4805 Spearman Drive, College Station, TX 77845-4412
Phone: 979-690-1755 Fax: 979-690-1750
Email: tomjackson@real-analytics.com
Website: www.real-analytics.com
Tom
Jackson is the President of Real Property Analytics, Inc. based in College
Station, TX, where he specializes in analyzing real estate that may be
impacted by environmental contamination as well as other complex valuation
related issues. Dr. Jackson has over twenty-eight years of experience
in the valuation of real property, real estate consulting and urban planning.
In addition, he is a Clinical
Associate Professor in the Department of Finance
in
the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University,
where he teaches real property valuation in the
Master of Real Estate
Program (formerly Land Economics and Real Estate), one of the oldest and
largest graduate real estate programs in the U.S. He has also taught
courses on land development
and land use planning in the College
of Architecture. Dr. Jackson is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners
(AICP), an MAI member of the
Appraisal Institute, a
Counselor of Real Estate (CRE) and a Fellow of
the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors (FRICS). He is a former member of the Appraisal Standards Board
(ASB) of The
Appraisal Foundation. The ASB establishes the Uniform
Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, the generally accepted
standards for real estate appraisers in the U.S. Dr. Jackson was the principal
author of the ASB advisory opinion on valuing real property that may be impacted
by environmental contamination (see below). Dr. Jackson currently serves on the
Education Committee of the Appraisal Institute.
Dr. Jackson's research has been published in the Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, Journal of Real Estate Literature, The Appraisal Journal, Real Estate Review and The Real Estate Finance Journal, and in books published by the American Real Estate Society and the Appraisal Institute. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and The Appraisers Research Foundation. Dr. Jackson writes the Environment and the Appraiser column in The Appraisal Journal, addressing issues in the valuation of contaminated properties and other environmental topics. He is a member of the Academic Review Panel and Statistics Work Group of The Appraisal Journal. Dr. Jackson was the principal author of the Environmental Issues section in The Appraisal of Real Estate, 13th Edition (2008), the leading appraisal textbook in the U.S., and contributed the definitions related to environmental contamination to The Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal, 5th Edition (2010).
Dr. Jackson is assisted by Jennifer Pitts, a graduate of Texas A&M University with a master's degree in Land Economics and Real Estate and a bachelor's degree (summa cum laude) in Finance. At Texas A&M, Mrs. Pitts was an Appraisal Institute Scholarship recipient, a Mitte Scholar in the Mays Business School, a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, and a participant in the Business Honors Program. She has co-authored several recent articles on environmental issues for The Appraisal Journal.
Dr. Jackson has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Science from Texas A&M University, master's degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The Ohio State University, and is an honors graduate of the University of South Florida.
Dr. Jackson is listed in Who's Who in America®, Who's Who in Finance and Business® and Who's Who in the South and Southwest®.
Dr. Jackson is a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in Texas (TX-1327090-G), Florida (RZ1721), Louisiana (G2118) and Michigan (1201073459).
Course websites (for Texas A&M real estate students only, please):
Finance 674: Real Property Valuation II (Fall Semester 2010, forthcoming)
Finance 673: Real Property Valuation I (Spring Semester 2011, forthcoming)
Background Information:
Thomas Jackson Curriculum Vita (PDF format)
Jennifer Pitts Curriculum Vita (PDF format)
List of Academic and Professional Publications (HTML format)
ASB Advisory Opinion on Contaminated Property Valuation:
Article links:
Environmental Contamination and Industrial Real Estate Prices, Journal of Real Estate Research, 2002, Vol. 23, No. 1/2, 179-199. (Manuscript award from the American Real Estate Society and the Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS®)
Article downloads (PDF format):
This page was last updated on June 4, 2010