LOS ANGELES-Experts on the local, regional and nationalapartment markets will zero in on the industry’s outlook and offertheir assessments of the current challenges as well as marketopportunities in an all-day conference and networking event onThursday, Oct. 21 at Apartments 2010, an annual event in theRealShare series. The annual gathering of apartment investors,owners, brokers, lenders and others involved in the multifamilymarket is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Westin BonaventureHotel Hotel at 404 S. Figueroa St. in Downtown Los Angeles.

According to Daniel Ceniceros, vice president of strategicdevelopment for ALM’s Real Estate Media Group RealShareConferences, the event attendance grows each year, with an expected1200 to 1500 industry leaders already anticipated to attend. “Ourgrowth is attributed to the fact that we are in a market wheretransactions are scare and the multifamily industry has weather thestorm,” he says. “In real estate, multifamily is the only assetclass that has continued to have lending capital. Now the banks,life companies and other financial sources have joined the GSEs tomake the apartment lending world competitive.”

What will bring the buyers back, how financing will change andwhat areas of the nation are poised to recover quicker thanothers are all issues on the agenda for the full day event.“With the wide spectrum of attendees, Apartments 2010 is asolution-based conference for the investor, developer and owners atall levels,” says Ceniceros. “Our attendees span from the 20-unitapartment owner and operator to the 20,000-unit apartment owner andoperator. There is valuable content here for everyone.”