Estates Gazette Property Podcasts

Future of Real Estate special: 2020 investment scenarios

In this special FORE podcast, originally broadcast live and on video, Fiera Real Estate's Peter Cuthbert and Alex Price discuss 2020 investment scenarios with Damian Wild – post-Brexit and pre the worsening of the Coronavirus situation. What opportunities will be created by the sector’s increased focus on relative value, tech, sustainability and demographic change?

Budget 2020: What real estate can expect

British Property Federation chief executive Melanie Leech joins EG editor Samantha McClary to talk about what property can expect in Wednesday’s budget, the challenges new chancellor Rishi Sunak faces following the outbreak of coronavirus and how investment across the whole of the UK can really be “levelled up”.

They touch on the need to drive investment in to build to rent, push and pull measures to stimulate a move towards zero carbon in the built environment and the need for the real estate sector to challenge itself on delivering for people.

Listen in for all of that and so much more.

The Property Mediators on the benefits of mediation, the joys of collaboration and their new transactional offering

The Property Mediators - a group of ex-property litigators dedicated to full time mediation - join EG's Professional and Legal Editor, Sarah Jackman, for a look at how the group works, the benefits of mediation in dispute resolution and their new transactional offering.

Joining her for the discussion are group members:

- Jacqui Joyce

- Gary Webber

- Sara Benbow

- Sue O'Brien

- Iain Travers

See the profile in print in EG on 7 March.

Gearing up for the new RICS Code on Leasing Business Premises

On 11 February, the RICS published its new Code on Leasing Business Premises, which it hopes will improve the process of lease negotiation, making them fairer and more transparent. The Code comes into force on 1 September, giving practitioners six months to familiarise themselves with its detail and to prepare for implementation.

To discuss the practicalities, EG’s Legal & Professional Editor, Sarah Jackman is joined by Warren Gordon – a senior professional support lawyer in the real estate team at CMS and member of the RICS’s working party on the Code.

Gordon discusses the rationale behind it, the detail contained within it, the types of negotiation it applies to and how practitioners ought to be preparing for it.

The UK’s new Silk Road?

With the government setting out a preferred route for East West Rail ahead of further expected announcements in next month’s Budget, ministers have offered welcome, explicit support for the Oxford Cambridge Arc. But will the government’s levelling up agenda see investment diverted to other parts of the country? And can this innovation corridor become a beacon for collaboration, innovation and sustainability? 

Joining Dmian Wild in the EG studio for the second of two podcasts on the OxCam Arc are:

Iain Gilbey, Partner, Pinsent Masons

Alister Kratt, Director, LDA Design

Jackie Sadek, Chief Operating Officer, UK Regeneration

In partnership with Pinsent Masons and LDA Design

Bricks & Mortar: Max Middlebrook on life as real estate undergraduate

This week's episode of Bricks & Mortar sees Sarah Jackman joined by Max Middlebrook - a first year student at Nottingham Trent University studying for a BSc in Property Development and Planning.

Tune in to find out what piqued Max's interest in a career in property, how he's finding life as a real estate undergraduate, and what his aspirations are for his future career.

As part of that conversation, he reflects on the challenges facing the industry, what he hopes his generation can bring to it, as well as giving advice to all those thinking of a career in it.

On the Case: The Tate Modern appeal, overlooking and nuisance

James Souter and Megan Davies, of Charles Russell Speechlys, join EG's Jess Harrold to discuss the Court of Appeal's decision in the high-profile case Fearn and others v Board of Trustees of Tate Gallery [2020] EWCA Civ 104; [2020] PLSCS 22 - which effectively closes the door on nuisance claims for overlooking.

Souter and Davies take the positions of the Neo Bankside residents and the Tate Modern respectively, addressing the key arguments before the Court of Appeal, explaining the court's findings, and debating whether the correct decision was reached.

In addition, they discuss the potential for the case to go to the Supreme Court.

Law & Borders: Business rates confusion across the UK

Three experts from Colliers - John Webber, Louise Daly and David Hughes - join EG's Jess Harrold to discuss the varying systems of business rates in operation in England & Wales, in Scotland and in Northern Ireland.

They address the difficulties that arise from the cross-border differences, the issues faced by those seeking to challenge their business rates assessments, and how the UK would benefit from a more coherent approach, incorporating the best elements of each system.

Will talk follow action on Oxford Cambridge Arc?

There has been more talk than action from government in delivering on the promise of the Oxford Cambridge arc. But with a relatively new government, an imminent Budget and a prime minister whose appetite for infrastructure development is voracious that could soon change. In the first of two podcasts on the opportunity, EG takes a look at what’s wanted, what’s needed and whats likely to happen in the months and year ahead.

Joining Damian Wild in the EG studio are: 

Rob Hopwood, Partner, Planning, Bidwells

Olaide Oboh, Director of Partnerships, Firstbase

Sarah Haywood Price, Chief Executive, Advanced Oxford

In partnership with Bidwells

 

Politics and property: What the cabinet reshuffle means for real estate

Last week’s cabinet reshuffle included the bombshell of a new chancellor, as well as less unexpected news of yet anther change of housing minister.

In this podcast, former Conservative MP and housing minister Mark Prisk and EG deputy editor Tim Burke discuss the ramifications of the changes, and how the real estate industry might benefit from the government’s plans to 'level up' the UK regions.