Settlement or subsidence?

Catt, R.

Settlement or subsidence? - 1996 - Mortgage Finance July 1996, 42-43(2) .

Reminds surveyors of the differences between settlement and subsidence. Stresses that because settlement is not usually an insured peril under building insurance policies, surveyors need to be certain when making a diagnosis.


BUILDING DEFECTS
GROUND MOVEMENT
SETTLEMENT
SUBSIDENCE