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THE RICS IN THE WORLD

RICS - the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors - was created in 1868 in the United Kingdom. It received a royal charter in 1881.
RICS members are known as chartered surveyors, and are recognised by the designation after their name - FRICS (for Fellow of RICS) or MRICS (for Member of RICS).

Today RICS is a global property professional body:

International headquarters in London, with world regional offices in Brussels, Dubai, Hong Kong, New York and Sydney
91 000 qualified members in over 146 countries
More than 64,450 trainees and students
500 industry research and policy papers published every year
50 national groups
160 diverse specialisms represented across 21 pathways

The key roles of RICS are to:

Regulate and promote the profession
Maintain the highest educational and professional standards
Protect clients and consumers through a strict code of ethics
Provide impartial advice, analysis and guidance

“RICS is the only international organisation that brings together professionals from all the spheres of the property sector, and therefore guarantees qualification, fairness and capability.”
Philippe Winssinger FRICS, DTZ Winssinger Tie Leung, Brussels, Belgium

THE « CHARTERED SURVEYORS » MISSIONS

“Being an employer and representing the clients of Jones Lang LaSalle who prescribe service needs, I see the RICS diploma as a guarantee of professionalism. I employ colleagues that hold the chartered surveyor title to be sure that they have pertinent experience and knowledge in property. Clients are looking for a reliable and thorough guarantee that respects a certain code of ethics, the principles of which are fundamental to RICS.”
Michael Morris FRICS, President, Jones Lang LaSalle Conseil SAS, Paris, France

The property market accounts for as much as 20% of the Gross National Product in most countries. Chartered surveyors help to sustain the use of land and unlock the long term value of property. They are key to efficient markets in land, property and the environment without which important world economies would not be able to function effectively.

Our members' services are diverse. Not only are they experts in all matters relating to property and construction, they also offer strategic advice on the economics, valuation, law, technology, finance and management of all the world's physical assets - from major construction projects to farm property management to managing large property porfolios to surveying the seabed to ...