Foreword -- Introduction -- Appraiser decision making and valuation accuracy -- Regression, minimum-variance grid method and other valuation techniques -- Appraising contaminated property -- Property tax assessment -- New perspectives on traditional appraisal methods -- Index

Asks whether nor not real property appraisal is evolving or whether all of the grand ideas have already been conceived. The collection is organised around five themes: appraiser decision making and valuation accuracy; application of non-traditional appraisal techniques such as regression and the minimum-variance grid method; appraising contaminated property; ad valorem tax assessment; and new perspectives on traditional appraisal methods. Shows that real estate valuation is an international discipline and that there are a sufficient number of big ideas to challenge and improve the appraisal profession fore some time.