Neil Crosby

Neil Crosby is an academic real [estate appraisal|valuer], Professor of Real Estate at the University of Reading.
He has been instrumental in changing property valuation practices in the United Kingdom through a series of journal publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s, which dealt with questions of investment property valuation methodology, and through an influential book. The RICS adopted the 'Short-cut DCF' method proposed by Crosby, in the 1997 Valuation Information Paper: Commercial Investment Property - Valuation Methods.
In 2002, he was awarded the International Real Estate Society's annual achievement award for his work in real estate research, education and practice.