The Estates Gazette Podcast

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.

Estates Gazette’s Professional & Legal Editor Sarah Jackman talks to Professor James Driscoll, consultant solicitor at Trowers & Hamlins, about recent developments in the field of leasehold enfranchisement.

Estates Gazette senior reporter Patrick Clift speaks to TCPA chief executive Gideon Amos, chef executive of the Town and Country Planning Association on the Conservative plans to abolish RSSs and the need to retain strategic planning policies.

Amos also criticises plans to scrap national and regional housing targets, and argues that councillors will need to be better trained if the Tories' localism agenda is to succeed.

Patrick Clift speaks to shadow communities and local government minister Stewart Jackson, about how party isconsidering funding mechanisms including local authority bonds, tax increment financing and accelerated development zones as part of plans to allow councils to drive development.

He also gets reactions from Peter Miller, development director at Westfield, and president of the BCSC Jeremy Chase about plans laid out by the Conservatives at their annual party conference in Manchester.

Focus editorial assistant Melanie Smith speaks to agents at this week's Cardiff Focus reception about the health of the region's investment market and the news that Rhodri Morgan is stepping down as Wales' first minister.

Anthony Phillips, senior director at BNP Paribas RE, Huw Thomas, joint managing partner of King Sturge, and Peter Graham, partner at Stephenson and Alexander, give their views on the state of the market in South Wales.

Senior Reporter Patrick Clift reports from the Conservative party conference in Manchester, speaking to John Gummer MP, President of the Tory Green Initiative and TGI founder Nick Wood-Dow about the need for "terrifying" environmental targets.

EG senior reporter Patrick Clift discusses the business rates revaluation with Steve Bliss from the Valuations Office Agency, Richard Stoney, partner at Gerald Eve, and David Connick, head of commercial property at Fasken Martineau.

The industry experts warned developers and landlords to try to finish and let their properties before April 2010 to avoid paying increased rates.

Estates Gazette senior reporter Helen Roxburgh speaks to Dragons' Den star James Caan on his latest property venture - a £250m commercial property fund launched alongside ING Real Estate Investment Management.

Estates Gazette retail correspondent Annabel Dixon speaks to Tim Helliwell of Barclays Commercial Bank at the annual Henry Stewart Funding & Investing in Hotels briefing.

Estates Gazette's retail correspondent Annabel Dixon speaks to John Forbes, head of real estate for EMEA at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Michael Rowlands, head of retail investment for Strutt & Parker, about the recent spate of retail activity, including Protego's forced sale of its Shrewsbury shopping centres and the forced sale of the Silverburn shopping centre in Glasgow.

Estates Gazette's residential correspondent Helen Roxburgh talks to Andrew Pratt from Grainger and Nick Jopling from CB Richard Ellis on the HCA's four-step plan to boost the private rental sector and combine the PRSI and Kickstart initiatives.

Estates Gazette senior reporter Helen Roxburgh speaks to Nigel Hugill, adviser to the Homes & Communities Agency and former UK chairman for Lend Lease, about the private rental sector initiative.

EGi news editor Paul Norman speaks to Jan Lloyd, chief executive of New Covent Garden Market, as the company prepares to go to market seeking a private developer partner for the 57-acre site at Nine Elms, London.

Focus Editorial Assistant Melanie Smith speaks to agents in Southampton and Hampshire about redundancies and whether the market is beginning to pick up on the south coast.

Midlands regional editor Lisa Pilkington reports from this week's Birmingham Focus reception, with Rupert Young, development director at Nurton Developments, and Gary Cardin, senior partner and head of the Birmingham office for Drivers Jonas, giving their views on the state of the market.

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