Activities

What does the Real Estate Symposium board?

De board is responsible for the organization of the Real Estate Symposium. The Real Estate Symposium is a day where 200 real estate professionals and students come together to discuss a actual real estate topic.

Who are in the Real Estate Symposium board?

The board is formed out of members from the three main real estate study associations: FRESH, TU Delft (BOSS) and TU/e (SerVicE). They work in a team from 7 students from different study associations, the perfect way to expand your network.
 

Real Estate Symposium board 2010 - 2011

The annual Real Estate Symposium is a result of the close cooperation between FRESH, BOSS (foundation for Real Estate and Housing students at Delft) and SerVicE (foundation for Real Estate Management & Development students at Eindhoven). The event aims at the transfer of knowledge between real estate students and professionals. A total of 200 people can join this year’s Symposium.

The exact date and the program for the day are not definite yet. For updates, please check www.hetvastgoedsymposium.nl. On the website you can also subscribe for the symposium, read more about the theme and enter the essay contest.

Every year, a different theme is chosen as the centre of the day’s activities. The Real Estate Symposium, 2009 is about the development and management of station areas. This is a compex task, given the number of people and institutions involved, the range of functions a station area is required to fulfill nowadays and the importance of the area for the community. The symposium focuses on a set of major threats to succesful development and management that have arisen and continue to rise, strengthened by the economic crisis. More importantly, it focuses on possible chances.

This year the Real Estate Symposium took place at the 10^th of December at NEMO, Amsterdam. The symposium was led by Gert-Joost Peek( ING RED), speakers at the Symposium were Mattie Busch (VROM), Hedzer Pathuis (Municipality Utrecht), Barend Kuenen (NS Poort), Fred Hobma (TU Delft), Christiaan Deters (Procap), Peter van Bosse (Fakton), and Ernst van der Leij (Brink Groep).

Conclusion of the day was that more energy and time should be put in collaboration. Parties and project employees should get to know each other and eventually fall in love with each other. Means to establish this in the future are, according to the speakers at the Real Estate Symposium, more attention for the studies performed and attract more women in the collaboration process of area development.

The day ended with the delivery of the Continu Engineering Vastgoedaward 2009. The jury, under supervision from Wabe van Enk (PropertyNL), concluded that the winning essay, based upon the theorem “Redevelopment of station areas should be coordinated by the government” was the one from Sander van Lent. Sander won the Continu Engineering Vastgoedaward 2009 with his essay “Integrale stationsontwikkeling door proactive samenwerking”. Sander won a € 700,- prize and a publication in the PropertyNL.

The second edition from the Real Estate Symposium took place at the 5th of October at the BIM house in Amsterdam. Real Estate students and professionals came together to discuss a actual problem within the Real Estate sector.

The theme for the second edition was: “Space for compaction: livability in urban areas”

The past years there has been a growing interest in controlling densities. Cities are build more compact and efficient. What this means in terms of understanding and grip on the urban development is slowly recognizable. Ever bigger areas are being (re)developed. More square meters are being realized on the same amount of land. By efficiency driven specializations many of these areas become functional or mono bridle. De diversity of the city is lost in the skyline. But you can’t live in a skyline.  

During the day five speakers spoke about the responsibilities of public and private parties in case of (re)Development of urban areas. The case is studied from the perspective of five different fields of work: the developer, the architect, the investor, de government and the corporations. After the hearings, there was a debate with a discussion about the theme.  

for a complete overview of the presentations click here.

De main sponsors, Continu Engineering and PRC organized a contest: The Continu Engineering Real Estate Award 2007. Students who enrolled in the contest had to write a essay about the theme of the Real Estate Symposium. De essay had to be about: The livability of urban compaction should be the responsibility of the private parties. The winner of the essay contest B. de Groot won a € 700,- euro prize. The day ended with a informal drink.

Article Service magazine December 2007. Winner Continu Engineering Real Estate Award 2007

The Real Estate Symposium 2006 took place at the 5th of October at the pavilion from corporation “Het Oosten” at Amsterdam. The location offered 150 people the chance to listen at divers speakers who spoke about the theme: “Golden opportunities out of cashing living and care for elderly”. For this theme there were three aspects chosen, the corporation aspect, the developers aspect and the investors aspect. The day began with a introduction of the theme and after that the other speakers could explain their field of work. The speakers spoke about why this is a actual theme and why something has to be done about this problem.

The Continu Engineering Real Estate Award was awarded for the first time. There were sufficient enrolments and Twynstra Gudde was able to select a winner. The two best enrolments were:

1. Bas Wilberts (University of  Amsterdam)
2. Richard Vick (TUDelft)

The Real Estate Award was awarded on the 5th of October by the director of Continu Engineering, Frank Haagendoorn and Dennis Christmas who was also in the jury on behalve of Twynstra Gudde.

 For the complete theme magazine from the 2006 edition click here.

Taking your first steps in the real estate industry? Organize The Real Estate Symposium!

What does the Real Estate Symposium board?

The board is responsible for the organization of the Real Estate Symposium. The Real Estate Symposium is a day where 200 real estate professionals and students come together to discuss a actual real estate topic.

Who are in the Real Estate Symposium board?

The board is formed out of members from the three main real estate study associations: FRESH, TU Delft (BOSS) and TU/e (SerVicE). They work in a team from 7 students from different study associations, the perfect way to expand your network.

What is the added value for me?

The organization of the Real Estate Symposium is a interesting and instructive addition to your study. You will develop your own management skills and insights. You will learn how to work in a team, in which each student has his or hers own tasks and responsibilities. By this you will come into contact with many real estate companies and students from across the whole country. The companies and students get a chance to get to meet you and by this you will expand your network significantly.

Time?

One evening a week there is a meeting at a central location, for instance the central station of Utrecht. Besides this meeting you need to make time for your own point of attention. The time pressure has got peaks and valleys, the last board has got a average work load of 8 hours per week.

Impression?

For a first impression we would like you to visit our website at: www.hetvastgoedsymposium.nl

Interested?

Are you interested or do you have additional questions? Please contact us. You can contact by e-mail at: info@hetvastgoedsymposium.nl or by phone +316-45800491 (Nathalie Bruyn, BOSS TU Delft) or +316-15315102 (Joris van Geenen, SerVicE TU/e)