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The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 31:2, 115116, 2005
# 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Manufactured in The Netherlands.The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the University of Hong Kong (HKU)are pleased to put together this special issue in the Journal of Real Estate Finance &Economics, kindly sponsored by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Foundation.This special issue is based on papers presented at the inaugural Singapore-Hong KongInternational Real Estate Research symposium held from July 18Y19, 2003. Thesymposium aims to provide a vehicle for a select group of renowned and emergingresearchers to have an active and intensive exchange of research findings. The opportunityto participate actively in the discussion of high quality and select number of paperswould allow a strong bond to be developed between researchers from Asia with establishedresearchers from US and Europe. The main intent is that Biron sharpens iron.^The overall objectives are To sharpen skills and methodology in real estate research
To improve the research collaboration with international researchers
To promote more interaction and stronger bonds among real estate researchers
To raise the profile of real estate research especially in the Asia academic
community To encourage cross-country researchThe scope for the symposium covers research...