The Estates Gazette Podcast

Martin Morgan, group property director at Tie Rack Retail Group, outlines the company's expansion plans, saying that over the next year it will continue to focus on UK airport business but will remain in the market "looking for opportunities as they arise". Speaking to EG from this year's MAPIC conference in Cannes, Morgan said the retail group had a cautious opening programme for next year.

John Strachan, head of global retail at Cushman & Wakefield, has said that the retail market will remain "cautious" in 2010. Speaking to EG from MAPIC 2009 in Cannes, Strachan said that the sector was facing "at best, a very fragile recovery."

Cadena chairman Paul Whight and directors Richard Gore and Neil Varnham speak to EG reporter Annabel Dixon at this year's MAPIC conference on Cadena's ambitions in the UK out-of-town retail market and their forecasts for market recovery.

EG Focus editor Stacey Meadwell takes a trip on the new high-speed rail link, High Speed 1, from King's Cross St Pancras to Ebbsfleet, Kent, including interviews from Alex King, deputy leader of Kent county council, Mandy Bearne, director of marketing and research at Locate in Kent, and Paul Mussi, partner in the logistics and industrial team at Knight Frank.

EG's Nadia Elghamry talks about the opening of St Davids 2 shopping centre in Cardiff on BBC Radio Wales. Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Wales on 22nd October 2009.

Patrick Clift speaks to Shahid Malik, the Thames Gateway minister, who sets out the government's vision for the Thames Gateway area and explains how developers can be enticed into investing in the scheme given the state of the market.

Paul Norman speaks to Sir Terry Farrell about his vision for the Thames Gateway at the Thames Gateway Forum at London's O2 centre.

Patrick Clift speaks to Sir Bob Kerslake at the Thames Gateway Forum on progress over the last year, the next 12 months, the single conversation and how regeneration bodies must do more with less.

Helen Roxburgh speaks to John Bowles, national head of residential and development consulting at BNP Paribas Real Estate, and Dr Anthony Lee, director of affordable housing at BNP PRE, about their most recent Housing and the Economy report, which showed en improvement in the housing market which was double what they had previously forecast.

Patrick Clift speaks to Tom Stokes, immediate past chairman of the Business Centre Association and managing director of Evans Easyspace and Phil Wilson, Labour MP for Sedgefield, at the House of Commons as the BCA launches a fresh campaign for chancellor Alistair Darling to retain empty property rate relief for small businesses in the pre-Budget report next month.

Focus deputy editor Nadia Elghamry reports from the opening of the St David's 2 shopping centre in Cardiff, including interviews with Liz Mihell, managing director of John Lewis, Caroline Kirby, CSC property director, and Steven Salaman, owner of Wally's delicatessen.

Professional and legal editor Sarah Jackman talks to senior reporter Christian Metcalfe about forthcoming developments in the courts. They discuss the awaited Court of Appeal decision in Clarence House v National Westminster Bank, in which the court was asked to consider the lawfulness of using virtual assignments to avoid non-alienation clauses, and Land Securities v Fladgate, concerning a claim by a developer that the neighbouring law firm’s judicial review challenge to its Park House scheme on Oxford Street was an abuse of process. They also touch upon Barclays Bank v Guy, a renewed application to the Court of Appeal by a landowner who lost his property by way of a fraudulent registration at the Land Registry.

Focus editorial assistant Melanie Smith speaks to agents at the Glasgow Focus reception to find out their views on the Glasgow economy and the likelihood of further redundancies in the area.

Neil Cockburn, head of JLL's Glasgow office, Steve Turner, regional director of Muse Developments, Craig Buchanan, director of Wright Buchanan, Gary Mappin, director of GVA Grimley, and Charles Bell, director at Keppie Designs, give their views.

Senior reporter Patrick Clift speaks to Chris Oglesby, chief executive of Bruntwood, at a Conservative Party conference fringe event, Can Localism Deliver?, where he says that the current top-down approach is not addressing the UK's north-south divide and how a local approach could "set our cities free".

Online finance editor Nathan Cross speaks to Rebecca Graham, IPD senior research analyst, Jill Waddington, IPD senior business development manager and Harry Hyman, managing director Primary Health Properties, at the launch of the IPD healthcare index, where it was revealed that the sector last year outperformed the broader commercial property market.

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