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This event listing is sponsored by South Dakota State University.<\/p>\n
At this year\u2019s South Dakota Land and Lending Conference, hosted by the Ness School of Management and Economics at SDSU on Oct. 1 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center, hear from nationally recognized thought leaders about the challenges and opportunities in real estate in the region and beyond, and the macroeconomic forces \u2014 policy induced and otherwise \u2014 driving the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe conference targets real estate markets \u2014 the land \u2014 and the sources of credit \u2014 the lending \u2014 funding the markets,\u201d said Joe Santos, the Larry and Diane Ness endowed director and professor of economics at the Ness School.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe mission of the conference is to advance understanding of real estate markets, including how they are affected by conditions in the credit channel and decisions by public policymakers, including fiscal and monetary policymakers,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n
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This year, the path for interest rates and the role the Federal Reserve likely will play in determining the path will feature largely in the macroeconomics segment of the event.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the conference encourages and strengthens relationships among academic researchers, real estate professionals, lenders and policymakers.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis year, we will begin the event with Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, discussing the macroeconomy, and we will end the event with Sam Chandan, director of the C.H. Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance at NYU, discussing the future of real estate \u2014 its credit channels and otherwise,\u201d Santos said. \u201cSam co-authored the World Economic Forum\u2019s Framework for the Future of Real Estate.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIn between, a panel of real estate industry leaders, hosted by Jeff Eckhoff\u00a0 of the city of Sioux Falls and including Christine Gaffney of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, Jay Parsons\u00a0 of WayMaker, Eric Lynch of the National Association of Home Builders and Diane Swonk will discuss regional challenges and opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cOver lunch, a panel of educators in nationally recognized real estate programs, hosted by Bill Even of the Governor\u2019s Office of Economic Development and including Sam Chandan of NYU, Xiaozhou Ding of SDSU, Mike Eriksen of Purdue University and Gary Painter of the University of Cincinnati will discuss how such programs advance regional economic growth.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd participants in several concurrent breakout sessions will discuss issues specific to local real estate markets.\u201d<\/p>\n The event also will include an introduction to one of SDSU\u2019s newest members. Paul Rann, program manager for Urban Economic Development, headquartered in the school\u2019s outpost at Startup Sioux Falls, will sit down with Santos to discuss the vision for the outpost.<\/p>\n The event is well worth the time of real estate developers, lenders, investors, policymakers, regulators and students, Santos said.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20241015_Land-LendingConference-1589-e1755530478686.webp.webp\")
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