ANDREW E. BAUM is Professor of Practice at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, where he leads the Future of Real Estate Initiative. He is also Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College and Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading. He is Chairman of Newcore Capital Management and advisor to several property organisations. He has held senior positions with Nuveen, CBRE Global Investors, Grosvenor and other investors and fund managers.

NEIL CROSBY is Professor of Real Estate in the Department of Real Estate and Planning at the University of Reading. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, has been awarded life membership of the Investment Property Forum and a fellowship of the Society of Property Researchers, and is a member of the RICS Valuation Standards Board. He originally qualified and practised as a Chartered Valuation Surveyor in the UK before holding academic positions at Nottingham Trent and Oxford Brookes Universities.

STEVEN DEVANEY is an Associate Professor at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, where he teaches both investment appraisal and market valuation methods. He was previously a Lecturer in Real Estate at the University of Aberdeen and worked as an analyst at Investment Property Databank.