The Estates Gazette Podcast

BCO 2013: Developers should look to the Far East, not to the TMT sector, for growth, the former chairman of Land Securities told delegates at the BCO conference today. Estates Gazette's editor Damian Wild spoke with Lord Myners about the need to re-capitalise the banks.

Estates Gazette's Sophia Furber talks to Greg Mansell, head of UK and Ireland at IPD on April's property returns, which hit their highest monthly level since November 2011

BCO conference 2013: The UK economy will post modest growth this year, but still runs the risk of further shocks, former chancellor Lord Lamont told the BCO conference in Madrid this morning. Estates Gazette's editor Damian Wild interviews Lamont about the UK's relationship with Europe.

Crown Estate chairman Sir Stuart Hampson has warned that government’s failure to move quickly on infrastructure decisions was putting London’s status as a leading global city at risk. Estates Gazette's editor Damian Wild interviews Sir Stuart Hampson.

More than 50 delegates cycled 290 miles to this year’s BCO conference in Madrid and are closing in on their target to raise £30,000 for charity. Estates Gazette editor Damian Wild interview Great Portland Estates' James Pellat, one of the organisers of the ride.

Speaking exclusively to Estates Gazette at the Retail Summit 2013, Capital & Regional managing director shopping centres, Mark Bourgeois, said that technology has a “really exciting part to play as these three things converge”.
NewRiver Retail director Charlie Miller added that one of the key trends emerging is the shift of supermarkets back into town centres.

There were more planning consents in the inner London boroughs in 2012 that for at least the last two decades. With 20, 000 units in the pipeline to the south of the Thames, is the super prime market overheating?
Nigel Evans, author of London Residential Market Analysis, and head of EG's London Residential Research shares his worries with EG's Annabel Dixon

EG finance reporter Sophia Furber talks to IPD’s UK and Ireland head of research, Greg Mansell, and Aberdeen Asset Management’s global head of property Andrew Smith at the launch of IPD’s UK quarterly index. A 1.1% total return over the quarter gives some signs for optimism, as do patches of growth in the regions. But how will investors – particularly institutions – meet their requirements for higher yields plus their need for stable and predictable income?

EG finance reporter Sophia Furber talks to DTZ’s head of global research, Hans Vrensen, at the launch of DTZ’s annual Money into Property report, which tracks international financing trends. There are some concrete signs that a recovery is on the way, as the real estate world clears up its legacy issues and builds a healthy base for new growth, says Vrensen. Find out what he has to say in response to those who believe that DTZ’s view of the market is too bullish!

This podcast is a full recording of the Movers & Shakers/British Property Federation breakfast held at London's The Dorchester Hotel on April 30th, 2013. The discussion theme was: "Top Guns - Three Different Perspectives on Property". Panelists included
Chris Grigg, chief executive of British Land, David Marks, co-managing partner at Brockton Capital and Bill Hughes, managing director of Legal & General Property. The discussion was chaired by Estates Gazette editor Damian Wild.

Yorkshire's industrial market is fighting a shortage of units like it's never know.

Statistically the supply figures look healthy but with no new quality stock being built in the last six to seven years those units on offer are facing obsolescence. Some, says David Aspland, partner at Carter Jonas, are the simply the wrong building, built at the wrong time in the wrong place, where even a haircut on rents isn't going to help.

Agents have expressed worries over the level of incentives on offer in the city after a bumper Q1.

David Aspland, partner at Carter Jonas, said large deals, already factored into the agent's psyche had inflated figures.
Jonathan Shires, head of office agency Yorkshire and the North East for CBRE, said with 400, 000 sq ft of supply and 480, 000 sq ft of active immediate requirements the Leeds supply headache was reaching critical levels.

The industry's feelings about property present a stark dichotomy between London and the regions. When is this going to change? EG held a panel discussion to find out.

Land Securities enjoyed a record first month at its Trinity Leeds shopping centre. Portfolio director for North and Scotland Gerald Jennings, tells EG about the centre's first month in numbers, competition with Hammerson and if they are ever going to put the doors on the open-air centre.

Savills has leapfrogged to the top of the central London agent's league table in quarter one. Boosted by the Google mega deal, the agency has shot up from 5th place at the end of last year notching up an impressive 1.1m sq ft of disposals in Q1, and bagging nearly a third of the London market. DTZ is in second place having acted as joint agents with Savills on the 860,000 sq ft prelet to internet giant Google at King's Cross Central in January, according to EGi's London Office Market Analysis released today.

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