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News and Insight
Survey of the Profession goes live 20 October 2025
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20 October 2025
Please note: look out for the email from rics@savanta-surveys.com for your unique link to the survey.
The second edition of our biannual global Survey of the Profession for 2025 will be open between 20 October – 28 November and we’d like to hear from you.
Your voice is important and helps support RICS in bringing value to the profession. We encourage all our members globally to be a part of shaping the future of RICS as we achieve our goal of becoming a world class experience-led and member-centric organisation, with public interest at the heart of our work.
RICS professionals and candidates can play a pivotal role in setting our priorities by taking part, sharing insights and leading the change we want to see in the profession and organisation.
“The views and opinions of our members are extremely important to the work we do and fundamental in shaping the future of RICS. I encourage members globally to participate in the survey and share their insights by 28 November.”
Nicholas Maclean , OBE, RD, FRICS, IRRV (Hons)
Acting President and Acting Chair of Governing Council, President Elect, RICS
Here’s what we have achieved together.
Based on feedback from the last survey, we have continued to take steps to improve how we serve our members. as we continue RICS’ transformation journey, including us expanding our member engagement efforts globally.
This includes:
- Between January and May over 100 member events were held with 5,355 attendees in over 30 countries.
- your feedback on service quality is being used to improve our infrastructure, contact
- centre and other processes to deliver better and faster service when you need it.
- The Standards and Regulation Board has announced a series of updates to our CPD framework, for example giving members more flexibility in meeting yearly CPD requirements
- We are producing more targeted communications to help you easily find events and content that are relevant to you.
- Your voice matters and makes a difference. We encourage members globally to take part, so please share your views by 28 November. The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete and as a token of appreciation, RICS will enter survey participants into a draw and make a donation of £500 to a charity nominated by each of the two winning members.
Frequently asked questions
This survey is carried out by Savanta, an independent market research company on behalf of RICS. This research is conducted in accordance with the Market Research Society Code of Conduct and Data Protection Act 2018.
You will only be able to complete the survey by using the unique link sent to you via email. In order to ensure the best quality, confidential and impartial results the links are unique to each member and issued via the invite that you receive from Savanta via email: rics@savanta-surveys.com. This means that we cannot provide a generic link through our social channels to complete the survey.
The survey will be available in English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese. You will be able to select the language you prefer when you start the survey. The email invite and reminders are also sent out in these five languages, dependent on where you are located.
We aim to provide feedback on the findings in the Quarterly Report that follows release of the full report to RICS. For the Oct/Nov 2025 edition this will be Q4 of our 2025 reporting year.
