder doesn't need 90 pages of technical specifications. They need to know: What's the risk? What will it cost? What should we do? That's how we write.

We understand transaction and management pressures

When you're 10 days from completion and your surveyor just flagged something, you need answers fast. If you have an emergency maintenance problem, we are there for you. We've coordinated hundreds of survey projects across tight timelines – we know what kills deals and what's manageable.

We bring in specialists when needed

Heritage buildings, industrial facilities, environmental concerns – when a property needs expertise beyond standard surveys, we pull from our established network of engineers, environmental consultants, and technical specialists. You get one coordinated report, not multiple contractors you have to manage.

Our experience

Decades serving institutional, corporate and commercial real estate clients

UK-wide coverage with extensive Ireland and European project experience and partner network

SME to Fortune 500 – from local businesses to multi-national portfolio acquisitions

RICS-regulated and recommended by leading property advisors and legal firms

The types of work we do

  • Technical due diligence for acquisitions and disposals (£200k to £500M+ transactions)

  • Portfolio due diligence coordination across multiple properties, countries and consultant teams

  • Dilapidations management for landlords and tenants

  • Condition surveys and planned maintenance strategies

  • Heritage building assessments including quinquennial surveys, heritage impact assessments, conservation condition assessments, and retrofit advice

  • Schedules of condition with drone survey capability

  • Reinstatement cost assessments, also known as fire insurance valuations

Our approach

We don't just tick boxes and file reports.

When we survey a property, we're thinking about what your team needs to know. What will your investment committee ask? What risks keep the asset manager awake? What will your lender want clarified?

Then we write the report to answer those questions – clearly, specifically, with cost implications attached.

Most of our work comes from repeat clients or referrals from property advisors. They know we won't miss the expensive stuff or bury findings in jargon.

A corporate photo of Gillian Murray. She is a dilapidations and technical due diligence specialist chartered building surveyor. She is middle-aged, female and with long gray hair. She is smiling in the photograph.

Meet our Managing Director and Founder

Gillian Murray

BSc (Hons) MRICS
Chartered Building Surveyor
RICS Certified Historic Buildings Professional
📧 gillian.murray@slipperfieldbc.com
☎️ +44 (0) 7780 472 006

Gillian has 25+ years of experience in building surveying, leading technical due diligence for transactions from £200K to £500M+ across the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

She's coordinated multi-country portfolio acquisitions – including a 128-asset pan-European logistics portfolio across seven countries, delivered in eight weeks. She's led teams surveying everything from 5-star hotels and theme parks to cold store facilities and heritage buildings.

Before founding Slipperfield, Gillian led national technical due diligence and dilapidations service lines for major consultancies, working with institutional investor, private equity and Fortune 500 corporate clients. She also spent several years with The Landmark Trust and The National Trust for Scotland managing conservation and maintenance across hundreds of heritage assets.

Her specialty: Finding the expensive issues that affect deal value – structural defects hidden behind cosmetic fixes, deferred maintenance liabilities, compliance gaps, dilapidations exposures – and explaining them clearly enough that owners understand the issues and investment committees can actually make decisions.

Notable projects include:

  • Pan-European logistics portfolio (128 assets, 7 countries, 8-week delivery)

  • 33-hotel UK portfolio vendor due diligence

  • Multi-year M&A programme for cold store logistics businesses across Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Belgium and UK

  • Heritage building conversions and Listed building acquisitions requiring specialist conservation advice

  • Portfolio dilapidations management saving Fortune 500 client £1.6M (68% reduction on landlord's claim)

  • Peer review of £B+ hotel portfolio vendor TDD reports

Beyond client work:

Gillian is active in the surveying profession, property industry and wider business community:

  • Regular speaker at industry conferences and events, including for RICS, Henry Stewart Conferences, Women in Property

  • Member of RICS Scotland Dilapidations committee

  • Published author, RICS journal and Structural Survey journal

  • Former board member, RICS Building Surveying UK & Europe Professional Group

  • Former editorial advisory group member, RICS Building Surveying Journal

  • Former Chair, Association of Women in Property South East branch (London)

  • Former committee member, Lochaber Chamber of Commerce

  • Former Chair, Lochaber Businesswomen’s Network

She's also a passionate advocate for bringing more people into the profession – she's spoken at schools and universities about surveying careers, and has mentored through the Association of Women in Property and other schemes.

Qualifications:

  • Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) since 2007

  • RICS Certified Historic Buildings Professional (2019)

  • BSc (Hons) Building Surveying

Languages: Native English, intermediate French, basic Spanish, basic German

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