Welcome to RICS

As a globally recognised professional body, everything we do is designed to effect positive change in the built and natural environments.

Planning and Development Conference

Join us online for a dynamic and forward-thinking conference designed specifically for planning and development professionals working in a fast-moving world.

RICS Annual Review 2025

2025 was a pivotal year for RICS. Discover how we’re building a more member‑centric, experience‑led organisation, for the benefit of the profession and wider industry.

Useful Links

Find a surveyor

Log your CPD

Quantity surveying and construction standards

Assessment platform

RICS valuation global standards (Red Book)

Rules of conduct

Reporting concerns

Join an RICS board, committee or engagement group

Update your communication choices

RICS consumer guides

Navigating property decisions can be overwhelming. RICS has created a library of free, easy-to-understand consumer guides to help.

News & Insights

UK housing market remains subdued as buyer demand and sales struggle to gain momentum

The UK housing market remained subdued in July, with buyer demand and agreed sales showing little sign of a meaningful recovery, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Residential Market Survey.

RICS Response to the HKSAR Government's First Five-Year Plan (2026–2030)

RICS Hong Kong welcomes the opportunity to respond to the public consultation on the First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2026–2030).

Meet our new Netherlands Chair and member of the Europe World Regional Board

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Klaas Bosma MRICS as Chair of the Netherlands Regional Advisory Board (RAB) and, in a dual role, as a Member of the Europe World Regional Board, where he represents the BeNeLux.

Promoting building control surveying at the Melbourne Careers Expo

RICS was delighted to be encouraging people from all walks of life and backgrounds to consider building control surveying as a career.

London drives improvement in UK commercial property whilst AI boom continues energising data centres

Tenant demand across the UK commercial property market showed signs of improvement during the second quarter of 2026, although the recovery remains heavily concentrated in London, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) UK Commercial Property Monitor.

RICS backs UK Government technical education pathways to build the next generation of surveyors

Earlier exposure to surveying and technical learning could widen access to the profession and help address persistent skills shortages.

Major Law Commission review of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 continues

A major review of Part 2 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 (1954 Act) is currently being undertaken by the Law Commission. This follows the first phase of the Business tenancies: the right to renew project, which concluded in 2025.

RICS CEO comments on UK Government cutting business rates for pubs, clubs and live music venues

RICS CEO Justin Young commented on the UK Government announcement that it is cutting business rates by 20% for pubs, clubs, and live music venues.

Government publishes update on Commercial Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards

The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) has published an interim response on commercial Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) in England and Wales.

RICS member update following appointment of Andy Burnham as UK Prime Minister

Andy Burnham entered 10 Downing Street yesterday as the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade promising that his administration would be a circuit breaker.

RICS UK Awards Yorkshire & Humber: Winners

Introducing the winners from this year’s RICS UK Awards regional ceremony in Yorkshire & Humber.

RICS UK Awards Wales: Winners

Our project of the year in Wales is Y Storfa, a transformative community hub created through the refurbishment of the former BHS building in Swansea city centre.

Profession & Standards

RICS develops and enforces leading international standards, protecting consumers and businesses by ensuring the utmost level of professionalism is employed across the built and natural environment.

The regulatory functions of RICS relating to Standards and Professional Development are led and overseen by the Standards and Regulation Board (SRB).

Profession & Standards

Profession & Standards Quick Links

RICS valuation global standards (Red Book)

Quantity surveying and construction standards

Fire Safety

Rules of conduct

RICS Professional Development Packages

Embrace your professional development, navigate your way to professional status or drive your organisation forward with our support packages.

Stay up to date with the latest RICS news, updates and events

Update your communication choices here.

Upcoming Training and Events

Webinar

Global Sustainable design and behaviour change webinar

• 1 hour structured CPD • Online

£37

+ VAT

Networking

RICS Matrics Sheffield: Networking – summer coffee morning

Wed 19 Aug 2026 • 08:30 - 09:30 BST • Hygge Pounds Park

Free

Networking

RICS in the Black Country: Walsall Arboretum Summer Net-Walk

Wed 19 Aug 2026 • 08:30 - 11:00 BST • Walsall Arboretum (The Grange car park located off Broadway North), Walsall, WS1 2QB

Networking

RICS Matrics London: Networking - Padel

Wed 19 Aug 2026 • 15:45 - 18:00 BST • Powerleague Shoreditch, Braithwaite St, London, E1 6GJ

Webinar

UK&I Retrofit standards (PAS 2035, Parts L, F & S) webinar

• 1 hour structured CPD • Online

£36

+ VAT

Networking

Perth: RICS Thursday Networking Club

Thu 20 Aug 2026 • 17:00 - 18:00 AEST • Faraday's Perth, 216 Saint Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000

Networking

RICS NI ‘Chair’s Summer Soiree’ 2026

Thu 20 Aug 2026 • 17:30 - 20:30 BST • The Bullitt Hotel, Tetto Lounge, 40A Church Lane, Belfast, BT1 4QN

Networking

RICS Matrics Aberdeen: Candidate Support - Impact of Engineering Innovation

Thu 20 Aug 2026 • 17:30 - 18:30 BST • Malmaison Hotel, 49-53 Queen’s Road, Aberdeen, AB15 4YP

£5

+ VAT

Networking

Thirsty Thursday - Japan Member Gathering

Thu 20 Aug 2026 • 18:00 - 20:00 JST • 2-6-14, Akasaka Minato-ku Tokyo, 107-0052

Networking

RICS Matrics Glasgow: Networking - Summer Wellbeing Walk

Thu 20 Aug 2026 • 18:00 - 20:00 BST • Kelvingrove park, Glasgow

Free

Networking

Sydney: RICS Curry Night

Thu 20 Aug 2026 • 19:00 - 21:00 AEST • Spiced @ Barangaroo, 33 Barangaroo Avenue, #7 Barangaroo, NSW 2000

From $60.50

Conference

Africa Conference

Wed 26 Aug 2026 • 08:00 - 20:00 SAST • 5.5 hours structured CPD • Sandton Convention Centre, 161 Maude Street 2196, Johannesburg, South Africa

From R‎1950

+ VAT

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