The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has issued a stark warning to policymakers: the government's ambition to overhaul England's home-buying process risks stalling before it begins because there simply are not enough surveyors to deliver it. At the heart of the reform agenda is a proposal to make survey information a standard component of the seller's information pack, presented to buyers upfront rather than commissioned weeks into a transaction. It sounds like a modest administrative tweak. In practice, it would require a substantial expansion of professional capacity in a sector that has been quietly shrinking for a decade.