Our founder and owner, Ken Jones, has been a real estate broker, appraiser and consultant since 1971. He became a New Jersey Certified Tax Assessor in 1986, and a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser since the inception of appraiser licensing.

In fact, Mr. Jones is 1 of only 5 people to hold the highly specialized ASA professional designation in Machinery & Technical Specialties: Mines & Quarries, and is the only person to hold both that and the ASA Real Property/Urban designation.

In 1987, he founded Liberty Assessment Consultants which went on to represent property owners throughout the eastern 1/3 of the United States. With an aggregate property value of over $4 billion, Liberty saved its clients millions in excessive property taxes.

Among his many other credits, Mr. Jones served as Acting Senior Review Appraiser (GS-14) for the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), has been appointed a Condemnation Commissioner by the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey, and has served as an expert witness in various federal, state and local jurisdictions in the United States.

In 1992, he founded the Institute of Real Estate Technologies, a professional education service that develops and provides specialized seminars to real estate, legal and business professionals throughout the United States. In addition to having written numerous appraisal courses and seminars, Ken's also written several articles on various topics related to all types of real property.

Mr. Jones has also provided commercial mortgage underwriting, cash-flow analyses and portfolio review and analyses to such major mortgage backed securities firms as Chase Commercial Mortgage Bank (NY), Citicorp Securities (NY), Deutsche Bank (NY), and the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York.