{"id":8585,"date":"2018-04-16T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/rics-africa-summit-set-for-sandton\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T03:00:28","slug":"rics-africa-summit-set-for-sandton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/rics-africa-summit-set-for-sandton\/","title":{"rendered":"RICS Africa summit set for Sandton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"53.057587221522\">\n<article data-post-type=\"post\" data-post-id=\"607663\" readability=\"52\">\n<div id=\"attachment_607675\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-1062x598.jpg?resize=1062%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-600x338.jpg 600w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920.jpg 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-607675 lazyload\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-1062x598.jpg?resize=1062%2C598&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-607675 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-600x338.jpg 600w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Sandton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Africa Summit of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has entrenched itself as an annual event and will reconvene for the fourth consecutive year in Sandton Central, Johannesburg, in May. <\/p>\n<p>It moves to a new venue and date this year, taking place at Sun International\u2019s Maslow <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/choosing-the-perfect-hotel-for-your-stay\/\">Hotel<\/a> from 30-31 May. Growing in stature as a must-attend event for senior executives and professionals in the built environment sector on the African continent, the summit brings together business and thought leaders, policy makers and other key influencers. <\/p>\n<p>Heavyweight sponsors Broll Property Group, Cushman &amp; Wakefield Excellerate and Colliers International are backing this year\u2019s RICS Africa Summit.<\/p>\n<p>London\u2010based RICS is a global professional body that promotes and enforces the highest qualifications and standards in the areas of land, <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">real estate<\/a>, construction and infrastructure. As a public benefit organisation, it operates in all the world\u2019s major financial hubs in delivering international standards and policy influence.<\/p>\n<p>RICS\u2019 Country Manager for South Africa, TC Chetty said: \u201cThe Africa Summit is RICS\u2019 major annual event on the continent, highlighting the organisation\u2019s commitment and confidence in Africa. <\/p>\n<p>As one of the events on the global RICS calendar, this year\u2019s summit will follow the RICS World Built Environment Forum that takes place in London in April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He adds: \u201cThe 2018 edition of the RICS Africa Summit will have a renewed focus on urbanisation, taking a closer look at smart urbanism and sustainability. <\/p>\n<p>We are expecting more than 200 professionals, business and government leaders to attend the two-day event, as we build on our collaborative efforts with property institutions and associations across Africa. <\/p>\n<p>We want to work together to accelerate the professionalism of land, construction and property sectors on the continent, ultimately contributing to Africa\u2019s growth and infrastructure development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed speakers and participants in the summit include John Hughes, President of RICS;  Adeniyi Adeleye, Head Real Estate Finance \u2013 West Africa at Stanbic IBTC Capital and  Stephen Ola Jagun, Managing Partner at Jagun Associates, amongst others.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br class=\"clear\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/rics-africa-summit-set-for-sandton\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aerial view of Sandton The Africa Summit of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has &hellip; <a title=\"RICS Africa summit set for Sandton\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/rics-africa-summit-set-for-sandton\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RICS Africa summit set for Sandton<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[519,2890,524,523,1399,1331,41,818,84,15282],"class_list":["post-8585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-africa","tag-construction","tag-continent","tag-country","tag-development","tag-finance","tag-property","tag-real","tag-real-estate","tag-ross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/9ebb3d1601cd9b476a290916_rw_1920-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}