Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Real Estate Capital Markets Under Stress: Where are the opportunities?
 The Real Estate Center will hold it's Spring Capital Markets presentation on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at the UConn Downtown Graduate Learning Center. The luncheon presentation will start at 11:45 a.m. Topics include: Capital Markets: Where has all the money gone and who still has debt capital? Space Markets: How to identify oversold conditions? Investment strategies. The presentation will feature discussion lead by: William Huges, UBS Realty Investors, LLC Michael Riccio, CBRE Melody Dana Brome, Holiday Fenoglio Fowler, LP. For more information or to register Click here |
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Resume Book Available!
Looking for an intern or permanent hire? The Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies has assembled resumes of internship candidates and graduating majors in Real Estate as well as other allied disciplines. The real estate students are completing what many consider to be one of the best academic real estate programs in the United States. As in the past, we are offering an electronic version that will be accessible on our web page. If you are interested in gaining access to the information, then please call Debbie Philips at (860) 486-3227 or e-mail your request to recenter@business.uconn.edu. We enthusiastically endorse these trained and skilled young people in their quest for careers in real estate. Please feel free to contact the individual students directly or if you would like us to arrange interviews for you, then we will be happy to do so. If you require further information about these students or about our program, please call the Real Estate Center at (860) 486-3227. |
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Many Students ARGUS Certified
Twenty six UConn Real Estate students recently participated in a rigorous course that explored Financial modeling using industry standard ARGUS Software. The course included numerous case studies where students explored and learned the intricacies of modeling real estate investments from the debt and equity side of an institutional investor’s perspective. Students that passed the Certification Exam received their 2 year ARGUS Certification. The Certification course is only offered at two other major universities on the east coast where the average exam pass rate is 30%. We are pleased to announce that 67% of our students passed the Certification exam on the first try. Others will try again soon. The Real Estate Center congratulates these students as this is a significant accomplishment. |
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Strategic Planning and Benchmarking Study
UConn’s real estate center has developed a five year plan designed to retain our legislative mandate, deal with the current financial stress and improve the value of our undergraduate and graduate degrees. Our plan is to: · Continue active support for the real estate professional community and State government, serving as a resource for strategic management of risks. o Specifically, our Capital Markets Update (March 24, 2009 in Hartford) and our Housing Conference (May 12, 2009 in Berlin) are oriented towards finding opportunity in the midst of crisis. · Maintain our highly ranked undergraduate and graduate education programs, including internships, job placements and experiential learning. · Produce cutting edge research, with the objective of retaining our high international ranking. · Hire a tenured professor and a full-time professional staff member. In order to meet legislative mandates, retain staffing comparable to peer real estate programs and retain a critical mass for teaching and research, the Center must obtain a replacement for the recently retired Center Director. Adequate staffing bridges the current gap and provides support to the state during this time of financial and economic stress. Click here for a one page summary of our strategic plan and benchmarking study. |
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Spring 2009 Schedule of Events
Listed below are the Spring 2009 events and activities. For more information on any of the scheduled events, please contact Debbie at (860) 486-3227 or e-mail: Debbie Philips. 1. Real Estate Capital Markets Under Stress: Where are the opportunities. March 24th, Graduate Learning Center, Downtown Hartford. Lunch begins at 12:15 p.m. followed by the presentation at 1:00 p.m. 2. Boston MBA field trip. MBA Student Babson Capital, Boston Field Trip. March 2009. 3. Real Estate Society Boston field trip. Friday, March 27th, 2009. 4. 6th Annual Awards Banquet. Wednesday April 15, 2009, at the South Campus Ballroom. Reception starts at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 6:00 p.m. Recognition of outstanding students, alumni and scholarship winners. 5. Instructor's Seminar. Friday April 24, 2009. Hawthorne Inn, Berlin, Connecticut. 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. 6. Connecticut Housing: Opportunities and Challenges. Tuesday, May 12, 2009. Hawthorne Inn, 2387-2421 Berlin Turnpike, Berlin, Connecticut. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 11:45 a.m. 7. MBA Breakfast/Networking Meetings. Networking meetings starting at 7:30 a.m. in the BUSN Finance Conference room 463; 6-8 meetings during the semester with dates to be determined. 8. Real Estate Society. Meets regularly each month for socials, breakfast series, and special topic meetings. 9. Professional Speakers in Classroom. Each undergrad course will have two or so speakers each during semester. Dates determined by instructor. |
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