Max Crofts has been inaugurated as RICS president for the 2009 / 2010 session. Crofts took up his position at the RICS Annual General Meeting on 6 July.
Max Crofts has been inaugurated as RICS president for the 2009 / 2010 session. Crofts took up his position at the RICS Annual General Meeting on 6 July.
Crofts is a Bristol-based partner at international property consultants King Sturge. His firm, which will celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2010, has provided two earlier presidents; William Sturge in 1878 and Philip Franklin in 1976.
A specialist in corporate real estate advice and an arbitrator of property disputes, Crofts joined J P Sturge & Sons in 1970 as its first graduate trainee. In 1974 he opened the firm's Bath office, which he ran for 17 years before returning to Bristol in 1992 at the time of the firm’s merger with London-based King & Co.
Speaking at the inauguration, Crofts said: 'The past year has been tumultuous for all in the property world. Members at all levels have been directly or indirectly affected by reduced confidence and fewer business opportunities. The most important action the RICS can take, and which the Presidential Team will reinforce, is to ensure that the letters FRICS and MRICS continue to be recognised both as the 'gold standard' in property expertise and as a 'global passport' - the world wide badge of quality.'
