24th
Annual Conference
9th - 12th September 2025
lagos, Nigeria.
THEME
Shaping the Future of African Real Estate Markets: Exploring Opportunities
The African Real Estate Society (AfRES), founded in 1997, is a continent-wide organization that seeks to promote networking, research and education among property professionals and academics across Africa. The AfRES conference brings together representatives from academia and practice from the continent and from across the world to discuss and present innovative solutions to real estate challenges. The conference encourages professionals from the private real estate sector, government agencies, academia, and other stakeholders in the sector.
The 2025 AfRES annual conference, themed “Shaping the Future of African Real Estate Markets: Exploring Opportunities”, will be held in Lagos, Nigeria.
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CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES
The conference encourages papers with a broad spectrum of real estate related issues including, but not limited to the following:
- Housing development
- Real estate investment trusts
- Research priorities for smart cities
- ESG Principles
- Smart cities planning and sustainability
- Sustainable financing and investments
- Industry Professionals
- Land administration and management
- Real estate market research
- Illicit funding of RE development
- Technology in smart cities development
- Geographic Information System (GIS)
- Property Valuation
Registration fee per attendee: USD300
Early bird registration fee: USD300 (28 June 2025)
Registration deadline: 1st Sept 2025
The registration fee covers an additional paper per author
or attendee, attendance to conference activities and conference materials. At least one author must attend to
present the paper at the conference. Papers that are not presented at the conference will be removed from the
Conference Proceedings. If you require an invoice to pay, kindly contact the organizers.
For more information on registration and other details regarding travel, please send an email to:
afres.info1@gmail.com
Accepted full papers (presented at the conference) will be published in Conference Proceedings with an ISBN. Papers will also be considered for publication in the Journal of Real Estate Research (JARER).
A prize for the Best Student Paper will be awarded. Other prizes include the International Real Estate Business School (IREBS) Foundation for African Real Estate Research awards in the following categories:
- Best investment paper
- Best sustainable real estate paper
- Best valuation paper
Other special awards include:
- The Dr. Gisela Schulte Award to:
- A woman, who has shown exceptional excellence, innovation, or quality in her work in the context of African Real Estate research or education.
- Individuals or institutions that contributed in an exceptional manner to the advancement of women and to gender equality in the African real estate profession, both in academia and practice
The following deadlines apply for REFEREED PAPERS.
Full paper submission: 26th May 2024
Notification of full paper acceptance: 30th July 2025
Notification of acceptance: 4th Aug. 2025
The following deadlines apply for NON-REFEREED PAPERS:
Before completing this form, please download the paper submission template on the AfRES website. Only papers that conform to this template will be accepted.
Complete a new form for each submission.
To make a submission, at least one of the authors should have registered for the conference.
TARGET PARTICIPANTS
- Researchers
- Academicians
- Policy makers
- Entrepreneurs
- Students
- Industry Professionals
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