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Home » Conference » Presentations

Urban LandMark Conference

Opportunities in a Falling Market
What's been happening at the low end of the urban land market?

28 and 29 October 2009 - Bytes Conference Centre, Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa

Programme and presentations

Day 1: Wednesday 28 October
Facilitators: Kubeshni Govender Jones and Carmel Joseph
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:20 Welcome (DFID): DFID Advisor
09:20 - 10:00 Setting the Scene: Mark Napier, Director Urban LandMark [2.22 MB]
10:00 - 10:30 TEA
10:30 - 12:45 Session 1: Property Market / Economic trends
10:30 - 11:10 Anthony Miller, MD Lightstone: Current property trends at the low end of the Market [477 KB]
11:10 - 11:40 Kecia Rust, FinMark Trust: Trends in RDP and Related Markets [507 KB]
11:45 - 12:15 Rob McGaffin, Urban LandMark: Trends in the Commercial market [2.05 MB]
12:15 - 12:45 Panel Discussions: Panel - Pierre Venter, Caroline Kihato, Anthony Miller, Kecia Rust and Mark Souris
12:45 - 13:45 LUNCH
13:45 - 16:00 Session 2: Governing Markets
13:45 - 14:15 Setting the Scene: Stephen Berrisford
14:15 - 14:45 Allison Hickey Tshangana, PDG/Isandla Institute: Property Rates Study [215 KB]
14:45 - 15:00 Question & Answers session
15:00 - 15:15 TEA
15:15 - 16:00 Expropriation Panel Debate: Saul du Toit, Erwin Rode, Stephen Berrisford, Durkje Gilfillan & Neville Chainee, with Rob Mcgaffin as Commentator
16:00 - 16:30 Questions to Panel
Day 2: Thursday 29 October
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
Session 3: Cities and Markets: Local & Regional
09:00 - 09:30 Keynote: Sithole Mbanga, South African Cities Network: Recession Issues: SA perspective
09:30 - 10:15 Keynote: Professor Paul Syagga, University of Nairobi: Issues of recession in Africa [215 KB]
Speech [213 KB]
10:15 - 10:45 TEA
10:45 - 12:30 Session 4: Tenure and the poor:
10:45 - 11:05 Setting the scene: Lauren Royston [261 KB]
11:05 - 11:30 David Gardner: Strategy for small scale private rental [225 KB]
11:30 - 12:00 Josette Cole, Mandlovu: New Crossroads: Outcomes & Options [366 KB]
12:00 - 12:30 Charlotte Lemanski, University College London: Moving up the ladder or stuck on the bottom rung? Homeownership as a solution to poverty in urban South [896 KB]
12:30 - 13:00 Panel Discussion: Sithole Mbanga, Lauren Royston, Charlotte Lemanski, Professor Paul Syagga
13:00 - 13:30 Reflections: Ahmedi Vawda ULM PAC Chair (Advisor Dept of Housing) [131 KB]
13:30 - 13:45 Closure: Mark Napier, Director Urban LandMark
13:45 LUNCH