INSTITUTE OF VALUATION AND ESTATE MANAGEMENT OF FIJI HOSTS 9TH CONFERENCE IN NADI

The Institute of Valuation and Estate Management of Fiji will be hosting its ninth annual conference on November 15 and 16, 2018 at the Sofitel Resort & Spa, Denarau Island, Nadi.

The conference will be officially opened by Ray Graham, a senior Board Member of the Property Institute of New Zealand. Mr Graham was invited by the Institute to be the chief guest at this event which he kindly accepted and has flown in from NZ for this event.

He has over 40 years of valuation experience and has vast experiences working in NZ and the South Pacific conducting Real Estate and Plant & Machinery Valuations. He currently serves as a Board Member for the Property Institute of NZ and is the managing director for his valuation firm Graham & Associates in New Zealand. The theme for this year’s conference is “Connecting the Property Industry – Debate, Diversity & Delivery”. Presentations would be under the thematics of leadership, connectivity, technology and sustainability.

With a growing economy and an everincreasing demand in the property sector, we feel that property and land professionals must be well equipped with adequate competencies and tools to ensure success of the relevant stakeholder agencies and national development, both in the short and long term.

In doing so, our profession ought to be connected to our stakeholder agencies including property professionals, accountants, insurance agencies, environment agencies and infrastructure developers, amongst others.

In doing so, we feel our industry can only then positively contribute to the economy hence be in line with the RBF’s vision of “Leading Fiji to Economic Success.”

This year the Institute is also hosting a formal dinner to honour significant achievements of its members and to those who have positively contributed to the industry.

This includes Sandeep Narayan and Kelera Gadolo who were selected to present on their research findings at the World Bank Conference in Washington DC, USA in March 2017.

Source:Institute of Valuation and Estate Management of Fiji