The latest news, views and debates from the commercial property industry. A mix of regular short interviews and round-ups, covering the whole of the commercial property industry.
Episodes
Jun 13, 2019
Jun 13, 2019
34 min
Two members of the Property Litigation Association's law reform committee - Thekla Fellas, partner at Eversheds Sutherland, and Emily Wood, partner at DMH Stallard, outline the PLA's comprehensive responses to the Law Commission's leasehold reform project.
Fellas and Wood discuss each of the three consultations that comprise the project:
- leasehold enfranchisement;
- the right to manage; and
- commonhold, which provides an alternative form of ownership to residential leasehold.
In addition, they address the other aspects of leasehold law crying out for reform, and their hopes for the sector over the years to come.
Jun 10, 2019
Jun 10, 2019
17 min
The commercial lease will be familiar to all property professionals. Yet there are many questions to consider when negotiating one. "Which standard lease should I use?" "Should I take a lease with or without 1954 Act protection?" "What is an FRI lease?"
Professional support lawyer, Katharine Fenn, answers these questions - as well as discussing the key sections that make up the lease and the things to keep in mind in relation to notices, break clauses, service charges and, importantly, repair.
She leaves listeners with her top tips for ensuring an efficient and effective negotiation and stresses the importance of agreeing heads of terms at the outset.
Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019
28 min
Already accounting for 6% of London office space, flexible offices could double their share in the next few years. The growth of The Office Group has been as impressive. And it too has ambitions to grow – at home and overseas. Co-founder Charlie Green tells Damian Wild where the business is heading next and what that IPO could mean for the sector.
May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019
59 min
Leeds, the destination of EG’s latest Question Time debate, hit national headlines this year – for better and worse.
One particular good news story – the imminent arrival of Channel 4 into Leeds – was unsurprisingly the opening talking point of the debate. It was announced in April, with great fanfare, that the broadcasting giant had picked the Grade-II listed Majestic building as its new headquarters.
May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019
25 min
Securing planning permission is a key initial stage of any development scheme. But how best to do this?
Planning lawyer, Jay Das, offers listeners five top tips for securing a permission based on her experience of navigating the planning process. She discusses the need to keep it professional, listen carefully to what planning officers say and how ultimately persistence pays.
May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019
24 min
LandAid House opens in Autumn 2019, providing 146 bedrooms for young people at risk of becoming homeless. It’s been made possible by a £1m donation from Mike Slade, president of the charity and the outgoing chairman of Helical. He explains to Damian Wild why he has made the donation and what he hopes it will deliver for the future.
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019
30 min
There’s not much time left to avert a global warming disaster, and that means the real estate sector has to make big changes to existing building stock as well as to development projects in the pipeline.
May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019
14 min
At EG's Middle East Real Estate Forum, Andrew Jackson, HM Consul General at the British Embassy Dubai, talks about how deeper relationships between these two markets are strengthening trading links, with the profile of the Middle East being boosted by UK central government.
May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019
1hr 1 min
A joint spatial plan from the West of England Combined Authority aims to provide the development framework to guide the delivery of housing, employment and infrastructure up to 2036 across Bristol, Bath and Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Listen to panelists at EG’s Bristol Question Time discuss the challenges of creating more affordable housing, improving the city's digital and transport connectivity, and incorporating environmental considerations such as air quality.
May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019
19 min
Roger Cohen, partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, returns to the EG studio, joining deputy legal & professional editor Jess Harrold to discuss the Supreme Court ruling in Hewitt (VO) v Telereal Trillium [2019] UKSC 23; [2019] PLSCS 90 - where a Blackpool office block that has been empty for a decade was found nevertheless to have a rateable value of £370,000.
Cohen explains the Supreme Court judgment and the importance of "general demand" when it comes to calculating rateable value - as well as considering the implications of the decision for property owners.