Leading experts on the housing market will address a local audience at an event in Belfast later this month.

RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) global chief economist, Simon Rubinsohn; Professor Brendan Williams of UCD (University College Dublin), an authority on NAMA; and television property expert, Kate Faulkner, will be amongst the speakers at the RICS Northern Ireland housing conference on January 28.

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The event in the Stormont Hotel will also hear from Ulster Bank chief economist, Richard Ramsey; RICS Northern Ireland housing spokesman, Tom McClelland; and a senior representative of the Department for Social Development.

The event will consider the likely course of the Northern Ireland housing market in 2010 and beyond and look at factors – such as the global and UK pictures and the Republic of Ireland's NAMA (National Asset Management Agency) – that are expected to affect the local market.

Issues including housing supply and ensuring a low carbon housing stock will also be covered.

RICS Northern Ireland Director, Ben Collins, says that housing and related issues are fundamental to society and that the housing market is crucial to the local economy.

(NS/BMcC)