The deal-making lull is an engaging opportunity for professionals to meet, talk and explore what's happened as they adjust to the times and chart new courses for profitability. The discovery period is being spotlighted Nov. 13 at the seventh annual RealShare Dallas. To date, more than 250 professionals from all CRE walks have signed up for the half-day session, which will be held at the Hotel Inter-Continental Dallas at 15201 Dallas Pkwy. in Addison.

With the economy continuing to lead the nation's news, RealShare Dallas has lined up an economist and top-ranked owner of office buildings in Texas as one of the headliners. Zaya Younan, chairman and CEO of Los Angeles-based Younan Properties Inc., will sit in a one-on-one interview with John Salustri, editorial director of Real Estate Media, a division of UK-based Incisive Media, which also is the parent of the RealShare Conference Series and GlobeSt.com.

Younan's background as an economist and opportunistic buying strategies promise to deliver macro and micro perspectives, including why it's such a good time to buy. "As an economist, he can offer good insights and extrapolations as to what's happening in the macro economy and its likely impact on commercial real estate as well as offer an outsider, California-based view of how the Dallas market compares to the rest of the country," says Richard Kelley, director of the RealShare Conference Series, part of Incisive Media Events.