The New York Real Estate Expo
Friday, January 28th, 2011The New York Real Estate Expo is held annually at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel, to provide an opportunity to agents and brokers for targeted networking and connection with the agents ideal clientele. The N.Y. Real Estate Expo is the single largest event concerning real estate in the country. Everything and everyone an investor or agent needs to succeed can be found behind its doors. Architects, bankers, contractors, credit specialists, landscapers, real estate bankers, mortgage bankers, real estate insurance companies, all be present, just to name few.
The New York Real Estate Expo Agenda: Imperial Room
The N.Y. Real Estate Expo will happen in stages, even though those stages won’t be noticed by most, it is happening. In the early hours of the Expo, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., registration will be held, as well as exhibitor set up. After that, from 9a.m. to 10:30 a.m., the Imperial Room is opened for the commercial observer forum, the topic will cover, New York investment sales in 2011. The moderator will be Tom Acitelli, and will show case Moses Sioni, managing director of Sioni & Partners; Sam Chandan, President and chief economist of Real Estate Econometrics, along with many others.
The seminars don’t stop there, though. From 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Real Estate Weekly Forum will start. The topic will be: Amid the Economic Uncertainty, What Lies Ahead for the Real Estate Investor. The moderator will be Dan Geiger, from Real State Weekly. The forum will showcase owner and investors such as, James R. Wacht, President of Sierra Realty; Paul J. Massey, Jr., Chief executive Officer and founding partner of Massey Knakal Realty Services; and Ralph Herzka, the President and CEO of Meridian Capital Group LLC.
A real estate seminar for effectively marketing and selling green properties, will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. The keynote speakers for this seminar are, Alison Novak, of GreenHomeNYC and The Hudson Companies Inc. Speaking with her, is Alanna Martin, of Green Properties New York.
A CCIM forum will be held from 4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m., covering the topic of, what are the rules in office, retail, development, and lending. The experts that have been scheduled to speak are, Paul G.W. Fetscher CCIM, SCLS; Craig T. Evans, CCIM and Cassidy Turley; Wayne D’ Amico, CCIM and Property Politics; and Jimmy Vattes, CCIM and Mortgage Bankers.
Bolasco Room
Other seminars in the Bolasco Room include, Ethical Considerations for the Real Estate Practitioner, Foreign investment in US Real Estate: Challenges and Opportunities, and the History of CO-OP’s in NYC / NYC Condo History, to name a few.
Those were just some of the seminars and activities going on at the New York Real Estate Expo, dozens others are taking place in the Carnegie Room, Booth Room, and Edison Room. The final seminar ends at 5:30 p.m., so if you chose your learning options poorly, you’ve run out of time. Use your experience here wisely, and you’ll be one real estate investor who comes out with more leads for clients, lenders, and contacts with other agents and brokers. To see the full schedule of the New York Real Estate Expo, go to their website at, http://www.nycrealestateexpo.com/Agenda.html.