REALPAC/Toronto Metropolitan University Research Symposium

8th Annual REALPAC / TMU Commercial Real Estate Virtual Research Symposium

Bringing together CRE practitioners, academic researchers, and policymakers
to share and discuss their research.

REALPAC is pleased to invite you to the 8th Annual REALPAC/Toronto Metropolitan University Commercial Real Estate Virtual Research Symposium.

The symposium is organized by REALPAC and the Real Estate Management Department at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, and will bring together commercial real estate practitioners, academics and policy makers to share and discuss their research.

Call for Papers

We are pleased to invite you to submit your academic or professional practice research papers for presentation at the Research Symposium.

We invite professional practice and academic papers that focus on:
• Artificial Intelligence and other real estate technologies in real estate
• Effects of remote work within the commercial real estate industry (face-to-face interactions, work habits, lifestyle)
• Sustainability: Climate risk and mitigation, DEI or Indigenous focused research
• Affordable housing and other housing issues from the viewpoint of commercial real estate
• Rent control and rent control exit strategies
• Changing office market needs (conversions, return to office)
• Interest rates, inflation, and cap rates
• Construction costs, supply chain and labour challenges
• Retail performance and effects of e-commerce
• Income-producing real estate assets and their financial performance metrics
• Indexing and indexes of commercial real estate assets
• Risk and return relation to commercial real estate markets
• REITs, their management issues, and their financial performance metrics
• Policy issues that focus on domestic and/or international capital flows that target commercial real estate markets
• Other relevant topics, including international investments or flows or technology transfers and the like, as related to the commercial real estate industry

Note: Presentations related to the Canadian commercial real estate industry are strongly preferred.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of a proposed presentation by September 30, 2025 to Dr. Anson Ho, Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, atyho@torontomu.ca.

All authors will be contacted soon after submission regarding the inclusion of their presentation in the event.

Questions & Additional Information

Please contact Dr. Anson Ho, atyho@torontomu.ca, (416) 979-5000 ext. 544589.