Estates Gazette Property Podcasts

Is this the world's biggest start-up incubator?

How Lisbon is fast becoming the ultimate start up breeding ground

Is this the world's biggest start-up incubator?

How Lisbon is fast becoming the ultimate start up breeding ground.

Slade on: missing the banter, Brexit and plans for retirement

Outgoing chief executive Mike Slade talks to Estates Gazette as he prepares for life in his 70’s, sailing around the world, what he will miss most about the property industry and his new role as non-executive chairman.

Slade on: missing the banter, Brexit and plans for retirement

Outgoing chief executive Mike Slade talks to Estates Gazette as he prepares for life in his 70’s, sailing around the world, what he will miss most about the property industry and his new role as non-executive chairman.

Knight Frank: Scotland take up market "robust"

Knight Frank office agency partner, Toby Withall talks EG through the firm's findings and his forecast for take up over the year. 

Scotland office take up robust amidst Brexit uncertainty

Knight Frank's Toby Withall talks EG through its findings and forecast for year ahead

Confusion reigns in the housing market

Irvine Sellar talks new Paddington Cube plans and Shard Place

Irvine Sellar’s £1bn “Paddington Pole”, set to be the tallest skyscraper in London, has been chopped to less than a quarter of its original proposed height and renamed the Paddington Cube. Sellar talks us through his plans. 

“I am not an intimidating person”: Zaha Hadid’s successor on her style, strength and scare factor

Zaha Hadid Architects is looking to reconnect with London developers who were put off by the “perceived public persona” of its late namesake, Dame Zaha Hadid.

Practice director Patrik Schumacher told Estates Gazette said that misconceptions of the Iraqi architect among developers in the UK capital blighted her practice’s attempts to win work in the city for years.

“There was a scare factor. Though I don’t think there should have been.”

Hadid’s closest confidant for thirty years, Schumacher has now stepped up to run the practice following the sudden death of the world-renowned designer at the age of 65 in March this year.

With a fresh focus on winning work in London he said that his “perceived more mellow and withdrawn personality” could be attractive to developers in the UK capital.

“I think Zaha’s perceived public persona and the way people saw her did prevent us from getting commercial work in London,” he added.

Patron Capital founder talks UK opportunities

 

Patron Capital has raised €949m (£791m) for its fifth fund targeting opportunistic assets in Western Europe. Keith Breslauer, founder and managing director of Patron Capital, discussed post-Brexit opportunities.