In this week’s blog, we look at the brand new RICS Professional Standard Service Charge Residential Management Code and Additional Advice for Landlords, Leaseholders and Agents (4th Edition). The new Professional Standard is essential reading for all Chartered Surveyors and RICS APC & AssocRICS candidates involved in residential property and block management.

Awaab’s Law, otherwise known as the Hazards in Social Housing (Prescribed Regulations) (England) Regulations 2025, makes major changes in the residential social rented sector. The Regulations sit underneath the wider Social Housing (Regulation) Act 2023. This is essential knowledge for all Residential and Building Surveying RICS APC and AssocRICS candidates, as well as qualified surveyors, involved in the management and repair of social rented property.

In this week’s blog post, we look at the new RICS Global Professional Standard Property Agency and Management Principles, 1st Edition.

What do you need to know as an AssocRICS or APC candidate about the RICS Guidance Note Health & Safety for Residential Property Managers?

This week we take a look at the new legislation contained in the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022.

In this week’s blog, we take a look at the new RICS Guidance Note Planned Preventative Maintenance.

In this week’s blog, we look at the Government proposals to reform residential leasehold tenure.

Property Elite consultant, Jane Forsyth BA (Hons) MRICS, FIRPM, outlines the requirements of the new Electrical Safety Standards.

This week, we discuss the recent pledge to crack down on leasehold abuse.

This blog considers the Law Commission’s open consultation on Right to Manage.

This week, we are going to look at two hot topics for Autumn 2018.