Meet the Team
David Northridge
BSc MRICS
David was born and educated in Northern Ireland. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1988 while working as Assistant Estate Officer for North Devon District Council. In 1988 he opened a Barnstaple office for GA Property Services (later to become GA Professional and eventually e-Surv). In 1993 he moved to open an office in Barnstaple for Colleys Professional Services (Halifax Group). In 2001 he left Colleys to set up Abercorn Surveyors.
RICS Membership No 0078907 Contact Number – 07773 357131
Iain Neale
BSc MRICS
Iain was born and educated in the Ilfracombe area of North Devon. He attended the University of the West of England, Bristol and graduated with a degree in Valuation & Estate Management. He qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2000 while working for Webbers Survey Department in Barnstaple. Iain specializes in Building Surveys, Valuations and Party Wall matters. He left Webbers in 2004 to join David Northridge at Abercorn Surveyors.
RICS Membership No 0855402 Contact Number – 07966 772251
Richard Evans
BSc MRICS
Richard was born in Solihull, West Midlands and qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 1984, moving to the South West in 1988. He has specialized in residential surveys and valuations since 1986, and until 2012 was working for Birmingham Midshires, of which he was Chief Valuer, then Colleys (part of Halifax and Lloyds Banking Group), latterly as Managing Surveyor for Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. He has lived in Wellington for over 30 years and has a wide experience of carrying out residential valuations, Home Surveys and Building Surveys throughout Somerset and Devon. Richard also carries out Expert Witness work and since 2013 has been a member of the Expert Surveyors Group. This is the only UK wide network of Experts designed exclusively for Solicitors who need to instruct an Expert Witness Chartered Surveyor to provide an expert valuation or property report. He is also a member of ESG's Knotweed Valuation Group. He joined Abercorn Surveyors Ltd. in 2012.
RICS Membership No – 0070102 Contact Number – 07805 527705