Press Release: National Association of Real Estate Editors
April 30, 2001
BOCA RATON, FL -- NAREE's 35th Annual Real Estate Journalism conference (June 7-10 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is
designed so housing and commercial real estate journalists can report on national trends with regional angles for
their home, real estate, and business sections and preview the 2002 Winter Olympic Village and Sports Park for
their travel and sports editors.
``Reporters with tight travel budgets can bring home a dozen stories for several sections just by spending
the weekend at the NAREE conference,'' says Ralph Bivins, a real estate reporter for the Houston Chronicle and
chairman of the conference produced by the National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE).
Former Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, is the keynote speaker on Friday, June 8.
An exclusive housing forecast will highlight NAREE's Journalism Awards Luncheon, Saturday, June 9, where Best Real
Estate Section and Best Real Estate Report among other awards will be announced.
Each afternoon, registrants will tour commercial, residential, resort and Olympic properties.
``No other conference brings real estate experts from every discipline under one roof. We'll cover sprawl, hotel
overbuilding, and Olympic conversion, and e-brokerage, concrete design and affordable housing as well as timeshare
and resort real estate,'' notes Bivins.
About 25 journalists from around the nation will also meet for five- minute, one-on-one appointments with fellow
journalists and real estate industry publicists at ``NAREE's Meet the Press'' June 8. The conference is open to
industry public relations professionals who are NAREE members or would like to join as associate members.
Registration is $99 for journalists who postmark their registration forms between April 27 and May 1, 2001, and
includes a NAREE membership for prospective members. Full schedule and registration forms are on www.naree.org.
or email the NAREE office at MADKimba@aol.com. The conference is headquartered at the Hotel Monaco, 801-595-0000.
NAREE, the only professional association for home section and real estate journalists, and industry communications
professionals, was founded in 1929.
HIGHLIGHTS (with sampling of keynote panelists)
JUNE 7
2:50 p.m. Managing Your E-Life. Pointers and CD-ROM on the best online
search strategies.
4:15 p.m. The Best Places to Live in America. Author David Vokac, the
Great Towns in America Series, and others.
JUNE 8
8:00 a.m. Olympic Accommodations & Conversions. Panelists: Kent Schlopy,
coordinator for Olympic Housing of Visitors; Dusty Casey,
Director of Olympic Events Marriott International; and Jake
Boyer, The Boyer Group, developer of a major multi-use Olympic
conversion project.
10:00 a.m. The Honorable Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development.
10:40 a.m. Resorts & Recession, An Overview.
11:05 a.m. The New Timeshare Game.
12:00 p.m. Concrete in Motion. Mix, mold and test concrete.
2:30 p.m. Meet the Press. Journalists from CBS Market Watch, Bloomberg
News; The Chicago Tribune; The San Diego Union-Tribune;
Washington Post; Houston Chronicle; San Francisco Chronicle;
Arizona Republic; St. Petersburg Times; Builder magazine; Real
Estate Forum magazine; Inman News Features; and many more.
4:30 p.m. Commercial and Residential Tour
JUNE 9
8:00 a.m. Hotels in America: Are We Overbuilt?
9:10 a.m. Sprawl and the Cities. Panelists: Deron Lovass, The Sierra
Club; Scott Higginson, Del Webb Corp; David O'Neill, The Urban
Land Institute; and Heritage Foundation Fellow and Consultant,
Wendell Cox. Moderator: Christina Farnsworth, Builder magazine.
10:40 a.m. EBrokerage Trends. Who's doing what with whom online? Exclusive
survey results of which sites get the most hits. Panelists:
Nick Karris of Gomez Research; Russ Capper of E-Realty.com; and
David Broadbent, OnePipeline. Moderator: Richard Paoli, San
Francisco Chronicle.
12:00 p.m. Journalism Awards Luncheon. Keynote Address: Mid-Year National
Housing Forecast, John Burns, principal, Meyers Group, a real
estate information company monitoring 20,000 new home
subdivisions in 25 states.
1:45 p.m. Olympic Venues & A Mountain View of Resort Real Estate. Tours
of the Winter Olympics Sports Park and mountain resorts. Panel
and reception at Stein Eriksen Lodge.
SOURCE: National Association of Real Estate Editors