Estates Gazette Property Podcasts

Mainly for Students: The lease renewal episode

In this episode, property consultant Jen Leman discusses the skills needed by lease consultancy surveyors when advising landlords & tenants on lease renewals.

She covers what the surveyor should think about when appointed by the respective parties, the official guidelines they need to be conversant with, as well as the key skills needed for a successful career in lease consultancy.

Battersea Power Station unveils retail and leisure vision

Battersea Power Station Development Company has launched the retail and leisure element of its development which will eventually host 100 shops and more than 40 restaurants.  

The Power Station is due to reopen in 2020 and will include 700,000 sq ft of retail and 225,000 sq ft of F&B space as well as a 35,000 sq ft food hall.

Helen Carr, leising director F&B and Sam Cotton, leasing director of retail explain the vision for the development. 

On the Case: What No 1 West India Quay means for lease assignments

Jess Harrold, EG's deputy legal editor, and Katherine Lang, professional support lawyer at Taylor Wessing, discuss the Court of Appeal decision in No 1 West India Quay (Residential) Ltd v East Tower Apartments Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 250; [2018] PLSCS 34

It's a case that offers useful guidance for both residential and commercial landlords and tenants when it comes to applications for consent to assign, underlet or part with possession of a lease.

Has the ruling made it more difficult for a tenant to get consent to assign or underlet its leases? Find out by listening to the second episode of On the Case...

Industrial market sees highest take-up on record

More than 400 industrial and logistics developers, investors and advisers attended this year’s Shedmasters event at MIPIM.

With the market going from strength to strength – driven by a significant uptick to continued activity by online retailers - they were in buoyant mood. Figures from Savills released ahead of the event showed that take-up in the UK warehouse market (units of 100,000 sq ft +) is set to reach 13.1m sq ft in Q1 2018, the highest on record and 115% above the long-term average of 6.1m sq ft.

 EG caught up with Savills director Graham Brown, Prologis global customer solutions vice president Nigel Rowe, Gazeley managing director Alex Verbeek and Verdion founder Mike Hughes.

 

MIPIM 2018 – Hubbard on Europe’s star markets

Industrial, and specifically logistics, is the most sought-after real estate sector for European investors, overtaking office for the first time, according to CBRE’s annual EMEA Investor Intentions Survey.

 

Stephen Hubbard, UK chairman of CBRE, explained to EG why investors were still keen to pile into the sector as well as where else they were starting to place chips.

MIPIM 2018: Why TH Real Estate is pivoting towards debt

With global real estate broadly considered to be “late cycle” one of the sector’s biggest fund managers, TH Real Estate, is steadily upping its exposure to the debt market.

The company has held a first close of its second UK debt fund of close to £500m https://www.egi.co.uk/news/first-close-for-th-real-estates-500m-debt-fund/

EG spoke to head of TH RE, Mike Sales about why it saw moving from equity to debt as more defensive, replicating its European core fund in Asia and how his exercise regime was going down in Cannes.

MIPIM 2018: The week that was

After a week in MIPIM, EG’s Damian Wild, Sam McClary, Emily Wright and Louisa Clarence Smith pick through the week’s most important discoveries from diversity to tech, market sentiment to lunches on secret islands, and from the growth of urban farming to Freddie Flintoff’s development plans. And the team answers the big questions. Will Sadiq Kahn make it to MIPIM one day? And just what is an impression of a fish soup?

MIPIM 2018 debate: 'London's future rests on connectivity'

Unless London’s delivers world-class digital connectivity, the city will lose fast-growing businesses to other parts of the world, warned experts from LendLease, WiredScore and Cluttons at a debate this week at MIPIM in Cannes.

LISTEN: West Mids mayor Andy Street on the Spring Statement

West Midlands Mayor Andy Street talks to EG editor Damian Wild about the funding announced in the Spring statement for the combined authority.  

How the cost of a flat white could help you make your next investment decision

The only thing we can truly be certain of in real estate at the moment is that we are navigating uncertain times, says Yolande Barnes, Savills’ head of world research.

But there are destinations around the world that have strong enough fundamentals to remain relatively low risk when it comes to making investment plays.

Ahead of the launch of the EG Global Investor Guide at Mipim next week, Barnes joined us for a podcast to talk about the star cities set to see the strongest growth across key sectors including residential, tech and luxury retail.