Stephen Callaghan
Stephen Callaghan is the creator and Chief Executive of property-careers.com and its specialist trading brands including homeinspectors.co.uk and the-energy-portal.
Well known within the surveying profession, Stephen is a chartered surveyor, author and educator with a background in professional practice and standards. He has a wide range of experience in the independent as well as the corporate surveying sectors.
For more than 20 years he has been a contributor to many reform groups including the Government Advisory Group to improve the home buying and selling process, and currently represents the company on the Government Home Inspector and Domestic Energy Assessor Working Group. He recently chaired the RICS Working Group responsible for redefining the guidance for residential building surveys and assisted in the development of the Home Inspector National Occupational Standards and Guidance Notes. He is a member of the Asset Skills Property Services Board and represented property-careers.com on the ODPM Technical Standards and Business Processes Working Groups to define the blueprint for the IT infrastructure requirements of the Home Condition Report and Energy Performance Certificate.
Stephen continues to advise a wide range of organizations on the implications of the Housing Act 2004 and in 2005 secured the official government contract as lead writer of the standard text to be used by Home Inspectors in preparing Home Condition Reports. He assisted Asset Skills to develop and deliver the official technical training for Home Inspector Diploma Assessors.
He is author of the "Home Condition Report", "Building Survey" and "Homebuyer Survey and Valuation" chapters of isurv.co.uk, a prize-winning online surveyor resource (published by RICS Books from March 2005 to date), co-author of "Leasehold Reform - The Way Forward" (College of Law) published in 1994, and author of "Homebuyer Survey to Home Condition Report - Making the Change" (published by RICS Books January 2006 - ISBN 1-84219-246-9). Stephen is a contributor to technical journals on a regular basis for RICS, ABE, RIBA, College of Law, Contact Property Training, Professional Conferences, CPD Conferences, The CPD Foundation and others on a variety of surveying and valuation topics.
As an acknowledged authority on the surveying and home buying industry Stephen is a regular contributor to national newspapers including The Financial Times, Observer, Evening Standard, Sunday Times, The Independent, and the Daily Telegraph as well as trade journals including The Negotiator, Mortgage Strategy, and Building magazine. He has also contributed to BBC Breakfast News, Channel 4 News, GMTV and ITV Meridian News, BBC Radio 4, BBC local Radio, Commercial Radio, Einstein Network TV and Owlion audio tapes.
