IRE|BS Foundation for African Real Estate Research

Best Paper Awards

Three Award Categories

These awards are handed to researchers, whose papers have been presented at AfRES conferences. Best papers should comply with aspects of quality, profoundness, innovation and relevance. The Best Paper Awards contain prize money of EUR 500 and a certificate. In the past there have been two award categories: Real Estate Investment and Sustainable Real Estate. To honour an excellent researcher and a close friend of AfRES, who passed away in August 2014, the IREBS Foundation for African Real Estate Research has introduced the Dr. Olawande Oni Memorial Prize for the best paper on Real Estate Valuation
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Winners of the Best Paper Awards

9th AfRES Conference in Lagos 2009

  • Real Estate Investment: Wilfred K. Anim-Odame, Tony Key and Simon Stevenson for the paper entitled The Ghanaian Transaction-based Real Estate Indices
  • Sustainable Real Estate: Oni Ayotunde Olawande for the paper entitled Land Value Determinants and Variability in Commercial Property Values in Emerging

10th AfRES Conference in Naivasha 2010

  • Real Estate Investment: Charles Lucian for the paper entitled Rental Value Trends in Real Estate Investment in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: The case of Pension Funds
  • Sustainable Real Estate: Jennifer Murigu and Wallace Mbugua for the paper entitled Burying as an Interment Method and its Impact on Land in the Kenyan Urban Areas

11th AfRES Conference in Windhoek 2011

  • Sustainable Real Estate: David Jenkins and Catherine Gateri for the paper entitled Old meets new: The Interplay of Customary tenure and Global Land-based Approaches to Climate Change
  • Sustainable Real Estate: Jennifer Murigu and Wallace Mbugua for the paper entitled Burying as an Interment Method and its Impact on Land in the Kenyan Urban Areas

12th AfRES Conference in Accra 2012

  • Sustainable Real Estate: Emmanuel Kofi Gavu, Eric Paul Tudzi and Jonathan Zinzi Ayitey for the paper entitled The Management of learning spaces: emerging issues at Knust, Kumasi

13th AfRES Conference in Kigali 2013

  • Victor Akujuru and Les Ruddock for the paper entitled Compulsory Acquisition Practices and the Determination of Compensation Payable in the Niger Delta

14th AfRES Conference in Cape Town 2014

  • Real Estate Investment: Olusegun Olaopin Olanrele, Rosli Bin Said & Nasir bin Daud for the paper entitled Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Industry in Nigeria: The influence of external factors on returns
  • Sustainable Real Estate: Olaseni O. Adetokunboh, Oludare I. Makinde & Samson E. Agbato for the paper entitled Site Acquisition for Telcom Base Stations in Southwest Nigeria: Concerns, challenges and prospects

15th AfRES Conference in Kumasi 2015

  • Real Estate Investment: Olusegun Olaopin Olanrele, Rosli Bin Said & Assoc. Prof. Nasir bin Daud for the paper entitled An evaluation of the performance and acceptability of REIT in Nigeria
  • Sustainable Real Estate: Prof. John Tiah Bugri, Emmanuel Kofi Gavu & Walter Dachaga for the paper entitled Comparative analysis of property maintenance in public and private institutions: Lessons from a developing country
  • Dr. Olawande Oni Memorial Prize for Valuation: Abel Olaleye, Benjamin Ekemode & Daramola Olapade for the paper entitled Predictive capacity of asking price on property sales price in emerging market: Evidence from Lagos Nigeria

16th AfRES Conference in Addis Ababa 2016

  • Real Estate Investment: Timothy Oluwafemi Ayodele and Abel Olaleye for the paper entitled Impact of Adding Securitised Property into Mixed-Asset Portfolio in Emerging Market: Evidence from Nigeria
  • Sustainable Real Estate: Mwai Tilda Njeri and Mwirigi Pamela Mukiri for the paper entitled Sustainable Real Estate: An Analysis of Open Public Spaces Incorporation in Real Estate Development in Kenya
  • Dr. Olawande Oni Memorial Prize for Valuation: Joseph Yacim and Douw Boshoff for the paper entitled Comparison of Mass Appraisal Models for Effective Prediction of Property Values

17th AfRES Conference in Johannesburg 2017

  • Real Estate Investment: Osasumwen Edionwe, Olusegun Ogunba, Olusegun Olanrele and Omokolade Akinsomi for the paper entitled International portfolio performance and diversification benefits of real estate investment trusts in selected countries
  • Dr. Olawande Oni Memorial Prize for Valuation: Emmanuel Kofi Gavu and Lewis Abedi Asante for the paper entitled Determinants of residential rental values in Ghana: Evidence from experts and stakeholder perspectives

18th AfRES Conference in Abeokuta 2018

  • Real Estate Investment: Olusegun Olanrele, Tomisi Adegunle and Oluwatosin Fateye for the paper entitled Causal Relationship of N-REITs Dividend Yield and Money Market Indicators (A Case study of Skye Shelter REIT)
  • Dr. Olawande Oni Memorial Prize for Valuation: Austin Otegbulu for the paper entitled Methodological Lapses in Plant and Equipment Valuation amongst Lagos Valuers

 

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