As an urban estate manager Geoff Parsons draws on experience in higher education as a teacher and writer on such subjects as development, property and facilities management, valuation and appraisal, leisure property, property taxation and rating. He graduated in estate management at London University and was a awarded a higher degree in recreation management by the University of Loughborough. He also holds the post-graduate diploma in European Community Law from Kings College London.

He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation. He is a former member of several working parties and committees of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and was chairman of its Kent Branch in the Millennium Year.

A contributor of articles to journals, he has in recent years edited, contributed to or written several publications including:

• As editor and contributor - the second edition of the successful
  The Glossary of Property Terms
• As author - two handbooks on property matters
  EG Property Handbook
• EG Council Tax Handbook

The latter was written with Tim Rowcliffe Smith.

Never keen to rest for too long, he is writing the content for a compact disk with Professor Barry Redding entitled Town Planning at Your Finger Tips.
It will enable users to fly (virtually) between about 60 chapters:

• From Development to Development (nearly 30 separate titles)
• From Planning topic to Planning topic (nearly 20,000 words)
• From Concern to Concern (dozens of issues addressed)
• From anything to anything (infinite number of combinations).

Several other titles are being written - two will be ready in 2007 - but the list is much longer!
One book with Tim Rowcliffe Smith is a second on taxation which has the working title:
Local Taxes Administration Handbook
It is expected to be ready in mid-2007.