Frank Clayton, President, continues to be an active speaker. On June 21st, he gave a talk to the 8th Annual Real Estate Financing Summit dealing with understanding the dynamics of commercial and industrial real estate space absorption. On June 2nd, he spoke on the topic of Future Demographic Change and Housing Demand in the Greater Golden Horseshoe at The Land Conference. At the end of March he gave a talk on The Province's Draft Growth Plan: Implications for the GTA Housing Market at a GTHBA breakfast session. In February, he addressed the Ontario Fee Appraisers' Symposium on the property value impacts of Greenbelt Reform and talked about the economic outlook to the Edmonton Lumberman's Association. In March he was part of a panel at the Canadian Home Builders' Association in St. John's dealing with the economic and housing market outlook. In December he was on a Toronto NAIOP panel talking about the Toronto condominium market outlook. In October and November he participated in two GTHBA events - the Economic Outlook Symposium and the Implications of Ontario's Proposed Greenbelt and Growth Management Reforms. In September he was a moderator for a panel at the Canadian Apartment Investors Conference. 

Patricia Arsenault, Senior Vice President, recently presented highlights of real estate investment performance at the RealFinance conference in Toronto and Clayton Research’s outlook for housing starts and renovation activity at the CHBA Economic Research Committee. Each quarter, Patricia presents the latest findings from the FIRM survey on Canadian consumers' mortgage and personal borrowing behaviour and attitudes to Canada's leading lenders. And Canada's top Property and Casualty Insurance companies obtain comparable FIRM tracking info on home and auto insurance customers. Patricia works with IPD (London, England) on the ICREIM/IPD Canadian Property Index, a real estate investment benchmark service and with the Canadian Home Builders' Association on the Pulse Survey of Home Builders. 

Jeannette Gillezeau, Vice President, has been busy with a variety of assignments. Over the spring, she provided strategic advice to a number of home builder and developer groups regarding municipal development charge appeals in Aurora, Brampton, Oakville and Markham, and an amendment to the education development charge by-laws in Halton Region. She provided evidence at an Ontario Municipal Board hearing regarding a proposal to expand the urban boundary of the City of Ottawa and at another hearing regarding the economic implications of a retail development proposed for an employment district in the Town of Oakville.