Membership
Why be a member?
- Share the latest quality property information
The API:
- Develops practice standards and guidance notes you can use in your profession.
- Provides a voice and input for you on property matters to Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments.
- Represents Australia on the International Valuations Standards Committee.
- Actively seeks members' opinions (your opinion) on matters affecting the property industry.
- Continue your Professional Development - seminars/workshops
- You can attend each State's/Territory extensive CPD Program across a wide range of property topics.
- You will be on the Institute's exclusive Member mailing list.
- You can choose to go to all seminars, luncheons and corporate briefings.
- Publications - keep up-to-date with your profession:
- Receive the quality, four colour, quarterly Australian Property Journal, with articles on industry thinking and what the future may hold.
- Secure your copy of Professional Practice, with the Practice Standards and Guidance Notes, considered the "bible" for the sectors of the property profession.
- Receive your State or Territory's divisional newsletter to stay up to date with current issues, news and CPD activity in your area.
- Networking - seize opportunities to fast track your career.
- Networking activities include meetings and social events at API Study Groups, Conferences and Seminars.
- You are encouraged to join committees and boards, which set the standards and guide the future of your own business.
- Libraries - keep informed of what's happening.
- Each Divisional Office and National Office holds an extensive library with a wide range of reference books, property periodicals academic publications and videos/DVDs.
- Link up with kindred overseas bodies.
- Share in the API's reciprocity agreements which facilitate practice on an international basis:
- New Zealand Property Institute
- US Appraisal Institute
- Institute of Appraisers, Canada
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors UK
- Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors
- Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers