The symposium is organized by REALPAC and the Real Estate Management Department at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, and will bring together commercial real estate practitioners, academics and policy makers to share and discuss their research.

Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite you to submit your academic or professional practice research papers for presentation at the Research Symposium.

• We invite professional practice and academic papers that focus on:
• Artificial Intelligence and other real estate technologies
• Effects of remote work within the commercial real estate industry
• Sustainability: Climate risk and mitigation, DEI or Indigenous focused research
• Affordable housing and other housing issues from the CRE viewpoint
• Rent control and rent control exit strategies
• Changing office market needs (conversions, return to office)
• Interest rates, inflation, and cap rates
• Construction costs, supply chain and labour challenges
• Retail performance and effects of e-commerce
• Income-producing real estate assets and their financial performance metrics
• Indexing and indexes of CRE assets
• Risk and return relation to CRE markets
• REITs, their management issues, and their financial performance metrics
• Policy issues that focus on domestic and/or international capital flows that target commercial real estate markets
• Other relevant topics related to the commercial real estate industry

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of a proposed presentation by September 30, 2025, to Dr. Anson Ho, Associate Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, [email protected].

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