Ted Gwartney

[2000 / updated 2002]

Ted Gwartnery is past president of the national Common Ground USA board. He is also a past president of the Los Angeles chapter of Common Ground USA. Currently, he is Executive Director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, previously serving as a Schalkenbach board member.

Ted is also a former senior appraiser for First Nationwide Bank in California, is a former Assessment Commissioner of British Columbia, Canada, and also worked as an assessor in Southfield, Michigan and Hartford, Connecticut. He has actively consulted in the Russian campaign for collection of land rent and is a part-time professor at Baruch College, New York. He has written numerous publications on land assessment and been a speaker at seminars and conferences and a contributor to GroundSwell.

[2002]

Ted Gwartney is the Assessor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Until November 2000, he was the Executive Director of the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation in Manhattan. He has made nineteen trips to Russia to consult on land valuation during the past ten years.

He has been actively engaged in land valuation, analysis, assessment, consultation and management since college graduation. He was the City Assessor of Southfield, Michigan, Hartford, Connecticut and the Deputy County Assessor of Sacramento, California. In 1976 he became the Assessment Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the British Columbia Assessment Authority and implemented an annual Province-wide revaluation of the 1,500,000 land parcels.

Additional activities include:

• Professor, Department of Law, Real Estate Appraisal, Baruch College, New York;
• President, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Boston;
• Treasurer, Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, New York;
• Director, Land & Public Welfare Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia;
• Professional Designation, Appraisal Institute, Chicago.

His recent articles include:

• "A Free Market Strategy to Reduce Sprawl," Hartland Institute, 2000, Chicago;
• "An Alternative Source for Public Finance," Global Institute for Taxation, 1999, New York;
• "Methods of Land Appraisal," 1999, New York;
• "Principals for Rent Assessment," October 1997, Moscow;
• "Financing Ecological Preservation and Renewal," June 1995, Saint Petersburg