CoreNet Global Southern California Chapter members receive an almost 20% discount on registration for the USC Gould School of Law Real Estate Law and Business Forum on March 2. The Forum has a well-earned reputation as a can't-miss insider's guide to what to expect in the future. Select "member-local trade or bar association" rate.
Highlights of the Forum include finance and development plenary sessions on:
- Forecasting Trends and Pricing Risks in U.S. Commercial Real Estate Markets. Led by Professor George Lefcoe (USC Law), it features Sam Chandan, Ph.D. (Global Chief Economist, Real Capital Analytics, New York), Sally Gordon, Ph.D. (Managing Director, BlackRock, New York) and Professor Glenn Mueller (Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate & Construction Management, University of Denver).
- Real Estate Financing Sources in the Post-Crash Market. Glenn Sonnenberg (President, Latitude Management Real Estate Investors)leads a panel of national financiers to explain who has the capital, what deals they are doing and how preferred properties and terms vary among the various types of financiers in the market. John Busillo (Arnold & Porter, New York), Chip Fedalen (EVP, Wells Fargo Bank Real Estate Banking Group), Jeff Friedman (Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Mesa West Capital), John Menne (Managing Director, MetLife Real Estate Investments) and Randall Rothschild (Managing Director, Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, New York) will be spotlighted.
- Development Reform in Troubled Times. Led by Renata Simril (Managing Director, Jones Lang LaSalle), James Arnone (Latham & Watkins ), Austin Beutner (First Deputy Mayor & Chief Executive for Economic and Business Policy, City of Los Angeles), Larry Kosmont, (President, Kosmont Companies/Renaissance Community Fund) and Michael LoGrande (Director of Planning, City of Los Angeles) will provide practical solutions to some of the problems getting development entitlements and starting construction in these difficult times, and what is being done to make things easier.