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No easy fix in digitising the property market
No easy fix in digitising the property market

LAND JOURNAL

No easy fix in digitising the property market

Recent initiatives call for more digitised data to make property transactions quicker and easier. But digitisation is not a new ambition – so how can we speed up the transition?

Fiona Barron 19 April 2024

RICS supports implementation of Rock review
RICS supports implementation of Rock review

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RICS supports implementation of Rock review

In the year since Baroness Rock published her review of tenant farming in England, DEFRA and RICS have been following up her recommendations to ensure a thriving agricultural future for all

Fiona Mannix and Mark Sanders MRICS 03 April 2024

Grid reform speeds up renewable projects
Grid reform speeds up renewable projects

LAND JOURNAL

Grid reform speeds up renewable projects

Renewable project developers and landowners have long bemoaned the time it takes to connect to the grid. National Grid reforms will enable faster approval for energy projects throughout 2024

Patrick Smart 28 March 2024

New technology can support natural capital valuation
New technology can support natural capital valuation

LAND JOURNAL

New technology can support natural capital valuation

Surveyors have a key role in natural capital and ecosystem service valuation and accounting – and there is a growing range of digital tools that can help inform their practice

Dr Gregory Borne MRICS 15 March 2024

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RICS Land Journal Editorial Advisory Group members

 

Isaac has more than 20 years' professional experience in higher education, and is Dean, Faculty of Business Education at the University of Education, Winneba and Dean at the Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development in Ghana. His research and consultancy interests include coastal engineering, climate change adaptation, and applied coastal and fluvial geomorphology. Isaac has been involved in RICS and FIG activities since 2006.

 

Angela is a rural chartered surveyor, a lecturer, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has many years' experience of teaching rural estate management at the University of Reading's Henley Business School , and previously taught at the Royal Agricultural University. She is a South East regional judge on the RICS Social Impact Awards, and a member of the South East Rural Market Forum.

 

Gordon is a senior advocate for geospatial, hydrospatial, hydrography, Surveying, geoscience and geodetics. He is passionate about the conservation, management and sustainable use of oceans and the marine natural capital and is the owner of Venture Geomatics.

 

James is a chartered surveyor and chartered geographer.

 

Fiona is a senior specialist in land and resources at RICS. She originally worked as a management accountant in oil and gas and other sectors before changing career.

She has led the production of standards and guidance for the rural and environment professional groups, as well as RICS work on natural capital. She has presented at a range of UK and international events, representing RICS on a range of stakeholder groups. Fiona also leads on compulsory purchase for RICS.

 

Chris is senior lecturer real estate, planning and development and built environment at Sheffield Hallam University and specialises in lease renewals and rent reviews for high-street retailers, working client-side to advise on portfolio strategies.

 

Tony Mulhall is senior specialist, RICS. A chartered surveyor and town planner he has worked in a range of areas of planning and property in the public and private sectors. 

 

Claire qualified as a rural practice surveyor in 2010 and has advised clients in a variety of areas including planning, commercial property and valuation. She joined the UK Country Land and Business Association (CLA) as a rural surveyor in 2013, and moved from CLA East to CLA South West in February 2020.

RICS Land Journal Editorial Advisory Group members

University of Education, Winneba
University of Reading
Venture Geomatics
RICS
RICS
Tim Horkins UK
RICS
CLA (Rural)