Mass appraisal

At a  recent Workshop, COST G9, with participation among others of Hans
Mattsson, we discusseed future research:

>>    2. Mass appraisal: Assessing transaction costs is complicated by
>>       spatial effects of e.g. capital city or coast. Rather than to
>>       ignore such factors through a simplified 'ghost' property unit,
>>       assessment of transaction costs could take place in dialogue
>>       with those scientifically pursuing the issue of mass appraisal.
>>       Potential funding source: COST, ?. Initiators: MarjanC,
>>       ArmandsA, Ukraine (mentioned by ErikS), NL (mentioned by KaukoV)

21-6-2005 Dear Erik,

You asked me to contact persons who can be a convener and initiator of a research project in the field of Mass Appraisal/Value Map/Assessing transaction costs.

I think I found such a person. It is Mats Wilhelmsson from KTH. He is Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Real Estate Economics. His experience in real estate valuation, spatial econometrics, deriving submarkets etc. can be seen in his CV, which is enclosed.

Here is his web-page (select 'Staff' and 'Wilhelmsson, Mats'):
http://www.infra.kth.se/BYFA/english/index.htm

You can contact him.

Kind regards,
Marko Kryvobokov

17-6-2005  Hello, Jaap,

In phrasing new projects/research questions in Thessaloniki, the following appeared.

2. Mass appraisal: Assessing transaction costs is complicated by
      spatial effects of e.g. capital city or coast. Rather than to
      ignore such factors through a simplified 'ghost' property unit,
      assessment of transaction costs could take place in dialogue
      with those scientifically pursuing the issue of mass appraisal.
      Potential funding source: COST, ?. Initiators: MarjanC,
      ArmandsA, Ukraine (mentioned by ErikS), NL (mentioned by KaukoV)

This morning, I found out that the NL person, mentioned by Kauko V is in fact a colleague of yours within OTB:
Tom Kauko http://www.otb.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=afabde70-c86a-45cc-bc94-da5d48274d04&lang=en

So I suggest that you two meet and discuss with a view to 1) elicit research questions and 2) outline future cross-European+ projects.