> News

• The UBC Sauder student team won the trophy at the 9th Annual Pacific Northwest Real Estate Challenge! Congratulations!
  
  The student team comprises Maryam Bagheri, Nik Cheng, Daniel Dibadj, Rey Halim, Emily Kaplun, Izaam Kassam, Allison Lasocha, Nathan Ma, Roy Pat, Amanda Payne, Bryan Wong and Zoe Yang.
  
  Special thanks to the efforts and support from the mentors (Chris Kay at Townline Group of Companies, Michael Mortensen at Grosvenor, Peter Russell at City of Vancouver, and Hugo Vasquez at Mondevo Projects Inc.), and academic advisors (Janet Corne and Michael Katz at Katz Architecture, Mark Monroe and Dr. Tsur Somerville at the Sauder of School of Business, UBC).
  
  Last but not least, we would also like to express our gratitude for the valuable advice given by the judges at the Local NAIOP presentation. The judges include John Conicella at Wesgroup properties, Stan Hamilton at Sauder School of Business, UBC, Geoff Heu at GWL Realty Advisors, Graeme Silvera at Plenary Group and Andrew Tong at Concert Realty Services Ltd.
  
  Click here for the article on the Sauder team in the March 2012 issue of the monthly NAIOP Newsletter.

> Recent Events

• March 27/28, The 9th Annual Pacific Northwest Real Estate Challenge, Seattle WA
  • Click here for UBC NAIOP Report 2012.
  • Click here for UBC NAIOP Presentation 2012.
  • Click here for Event Photos.
• March 2, NAIOP Local Competition, UBC @ Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC

> Recent Research

Discussion Papers - For General Audience

• Affordable Housing Needs of Ethnic Seniors in Vancouver. September 2011, Tsur Somerville, Azim Wazeer and Jake Wetzel
• Hunting for the Olympics Bounce: Any Evidence in Real Estate. January 2010, Tsur Somerville and Jake Wetzel
• Click here for more Discussion Papers
  

Working Paper Series - For Academic Research Audience

• Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries. October 2010, Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff
• Uneven Landscape and City Size Distribution. September 2010, Sanghoon Lee and Qiang Li
• Are Canadian House Prices More Closely Linked to Fundamentals than U.S. House Prices? July 2010, Judith Clarke, Marsha Courchane, Cynthia Holmes, and Tsur Somerville
• Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries. July 2010, Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff
• Supply Elasticity and the Housing Cycle of the 2000s. March 2010, Thomas Davidoff
• The Subprime Crisis Weathering the Storm in the U.S., Canada and Australia. January 2010, Judith Clarke, Marsha Courchane, Cynthia Holmes, and Tsur Somerville
• A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Skyscrapers. August 2007, Helsley and Strange
• Click here for more Working Papers
  
• Click here for Research Summaries of Working Papers
  

> Housing Market Data

• Canadian Cities Housing & Real Estate Data Site Update: 2011 Q4 data now up.