The results came through pretty quick on a pricing table which was easy to compare. The results showed eight companies mostly based in the area we are buying, some obviously not as one said they would have a surveyor in that area in 2 weeks time, another was 44 miles away. Five companies quoted ranging from £550-680 which was reasonable and these all followed up with e-mails. Two of which offered to lower their quote £55 and £100. A lot of the companies attached pdf examples of different surveys or gave links, so this was very informative. The other three companies were in the top bracket at £760-900, did not follow up with e-mails bar one who promised to drop their price to match the most competitive, and at a saving £345 I suspect these quotes were over-inflated. On the whole I was happy with the speed of the surveys and the follow up e-mails, but think they should reflect an accurate price initially and not re-adjust after they have seen their competitors quotes. One of the companies became problematic by e-mailing daily, asking us to contact them to take them off their list. I thought the search would bring up more local surveyors and as the one company was 44 miles away, I wondered if not having that local area knowledge such as green belt, flooding, mining etc would have a bearing on the survey.