13 November 2003, Vol 4, No 2.
Previous newsletter: February 2003, Vol 4, No 1.

FIFTH CONFERENCE IN KAMPALA, UGANDA
The fifth international AfRES conference is being held in Kampala, Uganda, from 12 to 13 March 2004. The conference organiser is Judy Rugasira, Managing Director of Knight Frank Uganda. Judy may be contacted at P.O.Box 24513, Kampala, Uganda, or Tel: + 256 41 341391; + 256 31 261382; Fax: + 256 41 344369; Mobile: 077 790019. Her e-mail address is judy.rugasira@knightfrank.co.ug. The call for papers will be made soon. We are looking forward to a great conference!

OTHER CONFERENCES
The following text was lifted from the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES) newsletter. Our thanks to Richard Reed, the PRRES newsletter editor, for compiling the list:

• 3 - 5 January 2004: San Diego, California: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Society (AREUEA) Conference (www.areuea.org)
• 25 - 28 January 2004: Bangkok, Thailand: 10th Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES) Conference (www.business.unisa.edu.au/prres).
• 21 - 24 April 2004: Captiva Island, Florida: American Real Estate Society (ARES) Conference (www.aresnet.org/ARES).
• 20 - 22 April 2004: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: International Real Estate Research Symposium (IRERS). More information from nasir@ispen.gov.my or iwati@ispen.gov.my.
• 2 - 5 June 2004: Milan, Italy: 11th European Real Estate Society (ERES) Conference (www.eres2004.com)
• 20 - 31 July 2004: Frederickton, New Brunswick, Canada: American Real Estate and Urban Economics Society (AREUEA) Conference (www.areuea.org)

FOURTH AfRES CONFERENCE A SUCCESS
Dr W Olima and staff of the Department of Land Development, University of Nairobi, organised the 4th international conference in March 2003. Delegates reported that the conference was well-organised, enjoyable and informative. The more than 120 delegates represented Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Germany, UK, Canada, Singapore and USA. Our thanks to Dr Olima and staff for all their work.

RICS FOUNDATION RESEARCH PRIZES
RICS Foundation awarded two prizes at the recent conference in Nairobi:

• Best paper: Prof Reinhold Joubert, University of South Africa
  Land reform and redistribution implementation in Mpumalanga Province sugar industry: a process approach
• Best paper by a young researcher: Annette Shoo, University of Cape Town
  The Land Act 1999 and its effects on investment and financing in Tanzania

Certificates and awards have been posted to the winners. Our thanks to the RICS Foundation for their generous support of research in Africa, and to Stephen Brown, Director of Research at the RICS Foundation, for his personal efforts.

ADMINISTRATION PROBLEMS RESOLVED
Thanks to a generous sponsorship from the International Real Estate Society (IRES), AfRES has been able to hire an administrative assistant for the following year. Members will have noticed that journals are being distributed again. (You may not receive a copy of every American journal--for some journals there are insufficient copies.) We are grateful to the American Real Estate Society Foundation for sponsoring these journals.