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The first female RICS president has been honoured in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours. Louise Brooke-Smith FRICS receives her OBE for services to the built environment and for her activities promoting diversity and inclusion.

Regular building inspections, the establishment of compulsory owners’ associations and Building Reserve Funds must be written into legislation to protect the future of Scotland’s tenement buildings, according to a new report.

Two of Robertson’s most significant projects have received coveted accolades at the prestigious Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards. Premium spirits giant Edrington’s £140 million Macallan Distillery and visitor experience in Speyside picked up the ‘Design

A lack of new houses coming on to the market, presenting buyers with limited choice, is a key factor in dropping activity for the Scottish housing market, with headline indicators on demand, supply still downbeat, the April 2019 RICS UK Residential Survey has revealed.

Private housing workloads are upholding growth in the Scottish construction sector, despite political uncertainty, but supply is still falling short, according to the RICS UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey, Q1 2019.

Cabinet Secretary for culture, tourism and external affairs Fiona Hyslop has announced the appointment of four new members of the board of Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS). Angela Bonney, Daisy Narayanan, Bruce Ross and Alistair Scott will join the board following a recruitment proce

The slump in the Scottish housing market looks set to continue as the ongoing Brexit uncertainty takes its toll on buyers, surveyors have warned. The UK Residential Market Survey March 2019 from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) said the market was still subdued in March, a picture t

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned that the prolonged uncertainty surrounding Brexit will likely further damage the Scottish housing market. Results from the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey, which came as Theresa May’s Brexit deal was thrown out of Parliame

The “protracted uncertainty” caused by the ongoing Brexit standoff is taking its toll on commercial and industrial activity in Scotland, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). The results of the Q4 2018 RICS Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey show that

The Scottish Government must explore other avenues for housing development across all tenures if it is to reach its targets for new homes, the Royal Institute for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has warned. While describing its 50,000 social homes target by 2021 as “commendable”, the profess

Regular inspection, ownership associations and sinking funds are required to improve and protect tenement buildings across Scotland, according to a new report. The report comes as the issue of tenement repair and maintenance has been rising up the Scottish parliamentary agenda.

More than £5 billion of capital investment is to be made in 2019-20 to deliver on the Scottish Government’s aim to “grow and modernise” infrastructure, finance secretary Derek Mackay has announced. Presenting his Scottish Budget 2019/20 to the Scottish Parliament yesterday, M

Chris Brooke FRICS has been officially inaugurated as president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) at a ceremony in Hong Kong, beginning his term for the 2018-2019 year. A chartered surveyor and co-founder of Brooke Husband Limited, a property consulting firm based in Hong Kong,

RICS chief executive, Sean Tompkins, and incoming RICS president, Chris Brooke FRICS, will take part in Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park as part of RICS’ Pledge 150 campaign. The RICS Pledge 150 initiative, launched January 2018 to celebrate the professional organisation’s 150th ann

Workloads in the Scottish construction sector continue to rise amid financial constraints and Brexit uncertainties, assisted largely by the buoyant housing sector, surveyors have reported. Results of the Q3 2018 UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered