Global REITs universe continues to expand and develop / Lijian Chen and Thomas I. Mills. The US real estate investment trust (REIT) market / Will McIntosh. Progress on REIT regimes in Europe / Simon Clark and Tom Road, Olivier Mesmin, Baker McKenzie, Matthias Roche. Listed property trusts in Australia / Graeme Newell. Asian REITs : playing the yield game / Joseph T.L. Ooi and Neo Poh Har. European real estate unlisted vehicles : a mature market now or is there more to come? / Karen Sieracki. Constructing a global real estate investment index / Ian Cullen. Property derivatives / Gary McNamara. Property markets in central and eastern Europe / Stanley McGreal, Jim Berry and Alastair Adair. Islamic finance and Shariah compliant real estate investment / Ali Parsa and Ali Muwlazadeh. Socially responsible property investment & background, trends and consequences / Thomas Lutzkendorf and David Lorenz. Corporate governance in the real estate industry / Karl-Werner Schulte, Wolfgang Scha͏̈fers and Nicolas Kohl The future of real estate education / Tony Key.