AsRES International Real Estate Conference 2025

The 2025 Asian Real Estate Society International Real Estate Conference will be held in Melbourne on 9-11 July 2025. The conference will be hosted jointly by the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, Melbourne Business School, Department of Finance (Faculty of Business and Economics), Melbourne Institute (affiliates of The University of Melbourne), and University of Technology Sydney. The conference aims to provide a forum for academics, practitioners, policymakers and industry professionals in the areas of urban and land economics, real estate finance, development and investment, housing, and public policy to discuss and share their latest research and views on the ever-changing global real estate market.

1^st Call for Papers - Deadline 15 April 2025

The 1^st call for papers is currently open and will end on 15 April 2025. Submissions of well-developed abstracts or, preferably, full papers MUST BE made online via the 2025 ASRES website. More information can be found on the submission page of the 2025 Conference website.

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Key Dates

Conference themes

• Real Estate and Economics
• Housing
• Land Management
• Land economics
• Urban and Regional Analysis
• Sustainable Real Estate
• New Technology and Data in Real Estate
• Valuation and Appraisal
• Real Estate Finance and Investments
• Corporate Real Estate Management
• Customary land titles

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino

Professor Emeritus of Economics, Keio University

Dr. Naoyuki Yoshino is a Professor Emeritus at Keio University, Japan. From 2014 to 2020, he was Dean and CEO of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). He obtained his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (United States) where his thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He has been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1979-1981), an associate Professor at GRIPS (National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, 1982-1990), and an economics professor at Keio University (1991-2014).  He was the President of Foreign Exchange Council, Ministry of Finance of Japan, President of Financial System Council of Government of Japan, Policy Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan, Chairperson of Japanese Government Bond Market Council.  He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013 and received the Fukuzawa Award in 2013 for his contribution to research on economic policy. He received the International Green Finance Lifetime Achievement Scientific Award from the Central Bank of Hungary which was held at the Planet Budapest 2021 Sustainability EXPO Summit. He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group (EAG) of the Republic of Palau in 2022-2026. Advisory Board (Chair) Stockholm School of Economics, EIJS, (Sweden) in 2024-2026.

Jason F. Yong

Chief Investment Officer, CapitalxWise

Jason's career spans more than 15 years in private equity real estate, funds management, and technology advisory. Having managed investment assets in excess of $4 billion in value, Jason has delivered outcomes across origination, capital raising, deal execution, risk management, and investment governance. He has a deep understanding of the commercial real estate and capital landscape both from wholesale and global institutional investment perspectives. Jason has consistently embraced strategies that bridge the traditional dealmaking process with technological advancements enabling more efficient time-to-market of financial products and greater agility to navigate an ever-changing real estate landscape. Jason's conviction is that a strong technology ecosystem enables people to remain the key ingredient in the dealmaking business where the greatest value is delivered.

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