Date: June 2 - 5, 2010
Time: 8:00 am - 12:01 pm
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500 East 4th Street
Austin, TX 78701
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Phone: 800-236-1592
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Our J-Contest and Bruss Book awards will be presented in Austin. Also expect great barbecue, world-class Mexican food and drilling down into green building issues, since Austin is one of the most eco-friendly cities in the world.
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Dateline: 5/19/2010
Headline:
Scores of Journalists to Attend ‘Reaching Beyond Austin City Limits’ Real Estate Journalism Conference in Austin
New Speakers and Panels Added - See Agenda Update Below
Austin, Texas – A record number of journalists and media professionals are registered to attend NAREE's 44thAnnual Real Estate Journalism Conference in Austin, June 2-5.
"Scores of journalists will come to Austin for this conference. Our speakers include at least 20 company presidents, seven chief economists or analysts, and a number of leading architects, home builders and hoteliers," said Ralph Bivins, conference chairman. "Our entrepreneurial journalism and multi-media training programs are also a big draw."
Leading journalists from The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Bloomberg News, Money magazine, National Real Estate Investor and Better Homes & Gardens, to The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, St Louis Post-Dispatch, Orange County Register, and Kansas City Star are registered for NAREE's thoughtful mix of news conferences, panels, journalism workshops and field trips. Major newspapers from Florida – The Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Tribune, The Palm Beach Post and Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and Texas' major dailies -- The Austin American-Statesman, Dallas Morning News, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio-Express News are also sending real estate reporters, as are the Chicago Sun-Times, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Reno Gazette Journal, and Puget Sound Business Journal. Magazines such as Design New England, Eco Home and Building Products and online media including MarketWatch, Inman and Bankrate.com will cover NAREE events as well.
NAREE’s headquarters hotel is the Austin Hilton Downtown, 500 East 4th St., Austin, Texas 78701. Call the Hilton at 800-236-1592.
The Hilton Garden Inn, 500 North IH 35, Austin, Texas, 78701 is nearby.
Some rooms may be available at other hotels in downtown Austin, but hotel occupancy is high in Austin, which is known as the Live Music Capital of the World.
Austin also is known as an eco-minded city and NAREE will drill down on the real meaning of green building, sustainable design and going off the power grid during the four-day confab.
Journalists will work hands- on laptops and cameras for two multi-media training sessions led by Harold Bubil of the Sarasota Herald Tribune and Amy Hoak of Marketwatch.com.
NAREE attendees can tour trend-setting developments in downtown Austin and the Texas Hill Country and hear from the nation's experts in commercial, residential and financial real estate.
Speakers will include former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, who will deliver the keynote speech at 12:45 p.m. Thursday, June 3.
Other prominent speakers include Benjamin Clark, president of the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents; Pat Lashinsky, president of the ZipRealty; Mary Tennant, president of Keller Williams Realty, former FHA Commissioner Brian Montgomery,· Doug Duncan, chief economist for Fannie Mae, Counselors of Real Estate chairman Arthur Pasquarella of BPG Properties, Scott Ziegler of Ziegler Cooper Architects, Bob Faith of Greystar, Roger Duncan of Austin Energy, Will Holder of Trendmaker Homes, Stan Humphries of Zillow, and Susan Rieff, executive director of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
Two of the nation's leading green architects, Peter Pfieffer of Barley & Pfieffer Architects and LaVerne Williams of Environmental Associates will address the group and take questions.
On Friday afternoon, NAREE's "Meet the Press" event will offer authors, freelancers and publicists face-to-face mini-meetings with editors and real estate journalists for queries and pitches. Attendees are guaranteed to pick up story ideas and gather news sources who can be called for quotes and information in the future.
Winners of NAREE's 60th annual Journalism Awards Competition and the Bruss Real Estate Book Awards Competition are also among the top writers expected. NAREE's prestigious awards will be presented June 4, with the book awards banquet at noon and the journalism awards ceremony at 6 p.m.
TOURS: Conference attendees will go on tours to the green home "Tonalacalli" (the House of Sun and Water); the brand-new 56-story Austonian residential tower and the nation's leading natural landscaping center - the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center -- a University of Texas Research Center.
Where You'll Be Staying -- The Hilton Austin Downtown is only one block from the downtown's Sixth Street entertainment district, which rocks until the early morning hours. It is also within walking distance of the beautiful walking/jogging trail along Lady Bird Lake and the Warehouse District, which has restaurants, entertainment venues and pubs. At dusk, the Congress Avenue bridge, beckons tourists to watch a million bats take off on their nightly food quest.
Founded in 1929, NAREE is a non-profit professional association of writers, columnists, authors and editors covering real estate, housing, commercial development, design and finance.
Contact:
Mary Doyle-Kimball, NAREE executive director
561-391-3599 madkimba@aol.com
NAREE
44th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference updated as of May 26, 2010
Reaching Beyond Austin City Limits
Wednesday, June 2
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM - Conference Registration, Meet the Press Signup and Cyber Cafe Open - Room 400/402, Hilton.
Stop by the Cyber for coffee breaks, email checks and press kits.
10:05 AM - 10:45 AM - Smart Ways to Go Green - Salon B, Hilton
Peter Pfeiffer, Barley & Pfeiffer Architects. Introduction: Conference Chairman Ralph Bivins, RealtyNewsReport.com
10:50 AM - 11:55 AM - Commercial Realty Trends: The Next Meltdown or Not? - Salon B, Hilton.
Steve Pumper, Transwestern; David Steinwedell, Stoneforge Advisors; Mitch Siegler, Pathfinder Partners; and Jeff Friedman, Mesa West Capital. Moderator: Matt Valley, National Real Estate Investor.
11:55 AM - 12:10 PM - Lunch Pickup Break
12:10 - 12:50 - Clicking and Streaming into Journalism's New Age - Salon B, Hilton.
Omar Gallaga, Austin American-Statesman/National Public Radio.
12:55 PM - 2:05 PM - New Journalism Lifeforms I: Video Storytelling Workshop Salon B, Hilton
Coaches: Harold Bubil, Sarasota Herald Tribune; Amy Hoak, MarketWatch. Bring your laptops and cameras, and be ready for a little homework assignment.
2:10 PM - 3:05 PM - 2020 Vision: Real Estate Industry of the Future - Salon B, Hilton.
Benjamin Clark, president National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents and Home Buyer Representation Inc.; Pat Lashinsky, president, Zip Realty; and Mary Tennant, president, Keller Williams Realty. What's on the horizon for the MLS, brokerage and more. Moderator: Mary Shanklin, Orlando Sentinel.
3:10 PM - 4:10 PM - Foreclosure, Walkaways and Remedies - Salon B, Hilton
Jack Schakett, Bank of America; Rick Sharga, RealtyTrac and Travis Hamel Olsen, COO of LoanResolution LLC.
Moderator: Ken Harney, Washington Post Writers Group.
4:15 PM - 4:55 PM - Economic Insights 2010 - Salon B, Hilton
Arthur Pasquarella, 2010 Chairman of The Counselors of Real Estate, Principal, BPG Properties, Philadelphia, will discuss the impact of institutional investment trends on the market and what lies ahead.
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Opening Reception - Room 406, Hilton
So You're New to the Real Estate Beat: NAREE President, Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
Austin Real Estate Overview: Tim Crowley, Chairman, Opportunity Austin.
6:05 PM - Pedestrian stroll or pedicab ride through downtown Austin via Sixth Street
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM - A Skyline Perspective: Luxury High Rise Highlights, Tour and Reception at the new Austonian condominium (Location: Second St. and Congress Ave.)
Scott Ziegler, Ziegler Cooper Architects and Terry Mitchell, President of Momark Development LLC. on "Air Space and Urban Footprints." Introduction: Colin Pope, Austin Business Journal.
7:45 PM - 8:45 PM - Go Batty: Walk to Bat Watch on Congress Avenue Bridge; or enjoy Second Street or The Warehouse District.
9:00 PM - 10:30 PM - NAREE Hospitality Suite - Special Guest: Author Ben Johnson.
Thursday, June 3
8:00 AM - Registration, Meet the Press Signup and Cyber Cafe Open - Room 400/402, Hilton
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM - Opening Breakfast: Research Learning Lab: Data Drilldown - Salon B, Hilton
Walt Molony, National Association of Realtors. Nothing props up a story like a well placed stat. Novices and veterans will learn how to sift through the numbers with lightning speed.
8:55 AM - 9:45 AM - Going Off the Grid with Net Zero Homes - Salon B, Hilton
Roger Duncan, Austin Energy; Alex Pettit, Spring Builders; and LaVerne Williams, AIA, Environment Associates. Moderator: Kathy Warbelow, Austin American-Statesman
9:50 AM - 10:40 AM - Home Building Mid-Year Outlook: "Riding Along the Bottom or Edging Up -- Are We There Yet?" - Salon B, Hilton
Mike Inselmann, Metrostudy; Will Holder, Trendmaker Homes; and Chris Werth, Pulte Group. Moderator: Jennifer Hiller, San Antonio Express-News
10:45 - 11:40 AM - A New Line of Business? How to Cover Commercial Real Estate - Salon B, Hilton
Speakers: Steve Brown, Dallas Morning News; Kris Hudson, Wall Street Journal; and Daniel Taub, Bloomberg News. Moderator: Shannon Behnken, Tampa Tribune
11:40 AM - 12:40 AM - Lunch
Short Sales and Foreclosures: The Fine Art of Bottom Feeding - Salon A, Hilton
Author Steve Dexter, and Moderator Holden Lewis, Bankrate.com and NAREE Board Chairman.
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM - Keynote Speaker: Henry G. Cisneros - Salon B, Hilton
The Affordability Gap - Is housing still within reach of most Americans? Introduction: Emily Spicer, San Antonio Express-News
1:15 - 2:10 PM - Multifamily Market: Leaving Behind the Dream - Salon B, Hilton
Bob Faith, Greystar Real Estate Partners; Greg Willett, MPF Research; and Mark Alfieri, Behringer Harvard. Moderator: Nancy Sarnoff, Houston Chronicle
2:15 PM - All Aboard Austin Green Tour, Hilton
2:40 PM - First Stop: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, University of Texas sustainable design research center in Texas' famous Hill Country. Opening remarks: "Sustainable Sites/Certification for Landscaping" - Susan Rieff, executive director. Learn new sustainable living ideas from cisterns and rooftop gardens to recreating native landscapes and easy care xeriscapes, plus ideas for greening the roadside and the parking lot. (Location: 4801 La Crosse Avenue, Austin, Tx 78739)
4:25 PM - 5:05 PM - Second Stop: "Tonalacalli" - A House of Sun and Water - Tour one of the nation's first LEED Platinum Eco-Homes high in the Hill Country which takes green living to a whole new level.
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM - Third Stop: The Salt Lick, Driftwood, Texas, authentic Texas barbecue, Texas brew and live music with guitar player and singer Mike Clifford. (Location: FM 1826, Driftwood, Tx 78619)
6:15 PM - Board motor coaches to return to Hilton.
Friday, June 4
8:00 AM Registration, Meet the Press Signup and Cyber Cafe Open - Room 400, Hilton
8:05 AM - 8:55 AM - New Journalism Lifeforms II: Multi-Media Workshop From Keyboard to Camera Ready - Salon B, Hilton
Workshop Leaders: Harold Bubil, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; Amy Hoak, MarketWatch. Bring your cameras, laptops and projects.
9:00 AM - 9:55 AM - Mid-Year Economic Update: Commercial and Residential Perspectives - Salon B, Hilton
Bob Bach, Grubb & Ellis; Stan Humphries, Zillow; and Douglas Duncan, Fannie Mae. Hear from leading economists on where the economy is headed and
how it will affect the commercial and residential real estate markets. Moderator: Ralph Bivins, RealtyNewsReport.com
10:00 AM - 10:55 AM - Mortgages Now: Raising the Bar or Erecting Barriers - Salon B, Hilton
Sue Stewart, Mortgage Match; Brian Montgomery, The Collingwood Group; and Roy Nash, NeighborWorks Waco.
New FHA guidelines and market forces: Has the pendulum swung too far? Moderator: Kathleen Howley, Bloomberg News
11:00 AM - 11:55 AM - New Journalism Lifeforms III: Life after Newspapers - Salon B, Hilton
Moderator: Ben Johnson, founder, www.OKCReview.com. New media models are popping up as newspapers go down. How to get the entrepreneurial mindset and the money.
12:05 PM - 1:15 PM - NAREE Book Awards Luncheon Paperless Publishing & Publishing Solo: No Editor Required? Vooks, E-Books, Self-Published Books in Any Medium and How to Promote Them.
Al Martin, WhatWorks Communications and author Ilyce Glink, ThinkGlink; Discussion leader: Brad Inman, founder Inman News and Vook. Awards Presentation: Brad Inman and Leigh Robinson, Express Publishing.
(Location: El Sol y La Luna restaurant, 600 E. Sixth St. Austin, Texas 78701. One block north of Hilton.)
1:30 - 2:25 PM - What Does "Green" Really Mean? - Salon B, Hilton
Going Beyond the Label and Seeing What's Under the Hype of Green Building Products.
Ray Tonjes, Ray Tonjes Builder Inc.; Keith Early, ODL; and Robert Harris, Lake/Flato Architects. Moderator: Jean Dimeo, EcoHome Magazine.
2:30 - 3:25 PM - Gotta Get Away: The Vacation Home Market - What's at Play? - Salon B, Hilton
Lil Miller-Fox, www.PrivateCommunities.com; Dan Collins, Martis Camp; Carl Shepherd, HomeAway. Moderator: Larry Olmsted, USA Today
3:30 - 4:30 PM - No Vacancy: The Lows and Highs of the Hotel Market - Salon B, Hilton
Bruce Walker, Source Strategies; John Keeling, Valencia Group; Bill Hoffman, Trigild Inc.; and Tom Voss, president, The Grand Del Mar. Moderator: Emily Spicer, San Antonio Express-News
4:40 - 5:50 PM - NAREE's Meet the Press - Salon A, Hilton
NAREE's own mini media tour in a speed dating format. Conferees may sign up for three-minute appointments with the nation's top real estate and home and design journalists. Media participants include: Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times; Holden Lewis Bankrate.com; Daniel Taub, Bloomberg News; Mary Umberger, Chicago Tribune and Inman News; author and columnist Ilyce Glink; Matt Valley, National Real Estate Investor; syndicated columnist Lew Sichelman; John Wordock, Marketwatch; Amy Hoak, Marketwatch; Gail Ravgiala, Design New England: Shannon Behnken, Tampa Tribune; Shonda Novak, Austin American Statesman; Carol Hazard, Richmond Times Dispatch; Sharon Stangenes, freelance writer; Stacy Downs, Kansas City Star; Francisco Vara-Orta, Austin Business Journal; Hui-Yong Yu, Bloomberg News; Kathleen Howley, Bloomberg News; Jean Dimeo, Eco Home and Building Products; Greg Cook, freelance writer; Jeff Collins, Orange County Register; Jason Hidalgo, Reno Journal-Gazette; Michael Gerrity, Real Estate Channel; Jeanne Lang Jones, Puget Sound Business Journal; Emily Spicer, San Antonio Express-News; Camilla McLaughlin, freelance writer; Elizabeth Razzi, Washington Post; Mary Shanklin, Orlando Sentinel; Tim Logan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Kristina Shevory, New York Times; Terence Shepherd, Miami Herald; and Kimberley Miller, Palm Beach Post.
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - NAREE's 60th Annual Real Estate Journalism Awards Presentation and Reception
(Location: Carmelo's Restaurant, 504 E. 5th St., Austin, Texas, 78701. Across the street from Hilton, north door.)
Saturday, June 5
8:00 AM - Cyber Cafe Opens - Room 400, Hilton
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM - New Journalism Lifeforms IV - Covering the Same Event in Print and On Air - Salon B, Hilton
Shannon Behnken, Tampa Tribune; Mary Umberger, Chicago Tribune and Inman News; and Harold Bubil, Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
9:20 AM - 10:15 AM - Alternative Housing: Exploring the Next Generation of Sustainable Materials - Salon B, Hilton
Gayle Borst, executive director, Design.Build.Live and Kindra Welch, Clay.Sand.Straw.
Moderator: Camilla McLaughlin, freelance writer
10:20 - 11:15 AM --Pulling the Plug: Alternative Power Sources - Salon B, Hilton
Andrew McCalla, CEO of Meridian Solar; Russel Smith, Texas Renewable Energy Industries Association; David Dixon, Hill Country Ecopower; Nathan Doxley, E3 Properties. Moderator: Emmet Pierce, contributor, San Diego Business Journal
11:20 - 11:50 AM - NAREE Membership Meeting - Salon B, Hilton
Led by NAREE President Lauren Beale, Los Angeles Times
12 Noon - Cyber Cafe closes; NAREE Conference concludes.
NAREE Austin Conference: Learn New Media, Find New Sources
Austin, Texas -- In today’s news business, it’s probably no longer enough merely to write a great story. If posting to the web, blogging, or knowing your way around a video camera aren’t part of a reporter’s daily life now, they soon shall be.
The National Association of Real Estate Editors is offering hands-on tutorials on the aforementioned and other forms of new media at its annual meeting June 2-5 in Austin, Texas. Bring your laptops, cameras, iPhones and any other weapons of mass communications in order to absorb instruction and trouble-shooting tips from Harold Bubil of the Sarasota Herald Tribune and Amy Hoak of Marketwatch.com, who will teach how to master new tech formats and polish the skills of those who are already using them.
"The key to survival is to know how to reinvent yourself," said conference chairman Ralph Bivins,who has covered real estate for more than two decades, first for newspapers including the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News and now online for CultureMap.com and his own RealtyNewsReport.com. "Those on the forefront of real estate's new media will be at NAREE's Austin conference to offer set- by-step instruction to build new skills and to show how they've gone from the big newspaper mentality to the successful entrepreneurial mindset. I believe their insight will be helpful to both veterans and those new to the profession." Confirmed presenters include: Brad Inman, Inman News and Vook founder and past NAREE president; Evan Smith of the Texas Tribune, Glenn W. Smith of DogCanyon.org; Walt Molony of the National Association of Realtors; and Al Martin of WhatWorks Communications.
In addition to building their tech skills, attendees of NAREE's 44th annual Real Estate Journalism Conference can tour trend-setting developments in downtown Austin and the Texas Hill Country and hear from the nation's experts in commercial, residential and financial real estate and green home building and design.
Speakers will include former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, who will deliver the keynote speech at 12:45 p.m. Thursday, June 3. At 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, June 2, three leaders in the real estate marketplace will offer their predictions for the business in the coming decade. Benjamin Clark, president of the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents and Home Buyer Representation; Pat Lashinsky, president of the ZipRealty online brokerage; and Mary Tennant, president of Keller Williams Realty, will discuss what's on the horizon for the industry as it emerges from the recession.
Conference attendees also will get a close look at the "jingle mail" phenomenon and learn why thousands of homeowners are surrendering to foreclosure and just mailing in their keys to their lenders. On Wednesday, June 2, nationally syndicated columnist Kenneth Harney will moderate a panel on that topic that will include Jack Schakett of the Bank of America, Rick Sharga of the RealtyTrac foreclosure-data firm, and Prof. Brent T. White of the University of Arizona Law School.
Real Estate news making highlights will also include:
· Brian Montgomery, former commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration, will look at how new FHA guidelines may change the rules for home buying;
· Doug Duncan, chief economist for Fannie Mae, and Counselors of Real Estate chairman Arthur Pasquarella of Philadelphia’s BPG Properties will offer their takes on the economy.
· Panelists and presenters will provide the outlook for commercial real estate and the apartment, hotel and vacation-home industries.
On Friday afternoon, NAREE's "Meet the Press" event will offer freelancers and publicists face-to-face mini-meetings with editors and real estate journalists for queries and pitches. Attendees are guaranteed to pick up story ideas and gather news sources that can be called for quotes and information in the future. Winners of NAREE's 60th annual Journalism Awards Competition and the Bruss Real Estate Book Awards Competition are among the top writers expected. NAREE's prestigious awards will be presented June 4, with the book awards banquet at noon and the journalism awards ceremony at 6 p.m.
Register now for the NAREE conference at www.naree.org. To obtain an outstanding $125 room rate at the Hilton Austin (where rates typically are about $200), attendees should call the hotel by May 14 at 800-236-1592 and ask for the NAREE rate of $125 or go online at Hilton.com and enter code "REE".
The Hilton’s facilities include great restaurants, workout/fitness room, business center, 24-hour room service, rooftop pool, and good views from every room.
A new property, the Hilton Austin is only one block from the downtown's Sixth Street entertainment district, which rocks until the early morning hours. It is also within walking distance of the beautiful walking/jogging trail along Lady Bird Lake and the Warehouse District, which has restaurants, entertainment venues and pubs. At dusk, walk down to the Congress Avenue bridge, where tourists watch a million bats take off on their nightly food quest.
Founded in 1929, NAREE is a non-profit professional association of writers, columnists, authors and editors covering real estate, housing, commercial development, design and finance.
Contact:
Mary Doyle-Kimball, NAREE executive director
561-391-3599 madkimba@aol.com
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