The national residential surveying and valuations firm said it had also continued to grow its workforce by recruiting more in-house surveyors and adding to its network of independent partner firms.

This comes just after the firm returned to physical inspections on properties in England on the 13 May, following the government’s easing of lockdown restrictions.

Indeed, during June, 73% of its surveyors completed six or more jobs every single day of the month.

And, during the month, it had also trained six new surveyors remotely, and made four more job offers to new surveyors.

In addition, SDL had also trained 14 new network panel surveyors in June to further expand its surveying capacity and recruited four new members to its operations team.

Simon Jackson, managing director of SDL Surveying, said: “Given that June was our first full month back out in the field conducting physical inspections since the lockdown restrictions were eased, we anticipated that our numbers would look strong.

“However, even we have been surprised by the significant demand, the growth in appointments, and the number of jobs our surveyors were able to complete.

“This was a record month on many counts, and in order to maintain those levels and to continue the quality of our service, we have needed to recruit more staff both internally as part of operations and surveying services, but also bringing on board more network panel firms.”

Demand for surveyors

SDL said it continued to see growing demand for its services with the operational team experiencing extremely high call volumes during June.

All SDL surveyors must continue to complete a specific post-lockdown inspection procedure approved by SDL’s lender clients.

It also continues to engage with the government, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), and to take into account all feedback from its own surveyors, in order to amend and refine its procedures accordingly.

 Jackson added: “It will be interesting to see how the market kicks on from here, and what impact the government announcement on stamp duty will begin to have, but we’re optimistic of growing levels of activity throughout the rest of 2020 and into next year.”