Industry Conferences on

Real Estate Investing & Financing

Condo Hotel Center has partnered with Information Management Network (IMN), aglobal leader in business and financial conference planning, to create a variety of real estate forums.  These forums are targeted at corporations, developers and industry professionals, not individual consumers.  Listed below are the upcoming events.

Western Symposium on Distressed Residential & Multifamily Real Estate

September 15-16, 2009, Los Angeles, CA

While the residential real estate market may be depressed, there’s still plenty of opportunity for those in the know. Capitalize on today’s ailing market with the tips, techniques and tools that will be discussed in this conference.
Among the topics to be covered are:

• Economics of holding vacant property
  
  
• Alternative use and repositioning strategies
  
  
• Buying from the FDIC
  
  
• Acquisition due diligence
  
  
• Bulk buying opportunities in single family housing
  
  
• Buy and hold strategies
  
  
• Joint venture structuring for distressed deals
  
  
• Recapitalization strategies

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REIT & Real Estat Operating Company Re-Equitization & Recapitalization Forum

October 5-6, 2009, New York, NY

With REITS and REOCS currently issuing new equity ($11 billion from March 18-June 1, 2009), paying down debt and trying to improve their balance sheets, this symposium will cover timely topics like deleveraging, optimal corporate structure, carrying out your restructuring plan, effectively managing your balance sheet, debt buybacks and restructuring on a corporate and project level.

Senior corporate executives from REITs and REOCs will give their perspective, in addition to private equity, fixed income and equity investors. Some of the sessions to be offered include:

• Real Estate Economy: an outlook and its impact restructuring and recapitalization
  
  
• How REITS and operating companies can take advantage of current government programs
  
  
• Getting a positive rating on your restructuring: the analysts view
  
  
• How fixed income investors view recapitalizations
  
  
• Managing your balance sheet, debt maturities, refinancing activities & options to pay down your debt
  
  
• Mergers, acquisitions and go private transactions
  
  
• Joint ventures and private equity infusions
  
  
• Re-equitizing and selling common shares
  
  
• Bankruptcy ins and outs

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The Forum on Distressed Commercial Real Estate

October 5-6, 2009, New York, NY

This seminar will offer sessions about all residential asset classes, including condominiums, land, condo hotels, distressed securities, non-performing loans, single-family housing and corporate-level acquisitions. This event is extremely timely and is well-suited to real estate investors of all sizes, public and private, fund or LP. Among the topics to be covered are:

• Economist Perspective: Drivers, and Activity & Forecast for the commercial real estate markets
  
  
• Private Equity Executive Strategy Panel
  
  
• Is now a good time to invest in distressed commercial properties?
  
  
• Buying loans from a bank
  
  
• Non- and under-performing commercial loan secondary market opportunities
  
  
• First-time buyer of distressed commercial assets: a road map for market entry
  
  
• Secondary opportunities in non-performing CRE loans
  
  
• FDIC loan auctions and structured sales
  
  
• How do develop an exit strategy

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Condo Hotel Center offers discounts to clients wishing to attend the above conferences.  Contact Susan Greene, Susan@CondoHotelCenter.com, or 407-578-5528, for details.  Be sure to specify in which industry conference you are interested.