RICS Scale of fees

‘RICS Abandons Fee Scales’. This brief headline, together with a few short paragraphs, in The Times and the Daily Telegraph in March last year, announced to the public, and indeed to the majority of the profession, that after nearly a decade of resisting government pressure, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors had decided to abandon published scales of charges. What the papers failed to announce was that building surveying and quantity surveying scales were to be retained.