All posts tagged "RICS"
Creepy?
Jul 2025 – Creepy? When you stop to think about it, the RICS is like an episode of Dr Who where an alien beast has a hold over humans that have to do its bidding. Over 150 years ago, a few surveyors got together to decide their standards were superior to everyone else at the […]
Customer Service
Jun 2025 – Complain… is not something I do very often. Mostly, there’s nothing much to complain about. Specialising in rent review enables considering holistically, not only from the client’s perspective. There are at least two sides to a story. So when I complain occasionally, I always include some suggestions for what can be done […]
Director – legal status or pretentious title for an over-rated position?
Mar 2025 – A director (according to Practical Law) is “a person elected by the members of a company or otherwise appointed to superintend the management of the company’s affairs. Although company directors are not strictly speaking trustees, they are in a closely analogous position because of the fiduciary duties they typically owe to the […]
Dispute resolution procedure at rent review
Feb 2016 – At rent review, the phrase ‘going to arbitration’ is often bandied about during negotiations as a means for one party to get its own way. Whether or not the parties can agree the rent without involving the dispute resolution procedure, it is common for a represented or experienced party to invoke as […]
Dispute Resoution – RICS DRS: the 1st 50 years
Jan 2016. The RICS DRS (Dispute Resolution Service) marking 50 years this year is to be congratulated. I have paid tribute direct including, of course, it helps to have a monopoly for appointments in probably every lease of commercial property in England and Wales. It wasn’t always thus. My experience of dispute resolution pre-dates the […]
Independent Expert – getting your money’s worth
Aug 2025. In my experience, RICS-appointed Independent Experts fall in one of two categories. (1) Conscientious – by which I mean the IE will measure the premises and calculate areas regardless of what the parties might’ve agreed, investigate, research and test evidence for accuracy with the person(s) involved and not merely rely on pro-forma possibly […]
Independent Expert Determination on Rent Review
Jun 2025 – On referral, win most, lose a few; fair enough when the third party is someone who knows what he/she is talking about. But it irks when someone doesn’t. One such today. For no apparent reason, the RICS appointment of an IE was, according to the surveyor’s website, an arbitrator and mediator. As […]
RICS DRS – the first 50 years
Feb 2026 – The RICS DRS marking 50 years this year is to be congratulated. I have paid tribute direct including. of course, it helps to have a monopoly for appointments in probably every lease of commercial property in England and Wales. It wasn’t always thus. My experience of dispute resolution pre-dates the RICS DRS. […]
RICS DRS: Third party inexperience
Feb 2026. Rent review and third party reasons. I act for a freeholder/ landlord whose tenant is a quoted property company. The tenant sub-lets the property to two different occupiers. The rent review in the head-lease between my client and prop co went to arbitration. In my submission to the arbitrator, I advocated that the […]
Shop Comparable Evidence Service
Aug 2025. On LinkedIn i posted this disruptive idea. For sourcing comparable evidence, there are many sources amongst which Costar considers itself a leader. However, C is pricey because, as I understand, this may be wrong, one cannot limit a subscription to a particular type of property or location. I have a massive database of […]