RealShare EXCLUSIVE: Conference Will Explore Issues Affecting DC Region

WASHINGTON, DC-A state-of-the-market overview and forecast for the region via presentations and discussion panels will be on tap as industry players gather tomorrow at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel for RealShare Washington, DC. The daylong information gathering and contact making conference will also feature a series of concurrent sessions on topics such as investment sales, demographics and government leasing. The event is being held by Real Estate Media Inc., the New York City-headquartered publisher of Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com. More than 500 attendees are expected.

The day will begin with opening remarks by Real Estate Media Inc. editor-in-chief Michael G. Desiato, followed by a “Town Hall Meeting” that will feature a panel of five industry heavy-hitters discussing the current status of Washington, DC as a national leader in the office, retail and multifamily markets. Advantis/GVA president and CEO Petch Gibbons will moderate the panel, which will cover such topics as whether or not the area’s longstanding charmed existence as a low vacancy rate destination will last for much longer, if growth will continue, and how increasingly high land costs could affect the market. John Donovan, senior managing director for Metropolitan Washington, DC for CarrAmerica Realty Corp. will sit down with Desiato for RealShare’s popular “Inside the Real Estate Mind” presentation.

Peter Linneman, Linneman Associates principal and Albert Sussman professor of real estate, finance and public policy at Philadelphia’s Wharton School of Business, will offer attendees a view of the market from the outside looking in; he will take a look at national, regional and local trends that will influence all facets of the market this year. He will be followed by “The Facts and Figures Behind the Washington, DC-area Investment Market,” in which Marcus & Millichap managing director Hessam Nadji assesses research statistics for the area’s office, multifamily and retail sectors.