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Befundaufnahme

English translation: property/building survey

23:57 Nov 28, 2023
German to English translations [PRO]
Real Estate / Real estate expert opinion
German term or phrase: Befundaufnahme
This is an Austrian document, an expert opinion on developing some real estate.
My question is, does Befundaufnahme mean 'recording of findings' or does it mean survey?

- *Befundaufnahme* durch die gefertigten Sachverständigen am DATE and TIME; bzw. ergänzende Befundaufnahme am XX für Räume im 1.OG

Planunterlagen wurden teilweise zur Verfügung gestellt, bzw. im Zuge der *Befundaufnahme* wurden Grundrisspläne ergänzt und der Bestand vollständig erhoben.
Mary Burdman
United States
Local time: 20:40
English translation:property/building survey
Explanation:
"Räume im 1. OG" seems to point to the building as such, rather than to the entire site/plot of land. Is your wider context a property/real estate valuation? At any rate, I'd use "survey", which also implies the "recording" notion.

See, for example, https://mccallums.uk/what-are-the-different-types-of-buildin...
"A building survey is an expert inspection of a property’s condition. It identifies any problems with the building to a prospective buyer. The inspection is completed by a surveyor who visits the property and prepares a report outlining any problems."

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Note added at 9 hrs (2023-11-29 09:28:35 GMT)
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"Befundaufnahme" seems to be an Austrian variation on "Bestandsaufnahme".
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Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 02:40
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Summary of answers provided
3 +6property/building survey
Steffen Walter
5independent surveyor's record of findings (AUT e.g. land boundaries)
Adrian MM.
Summary of reference entries provided
assessment/evaluation/inspection
philgoddard
Befund (Sachverständiger) Wikipedia article
Justin Verceles

  

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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
property/building survey


Explanation:
"Räume im 1. OG" seems to point to the building as such, rather than to the entire site/plot of land. Is your wider context a property/real estate valuation? At any rate, I'd use "survey", which also implies the "recording" notion.

See, for example, https://mccallums.uk/what-are-the-different-types-of-buildin...
"A building survey is an expert inspection of a property’s condition. It identifies any problems with the building to a prospective buyer. The inspection is completed by a surveyor who visits the property and prepares a report outlining any problems."

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Note added at 9 hrs (2023-11-29 09:28:35 GMT)
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"Befundaufnahme" seems to be an Austrian variation on "Bestandsaufnahme".

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 02:40
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 258
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Björn Vrooman: Actually, it seems like you do a survey in AT to get to a valuation (which might be different in ENS countries, where a detailed inspection doesn't seem necessary to estimate property values). Cf. https://ibbv.at/was-enthaelt-ein-befund-im-gutachten/
46 mins
  -> True - only the asker would be in a position to tell if this survey is part of a valuation or not.
neutral  Adrian MM.: our Befundaufnahme in Vienna covered land boundaries only and had nowt to do with a valuation.
58 mins
  -> This is not what I assumed per se - note that I requested further information from the asker re. the relevance of the valuation aspect.
agree  uyuni
1 hr
agree  AllegroTrans: Whether or not this includes a valuation, it is still a survey
8 hrs
agree  writeaway
10 hrs
agree  Nicole Tata: or perhaps consider ‘site visit’ or ‘physical inspection’ to differentiate it from the survey report?
7 days
  -> Yes, that's also a distinct possibility, as is "site inspection".
agree  Simon Vigneault
11 days
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10 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
independent surveyor's record of findings (AUT e.g. land boundaries)


Explanation:
The asker in point likes a high confidence-level answer. So here it is.

There was, a few years ago, a Befundaufnahme of our back yard's boundary fencing and of nothing else.

Example sentence(s):
  • Der Sachverständige erstattet in seinem Gutachten einen Befund. Dies ist der rechtserhebliche Teil des Gutachtens, in dem er über die Sachfrage, die das Gericht oder eine Behörde an ihn gestellt hat, kurz zusammengefasst eine verbindliche fachliche Aus

    Reference: http://www.wikiwords.org/dictionary/term/252888/504310
    Reference: http://www.rechteasy.at/wiki/befund-sachverstaendiger/
Adrian MM.
Austria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Steffen Walter: "Räume im 1.OG" seems to indicate that the survey in question relates to the building rather than the land. Your own context is totally different.
1 hr
neutral  philgoddard: An independent surveyor's record of findings is a survey.
3 hrs
neutral  AllegroTrans: If a surveyor males a record of findings, that surely is a survey. "High confidence-level answer" doesn't prove anything
7 hrs
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Reference comments


9 mins peer agreement (net): +3
Reference: assessment/evaluation/inspection

Reference information:
Very different context, but the meaning is the same:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german-to-english/psychology/62723...

http://www.linguee.com/german-english/translation/befundaufn...

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 59

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Justin Verceles
57 mins
agree  uyuni: 'Assessment' sprang to my mind first...
9 hrs
neutral  Steffen Walter: I'd use "property/building survey". See, for instance, https://mccallums.uk/what-are-the-different-types-of-buildin...
9 hrs
  -> It doesn't matter whether you call it a survey or an assessment or anything else, and this is not about the UK.
neutral  Adrian MM.: another scattergun answer that has no bearing on the Austrian animal.
10 hrs
  -> Oh, is it about Austria? I thought it was another question about Dickensian London, or maybe Scotland.
agree  AllegroTrans
18 hrs
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1 hr peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: Befund (Sachverständiger) Wikipedia article

Reference information:
"Der entscheidungswesentliche Teil des Gutachtens ist der Befund (Feststellungen, Schlussfolgerungen). Die Feststellung beweiserheblicher Tatsachen ist die Befundaufnahme. Die Tätigkeit selbst wird auch als Befundung bezeichnet."

Expanding on what Phil wrote, if you needed to strictly distinguish "Befundung" from "Befundaufnahme," you might use the gerunds "assessing/evaluating/inspecting."


    Reference: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befund_(Sachverst%C3%A4ndiger)
Justin Verceles
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Adrian MM.
9 hrs
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