"It is a critically important event at which we will be deliberating all issues relating to the management of Home Owners Associations (HOAs), of which there are 3000 in South Africa," said Jeff Gilmour, president of the Association of Residential Communities (ARC).
"The skills and knowledge-building platform provided by the conference will assist estate managers and HOAs to operate at the highest levels of international best practice in the residential communities they manage," he added.
The ARC-organised event will be opened by Dawn Bauman, the senior vice-president of the 32,000-member Community Association Institute (CAI) in the US - where 60 million people live in association-managed communities, said Gilmour.
He recently attended the 2013 CAI Annual Conference in San Diego, US, where Johan Kruger, a founder member of ARC and chairman of the newly formed SA chapter of the CAI USA, delivered a "state of the nation" presentation on the SA gated estate landscape.
The objective of ARC, which is the only CAI chapter outside of the US, is to assist HOAs to manage residential estates more efficiently and, in the process, to protect and grow the value of residents' homes, said Gilmour.
