2016 CRITICAL ISSUES SEMINAR REVIEW: 'The Future of Real Estate - How Key Driving Forces Worldwide Will Impact Our Industry, Academic Communities, Research, and Education Agendas'

摘要

The "Critical Issues Seminar" for the first time was recognized as a formal part of the ARES annual conference and appropriately shown as sessions 1-3 in the annual meeting program. The 2016 professional/academic workshop format was comprised of keynote speeches, an industry panel session, and roundtable discussion groups. The goal of the 2016 seminar (8th Edition) was to develop strategies and action plans to make real estate research and education more relevant and useful within the diverse professional and academic sectors of the real estate economy. Leading off the seminar was Neil Shah (Managing Director RICS Americas) and Bob White (CEO Real Capital Analytics). Neil shared a recent global future study by RICS that identified 8 megatrends that will drive real estate business of the future and specific actions to address this future. Bob White followed up with a presentation on real estate transactions and capital flows at the global level.