The cost of a survey depends upon many factors, some of which are:

Terrain/vegetation

Time of year

Type of survey being requested

Clients time frame on needed completion date

Surveyors knowledge of the area

Past survey activity

Recorded survey information in the area

Past land clearing activities

Complexities specific to the project, such as, clients and adjoiners deed descriptions, conflicting survey information and conflicting title information.

Most surveyors should be able to provide you with an estimate for your project and at times a fixed fee amount for the project. Often you will be provided only with an estimate as it is difficult to foresee all aspects of a project from an office environment. Much is not known or uncovered until our feet are actually on the ground.

When getting estimates from different surveyors don't hesitate to ask questions.  If you have a wide spread on the cost figure from different firms then you might want to question why this is so. Why is there a large difference? The cheapest price is not all ways the best.  For most of us, our home and land purchase is the largest financial investment we will make in our lives.  The survey of such delineates this large financial investment and guides us on the boundaries of any future costly improvements we might make.