December 2005
Volume 1, Issue 2

Excellence in Real Estate
Education & Research

Research Highlights

“Contrarian Real Estate Investment” by Kwame, Addae-Dapaah, David Ho Kim Hin and Chua Yong Hua

“Macroeconomic Policy and Real Estate, Stock Market Impact Analysis" by David Ho Kim Hin, Muhd Faishal Bin Ibrahim and Liow Kim Hiang

"Extrapolation Theory and the Pricing of REIT Stocks" by Joseph Ooi , James Webb and Zhou Dingding

“Real Estate Appraisal and Bid Prize: An Empirical Evaluation of Alternative Theories” by Carl Gwin Ong Seow Eng ,and         Andrew Spieler

"Managing Agent or In-House Management Team for Residential Strata-titled Developments in Singapore?"
by Alice Christudason

Editorial Team:
CHENG Fook Jam, HAN Sun Sheng, David HO, KO Chen, ONG Seow Eng, Joseph OOi   and SING Tien Foo

Department of Real Estate
National University of Singapore
4 Architecture Drive
Singapore 117566
 

 

Latest News

The M Sc (Real Estate) intake for August 2006 is now accepting applications. Sign up for the Seminar
(1) on 14 Dec 2005 (Wed) @ 11.30 am, Orchard Parade Hotel, Antica I (Level 2 ) or (2) on 20 January 2006 (Fri) @ 11 am,  Seminar Room 1, SDE3 4th Level. Closing date for application is 15 March 2006. Please contact or for details. Find out what our graduates say about the program.

Application for the second intake of the MBA with Specialization in Real Estate is now open. For more information, contact . A MBA (RE) briefing and MRE Alumni Get-Together will be held on December 14, 2005.

Direct entry and new curriculum for
B Sc (Real Estate)! Details will be available on our website soon.

Upcoming Events

“Housing Prices and Housing Affordability in Asia and Around the World” is the theme for the 2nd University of Southern California - Tsinghua University-NUS Tripartite Symposium to be held in Beijing, 13 - 14 March 2006.

Call for papers: HKU-NUS Symposium on Real Estate Research, July 27 – 28, 2006. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics.

The second Executive Masterclass on International Real Estate, scheduled for March 2006, will focus on institutional investors & international real estate funds, financing international projects, and structuring real estate capital market products. This program also covers investment opportunities in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asian real estate markets.

 

  

 

A Breakfast Forum with Presidents / CEOs of global real estate companies will be organized in March 2006 in support of the Amos Koh Memorial Fund. Expert panelists will cover issues such as hotspots in international real estate markets, risk & return trade-off in international investments, financing international real estate, and institutional/market structures.

Public Talks

Ms Pauline Goh, Managing Director, CBRE Singapore Ltd, 25 Jan 2006, “Real Estate Market Round-up for Singapore, 2005”

Mr Lee Beng Tat, Principal, Cambridge Associates Asia, 22 Feb 2006, “Strategic Real Estate Investing in Asia”

Awards

Four papers from the Department of Real Estate won manuscript prizes at the 2005 American Real Estate Society conference in the following categories - "International Real Estate Investment/Portfolio Management," “Real Estate Market Analysis," Real Estate Investment Trusts" and "Real Estate Valuation." See Research Highlight for synopses and full papers.

Congratulations to our alumnus Mr Zulkifli Baharudin for winning the Achiever of Year Award , organized by Berita Harian and HSBC in recognition of his role as Chairman of Mercy Relief.

Getting Connected

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