Chartered Surveyor
Chartered Surveyor (CS) is the title of members of a certain professional property associations in the Commonwealth countries and Ireland. The term chartered originates from the Royal Charter granted to the world's first professional body of surveyors.
A Chartered surveyor is a highly trained and experienced property professional. A surveyors offers impartial, specialist advice on a variety of property related issues and the services which they provide are diverse.
Chartered Surveyors work in all fields of property and building consultancy. At the most basic level, duties include valuing property and looking for structural defects in buildings. But they also provide expert consultancy advice in property, construction and related environmental issues.[1]
It's representative professional body is the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
See also
- Australian Property Institute, a similar professional body which has a reciprocity agreement with RICS
- Construction Industry Council
- RICS Americas
- RICS