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On Wednesday, Richard Himmel, president of Related Urban Development and Andrew S. Cohen, Partner, Apollo Real Estate Advisors, will brief NAREE registered journalists at the residential component of the Time Warner Center -- One Central Park Condominiums -- just prior to the ULI evening reception.

On Thursday, registrants will receive an exclusive report from UCLA and the Asian Real Estate Association of America regarding barriers to Asian home ownership. Journalists from around the nation are expected attend the summit, which is organized by NAREE -- a group of reporters, writers, columnists, authors, and editors -- who cover residential and commercial real estate, urban planning, home building, realty finance and design trends.

The ULI meeting will feature five general sessions, 43 council meetings with 2,200 members, a full-day ULI/Stan Ross Real Estate Trends Conference and more than 50 concurrent sessions. Included in the roster of keynote speakers is former President Bill Clinton and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. ULI and NAREE have also scheduled three joint media briefings. The first will be with ULI chairman Harry Frampton, who will discuss his views on smart growth, the second will address the joint ULI/PricewaterhouseCoopers' report, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2005. The third briefing will be with affordable-housing developer Richard Baron, the 2004 recipient of ULI's J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development.