News from PRRES Members
News from Don Hwa University, Taiwan
Ming-Long Lee finished working at National Yunlin
University of Science and Technology on 31st July 2009 and
currently is Associate Professor at National Dong Hwa University, Hualien
County, Taiwan.
Hualien County is the largest county in Taiwan and is
located on the mountainous eastern coast of Taiwan. The University campus
and surrounding grounds total to more than 251 hectares (650 acres).
Nestled between the Coastal Mountain Range and the Central Mountain Range in
the verdant and pristine Papaya Creek Delta, the University is situated in a
spectacularly beautiful natural environment. The air is pure and clean, and
the campus possesses a tranquil and peaceful quality.
Ming-Long will continue his research and teaching on
property investment and valuation in the beautiful campus. His new email
address is
ming.long.lee@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Ming-Long Lee
Ming-Long
Dong Hwa Campus
News from QUT
QUT have recently appointed two new staff into the
Property Economics Program.
Brett McAuliffe has had a long association with QUT and
has been a contract lecturer in the valuation and property development areas
for a number of years. Prior to joining QUT, Brett worked as a property
consultant and valuer in his own firm. Brett is a member of the Queensland
Valuers Registration Board and is currently on the API Journal editorial
subcommittee.
Lyndall Bryant also joined the full time staff at QUT
in July this year. Prior to commencing at QUT Lyndall was Director of Real
Estate Services and Ernst and Young Brisbane. Lyndall also has an extensive
knowledge of the Brisbane property market and is now lecturing in the areas
of property development and property and asset management. Lyndall has also
held the position of Vice president for the Property Council of Australia,
Queensland Division.
Both Brett and Lyndall will be presenting their first
PRRES papers at the Wellington Conference.
Chris
EvesNews from Deakin University
Deakin University has a new full-time staff member in
Neville Hurst who commenced during 2009 after a successful career in
property and real estate education at Swinburne for many years. Neville has
a strong background in real estate which has impressed the students in
Property Management and associated units.
Deakin University has been working closely with the API
and once again assisted in May 2009 with the delivery of another module of
the Specialist Retail Valuer course at the API Victorian office. In
September 2009 Sara Wilkinson presented a paper at the API Victorian
Conference on ‘sustainability and residential value’ whilst Neville Hurst
presented a paper co-authored with Amy Guy and Richard Reed about mapping
and property. Also in September Richard presented a paper on ‘automated
valuation models’ (AVMs) at the API South Australian conference.
From 2010 the property course at Deakin course will be
relocating to the Business and Law Faculty at the Burwood campus (from the
Faculty of Science and Technology). This will not affect existing staff and
students who are already located on this campus but will provide resources
for additional postgraduate offerings.
Richard Reed
News from RMIT
The School of Property, Construction and Project
Management at RMIT is looking for a Visiting Professor in Property (click
to see the notice). They also have a new academic staff member, Judith Callahan. James
Baxter has just published a Rural Valuation textbook and Matt Myers is
conducting an exciting RMIT Study Tour to Fiji.
David
HigginsNews from UniSA
UniSA is pleased to announce the appointment of its
first Professor of Property, Professor David Parker. This is also the first
such appointment in South Australia. David comes to the university with a
strong industry background in portfolio management, asset management and
property analysis and the property academics at UniSA are looking forward
very much to working with their new professor!
Another important landmark in 2009 was Peter Rossini
receiving his 25 Years Long Service Award from the UniSA Vice Chancellor
Professor Peter Hoj! A great achievement and Peter richly deserves the
award.
Peter Rossini receiving his UniSA 25 Year Service
Award from Vice Chancellor Peter Hoj
This year also saw the signing of an important MOU
between the UniSA and the SA State Government Land Services Group (Valuer
General). The MOU sets out criteria for mutual cooperation in terms of
research opportunities and contribution to the implementation of world’s
best land administration practice. The initiative came out of a number of
meetings held between the SA Valuer General and members of the Property
Group including visiting Professor Stanley McGreal from the University of
Ulster. This lays a good foundation for building future collaboration
between UniSA and the property industry in SA.
Paul Kershaw retired from UniSA in 2009 but has been
retained as an Adjunct Research Fellow and continues to attend and
contribute to PRRES. A great night was held by all at his Property Group
farewell dinner; location? Where else but the Adelaide Cricket Ground!
In his final year of teaching Paul has also won a
prestigious teaching award as part of a School of Commerce team, and been
awarded a highly competitive Australian Award for University Teaching from
the National
Australian Learning
and Teaching Council. The awards are worth $25,000 each, and
recognise the nation's top university teachers. With only 24 awards granted
in 2009, this is significant and prestigious achievement. The awardees will
attend a ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra where they will be
presented with their Award by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
Education, The Honourable Julia Gillard.
Paul
Kershaw’s Property Group farewell dinner, Adelaide Cricket Ground
Valerie Kupke |
16th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conference 2010
The 16th PRRES Conference will be held at
the InterContinental Hotel, Wellington, New Zealand from 24th to
27th January 2010. Over 100 papers have been submitted to the
conference on a wide range of topics and while the refereed section is now
closed, there are still a small number of spaces for non-refereed papers.
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Highlights of the 2010
PRRES conference will include:
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Industry Day, with
presentations by leading property practitioners in a range of property
areas.
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Active sponsorship by API,
PINZ, RICS, Estate Master Conference dinner
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Presentation of 2010 PRRES
Achievement Award
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PhD Colloquium to support
new property researchers
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Property Case competition
between student teams from various universities.
Full details regarding PRRES conference registration
are available on the PRRES website
http://property-group.massey.ac.nz/prres
The PRRES Conference Committee have
been working very hard and look forward to seeing a large number of
academics, students and property professionals attending the 16th
PRRES Conference in 2010!
Raewyn Fortes on behalf of the 16th PRRES Conference Committee
2010 PRRES Case Competition
The inaugural PRRES Case Competition, held during the
annual conference in Sydney earlier in this year, was hailed a total
success, with participants champing at the bit to compete in other similar
competitions.
This year the PRRES Board has once again kindly agreed
to sponsor the 2010 event. With more international universities to make an
appearance, it will not only add to the competitiveness and prestige of this
event but will bring the best Business School Scholars from round the world
together.
The finals will be on the 26th January, Tuesday at 4pm
at the InterContinental Hotel, Wellington. Universities who are interested
in sending a representative team to the 2010 Wellington Conference should
contact the PRRES Case Competition organiser KahWen Tan,
kahwen88@gmail.com
KahWen Tan
PRRES 2010 PhD Colloquium
You are cordially invited by Massey
University and the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES) to participate in
the PRRES PhD Colloquium to be held on January 24 as part of the 16th
PRRES Conference, which will be held in Wellington, New Zealand over January
24 – 27, 2010. This PhD colloquium has been highly successful over
the past years in supporting PhD student research. PRRES
will also be providing two scholarships (at $1500 each) to encourage
quality property PhD student attendance.
All presented papers will be given supportive and
constructive feedback from senior property academics and fellow postgraduate
students during the open discussion and question and answer sessions after
each presentation. In addition, after the presentation, presenters who have
submitted summaries and proposals will receive detailed comments from a
designated property academic.
Students who wish to present their work should submit a
research summary of not more than five pages (including key references) for
review no later than 12 October 2009. These submissions will be
considered by a panel of property academics.
To attend this colloquium, a paper summary should be
sent in a Word attachment to Dr Max Li, Massey University at
yli2@massey.ac.nz Students should indicate whether they wish to be
considered for the PRRES scholarship.
Max Li
Pacific Rim Property Research Journal - Online
PRRES members will be aware that they receive the
Pacific Rim Property Research Journal (PRPRJ) in hard copy, four times a year
as a part of membership. Some members may not be aware that all the
articles from PRPRJ are also published on the PRRES website and available in
electronic format, free of charge.
The articles from each edition are available
edition-by-edition from the PRRES home page or from the PRPRJournal link.
Also using the Search facility on the PRRES webpage (from Search link)
provides access to the index of all papers held on the PRRES website.
Nearly 1000 articles are currently held on the PRRES
site and searchable by a number of criteria. These are from the PRPRJ or the annual
PRRES conference. Each of these articles now has a static address.
Members who publish papers are requested to provide this address for access
to their articles rather than sending out copies of paper via e-mail or
putting papers on other servers to access via links. There are two
advantages in this. It promotes PRRES and may encourage users to search for
more papers. Also PRRES are now able to track “hits” on individual articles
and it’s is proposed that the results will be made available in some way.
By sending people to your paper on the PRRES site you will get a better idea
of how many people are accessing your work.
To find the static address of your paper (using
internet explorer)
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Go to the PRRES web site and to the Search link in
the top menu.
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Enter your last name as the authors name in the
second section to search the PRRES database of papers. This will find
any papers where your last name is listed as one of the authors.
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Once you click search you should get a list of all
your papers together with the title, abstract, keywords and a link to
the paper if we hold the full paper.
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If there is a blue active link to your paper RIGHT
CLICK on the link and choose “open in new window”. This will open your
paper in a separate window and the static address will be in the address
bar at the top of the screen.
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You can link to this address directly.
Peter
Rossini (PRRES webmaster)
International Property Research Conference: Update
Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society, PRRES
Wellington New Zealand: January, 2010
click here for details
American Real Estate Society, ARES
Naples, Florida: April 14 -17, 2010
click for details or
visit the website
European Real Estate Society, ERES
Milan, Italy: June 23-26, 2010
click for details
Asian Real Estate Society, AsRES
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan: July 09-12, 2010
click for details |
