This year conference will be titled "Will market transparency and an ethical codex enhance the reputation of the real estate industry?"

Venue: 15 April 2010, Auditorium Friedrichstraße, Berlin

Programme

9.30   Welcome by Jörn Stobbe MRICS, Chairman, RICS Deutschland
09.45 “Economic transparency – how much of it do we need?” Dr. Andreas Novak, Chair of the Working Group Economy, Transparency International, Berlin

Part I - Market – Facts, Yields & Outlook
10.15 “The beginning of a new phase in the investment cycle? Ralf-Peter Koschny, Board Member, BulwienGesa AG, Hamburg
10.45 "Diverging trends in property – The outlook for real estate markets around the globe” Simon Rubinsohn, Chief Economist, RICS, London (Lecture in English)
11.45 Panel discussion with speakers - Presentation: Miriam Beul, Journalist

Part II - How transparent is the German real estate industry? Example real estate agency law
12.15 “Is the German agency law still up-to-date?” Uwe Bethge, Attorney-At-Law and Solicitor, bethgeundpartner I immobilienanwälte, Hannover, Member of the Working Group Mission Statement RICS Deutschland
12.30 “Transparency in Europe – How well is Germany doing?“ Axel von Goldbeck, Managing Director, ZIA Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss e.V., Berlin
12.45 "RICS Code of Ethics – an effort of alignment to the German market situation“  Carl O. Stinglwagner FRICS, Vice-Chairman, RICS Deutschland

13.00 Lunch buffet 

Part III - The German real estate agency law reflected by users and investor
14.30 Panel 1 "What’s an agent’s service worth? More transparency for tenants and private investors"
15.30 Panel 2 "Institutional investors – complying with the claim of transparency?"

Closing words by Andreas Ruf MRICS, Vice-Chairman, RICS Deutschland

Please note that the conference will be held in German.

For more information and to register, please go on www.rics.europe.eu/de