Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a British professional association of real estate professionals and real estate experts .
Task of the RICS
The professional association was founded in 1868 and received the Royal Charter of the United Kingdom in 1881 , granted by Queen Victoria .
On the basis of the charter, the professional title of the Chartered Surveyor and the professional titles MRICS (Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and FRICS (Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) arose ; FRICS can be awarded after at least 5 years as a qualified member and appropriate aptitude.
A Chartered Surveyor can be achieved by anyone who has completed the relevant aptitude test (APC Assessment of Professional Competence and the FA Final Assessment) and has successfully completed a course of studies at an institute accredited by the RICS. Around 400 courses worldwide are accredited by RICS (as of 2008).
RICS is committed to international standardization and publishes its own RICS Appraisal and Valuation Standards (“Red Book”). The Red Books are considered the standard work in property valuation.
organization
The RICS operates as a professional association worldwide. The main tasks of the RICS are:
- Regulation and promotion of the profession
- Maintaining high standards in training and professional practice
- Protecting customers and consumers by adhering to a strict code of conduct
- Impartial advice, analysis and guidance
Its headquarters are in London , with international offices in Brussels , Dubai , Hong Kong , New York City , New Delhi , Beijing and Sydney . The organization now looks after (status 2007, unless otherwise stated):
- 150,000 members in 146 countries (as of November 2010)
- 22,000 students in 400 accredited courses
- 500 research papers and policy publications annually
- 50 national associations
- 160 different subject areas, divided into 16 "faculties"
RICS in Germany
The RICS has been present in Germany since 1993. The RICS Germany e. V. was dissolved in 2010 as part of the restructuring and replaced by RICS Deutschland Limited (based in Frankfurt am Main). The RICS has over 3,500 members in Germany, including over 1,400 MRICS and FRICS. Further levels of membership are student membership and trainee, ie preparation for the entrance exam.
The RICS maintains nine regional groups in Germany, which organize lectures and member meetings at regular intervals. From a technical point of view, there are a number of so-called "professional groups" which discuss specialist topics in regular meetings (residential property, commercial property, asset management, geomatics, valuation, sustainability strategies, built environment - project management and construction, special real estate).
Admission procedure
The path to becoming a Chartered Surveyor leads through the APC ( Assessment of Professional Competence ), which leads to a final examination, the Final Assessment. After passing the exam, the members may use the title MRICS.
The requirements for admission to the APC are high. The following routes are possible:
- GRADUATE 1 route - for candidates who have a RICS-accredited degree and have no professional experience
- GRADUATE 2 route - for candidates who have a RICS-accredited degree and five years of relevant work experience
- GRADUATE 3 - for candidates who have a RICS-accredited degree and at least 10 years of relevant work experience
- ADAPTATION ROUTE - for candidates with at least ten years of relevant professional experience and who have a non-RICS-accredited degree or a professional qualification from a partner organization of the RICS
- SENIOR EXPERT Route - for candidates who work as specialists in the real estate industry and have more than 10 or 5 years of professional experience
- SENIOR PROFESSIONAL route - for candidates who occupy a high position in the real estate industry
- ACADEMIC Route - for candidates who are teaching or doing research at a RICS-accredited institution
Delta Assessment for Certified Experts HypZert (F) Since November 2014, RICS has been offering a Delta Assessment as part of a cooperation agreement with HypZert GmbH (MoU). An existing HypZert (F) certification is required to participate in the program. The preparation effort is greatly reduced, on the one hand with regard to the documents and case studies to be submitted (1 instead of 3 plus a current report from the last certification or re-certification)
Depending on the six routes mentioned above, individual requirements must also be proven in accordance with the admission and examination criteria. In principle, an applicant has to decide on a specific specialist profile, which is examined within the framework of the APC / FA.
The examination is carried out by an examination committee made up of two people. A third person, the so-called "floater", monitors compliance with the examination rules, but does not intervene in the examination. The failure rate in the last few years was usually around 30%. The exam can be repeated as often as you like. Of the approximately 1,400 members who have taken the exam in the past, the vast majority did not need more than three attempts. The exam is characterized by its strong practical relevance. It is less about checking purely theoretical knowledge than about demonstrating the application of academically recognized procedures in practice.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Higher Examination Office for the technical clerkship signed a cooperation agreement in May 2015 at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in Berlin, which will come into force on June 1, 2015. This means that direct admission to the RICS is possible for the first time for all geodesists with state exams who have started their technical traineeship at the examination office since October 3, 1990. Judith Gabler, Acting Managing Director of RICS Europe, said:
"With this, the RICS recognizes the high quality of the state examination of the upper examination office for the field of geodesy and geoinformation as being so suitable that these technical assessors can become RICS members directly without the demanding RICS examination that is otherwise required worldwide and can use the professional title MRICS. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ No. HRB 87453 at the District Court of Frankfurt a. M.
- ^ RICS communication. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
