APC Essentials is a series of books providing guidance to RICS APC and AssocRICS candidates. This volume on the Residential pathway covers the key technical competencies and provide candidates with an excellent baseline knowledge, handy tips, and useful tricks they should know to ace their APC.
The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors. The book will help candidates, their Counsellors and Supervisors to understand:
The requirements of the Residential pathway
The detail of the technical competencies
How to select suitable competencies
How to demonstrate the required knowledge and experience, and
How to succeed in the final interview
It will also be a useful reference for AssocRICS candidates and qualified professionals.
This concise book has clear headings to guide readers, with bullet-point checklists and signposting to key themes and important sources for further reading. It alerts readers to the need to be aware of changes and developments in the residential sector, and to the wider economic, social, and political factors that influence it. The book includes lists of relevant RICS (and other) professional publications, the laws and regulations that frame professional surveying practice, and example written submissions for the technical competencies at each level. It will help to motivate and reassure candidates, giving them confidence to recognise the value and relevance of their knowledge and practical experience, and to understand how to best apply this to demonstrate their professional competence.
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Inspection
3 Measurement
4 Valuation
5 Loan Security Valuation
6 Purchase and Sale
7 Market Appraisal
8 Leasing and Letting
9 Landlord and Tenant
10 Property Management
11 Building Pathology
12 Housing Maintenance, Repairs and Improvements
13 Legal/Regulatory Compliance
14 Mandatory Competencies as Technical Competencies (& Other Technical Competencies)
15 Submission Advice
16 Interview Advice
Index
Jane Forsyth BA (Hons), FRICS, FTPI, AFHEA, is a Chartered Surveyor, a fellow of The Property Institute, and a former property solicitor. She has 35 years experience in the real estate sector, including as a residential and commercial landlord, director of her residential management business, and director of a national property association. Jane has academic experience, including as Associate Tutor at the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), and she is now a Senior Lecturer in Property Law on the BSc (Hons) and MSc Real Estate degrees at Oxford Brookes University. Her RICS assessment experience includes sitting on final APC interview panels, and she has successfully mentored many Residential pathway candidates at Property Elite, in addition to providing training for candidates and qualified professionals. Jane is co-author of Real Estate: The Basics (Routledge 2022).
