Estates Gazette Property Podcasts

No Filter Episode One: Space Three

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.

On the Case: Service charge lessons from £2.3m McKinsey judgment

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.

 

 

Social mobility in real estate: The lost golden thread of diversity

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

Fundamentals of the future: The rent don’t matter, the particulates do

Will an AirScore become as powerful a deciding factor on whether occupiers take space as rents and lease terms?

It is certainly a question that is worth debating, according to AirRated chief executive Francesca Brady and AshbyCapital property director Tom Smithers.

AshbyCapital’s The Future Works development in Slough, Berkshire, has just become the UK’s first property to receive a platinum rating from AirRated for its indoor air quality.

According to AirRated’s assessment, the 100,000 sq ft building has exceptionally low levels of PM2.5, with levels will below those set by the World Health Organisation.

But why does indoor air quality matter? And why are more and more developers looking to get a certification for their buildings?

In this episode of the EG Property podcast, Brady and Smithers – with host, EG editor Samantha McClary – discuss what role air quality has to play in the campaign to bring people back to the office, what value it offers to potential occupiers and investors and why it is being asked about in real estate discussions more and more every day.

EG Like Sunday Morning: LOMA, cladding and Weetabix

In episode two of EG Like Sunday Morning, residential editor Emma Rosser and head of office and workplace research Graham Shone join Jess Harrold to discuss resi, offices and Weetabix... not necessarily in that order.

Shone offers the lowdown on his London Office Market Analysis for Q4 2020, and a preview of his regional findings. Rosser explains Robert Jenrick's plans for a residential developer levy to meet the cladding crisis. But which is the most exciting sector of all - offices or resi? Tune in and decide for yourself.

Bricks & Mortar: Careers trilogy, episode 1: Starting the search

After an extended Christmas and New Year break, EG’s Bricks & Mortar returns with a careers trilogy.

In this first episode, Bricks & Mortar host, Sarah Jackman is joined by Nick Carman – Partnership Director at Macdonald & Company, a specialist recruitment consultancy for the real estate and built environment sectors – for a look at getting that first step on the ladder.

With a particular focus on graduates (though equally applicable to school leavers and those changing career), Nick takes listeners through putting together a CV, how to build connections in the industry and why time spent researching and attending events and seminars can help to demonstrate a genuine passion for the industry.

He also emphasises the importance of not overlooking local options in the search for work experience and the value of “going the extra mile”. As he sums up: “if you’re going to do it, make sure you throw everything at it. We want to see that energy, that enthusiasm and that persistence as to why you’re going to succeed in that industry. If you offer a lacklustre approach, it’s usually full of disappointment on both sides.”

Tune in next time to hear Nick talk about how to make the most of LinkedIn and other online tools to optimise the job search.

EG Like Sunday Morning

Introducing a brand-new weekend podcast series in which members of the EG team digest the week's events, and offer their unique real estate insights. In this inaugural episode, host Jess Harrold, deputy legal and professional editor, is joined by deputy editor Tim Burke and London and offices reporter Alex Daniel.

Daniel offers his initial impressions of the London office market in 2021, and he and Burke assess the particular challenges faced by flexible office providers in the troubled Covid-19 landscape - as well as the opportunities out there for those in a position to take advantage.

In addition, talk turns from what Oxford Street can learn from the Champs-Élysées...to what's going on with the stock market...to the death of Julius Caesar. You heard it here first, on Sunday morning.

Resi Talks: Why small investors are getting burned by permitted development

In this first episode of EG's new Resi Talks podcast, residential editor Emma Rosser explores the rising phenomenon of inexperienced investors losing money to permitted development rights.

From Magna Capital to other more high profile failings from Signature Living and Inspired Developments, office-to-resi developers are buckling under hidden costs and a challenging sales market and homes that banks refuse to mortgage.

Retail investors backing mini bonds have lost money and the FCA is now clamping down on risky or potentially fraudulent operations.

Joining Emma to discuss how and why small investors are getting burned by PD and what that means for the industry is fund expert John Forbes, London agent Jonathan Vandermolen and BPF head of policy, Ian Fletcher.

 

The art of the possible: In conversation with the real estate’s new guard

In this episode of the EG Property Podcast EG editor Samantha McClary and deputy editor Tim Burke bring you the best bits from their collective interview with not one but all five of the new chief executives of the UK’s largest listed real estate businesses.

The conversation, with British Land’s Simon Carter, Landsec’s Mark Allan, Lynda Shillaw of Harworth Group, Sarwjit Sambhi of St Modwen and via the medium of email, Hammerson’s Rita-Rose Gagné, spans everything from ESG, to wellness, the need to bring flexibility and higher quality to our places and spaces, to the role that real estate needs to play to make itself heard.

It is an honest and human conversation with the new leaders of UK real estate.

Click here to read it

On the Case: What the FCA decision means for tenants, landlords and insurers

Alison Hardy, partner at Ashurst, explains the Supreme Court's decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance Ltd and others, a test case on the applicability of business interruption insurance policies to the circumstances arising out of Covid-19.

Hardy looks at the practical implications for afflicted tenants, their landlords and for the insurers themselves.

In addition, she offers her views on the other main battlegrounds likely to keep the courts busy in the wake of the pandemic.