The Estates Gazette Podcast

This is the first in a new series of market updates from Estates Gazette. We speak with experts in the retail, office and industrial sectors to find out what trends are happening and where they're heading in the weeks and months to come.

Estates Gazette's residential reporter Annabel Dixon interviews Santander Corporate's Scott Stuart about lending for residential development in the UK.

The Duke of Westminster's property group, Grosvenor, reported a pretax profits rise from £315m to £354.4m in 2012, driven by strong performance in the UK and Ireland. EG's David Harris speaks to Mark Preston, chief executive of Grosvenor, about the figures.

Matthew White at British Land talks about how prefabrication of 80% of the building allowed the developer to control risk in the difficult development times.

EuroProperty Trends looks at Poland this month, with David Sands talking to Duncan Westbrook, a Warsaw-based associate at Cushman & Wakefield property consultancy. The two discuss the investment opportunities in Poland, as well as property performance and yields.

Central London take-up in the first quarter of this year was the highest its been since the end of 2011 according to Estates Gazette’s London Office Market Analysis, due out next week.
But the headline figures paint a misleading picture thanks to Google’s massive 860,000 sq ft letting at Kings Cross. EG talks to head of London offices research Tom Pilkington about what’s really going on behind the numbers and why the future might hold in both the City and the West End.

At Estates Gazette's Big Question Round Table, Prestbury Investments chairman Nick Leslau, the British Property Federation's Liz Peace, GN2's Julie Rees and Irwin Mitchell's John Vivian tackle property's pressing issues including tax, TMT and what this year's Budget has in store for the sector.

Ken Shuttleworth, founder of Make Architects, has plans to expand into Canada and India as well as growing the firm's London portfolio. He talks to EG during MIPIM.

EG talks to Jean-Phillippe Mouton, Hammerson's managing director France on its £390m retail scheme in Marseille

British Land's Chris Grigg speaks to EG's Jack Sidders at MIPIM about the mood of this year's property show, as well as the big announcement of a share raising and sale of Ropemaker Place. The two announcements meant the company raised £1bn this week.

Bristol's newly elected mayor George Ferguson talks to EG's Stacey Meadwell about the road ahead for the city

The public reaction to revised plans for transforming iconic Centre Point, WC1, into a residential tower, has been stronger than ever Kathrin Hersel, development director at Almacantar told EG this week.

EG taks to Michael Lindsay, Cushman & Wakefield's head of EMEA corporate finance, on its latest European Real Estate Lending Survey

Crossrail was at MIPIM this week to step-up its search for partners and investors for its 3m sq ft development pipeline. Estates Gazette caught up with Ian Lindsay, Crossrail's director of land and property.

MIPIM: There will be no slowdown in the rising Mayfair and St James's office rents trend, Jonathan Evans the head of West End agency at Jones Lang LaSalle told EG this week.

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