Barry Redding is Professor of Real Estate Management in the Faculty of the Built Environment at South Bank University, London, UK. As a Chartered Surveyor and a Chartered Town Planner he has worked both in local government planning and as a planning and development consultant to surveying firms, property development companies and a building society.

His research and writing interests have spanned land policy and taxation of the 1970's to the emerging property markets of Central Europe in the 1990's. The broad context for this work has been his interest in planning and property development processes in the UK and Europe.

During the past decade he has been Director of the Spare Space Project (funded by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, et al) and the Director of the Research Study evaluating the UK Government's policy on initiatives for Flats Over Shops (funded by the Department of the Environment). He is currently Project Manager of a project, Living in Towns, with partners in six countries in North West Europe funded by the European Regional Development Fund through INTERREG (with supplementary funding achieved from the RICS and the DETR).

His current research interests are: (1) "Costs" of property transactions - a comparative study that seeks to undertake a behavioural analysis of the implementation of the formal law and procedures; (2) Changing structure of the real estate consultancy sector in the UK since 1986; (3) Urban capacity studies - an appraisal of best practice in England and North West Europe.

Barry Redding is an active member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and has served on several main committees and working groups. He is a recent Chair of the South London Branch of the Institution.

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