UK housing market forecast for 2012

Sales of homes may rise a little over the coming year but prices will struggle to follow suit, predicts the 2012 RICS housing market forecast. Transaction levels are likely to climb back to around 880,000 level recorded in 2010. However, to put this in context, total sales in 2006 were almost double this amount at 1.67 million.

New utility survey guidance

   RICS, ICES and TSA have recently started to endorse one another's professional and technical output for the benefit of the UK geomatics industry. The Essential Guide to Utility Surveys YouTube clip, released by The Survey Association is now available. This new utility guide underlines the impact and fallout from poorly prepared utility surveys and helps surveyors and clients in planning the best utility survey possible.

  UK Business and Enterprise Minister Mark Prisk said, "I am pleased to see that The Survey Association has produced this document, which is not only written in plain and concise English, but which will also become a vital source of information for all those concerned with the UK's construction industry."