Explore the value of a RICS qualification - from wider industry recognition and enhanced career opportunities to access to the latest professional insights, guidance, and technologies.

With over 134,000 RICS members around the world and offices covering the major political and financial centres, our market presence puts you at the forefront of the profession and at the heart of international policy.

The value of a RICS qualification

  • Status - Your professional credentials provide unrivalled client and market confidence
  • Recognition - Promotion of your professional excellence to governments and markets
  • Market advantage - RICS status and standards give you a competitive advantage
  • Knowledge - International practice standards, professional guidance, CPD and knowledge sharing
  • Network - Access to 134,000 RICS professionals worldwide

A distinct advantage

In the business world of today, words such as ‘competitive advantage’ and ‘value add’ are easily promised but difficult to deliver. If you are already chartered qualified or looking to be – you don’t just hold an additional qualification. You possess a specialisation that gives you a distinct advantage over others.

Evidence shared shows businesses benefit from the skills, knowledge and experience of you as qualified professionals. You in turn help clients find new markets, increase productivity, assess processes and procedures. Thereby, creating greater efficiencies throughout business activities, resulting in increased profitability.

It is your dedication to learning and practice. Building on the internationally demanded pre-requisites of knowledge, competence, ethics, credibility, quality and consistency.

The work that shapes our world | RICS

RICS promotes and enforces the highest professional qualifications and standards in the development and management of land, real estate, construction and infrastructure. The work of RICS professionals is hugely varied – watch our video to see how their work shapes our world.

“I like to compare my RICS membership with the Premier League. It shows my clients I'm part of the world’s leading professional body, which gives them the confidence they are in good hands.”

Susan Perdijk

Susan Perdijk MRICS

Manager FRIS Valuations & Real Estate Advisory