David Dyason is an extraordinary research scientist in the TRADE Research Focus Area at the North-West University and Senior Lecturer in Property and Valuation at Lincoln University, New Zealand. I am an economist with an interest in property, applied economics, and impact assessment. I have more than 10 years professional experience as a consultant in property market analysis and have also worked in the public sector as an economist and as an academic. My research interest and publications are in property, economics, geography, and planning and I continue to be involved as an advisor to the private and public sectors in economic and land-use planning. Through my research, I aim to reveal the causal relationship between property and economics and how it influences economic development in the urban and rural landscape.