Property Elite provides RICS APC and AssocRICS training and support to become a Chartered Surveyor. Weekly newsletter - https://www.property-elite.co.uk/signup.
Property Elite provides RICS APC and AssocRICS training and support to become a Chartered Surveyor
Make sure you join our APC Discussion Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1002953459806186/?ref=bookmarks.
25/06/2026
🏢 New Estates Gazette Article - RICS Professional Standard relating to Residential Service Charges
What do you need to know as an APC candidate? Head to our latest article in the Estates Gazette to find out more!
23/06/2026
📊 The 20% Sitting at Every Table: Why VAT Matters to Surveyors 📊
When you look at a restaurant menu, the price you see is rarely the number the business gets to keep.
In the latest Property Elite blog, we explore a brilliant piece by Bristol restaurateur, Dan O'Regan (BANK & Lapin), to dissect the commercial reality of Value Added Tax (VAT) and how it impacts the property & construction sectors.
👉 Read our full commentary and the original article: https://buff.ly/8RAqtlX
22/06/2026
📢 Launching 1 July: the new Articles feature in the RICS App.
Get ready to access thought-provoking content from Modus and RICS Journals, alongside expert insights, industry trends, and professional perspectives from across the built environment - all in one convenient place.
Stay tuned as we count down to launch!
📱New to the app? Download it to get started.
http://ms.spr.ly/6181vWQhS
22/06/2026
🌍 New RICS Guidance Alert! 🌍
RICS has launched a BRAND NEW June 2026 global guide: Sustainability Practice for Surveyors.
Sustainability is now explicitly tied to professional ethics and is the responsibility of every single surveyor - not just specialists.
The four RICS Pillars:
🔹 Climate Mitigation
🔹 Adaptation & Resilience
🔹 Circularity & Resource Use
🔹 Biodiversity
RICS APC tip: Review the new 7-step RICS workflow in the guidance to ensure your CPD and APC preparation are fully up-to-date for 2026! 🎓
Move from Theory to Mastery: Property Development and Property Finance & Investment Online Courses 🏗️📊
In the world of real estate, understanding theory is just the beginning. The real value lies in your ability to build robust financial models and navigate complex investment landscapes.
Property Elite is proud to offer two intensive online courses designed for RICS APC candidates and qualified surveyors:
1️⃣ Property Finance & Investment: Master DCF modelling, debt and leases, joint ventures and risk analysis.
2️⃣ Property Development: Gain the practical skills needed to value real estate developments and model key lease events for multi-tenanted properties.
Why should you enrol?
Practical focus -go beyond the textbook with real-world modelling.
Expert insight - learn how to value investments and understand debt structures.
Career edge - ideal for those looking to sharpen their technical competencies for the RICS APC final assessment interview and beyond.
🔗 Enroll now: https://buff.ly/QCvi2Js
18/06/2026
🏢 The Hidden ESG Risk: A Case Study in Operational Governance
Attention RICS APC candidates! 🎓 When discussing ESG, it is easy to focus on long-term retrofit programmes or net-zero pathways. However, as Betsy Wong of BCW Consultancy highlights in this interesting article for the Estates Gazette, the most immediate risk is often how a building is actually being operated.
🔍 The Case Study: Cambridge Multi-Let Office
During a service charge review for a 45,615 sq ft building, a £250,000 annual electricity bill stood out as unusually high.
The findings - analysis revealed a consistent demand profile throughout the day, night, and weekends.
The cause - core plant was operating 24/7 due to a BMS controller failure that had occurred 4 years prior.
The impact - this resulted in 4 years of avoidable carbon emissions and service charges approaching £15 per sq ft.
The key lesson - if the energy use doesn't look right, it usually isn't. Independent analysis protects occupiers from unnecessary costs and supports a landlord's ESG obligations.
16/06/2026
🚨 New RICS Professional Standard Update 🚨
The 2nd Edition of the RICS Professional Standard, Secured Lending Valuation of Properties in Multi-Storey, Multi-Occupancy Residential Buildings with Cladding, is coming into effect on 1st November 2026. Early adoption is highly encouraged!
If you are a residential RICS Registered Valuer, or an RICS APC / Associate candidate on the Residential or Valuation pathway, understanding this updated guidance is essential for your compliance, risk management and day-to-day practice.
In our latest blog post, we break down everything you need to know:
✅ The purpose and scope of the updated guidance.
✅ How it intersects with current legislation (Fire Safety Act 2021 & Building Safety Act 2022).
✅ Height-based criteria & the 25% 'significant amount' threshold for requesting EWS1 forms.
✅ A practical 5-step checklist for on site inspections.
✅ Mapping how this impacts upon your RICS APC competencies (specifically Valuation, Inspection and Ethics).
👉 Read, watch and listen: https://buff.ly/JEyqckj
60+ hours of RICS-related CPD. Anywhere. Anytime. 💻🌍
Are you a Chartered Surveyor or an AssocRICS or RICS APC candidate looking for high-quality, structured CPD that actually adds value to your career?
Our CPD Webinar Package is the ultimate resource for staying compliant and competitive.
Why you'll love it:
✅ Structured learning relating to a wide variety of topics, including the RICS mandatory CPD topics
✅ Expert content - recorded by our team of Chartered Surveyors
✅ Flexible - watch on your own schedule, from any device
From mandatory topics to technical webinars, we make your professional development easy! 🚀
🔗 Ready to start learning? Purchase now: https://buff.ly/qyJl06i
13/06/2026
🚨 RICS UPDATE: 3 Major changes to consumer protection!
RICS have announced major updates to protect consumers and improve home surveying standards. If you are an RICS APC/AssocRICS candidate or qualified surveyor, this is vital knowledge for your Ethics, Rules of Conduct and Professionalism competency!
Here is what’s changing:
🔒 Extended ADR protection: Consumers will receive RICS-funded dispute resolution for 12 months after a firm ceases to be regulated.
👥 New Consumer Panel: A member-led panel will be set up to monitor risks, reporting directly to Governing Council.
🏡 Home Survey changes: Collaboration with cross-sector organisations to align standards and make the home-buying process simpler and more efficient.
RICS APC Tip: Be ready to discuss how RICS acts in the public interest using these updates in your final assessment submission and interview.
Full breakdown at https://buff.ly/CFKxw1f, full blog coming soon! 🌐👇
Is my Case Study strong enough? Did I hit level 3 for the right competencies in my Summary of Experience? Is my CPD record formatted correctly and do I have sufficient formal CPD?
If these questions are keeping you up at night ahead of the Session 2 2026
RICS APC deadline, you're not alone!
The good news? You don't have to guess...
With our Submission Review service, a trained RICS Assessor and Chartered Surveyor, who knows your specific pathway inside out, will spend 3 hours reviewing your work and providing actionable feedback. We look for structural issues, technical gaps, grammatical errors and clarity issues, so that you can rectify them and improve your work before you submit later this year.
How it works:
Purchase your review online.
Reply to our welcome email with your Word document submission.
Receive fully marked-up feedback with track changes, comments boxes
and a summary email within 7 working days.
Book here: https://bit.ly/3NcsuYO