Call for Papers
7th REALPAC/Toronto Metropolitan University CRE Virtual Research Symposium

Submission deadline: September 30, 2024

We are pleased to invite you to submit your academic or professional practice research papers for presentation at the 7th Annual REALPAC/Toronto Metropolitan University Commercial Real Estate Virtual Research Symposium.

We invite professional practice and academic papers that focus on:

• Artificial Intelligence and other real estate technology in real estate
• Effects of remote work within the commercial real estate industry (face to face interactions, work habits, lifestyle)
• Sustainability: Climate risk and mitigation, DEI or Indigenous focused research
• Affordable housing and other housing issues from the viewpoint of commercial real estate
• Rent control and rent control exit strategies
• Changing office market needs (conversions, return to office)
• Interest rates, inflation, and cap rates
• Construction costs, supply chain and labour challenges
• Retail performance and effects of e-commerce
• Income producing real estate assets and their financial performance metrics
• Indexing and indexes of commercial real estate assets
• Risk and return relation to commercial real estate markets
• REITs, their management issues, and their financial performance metrics
• Policy issues that focus on domestic and/or international capital flows that target commercial real estate markets
• Other relevant topics, including international investments or flows or technology transfers and the like, as related to the commercial real estate industry
• Presentations related to Canadian commercial real estate industry are strongly preferred

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of a proposed presentation by September 30, 2024 to Dr. Anson Ho, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, [email protected].

All authors will be contacted soon after submission regarding inclusion of their presentation in the event.

Questions & Additional Information

Please contact Dr. Anson Ho, [email protected], (416) 979-5000 ext. 544589.