Robert is an expert in the Rating valuation of specialist properties, in particular motor car showrooms, motor auction centres and the wider motor trade; but also, film and television studios, educational properties, glassworks, major printing works and major leisure attractions. He also deals with shops, city centre offices and banking premises; industrials and retail warehouses.

 Robert attends Valuation Tribunal for England hearings and has previously been called as an expert witness on unusual Rating cases. On behalf of The Rating Surveyors' Association and the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation he headed up the nationwide co-ordination of car showroom committees for both the 2000, 2005 and 2010 Rating Lists and is currently planning the same task for future appeals against the 2017 list.

 He is a fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and RICS Registered Valuer, and a committee member of The Rating Surveyors’ Association, for whom he was the National President for 2015-16. He is also a former national council member of the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV) where he served on the Law and Research and Professional Conduct Committees. He is remains a member of The IRRV Valuers’ Association Board

 He was appointed in 2014 as the RSA representative on the Joint Professional Institutes Rating Valuation Forum, which has reviewed the contractor’s test method of valuation for the 2017 Rating Revaluation.