Estates Gazette Property Podcasts

EXPO REAL 2017: The lender's perspective on London towers

Cushman & Wakefield’s head of structured finance James Spencer Jones gives his perspective on the key drivers of the debt market. 

Belfast Question Time - the full debate

An expert panel debates connectivity, competitive rents, the hotel sector, competing with Dublin, investor appeal, development opporutnities and more. Listen to the full debate here.

The panel included

Damian Mitchell, Director, Causeway Asset Management

Simon McEvoy, Director, Belfast Office Agency, Savills

Joanna Robinson, Partner, Pinsent Masons

James Collier, Development Manager, City Centre Development, Belfast City Council

Roland Shaw, Director – General Counsel, Belfast, Citi

Chaired by: Emily Wright, Global and Features Editor, EG

Completely Retail: developers must shape retail developments around local demographic

Retail developments should be shaped around their localised target markets and embrace multiple uses in addition to retail and leisure use, according to a panel hosted by EG at Completely Retail Marketplace.

NewRiver director Emma Mackenzie said: “We are doing much more mixed use. A lot of that is with F&B and residential, and a lot of the residential adds value to the overall development. It brings residential back into the town centres and works very well within retail.”

Here you can listen to the full debate.

The panel included:

Presentation by James Child, Retail & Industrial Analyst, EG

Stuart Harris, Commercial Director & Co-Founder, Queensberry

John Miu, Chief Operating Officer, ABP London

Emma Mackenzie, Director, NewRiver

Mark Sherwood, Director, Attis Asset Management / Consultant to House of Fraser

Chairing Samantha McClary, Deputy Editor, EG

EXPO REAL 2017: What do the Scottish cities have to offer?

Stuart Black, director of the Scottish Cities Alliance, explains how Scotland is continuing to attract investment. 

Every new “long haul route delivers about £50m a year into the northern economy.”

Lynda Shillaw, Divisional Chief Executive, MAG Property Group, says interconnected infrastrcuture is now critical for the north.  

EXPO REAL 2017: Investment into logistics frustrated by new equity holding assets

Knight Fraank's Nick Cripps explains why investment into the logistics sector is being frustrated by a lack of stock being traded.

EXPO REAL 2017: Amsterdam and Berlin office markets could attract London growth

Knight Frank's Mike Bowden explains the investor interest in Amsterdam and Berlin, which could be set to benefit at the expense of London. 

EXPO REAL 2017: JLL's main investment now into technology says Grainger

EMEA chief executive at JLL Guy Grainger explains that JLL is now investing heavily in its technology offering to clients.

 

EXPO REAL 2017: London and Paris best markets for resi, but Berlin most liquid

Dr Marcus Cieleback, head of research at Patrizia, explains new research measuring the investment credentials of cities around Europe for residential investment. 

EXPO REAL 2017: The risks of buying secondary in the current market

CBRE Global Investments' John Mulqueen explains some of the risks for investors at the moment.