The Estates Gazette Podcast

Property investors aiming to refinance their loans face increasing pressure as values remain around a third below those seen at the peak, according to the IPD.

Speaking to EGi following the release of the IPD/IPF UK Q1 Quarterly Briefing, Phil Tily, IPD’s UK and Ireland managing director, said that the current downturn is twice as severe as the decline in the market during the 1990s.

Stoford says Wales and South West will be key growth markets for the developer. Director Dominic Stokes talks to EG's Nadia Elghamry to explain, with it's Midlands home market quiet, where he's steering the company.

Estates Gazette's Noella Pio Kivlehan talks to Neil Sinclair co-founder of charity PROPS, which celebrates its 21st anniversary this year

EG's Nadia Elghamry quizzes a few leading lights on the Bristol office agency scene about what the year ahead might bring.

Have L&G walked away from anchoring Cardiff's city centre enterprise zone?

Gareth Hooper, planning director at DPP in Cardiff, discusses their departure and questions how, and if, the enterprise zone will happen going forward.

Development is around the corner in Leeds. The council's much awaited Sovereign street having landed KPMG will come forward. There's a feeling that other occupiers will see what's happening, realise if they are going to move then now might be the time to do it and McAleer and Rushe's city square will land one of those.

Alex Munro at Knight Frank in Leeds reckons that two or three major deals will happen this year and there are good requirements in the 30,000 sq ft which will get into schemes by piggy backing off these. The market is unlikely to set any records for take up but headline rents should remain steady at around the £25 -26 per sq ft level.

Building a Better Britain:

At the VPS and Estates Gazette breakfast held at Mipim this morning a panel of experts discussed Crime, Decline and Property.

EG's Stacey Meadwell talked to Mike Kiely, director of planning at Croydon council; John Jones, head of Property Management at GVA and VPS' head of sales Gavin Pringle, to get their views on how securing assets also means securing a future and delivering regeneration in the UK

EG's Stacey Meadwell caught up with Birmingham city council's strategic director of development Mark Barrow yesterday at Mipim. He talked about his first impressions of the show this year and the key projects the city is promoting.

Live webinar from the London pavillion at MIPIM. London, city of the future.

Cardiff has it all, says one Bristol agent. The South West capital is losing out to its Welsh counterpart across the border. EG's Nadia Elghamry grabbed some of the key Bristol property players and asked how much does the city actually need an arena, where should it go and how should it be paid for?

Podcast features:
Martin Booth, Knight Frank
Chris Grazier, Hartnell Taylor Cook
Phil Morton, CBRE

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Brookgate's chief executive Sven Topel talks to EG's Nadia Elghamry about the 25acre CB1 project in Cambridge, building in the city and his strategy after signing one of the biggest prelets in Cambridge, and possibly the entire regional market, last year.

EG Editor Damian Wild in a Face-to-Face interview with Nick Leslau on the future of the high street, the dearth of bank lending and property’s prospects for the year ahead.

Is time running out for the global pharmaceutical industry? Patents on some of the world's biggest selling drugs are about to expire. Without this revenue funding for future R&D projects will collapse.

Will Mooney, partner at Carter Jonas, talks to EG's Nadia Elghamry about the effect on Cambridge's science park market.

Is it in the firing line or could the crisis bolster associations with academia and help the city's property market?

EG's Dan Cunningham talks to Mike Ingall, chief executive , Allied London Properties, Mike Hawkins, partner, WHR Property Consultants, Mark Rawstron, partner, GVA on their prospectives for 2012 at the Manchester Focus Reception, Feb 8.

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