Computer-based Information Systems, Property Management and the Appraisal of Land and Buildings in the Urban Environment

Recent reports by the Audit Commission (AC, 1988a, b, c, d, 2000) and Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants ( CIPFA,1989, 1991a,b, 1993, 1994), all draw attention to the potential computer-based information systems have to improve standards of property management. Yet despite the attention such reports have drawn to the development of computer-based information systems, there is a tendency for studies of this kind to do little more than provide a list of how the application ofiT can improve the management of property.