Conference Examines Real Estate Prospects

Experts in all facets of real estate finance and investments will examine the industry’s prospects in light of the current economic and political uncertainties at UCLA Extension’s annual finance and investment conference Wednesday at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

Keynote speaker will be Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Group Investments.

Other speakers will include Roy March, president of Eastdil Realty Co., and author Joel Kotkin, a business columnist and senior fellow at the Milken Institute.

Among the topics to be discussed by Zell and other panelists will be what’s next for California following the dot-com downturn, finding construction financing, changing capital markets, and prospects for pension funds and opportunity funds.

Cost is $275 for the daylong event. Further information is available at (310) 206-1409 and at https://www.uclaextension.org/finance2001.