Call for Papers

The University of Hong Kong (HKU), National University of Singapore (NUS), Tsinghua University (THU) and University of Southern California (USC) are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2010 Asian Pacific Real Estate Research Symposium on Real Estate Research.  This is the ninth real estate research symposium since the first one held in Singapore in 2002.  The 2-day symposium, to be held on July 14-15, 2010 in Hong Kong, will be hosted by the Department of Real Estate and Construction of Faculty of Architecture at HKU.

The symposium aims to promote real estate research in Asia and provide a platform for researchers to have an active and intensive exchange of research findings.  The symposium offers an opportunity and allows sufficient time for participants to have an in-depth debate and discussion on real estate research issues.  We also hope that the symposium can strengthen the links between real estate researchers from Asia and other parts of the world.

The symposium welcomes original research on real estate finance and economics and in particular studies that are relevant to Asia.  Twelve papers will be selected by the Scientific Committee for presentation and discussion in the two-day symposium.  All papers presented will be independently reviewed for their suitability for publication in a special issue of The Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics (JREFE).

Stringent criteria will be adopted in the selection and review process to ensure that the quality of the papers will not be compromised.  The Scientific Committee comprises editorial broad members of JREFE and other renowned real estate researchers from all over the world. 

There will be no registration fee and The University of Hong Kong will provide accommodations for paper presenters and discussants.

Please submit your full paper – preferably in electronic format (MS Word or PDF files) to K W Chau at hrrbckw@hku.hk before April 1, 2010.

K W CHAU Department of Real Estate and Construction The University of Hong Kong E-mail: hrrbckw@hku.hk	Seow Eng ONG Department of Real Estate National University of Singapore E-mail: seong@nus.edu.sg
Hongyu LIU Institute of Real Estate Studies Tsinghua Unievrsity E-mail: liuhy@tsinghua.edu.cn	Richard GREEN USC Lusk Center for Real Estate University of Southern California E-mail: richarkg@usc.edu