The Arts and Antiques Faculty is the home within RICS for arts and antiques Surveyors. The faculty's key objective is to deliver professional standards, guidance and information to members. In addition the faculty aims to raise the status of the Chartered Arts and Antiques Surveyor as provider of the most comprehensive and professional advice on the valuation, purchase, sale and management of antiques and fine arts.

This web page provides essential information about the faculty, its work plans and activities. (For industry news and features please visit the Practice Areas.)

Faculties are responsible for setting the strategic direction for the future of their specialism’s and for identifying and serving the information needs of their members. The Arts and Antiques Faculty has approximately 2,000 members who benefit from:

• An internationally respected qualification that is recognised as the ‘gold standard’ of professional competence
• A regular and up to date professional journal that provides advice and commentary on key issues facing the profession
• Professional Guidance relating to specific practice areas
• The ability to lobby and influence government and other policy makers on government consultations through membership of British Art Market Federation
• Opportunities to promote the profession through the technical press and national press and media.
• Access to experienced faculty members
• Access to a network of like-minded professionals through discussion forums.

The Arts and Antiques Faculty also sets the standards for entry to the faculty and is responsible for the APC Competencies and contributing to the professional assessment of mature entry candidates. Your Faculty Pathway Guides explain how these competencies can be applied in practice.  

Alternative routes to entry are also available for mature and experienced candidates.

Member benefits
The faculty provides help and advice to its members and the general public and seeks to stimulate debate and innovate on matters relating to standards. As a faculty member you will receive regular industry news via e-briefs and through your dedicated technical journal, RICS Arts Surveyor. You’ll also have opportunities throughout the year to network with similar-minded surveyors at various events and conferences.  

About the Board
Members of the Arts and Antiques Faculty Board come from a variety of backgrounds and have a diverse range of skills and experience. The Board has a number of working groups dealing with specific aspects of the faculty programme.  

The Board is keen to encourage interaction with members of the faculty, so please feel free to send us your views at the email address given below.

Contacts/Join
You can join the faculty online, or by calling T +44 (0)870 333 1600.

Alternatively if you want to use the designation Chartered Arts and Antiques Surveyor, please email Belal Patel at bpatel@rics.org

Your principal RICS Arts and Antiques Faculty staff contact is; Yvonne Hanly, Faculty Director, and she can be contacted via yhanly@rics.org