Summary

Ben Lansink is an experienced professional Real Estate Appraiser who has Land Use and Land Development experience. He has completed a variety of appraisal and consulting assignments to assist in Mortgage Financing, Power of Sale, Deemed Dispositions, GST and Capital Gains Issues involving Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Expropriation, Insurance Matters such as fire destruction, Family Law, Environmental Issues, Assessment Appeals, First Nation Issues, and Litigation Support.

The consulting aspect involves an analytical, holistic approach to a real estate problem usually to assist in litigation.

Lecture assignments included Courses 1101 and 1102, "Highest and Best Use/Land Use Controls", and "Assessment, Taxation and the Fee Appraiser" for the Appraisal Institute of Canada. Lansink has also lectured "Introduction to Appraisals" for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Ben Lansink has completed the Appraisal Institute of Canada's Ecogift Training Workshop for the valuation of Ecological Gifts as has been established by Environment Canada.

Accepted as an Expert Witness on many occasions by various Courts and Tribunals.

Experience

Real Estate Appraiser, Lansink Appraisals & Consulting, a division of Wellington Realty Group Incorporated, brokerage, Ben Lansink, broker of record.

• Appraisal of real estate.
• Real estate brokerage - Wellington Realty Group Incorporated, brokerage. We are not an active brokerage, we do not sell real estate. We maintain MLS® memberships solely to obtain legal access to various real estate board open market systems.

Real estate appraisal and counselling involves one or more of the following services:

• Real estate appraisal,
• Litigation support,
• Expropriation Appraisals including Injurious Affection studies,
• Forensic appraisals,
• Assessment appeals,
• Property tax issues,
• First Nations - appraisal, negotiating, and consulting,
• Project feasibility study and analysis,
• Property portfolio analysis and evaluation.

2002 - present - Senior Appraiser, Lansink Appraisals and Consulting

1988 - 2002 - Project Coordinator (Retired in 2002)

Management of a variety of land development corporations

Lansink & Best Ltd., Lansink Best & McIver Limited

1974 - 1988 - Partner, Knowles, Lansink & Associates Ltd., Appraisers & Consultants

Completion of a wide range of appraisal assignments

1970 - 1974 - Mortgage Manager, The Royal Trust Company

Client and real estate mortgage loan approval

1968 - present - Realtor™

Related Experience

Successfully completed the "Certificate Program" in real estate as presented by The Ontario Real Estate Association.

Licensed under the Ontario Real Estate and Business Brokers Act as a Broker, November 17, 1986, Reg. No. 1914433.

Certified instructor, Courses 1101 and 1102, Appraisal Institute of Canada, until the end of the 1990s.

Course instructor, Introduction to Appraisals, 1995-1996, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

Lectured the Assessment Program at Fanshawe College, London.

Certified instructor for the subject "The Principles of Mortgage Financing" for Ontario colleges as administered by The Ontario Real Estate Association, 1975-1985.

Author, "UFFI and Market Value" published in the Canadian Appraiser, Volume 29, Book 1, spring 1985; author "Conditions of Sale", the Canadian Appraiser, summer 1998. Author, "Highest and Best Use/Land Use Controls" and "Assessment, Taxation and the Fee Appraiser", Appraisal Institute of Canada, Ontario Association, 1997 and 1998.

Author, "Injurious Affection, Lazar v. Hydro One", a case study paper based on a precedent setting case decided by the Ontario Municipal Board in June of 2002. The author presented the case study to appraiser delegates at the Appraisal Institute of Canada's June 2005 Conference, Edmonton, Canada.

Member, London and St. Thomas Real Estate Board; Member, Education Committee 1987, 1988, and 1989 (Chairperson 1988); Board Director 1989 and 1990; Member, Ethics Committee 1989; Member, Ethics Appeal Committee 1990.

Member of the Investigating Committee (1989 - 1992) and the Adjudicating Committee (1992 - 1995) of the Appraisal Institute of Canada, Ontario Association. These committees addressed public complaints against members of the Appraisal Institute of Canada, Ontario Association.

Appointed by London City Council to serve as a member at large of the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee (LACAC) 1990-1992.

Appointed by an Order in Council, as recommended by the Attorney General, approved and ordered May 14, 1992 and again on May 14, 1995 by the Lieutenant Governor as a Member of the Assessment Review Board of Ontario, term expired on May 14, 1998.

Member, National Commercial Council, Canadian Real Estate Association, also a Member, Regional Commercial Council, the London and St. Thomas Real Estate Board.

Appraisal assignments have included:

• Airports, Harbours, Cemeteries, Funeral homes
• Hospitals, Institutional buildings - police stations, schools, and churches
• Office towers, Industrial properties
• Apartment buildings, Real property housing a single dwelling
• Retail commercial properties, Hotels/motels
• Mobile home/trailer parks, Marinas, Golf courses
• Farms and farm land, Intensive farms (e.g. pork and mushroom operations)
• Agriculture support properties
• Land:
  • Ecologically sensitive, Parks and conservation
  • Aggregate resource
  • Commercial/industrial/residential land awaiting development
  • Building lots - on water and not on water
  • Landfill sites
  • Indian Reserve Lands
• Rights-of-way, Easements
• Market rent studies
• Rail corridors, Pipelines, and many others.

Assignments have been carried out in Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, and the Caribbean. Also travelled to New Zealand in 2010, Consulting Assignment related to airport expansion and the expropriation of a portion of neighbouring land, possible diminution-in-value and resulting injurious affection to the remaining neighbouring land.

Diminution in Value studies resulting in Injurious Affection have been carried out. These included proximity to Airports, Hydro Corridors, Land Fill Sites, Wind Turbines, Roads and Road Works, as well as contaminated land and buildings including urea formaldehyde foam insulation.

Professional Education

MRICS
Member, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Member #1293804
Awarded use of this professional designation on November 16, 2009.

AACI
Accredited Appraiser Canadian Institute, Certificate #2180.
The Appraisal Institute of Canada awarded use of this professional designation on May 18, 1982.

P.App
Professional Appraiser
Granted by the Appraisal Institute of Canada to all holders of the AACI designation.

CRA
Canadian Residential Appraiser, January 1976, Relinquished May 18, 1982.

FRI
Fellow, Real Estate Institute of Canada, 1986, relinquished June 1995.

CLP
Certified Land Planner, Real Estate Institute of Canada, 1990, Relinquished June 1995.

Membership

• Appraisal Institute of Canada since January 28, 1972
• Ontario Real Estate Association, The Canadian Real Estate Association
• National Commercial Council of the Canadian Real Estate Association
• Ontario Expropriation Association, The London Club, Limited
• The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• The Toronto Real Estate Board, the Kitchener-Waterloo Board, and the London and St. Thomas Association of Realtors™ together with access to the following Real Estate Boards:
  • Bancroft, Cambridge, Chatham-Kent, Cobourg-Port Hope, Cornwall, Georgian Triangle, Grey Bruce Owen Sound, Huron Perth, Muskoka-Haliburton, Niagara, North Bay, Orillia, Parry Sound, Peterborough, Quinte, Rideau-St. Lawrence, Sarnia-Lambton, Southern Georgian Bay, Sudbury, Tillsonburg, Windsor-Essex, Woodstock-Ingersoll, plus Real Estate Boards in Alberta, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Turks & Caicos.

Appraiser Associates

• Ashdown Appraisals & Consulting, Sarnia, Ontario
• Farley & Associates, London, Ontario

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