In another Future of Real Estate podcast, Damian Wild speaks to UK Hospitality’s CEO. Kate Nicholls warns that much of the sector will collapse without help from government and support from landlords – and she calls for a Marshall plan for town centres to ensure their survival.
Fresh changes are likely to be ahead for the UK's real estate investment trusts. Treasury consultations on asset holding companies and the broader UK fund regime include various proposals, large and small, for altering how REITs are managed and treated.
The hope is that these changes will encourage more funds to set up shop in the UK, bolstering the industry, creating jobs and encouraging investment. But could some of the proposals risk damaging the “kitemark” of quality that the UK REIT regime has developed over the years?
To discuss this, EG deputy editor Tim Burke is joined on this podcast by:
In this episode of EG’s TechTalk Radio, EG editor Samantha McClary sits down with founder of Appear Here Ross Bailey and its lead data scientist Alex Nussbacher to talk about data driven decisions and how the industry needs to embrace tech to build a new future, particularly for retail.
Leaning on learnings from Appear Here’s recently published report, How Landlords Can Help Save the Street, Bailey and Nussbacher explain how embracing technology and data, being flexible and listening are some of the greatest tools of survival.
While a tale of retail’s demise is easy to tell, particularly in these Covid times, the Appear Here team are adamant that Covid will not define this decade. And that how we rest and rebuild will.
Listen in to hear more about how to use tech as a tool to deliver on bigger goals, how being the best doesn’t mean you always get it right first time, and how the 2020s should be about technology democratising rather than technology dictating.
This week's Bricks & Mortar sees series host Sarah Jackman return to the virtual studio for the second instalment in the careers trilogy with Nick Carman, Partnership Director at Macdonald & Company, a specialist recruitment consultancy for the real estate and built environment sectors.
In this episode, they discuss the value of using online platforms to aid the job search and focus on how to extract maximum value from LinkedIn, before exploring the rise of the video CV.
Carman has tips on how to make your LinkedIn page look impactful, the importance of buzz words and phrases and why utilising the follow button effectively can provide useful introductions to industry people and organisations.
He also introduces listeners to the video CV - a medium which has increased significantly since the onset of the pandemic and looks set to stay as both candidates and employers reap the benefits. He gives practical advice on how to present yourself on screen and how video might be incorporated as part of a LinkedIn profile.
Tune in next time for a look at interview technique.
EG editor Sam McClary stars in the latest episode of EG Like Sunday Morning, joining Jess Harrold to discuss her week. McClary expands on her latest leader, explaining why she feels London needs a bit of love - and gives her view on the "Marble Arch Mound".
Then, how will she fare in the first EG Like Sunday Morning quiz of the week?
Plus more on what's been keeping McClary busy.
In the second episode of the Resi Talks podcast, EG's residential editor Emma Rosser is back with L&Q’s new chief executive Fiona Fletcher-Smith.
Fletcher-Smith was previously development director and has this year taken the helm, following the departure of David Montague after 33 years at the housing association.
A month into her new role, the pair discuss Fletcher-Smith’s views on diversity in the industry, her own experiences climbing the ladder, cladding and development and Fabric club nights.
Also read: Lockdown diaries: L&Q’s Fiona Fletcher Smith
In this episode of the EG Property Podcast, EG editor Samantha McClary talks to Homes England chief executive Nick Walkley to talk about the impact he has had at the government agency and what happens next.
In it Walkley talks about why he doesn’t want to be labelled a great leader and why his greatest legacy will be other members of the team leaving the business to spread at little bit of Homes England magic throughout the real estate sector.
The conversation covers everything from enabling housing delivery, to understanding the importance of listening and support, to creating diverse and powerful teams and what kind of music Walkley is convinced Urban Splash’s Tom Bloxham has pumping out of his stereo at home.
Listen in here, read online or pick up the latest issue of EG to read the interview in full.
This monthly podcast series from EG sees in-house analysts James Child and Graham Shone delve into the world of data, research and analysis to provide up-to-the-minute insights on market drivers.
In the inaugural episode, a pitch to spend 25 minutes reading numbers directly from an Excel document was rejected. Instead, Shone talks through his latest analysis on ‘third’ office spaces situated outside of the home and headquarters; and where in the country we might see these types of premises springing up as working patterns continue to evolve.
If you’re into property metrics, turn this podcast on and your filters OFF.
Alice Hawker of Selborne Chambers explains the High Court decision in Criterion Buildings Ltd v McKinsey & Co, Inc (United Kingdom) and another [2021] EWHC 216 (Ch); [2021] PLSCS 31 - a £2.3m service charges dispute between management consultancy McKinsey and its former landlord of office premises in the famous Criterion Building in Piccadilly Circus.
Hawker analyses the court's ruling, and identifies what landlords and tenants can learn from the case when it comes to the apportionment of service charges.
In this episode of the EG Property Podcast, EG editor Samantha McClary is joined by IJD Consulting director Jane Hollinshead to talk about social mobility in real estate.
The industry has the reputation of being one full of privately educated, posh boys (and girls), but is it really and, more importantly, does it have to be?
Listen in as the pair discuss how the poverty and education gap scarring future talent, how social economic balance is the lost golden thread of inclusion and diversity, how the real estate industry needs to tackle it head on so it gets woven into every aspect of the industry’s D&I strategies and ideas on how to turn that thread into a robust golden rope.
This is the second in a series of conversations around talent with Hollinshead. Listen to the first about how to pivot in a post-Covid world here
