About Us

History – Matthew Lewis, Managing Director

I cannot believe it was over 23 years that I started Frazers Surveyors.  I had been a Director of Mann & Co Surveyors, a large firm of National Estate Agents and Surveyors and moving away from a big established firm to start one’s own practice, particularly with a young and growing family, was at the time a bold move.  

However Frazers grew, helped by opening up alongside Frazers Estate Agents who were an established firm of Property Agents within the Surrey area.  Typical for the late 1980’s this affiliation quickly evaporated as Frazers Estate Agents was sold to a Corporate organisation.  At that point Frazers Surveyors became a “stand alone” firm of Chartered Surveyors.

Riding on the back of the 1980’s boom we quickly expanded to three offices at Kingston upon Thames, Woking and Camberley.  However times and technology change. In line with most Surveying practices, Frazers has regionalised. The practice is now established at Woking with a satellite office at Hampton in Middlesex.  It is good to have our Surveying and support services under one roof and we still cover the same geographical areas as before, but with greater efficiency.

Matthew Lewis BSc FRICS – Qualifications & Experience

I decided on a Surveying career at quite an early age, immediately starting a course at the College of Estate Management Reading University after school.  I graduated from Reading with an Honours Degree in 1979.  I immediately started work at Surrey County Council Valuation and Estates Department – an ideal opportunity to gain a varied experience of various Surveying issues of a huge variety of properties.  This period of time also allowed me to gain my test of Professional Confidence which resulted in my becoming an Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 1982. 

I left the Council in 1982 to join Mann & Co Surveyors and in very short time I was running my own office at Walton upon Thames and then Staines.  I rose to Director of Mann & Co Surveyors in 1985 but before fulfilling a lifelong ambition to own and form my own firm of Surveyors which I started in 1987.  

I was elected a Fellow of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2000.

The Surveying industry and my practice has changed dramatically over this period.  However my decision back in 1979 must have been sound as I still enjoy surveying as much as I did when I first started. 

In nearly 30 years I have gained extensive experience of Surveying and Valuing all types of Buildings and Land together with providing a huge variety of advice for Private and Corporate Clients.