**PRESENTERS PLEASE NOTE: You are
required to bring 30 copies of your paper to the conference
for distribution during your presentation.
Full FINAL Program
The
Final Program with full session and presenter details has
now been finalised.
Please click here for a printable
copy.
Conference
program at a glance
Sunday 23rd January
2005 (Arrival)
2.00 - 4.00 PM PhD session - Rydges Carlton Hotel
4.00 - 6.00 PM PRRES pre-AGM Board Meeting at Rydges Carlton
Hotel
5.30 - 7.00 PM Welcome Reception and Registration at Rydges
Carlton Hotel
Monday 24th January 2005 (Day one)
9.00 - 9.05 Introduction and welcome - Professor Jon Robinson
9.05 - 9.10 Prof Ruth Fincher, Dean, Faculty of Architecture
Building & Planning
9.10 - 9.15 Prof. Rob
Brown, Finance Department, Commerce Faculty
9.15 - 9.20 RICS introduces
the keynote speaker
9.20 - 10.05 Keynote
speaker - Professor Neil Crosby, Department of Real Estate
and Planning, Reading University
10.05 - 10.20 Questions
10.20 - 10.50 Morning
Tea
10.50 - 12.30 Four 20
min. parallel sessions x 5 papers
12.30 - 1.15 Lunch -
Lunch will be provided at the conference centre
Food and beverages are not permitted in the lecture rooms
1.15 - 1.50 Professor
Miles Lewis a presentation on: Melbourne Architectural
styles
1.50 - 3.10 Four 20 min.
parallel sessions x 4 papers
3.10 - 3.40 Afternoon
Tea
3.40 - 5.00 Four 20 min.
parallel sessions x 4 papers
Monday evening is a free evening.
RICS invite course leaders to dinner 6.30 for 7.00 Karageusian
Room, University House
Tuesday 25th January 2005 (Day two)
9.00 - 9.05 Introduction and welcome
9.05-9.10 Professor Jayne
Godfrey, Department of Accounting & Finance, Monash University
9.10 - 9.15 Prof Ron
Wakefield, RMIT University
9.15 - 9.20 API introduces
the keynote speaker
9.20 - 10.05 Keynote
speaker - Professor Crocker Liu, Stern School of Business,
New York University (NYU).
10.05 - 10.20 Questions
10.20 - 10.50 Morning
Tea
10.50 - 12.30 Four 20
min. parallel sessions x 5
12.30 - 1.15 Lunch immediately
followed by:
1.15 - 2.15 PRRES Annual
General Meeting in main lecture theatre
Food and beverages are not permitted in the lecture rooms
2.15 - 3.15 Four 20 min.
parallel sessions x 3
3.15 - 3.45 Afternoon
Tea
3.45 - 5.05 Three parallel
sessions x 4
Conference dinner
at University House - 6.30 for 7.00 PM
After dinner speaker Prof. Mike Goldberg
Presentation of the PRRES Achievement Award
Wednesday 26th January 2005 Australia Day - no sessions
6.00 PM - Bar-b-Cue Roof Garden, Rydges Carlton Hotel.
Rydges Carlton Hotel is the official conference hotel.
There are several Rydges hotels in Melbourne. Visitors to
Melbourne should specify Rydges Carlton Holtel, 701
Swanston Street, Carlton as their destination if staying at
this hotel.
Thursday 27th January 2005 (Day three) - last day of conference
9.00 - 9.05 Professor Graeme Newell to introduce C.F. Sirmans
9.05 - 9.45 Keynote
speaker - Professor C.F. Sirmans, Director, Real Estate
Center, William N. Kinnard, Jr. Professor of Real Estate and
Finance, School of Business, University of Connecticut. "What's
hot and What's not in Real Estate Research."
9.45 - 10.00 Questions
10.00 - 10.30 Morning
Tea
10.30 - 12.00 Property
Industry Round Table
(Please click here for
more information)
Session chair: Dr
Anthony De Francesco
Dr David Rees, Head of Investment Strategy, Commsec
Topic: Economic Overview overview of markets
Nick Vondras, LPT Analyst, Goldman Sachs JB Were
Topic: LPTs
Trent Alston, General Manager Wholesale, Colonial First State
Property
Topic: Wholesale Funds
Bill Grounds, General Manager, Unlisted Funds, Investa Property
Group
Topic: Property Syndicates
Peter Studley, Head of Research, DB RREEF Trust
Topic: Stapled Securities
12.00 - 12.30 Questions
12.30 - 1.15 Lunch
1.15 - 3.00 Four 20 min parallel sessions x up to 5
3.00 - 3.30 Conference closing ceremony
