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Arbitration cases double in Dubai
Construction and property disputes in in Dubai more than doubled last year
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Increase in distressed sales
Ireland and the US will see the greatest rise in ‘distressed sales’ of property, according to RICS
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RICS global commercial comments
Agents’ city level comments from the RICS Global Commercial Property Survey Q1 2010
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Emergency Budget predictions
Many in the UK property sector are looking for guidance as to what they can expect to be announced on 22 June
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Pressures facing the public sector
In light of the UK Government’s spending cuts for urban regeneration, the public sector must prioritise its regeneration spending to engage the private sector
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Trees for New York City
In this video, the staff at RICS Americas plant 50 trees for New York City and discuss RICS’ approach to sustainability
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US architect demand rises
Demand for architects in the US rose to its highest level in two and a half years last month
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Housing starts at best level for two years
The latest UK house building data shows that the number of starts rose in the first three months of this year to the best level since the second quarter of 2008
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Bring real change to home buying process
HIPs have failed to address the significant problems in the home buying process they were originally supposed to tackle
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The strengths of sustainable fit-out
How the RICS Ska Rating environmental benchmarking and assessment tool is gaining increasing usage within the commercial real estate industry
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RICS responds to Conservative Green Paper
The Conservative Party has launched the Open Source Planning Green Paper this week
RICS welcomes in principle any steps towards greater involvement of communities in local development and in shaping their neighbourhoods, and fully supports the move towards improving and increasing sustainable development.
We are concerned, however, that the policy framework, as set out currently in the Green Paper, merely places control into a different set of hands and will not produce any improvements in certainty, process and the prospects for attracting much needed investment into new development infrastructure.
RICS does not believe that the stated policy aims, many of which we support, will be realised under these proposals for control shift.
Gillian Charlesworth is RICS Director of External Affairs
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