ULI Asia Pacific Webinar: Home Attainability Index 2025: Affordable Housing Solutions for a Diverse Region

When

2025-07-09
2025-07-09T11:30:00 - 2025-07-09T12:30:00
Asia/Hong_Kong

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    Where

    Webinar APAC This webinar will be hosted by Zoom Hong Kong, China
    Registration Fees
    ULI Members: Complimentary
    Non-members: USD30

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    Housing affordability is one of the key issues in cities across the Asia Pacific region. This webinar explores how real estate can address this and provide solutions.

    It will also feature highlights from the 2025 ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index, the only report to assess housing affordability across the region.

    • Where is home attainability most constrained?
    • Which major cities provide the most affordable homes?
    • What can the real estate industry do to address the attainability challenge?
    • How can the public and private sectors work together?


    To learn this and more, join our webinar on 9th July at 11:30am – 12:30pm HKT and hear from ULI’s expert panel.

     

    Speakers

    Panelist

    Charles Ma

    Managing Director, Greystar China

    Charles Ma is the Managing Director of Greystar China and leads the country’s Investment Management Platform. Charles' key responsibilities include executing the platform’s China investment strategy, pursuing and delivering on China's rental market opportunities, identifying and collaborating with various strategic partners, and building and developing vertically integrated capabilities to continue growing Greystar's presence. Prior to joining Greystar, Charles was Head of Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions for China Vanke, one of China’s top real estate developers. He was responsible for leading the company’s current and future core strategies, including identifying and executing investment opportunities across asset classes and global geographies such as office, multi-family, logistics, and retail. Charles holds a bachelor’s of science degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

    Panelist

    Ryan Ip

    Vice President cum Co-Head of Public Policy Institute, Our Hong Kong Foundation

    Ryan is the Vice President cum Co-Head of Public Policy Institute at Our Hong Kong Foundation. He leads the research department of the Foundation to conduct in-depth research and advise the Hong Kong Government on a range of key topics, including land and housing, transport and logistics, healthcare and ageing, etc. He is also an Independent Non-Executive Director at China Merchants Land Limited. Before joining OHKF, he was an economist at JLL and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and is a Chartered Surveyor. Ryan is also active in public service and is a member of the Hong Kong Government’s Advisory Committee on the Northern Metropolis, and Land and Development Advisory Committee, the Town Planning Board, and the Hong Kong Maritime and Port Board. He is also an Executive Committee member of the China Real Estate Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong and International Chapter, an International Advisory Committee member of the Research Institute for Land and Space at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a board member of the Hong Kong Proptech Association.

    Panelist

    Belinda Bentley

    Managing Director, 9Springs

    Belinda is the Managing Director of 9Springs, a leading Australian property investment, advisory and development project management group. With over 20 years’ experience, Belinda specialises in unlocking the development value of underutilised assets to facilitate the delivery of transformative projects. In the past three years, Belinda has contributed to more than A$2b of infill and greenfield developments across social infrastructure, seniors housing, community housing (social, affordable, transitional and crisis), build-to-rent, residential, student accommodation, healthcare, industrial, commercial and circular economy (waste and recycling infrastructure). With over a decade in the community housing sector, Belinda is a Non-Executive Director of Link Wentworth Housing, one of Australia’s largest Community Housing Providers servicing 10,000 residents living in 6,400 social, affordable and specialist disability accommodation homes. Belinda is an honorary Adjunct Associate Professor (Industry) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and is Chair of the School of Built Environment’s Industry Advisory Board. Belinda is the Co-Chair of the ULI Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence Jury and an Appointed Member of the ULI Asia Pacific Housing Council. Belinda is the recipient of the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building Alumni Award, Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) National and NSW Women in Leadership Awards for Excellence, National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) NSW Business Woman of the Year Award and the Asialink and ANU Centre of Asian-Australian Leadership (CAAL) Asian-Australian Leadership Award (Entrepreneurship Category Winner).