Individual Clients
Welcome to our individual client page, dedicated to individual homeowners. We can also help tenants and occupants with authority to instruct home improvement or surveying services where they live.We are experts in property and buildings, and whether it's architectural design and planning consultancy, smart home design solutions to make your home work for you, adaptations for disability or other reasons, interior design, or property surveying services, we've got you. We offer a range of services, but our speciality is in personalising your home to fit around modern day life and your unique needs, and working with you closely to give you an incredible experience with us, and leave you with dream results in your home. We can help hatch your ideas, bring your projects to life, guide you with our advice and expertise, identify any issues in your home, and bring you tangible results you'll love. This page tells you everything you need to know about what we do, who we are, and how we can help you. This page tells you everything you need to know about what we do, who we are, and how we can help you. Our unique imprint on your home
We are a small business with deep values, and our philosophy is about delivering exceptional quality with integrity. You will enjoy a boutique style service tailored completely to you, with first-class client care and our client protection and assurance as standard. We exclusively use RICS Chartered Surveyors for architectural consultancy and our building and surveying services, and our team is individually decorated with qualifications, accreditations and professional memberships that hold us to the highest of standards. Our experience spans the housing, property and construction industry, and includes years of award-winning practice. We operate in all London boroughs and across parts of the South of England. We understand the uniqueness of each property, and work with you to understand your aspirations and ideas for your home, or to help you resolve any issues you have with your property, whether party wall matters or defects and disrepair. You’ll find everything you need to know about us throughout this page, and seven reasons why you’ll want to choose us here. But first, take a look below at our specialist services. If you want to talk anything through, just get in touch with us and we’re happy to help you. Our specialist services
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Architectural Design & Planning Consultancy
With thousands of hours of experience in architectural design and planning consultancy, we're extremely proud of our 100% success rate on planning permission outcomes. Our designs transform homes, buildings and spaces, and bring dreams to life.
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Building surveying
Our buildings and surveying service covers all elements of property surveying and investigation, including housing disrepair, condition surveys, defect detection and management. We also provide you with a full report, with meticulous detail of our findings and recommendations.
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Party Wall Services
Our party wall services ensure compliance with the Party Wall Act, and foster cooperation between neighbouring property owners carrying out or impacting by construction affecting shared walls. We work with you to create a Party Wall Award, and help you understand your liabilities.
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Interior Design
From contemporary minimalism to timeless elegance, we bring the art of interior design to your home, allowing you to express your personality and elevate everyday living. We harmonise colour, texture, and form to create not just an aesthetic, but a whole living experience.
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Disabled adaptations and home redesign
We have extensive experience of designing disabled adaptations and home modifications to help make the property suitable for the tenant or homeowner. Whether due to age, health conditions, or disability, we work with your network to custom-make home solutions.
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Smart home design
Sometimes our needs change over time, but our love and attachment to our home remains. In these cases, we want our home to change with us. through redesign and reconfiguration, we have the pleasure of being able to help people and families remain in the home they love.
Our Services in full
We specialise in planning consultation services, architectural drawings, and property and interior design for both individual and commercial clients. Whether you need help designing the layout of your property, navigating the planning permission process, or creating stunning interior spaces, we are here to bring your vision to life.
Let us help protect you and your assets. As experts in building pathology, and with our years of experience in the private, commercial and social housing sector, we can support you in navigating the challenges around disrepair, defects, legal and safety risks, party wall matters, and general building and property investigation.
We offer tailored project management, consultancy and advice, and professional mentoring services to help you and your business thrive in today's challenging landscape. Whether you need support to deliver a project, assistance with strategic planning, risk management, or professional development, we’re here to help.
Why you want to choose us
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Our results are rooted in our mission and philosophy; to deliver quality with integrity, and for clients to love the results they get with us. And we deliver. Take a look at our portfolio, including client testimonials, high satisfaction ratings and feedback.
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Our team of experts are all decorated with qualifications, accreditations and professional memberships that hold us to the highest of standards. Complementing this is our decades of practical experience, which span the breadth of the property, construction and housing industry. These include years of award-winning practice in the commercial, private and social housing sub-sectors. Take a look at our portfolio and our credentials for more detail and assurance.
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We're a small business with deep values, and we pride ourselves on our ethical mind, high standards, and on the first class experience our clients receive. We are people orientated, and you are in safe hands. Take a look at our philosophy, our story, including why we chose the name Rare, and see how deeply our values and integrity are rooted into our business.
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Our professional standards are exceptionally high. We adhere to all relevant laws and regulation as standard, but as a business committed to ethical practice we voluntarily choose to be accountable to a higher standard. We developed our own set of professional standards that go the extra mile in client care and quality delivery, and client assurance and protection like you won't find elsewhere.
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We offer client protection and assurance beyond anything we’ve seen elsewhere. This includes loyalty packages for our clients, and whether you’re an individual homeowner who doesn't know much about property or you're a property enthusiast or expert, we don’t take advantage of anyone coming to us for help. Take a look at our protection and assurance for more information.
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We care deeply about the impact we have, whether it is the results we deliver our clients, how we give back to our sector, how we pay it forward to our communities, and how we make sure we leave the world better than we found it. We are committed to making a positive social and environmental impact and this is woven into our business model. Read more about how we achieve this here.
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When you choose us, you also choose to support our Foundation. In doing so, you support domestic abuse survivors, people who have fallen victim to rogue contractors in the property and construction industry, and people in financial hardship who need to help with disabled adaptations and home design solutions for a better life. You also support our professional mentoring programme for underrepresented groups in the sector. Read all about our Rare Foundation, which is funded solely using our own money, here.
Everything you need to know in one place
Our journey began as a small group of experts who shared a passion. Read our story, including why we chose our name, to discover what makes us who we are.
At the heart of our philosophy lies a deep commitment to integrity and ethics, exceptional quality, and an unwavering focus on our clients.
Our services include design and planning, buildings and surveying, and consultancy, project management and mentoring, with each service tailored to your needs.
Our unparalleled collection of skills and experience includes award-winning industry practice. Read more to see why we are the best at what we do.
Delve into our portfolio, and immerse yourself in our world of creativity. Take a tour through our gallery of transformational results, case studies and client testimonials.
As a business committed to ethical practice, we have developed a set of professional standards to hold ourselves accountable to, and to offer complete assurance to our clients.
View our map to see our main areas of coverage, though our virtual services are UK-wide.
Our services are bespoke to the needs of our clients, and each job is priced individually. Request a quote, or read more about our pricing, including loyalty discounts, protection and how to pay.
Get in Touch
Have a question or project in mind? Want a personalised quote or consultation? Share a few details and let's start the conversation. We're excited to connect with you!