Conflicts of interest: UK commercial property market investment agency

Published May 2017
Effective from 1 January 2018
Reissued June 2024

This professional standard provides RICS members and RICS regulated firms with mandatory requirements when acting on the open market sale or acquisition of a commercial investment real estate opportunity in the UK in order to avoid conflicts of interest prejudicial to their clients’ best interests.

It covers:
- dual agency, including related firms
- multiple introductions and
- incremental advice.

This document was reissued in June 2024 as a professional standard. It had previously been published in May 2017 as a professional statement. No material changes have been made to the document.

See also RICS' global professional standard 'Conflicts of interest' at: www.isurv.com/downloads/download/2140/conflicts_of_interest_–_global