Call for Papers: 3rd ODU Real Estate Research Symposium
October 2nd & 3rd 2025
Advances in Housing Research in Association with the Journal of Housing Research

The E.V. Williams Center for Real Estate in the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University is pleased to announce a call for papers for its third annual research symposium. The event will be held on October 2nd & 3rd 2025 at ODU’s campus in Norfolk, Virginia.

This year’s theme is housing research and papers presented at the symposium will be eligible to be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Housing Research, subject to the normal reviewing process for the journal. The symposium will provide researchers with an opportunity to present and discuss new papers and facilitate the exchange of research ideas. All presenters will be asked to discuss another paper.

The University of Cambridge (Department of Land Economy), the University of Florida (Bergstrom Real Estate Center), the University of Hong Kong announce a call for papers for their joint 2025 Real Estate Finance and Investment Symposium. The symposium will feature longer, more in-depth paper presentations and will allow ample time for discussion among presenters, assigned discussants, and other participants. The event will be held in a relaxed yet focused setting aiming to inspire a critical mass of leading academics in the field to create new thoughts and insights on general finance, real estate finance, and investments topics.

The symposium will be hosted by the University of Florida’s Bergstrom Real Estate Center. Hotel accommodation (two nights for researchers from the U.S., three nights for those from overseas) and group meals will be provided by the organizing institutions. All travel costs will be borne by the participants.

MIT Symposium on Technology and Real Estate
with Special Issue of Journal of Real Estate Research
Call for Papers

MIT Technology and Real Estate Symposium
November 20-21, 2025, Cambridge MA

The real estate industry is undergoing a significant transformation driven by the integration of material and immaterial technologies, including billions of interconnected sensors and devices that enhance urban environments through real-time data analysis. Advances in artificial intelligence, such as large language models, and technologies like blockchain and IoT sensors, are revolutionizing property management by optimizing operations, improving energy efficiency, and enhancing occupant experiences. The emergence of data centers as a new asset class also presents substantial investment opportunities due to increased demand for cloud storage and internet traffic. Overall, these technological advancements are reshaping the industry, offering opportunities for growth, efficiency, and sustainability. The 2025 MIT Technology and Real Estate Symposium will advance research on how these material and immaterial technologies affect the real estate industry by engaging scholars and practitioners.

On November 20 afternoon, and November 21 morning, the symposium will hear from eight to ten scholars who are advancing the research in this field. The symposium concludes in the afternoon of November 21 with keynotes and a roundtable from practitioners who are employing these new technologies in their work.

Symposium Goals/Purpose:

Real Estate truly impacts everyone as it encompasses both where you live (Residential) and work (Commercial). Moreover, the market capitalization of real estate is larger than that of the stock market and is just as mission critical to the US economy. As such, the Finance Department at the College of William & Mary is hosting a Special Symposium devoted to current issues in real estate research inclusive of all aspects of this multi-disciplinary asset class. We are intentionally leaving open-ended the focus of study to show the expansive collection of topics that encompass this multi-disciplinary field.

Click here to view the Workshop's flyer.

Submission deadline is January 31.

The Institute for Private Capital is excited to announce an exclusive data sharing agreement with MSCI, which will make MSCI’s Real Capital Analytics (RCA) database available for academic research. RCA is a data and analytics solution for global commercial real estate investing and transactions, with over $40 trillion of commercial property transactions linked to over 200,000 investor and lender profiles.

Hosted by the Finance and Economics Departments at the University of Zurich and the Economics Department at the University of Bern

This workshop marks the beginning of a planned annual series organized by the Universities of Zurich and Bern. The goal of this event-series is to highlight outstanding contributions in both real estate finance and urban economics and to foster interaction among researchers in the two fields.