Stan Dickens, FRICS, Chartered Surveyor, undertakes property surveys in Southern, Central and Northern Portugal including Lisbon, Porto and the Algarve. He has broad experience in the valuation and survey of all types of residential property in Portugal and Spain.

Stan is an independent Chartered Surveyor and a specialist in the residential property sector. He has been active in the Spanish and Portuguese commercial investment and residential property markets since 1989.

Stan has extensive experience of undertaking Building Surveys, RICS HomeBuyer Reports, Condition Surveys and Valuation Reports in the UK, Spain and Portugal and has recent experience working for many of the leading UK mortgage lenders including Lloyds, Santander, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Nationwide and HSBC. 

For several years Stan was Chairman of RICS Spain and was the founding director of the prestigous Real Estate Company Management Executive Programme at Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Stan has also lectured on investment and development valuation techniques, ethics and best practice in the property industry at Instituto de Empresa Business School and the Universidad Europea, both located in Madrid.

Stan has held director and management level positions in a number of international real estate consultancy companies such as JLL, Knight Frank and BNP Paribas and has wide experience in commercial investment valuations and investment agency covering Africa, South America and Europe.

What is RICS?

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Qualified RICS members can be recognised by the designations of FRICS (fellow), MRICS (member) and AssocRICS (associate). 

"The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is one of the world's leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land, property and construction. As people, governments, banks and commercial organisations continue to demand more assurance of certified standards and ethics, attaining RICS status is the recognised mark of property professionalism".  www.rics.org

There are very few people can call themselves a Chartered Surveyor. There are approximately 125,000 Chartered Surveyors in total and most of them had to undergo training which took approximately seven years. This is divided between academic training, usually obtained at university, and on the job training with experienced surveyors on a broad range of subject areas. After this, a specialist area, or core subject, is chosen. Before qualifying the surveyor has to sit an oral exam known as the Test of Professional Competence (TPC) and only when he, or she, has passed this can they be registered by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors as a Chartered Surveyor.

As a Chartered Surveyor you have to keep your knowledge up to date in your specialist work areas. All practising Chartered Surveyors are obliged by the RICS to keep their knowledge up to date in their specialist work areas. This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) entails a minimum of 20 hours per year and has to be registered with the RICS online.

Stan has been undertaking Portuguese home surveys  and valuations for more than 30 years. He mostly covers the central and southern areas of the Iberian peninsula.

Central Portugal: Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Viseu, Guarda, Coimbra, Castelo Branco, Vila Real, Leiria, Evora, Caldas da Rainha. 

The Algarve: Cabo de São Vicente (Cape St. Vincent), Vila do Bispo, Portimao, Lagos, Quinta do Sobral, Vilamoura, Vila Sol, Albufeira, Lagos, Quarteira, Quinta do Lago, Faro, Tavira.

"Very few people in Spain are ready to recognise the possibility that residential property prices could fall despite the increasing evidence" (translation from original Spanish article) - Source: Stan Dickens (El Pais & ABC - 24th February, 2006).