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NewsCostain commercial director becomes first black CICES president
Batsetswe Motsumi is the civil engineering body’s first non-white president in its history
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NewsTop 150 consultants more optimistic about trading conditions than a year ago
Firms defy wider gloom with 80% of companies reckoning business will get better or stay same in coming 12 months
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NewsRICS appoints real estate guru and former army captain as new CEO
Justin Young will lead organisation as it seeks to move on from 2021 governance scandal
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NewsDelayed review into RICS’ governance scandal due in less than a month
Report on the handling of internal financial report to be delivered by mid-August
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We’ll be getting off relatively lightly if the construction workforce drops by 400,000
The latest forecast from the Construction Skills Network (CSN) suggests that the current recession in construction will have led to a drop of about 400,000 in the number employed by the industry once job shedding ends in early 2011.This would mean a drop of about 15% in the workforce. That ...
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Number snacks: 1
The number of architects, planners and surveyors signing off the claimant count in the six months to October 2009 to head abroad was 985.This compares with 80 in same period two years earlier.Source: National Statistics (Nomis: www.nomisweb.co.uk). Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller Office ...
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New Year stamp duty switchback will have little impact, says RICS
For those interested in what will happen when the stamp duty holiday comes to an end on December 31, the surveyors' body RICS has done a little bit of research among its members.Basically, the results seem to suggest that by and large the effect on property transactions will be muted ...
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Has the housing mini-boom run out of puff?
All the gauges appear to be reading "set fair" in the housing market, so why the long faces among those in the know?The latest RICS housing market survey on the face of it provides every reason to suspect that better times lie ahead. This follows a raft of housing indexes ...
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House prices on the increase, but so too are the questions marks over the housing market
The big news is that for the first time in two years more surveyors in Britain said prices rose than said they fell, according to the latest RICS housing market survey.The big question is whether this is the start of a continuous and sustained recovery in the housing market or ...
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There may be trouble ahead
How worried should we be about the the findings by the surveyors body RICS in its latest construction market survey showing that the outlook for the industry is at its worst for a decade?The short answer is seriously concerned. But that is only a partial answer. It certainly does not ...