EG Property Podcasts

Bricks & Mortar: Nicky Richmond on accelerating your career

Nicky Richmond returns to the Bricks & Mortar podcast for the final instalment of her careers trilogy.

This week she talks to Sarah Jackman about how she progressed to senior partner and the key things that helped her along the way. In particular, she advises the need to be "honest with yourself" when making career choices.

Richmond also gives her thoughts on when it's ok to say no to career progression, as well as recognising when it's time to make a career change.  

EG Like Sunday Morning: Black Women in Real Estate and the RICS

It's a tale of two important organisations with divergent fortunes in the latest weekly round-up.

Jess Harrold is joined by news editor Pui-Guan Man and Hanna Afolabi - managing director & founder at Mood and Space and founder of Black Women in Real Estate.

Afolabi discusses BWRE, its purpose, what it offers for members and the state of real estate as a sector for black, female professionals. In addition, Afolabi discusses the group's current campaign, in partnership with Quaye Services, to offer five sponsored memberships of BWRE for young black women early on in their careers. Find out more, and how to apply at: www.bwre.org

In addition, Man tackles the latest dramas at the RICS, after the mass resignation from its standards and regulation board - and Afolabi joins the discussion as a chartered member.

Listen to their thoughts, then have your say on the future of the RICS in our survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/RICSPOLL

Voice of the Region: North East – How A-Grade set the standards

Newcastle has redrafted its office offering with a much stronger focus on amenities and environmental performance and is finding occupiers are willing to pay healthy rents in return, according to Parker Knights founder and director Michael Downey.

Despite only launching last year, Parker Knights is the highest placed regional agent in the Radius On Demand Rankings for offices in the North East, with 50,207 sq ft transacted so far this year. It is also the top regional player in the Newcastle office rankings, with 20,424 sq ft let or sold in 2023.

Downey believes build costs are thwarting a lot of development in the region but he says tenants will still pay for the correct offering. He also points out there are now Grade A office offerings in Sunderland and Durham, meaning Newcastle is no longer the only game in town for the wider region.

EG Like Sunday Morning: A whale of a time

Jess Harrold is joined by news editor Pui-Guan Man and editor Sam McClary for the latest weekly round-up.

After recounting her pedElle experiences cycling in gorgeous Slovenia, McClary turns her attention to whales, and why they are so important to real estate - specifically how they must be factored in to the sector's environmental impact.

Man discusses the new RICS chief executive, Justin Young, and how his military experience -  including commanding a tank troop on Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s - can help whip the organisation into shape.

And McClary offers her own thoughts on both the RICS and the results of EG's LGBTQ+ Attitudes and Actions in Real Estate survey.

But who has been paying the closest attention to the rest of EG's headlines? Find out in the quiz of the week.

Bricks & Mortar: Nicky Richmond on early career development

In this week’s episode of Bricks & Mortar, EG’s Sarah Jackman sits down with Nicky Richmond, ex-finance lawyer and former managing partner of specialist real estate legal firm Brecher, for the second instalment of their careers trilogy.

They discuss early career development and cover a range of subjects including building confidence in the workplace, dealing with difficult situations and understanding your core values. Richmond also sets out why “imposter syndrome” should be banned from a young professional’s vocabulary, as well as offering plenty of other insights drawn from her expansive career in the sector.

Richmond will return for the final part – accelerating your career – in a fortnight.

On your marks: The countdown to the JLL Property Triathlon

In this episode of the EG Property Podcast EG editor Samantha McClary is in conversation with three industry professionals that will be taking part in this year's JLL Property Triathlon. 

The event, which takes place on 30 June at Dorney Lake in Buckinghamshire, is one of the biggest annual gatherings of real estate professionals. The triathlon is now in its 16th year and as well as helping real estate stay fit and healthy, raises huge amounts for charity.

This year's event is supporting WWF for a second year and will be one of JLL's biggest fundraiser for the charity.

Listen in to this conversation to find out more about why the JLL Property Triathlon is more than just a swim, bike, run event, why you should take part and what bringing real estate professionals for a day of competition really means for the industry.

Expert commentary comes from:

• Steve Jack, COO - UK & international capital markets, EMEA, JLL
• Hannah Done, associate, office agency, JLL
• Jess Ford, asset manager, British Land

 

 

 

EG Like Sunday Morning: LGBTQ+ attitudes, actions and allyship

For the latest weekly round-up, Jess Harrold is joined by news editor Pui-Guan Man and two special guests - Kelly Canterford, founder of Tigrou Consulting and Misa von Tunzelman, Head of Corporate Affairs & Marketing - Europe at Lendlease, who are the co-chair and a board member respectively  at Freehold – to discuss the results of EG’s latest LGBTQ+ Attitudes & Actions in Real Estate survey.

Together, they dissect the key findings in respect of the percentage of LGBTQ+ respondents who are out at work, and a growing number that say they would recommend the industry as a good place to work to the LGBTQ+ community.

In addition, they look at factors that still prevent some LGBTQ+ professionals from being out, the particular challenges faced in the transactions and capital markets sector, and what businesses and colleagues should be doing to make their workplaces more inclusive.

On the Case: Supreme Court clarifies charitable relief from business rates

The latest episode of On the Case focuses on the Supreme Court decision in Nuffield Health v Merton London Borough Council [2023] UKSC 18; [2023] PLSCS 94 – a dispute involving gym premises and charitable relief from non-domestic rates.

Jess Harrold is joined by Jessica Hopewell and Edward Gardner, both senior associates at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, to explain how the charitable relief works, and outline the dispute between the parties over the particular gym property.

Hopewell and Gardner sum up the Supreme Court analysis of this important area of law, and the significance of a decision that will be welcomed by charities.

EG Like Sunday Morning: Resilient retail, redoubtable resi

Jess Harrold is joined by deputy editor Tim Burke and reporter Akanksha Soni for the latest weekly round-up.

Burke shares insights on the retail sector from this week's EG Interview with former Intu chair and current P-Three consultant, John Strachan – and offers a pair of contrasting stories that illustrate the state of the office market.

Soni discusses the housing plans of London mayoral hopeful Samuel Kasumu, and Henley Investment Management's first mixed logistics and residential scheme.

But how will they fare in the quiz of the week - and what will DJ Burke add to the EGLSM Certified Bangers playlist?: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0pBand693O5IhhaScVM6uZ

Voice of the Region: Suffolk – A port in a storm

Suffolk is showing its resilience to the gathering economic storm clouds thanks in large part to the influence of Britain’s busiest container port, Felixstowe, which is boosting activity levels across the logistics and warehousing sector, according to Penn Commercial founder and managing director Vanessa Penn.

Penn Commercial, located in Ipswich, transacted the most space in Suffolk in 2022 and currently sits in second place in the 2023 On Demand Rankings for Suffolk, with 44,205 sq ft transacted across 14 deals.

According to Penn, logistics and non-food retail warehousing are performing strongly this year, although activity levels in high street retail and offices has slowed, while most speculative development has been put on hold until costs come down. She believes the key thing for agents in the current climate is to keep the short to medium term churn of deals going and not get bogged down in longer term projects where planning can be time consuming.