In this episode of the EG Property Podcast EG editor Samantha McClary presents the first of three EG Interviews, recorded live at EG’s Pavilion out at MIPIM 2023. This EG Interview is with managing director of levelling up at the office for investment, Tim Newns. Newns is no stranger to investment. Prior to his appointment at the office for investment, he was chief executive of MIDAS and with his team successfully brought billions of pounds of capital to the city region. Now he has to repeat that success on a national scale. Listen in as the pair talk about how the work he is doing to secure genuine transformational  investment for the rest of the country and how through Newn’s collaborative role he hopes help governmental departments work more closely together and really level up the UK. You can also read this interview in the 1 April issue of EG Magazine or online at www.egi.co.uk/news

Levelling up the UK has long been on the government’s agenda, and London is often seen as the city that doesn’t need any help with its economic recovery. However, there are great areas of deprivation that still remain in London, and as EG editor Samantha McClary finds out in this important discussion. Recorded live at MIPIM 2023, she sits down with  Elizabeth Campbell, executive member of London Councils, and Jack Pringle, RIBA Chair of Trustees, to understand what investment is still needed in the capital city. Listen in to find out what is needed to drive growth in London and what pillars of resilience already exist that should help London dominate the market with the opportunities it can offer not just to its communities, but to the enable growth across the rest of the UK.   

The United Nations has declared that cities are where the climate battle will largely be won or lost, and although they are places of great innovation, real estate has a long way to go in creating environmentally better and more resilient spaces for business, society, and the natural world. Listen in to this important conversation, recorded in partnership with DWF, live at EG's Pavilion at MIPIM 2023, where host, DWF partner Melanie Williams, investigates how businesses are embing environmental resilience into the business model. She is joined by a panel of expert to discuss how important quality architecture and planning are in improving the quality of life for everyone, and how global education needs improving if the sector is to achieve it goals. The recording also features a special presentation from Christine Auclair, coordinator of the World Urban Campaign, UN Habitat, who speaks on the work they’re doing to help businesses accelerate their development. Listen in for fresh insights from: Christine Auclair, coordinator, World Urban Campaign Sue Bridge, president, Royal Town Planning Institute Susan Greenfield, world president, FIABCI International Real Estate Federation Julian Josephs, world president 2007-2008 (UK chapter), FIABCI  

Real estate knows that new technology is key to driving the sector forward, and the sector has seen significant investment in recent years. In this podcast, recorded live at MIPIM 2023, EG editor Samantha McClary speaks to an expert panel about how we retain that investment and continue to attract the right skills and talent that will ensure the industry’s development. Listen in to hear the panel share their insights on how real estate can do more to understand the innovations and solutions that already exist to help reach their sustainability goals and how we can keep up the pace of development to tackle the challenges we face.  Key insights come from: Vincent Bryant, chief executive and co-founder, Deepki Tzvete Doncheva, investor relations lead, PropTech 1 Louisa Dickins, co-founder, LMRE  

In this episode of the EG Property Podcast, recorded live at MIPIM in Cannes, EG’s news editor Pui-Guan Man chairs a discussion about one of real estate’s most exciting sectors – life sciences. Listen in to find out more about the UK’s ambitions to become the next global science and technology superpower, how real estate can better harness that opportunity and support growth, what infrastructure is needed to support the life sciences market and how the sector can meet the demand for future life sciences occupiers. Unmissable insight comes from: Olivia Drew, director & portfolio manager, UK Life Sciences, UBS Tom Mellows, head of Savills Science, UK, Savills Professor Jane Robinson, pro-vice-chancellor, engagement and place, Newcastle University Paul Singh, Founder, EEDN and policy lead for small and medium size enterprises, City of London Corporation  

City pitches: Government Property Agency, Manchester, Scottish Cities For UK cities to be engines of growth, opportunity, and prosperity there can be no more business as usual. That’s why at the MIPIM conference in Cannes last week, EG gave some of the UK’s core cities a platform to showcase why their city is the place to invest, and what the built environment is doing to help transform those cities. In this live recording that took place in the EG Pavilion, EG’s news editor Pui-Guan Man spoke to leaders from the Government Property Association, the National Office Agency, and Shoosmiths, who outline their vision for their city or region’s future and the ways in which they see public and private sectors coming together to shape that. We hear from: Steven Boyd, chief executive, Government Property Agency Michael Hawkins, director - head of national office agency and development UK regions, Colliers Barry McKeown, partner & head of Glasgow office, Shoosmiths

For UK cities to be engines of growth, opportunity, and prosperity there can be no more business as usual. That’s why at the MIPIM conference in Cannes last week, EG gave some of the UK’s core cities a platform to showcase why their city is the place to invest, and what the built environment is doing to help transform those cities. In this live recording that took place in the EG Pavilion, EG editor Samantha McClary  spoke to leaders from London, Manchester and the West Midlands, who outline their vision for their city or region’s future and the ways in which they see public and private sectors coming together to shape that. We hear from: Eamonn Boylan, chief executive, GMCA Roger Clarke, chief executive, IPSX Richard Lawrence, director of regeneration, City of Wolverhampton Council      

Instant Group and Urban Land Institute exclusively launched their new research into the evolving needs of occupiers at the EG Pavilion at MIPIM this year. Listen in to this session, recorded live in Cannes, where vice president of research & advisory services at the Urban Land Institute, Simon Chinn, and James Rankin, head of research and insights at The Instant Group, delve in to key findings from the report. Craig Hughes, chief executive officer of partnerships at The Instant Group, steps up later in the session chair a panel discussion on the changing requirements for our workplaces and answers the question on everyone's lips: Is the office really dead? Find out the answer from expert panellists: Nathalie Charles, deputy chief executive  and global head of investment management, BNP Paribas Real Estate Charlie Foster, managing director, European real estate, RBC Boudewijn Ruitenbure, COO, EDGE Technologies Lisette van Doorn, chief executive, Europe, Urban Land Institute

EG editor Samantha McClary talks to Homes England about its ambitious vision for transforming UK towns and cities, alongside its partners, in this conversation that took place on Tuesday 14 March at MIPIM, Cannes. The discussion explores the power of public and private sector collaboration in achieving long-term results for communities and showcases some successful examples of collaboration across the country. Panel: Eamonn Boylan, chief executive, GMCA  Abi Brown, councillor, Stoke on Trent City Council  Peter Denton, chief executive, Homes England  Caroline Simpson, chief executive, Stockport Council  Listen here to find out how the public and private sectors can come together to create extraordinary places.  

The newly-announced Celtic Freeport which aims to turn South Wales into a colossus of renewable energy is offering grounds for genuine optimism for the South Wales commercial real estate market, according to Jenkins Best director Henry Best, who believes its potential for spin-offs is enormous. Jenkins Best is the highest place regional agent in the Radius On Demand Rankings for South Wales in 2023, with 42,657 sq ft transacted across 11 deals. It finished 2022 with 551,182 sq ft completed across 106 deals. The Celtic Freeport is a joint scheme that would be based at Port Talbot and Milford Haven and Best says enquiries are already coming in for sites in the zone despite the scheme only being given the go-ahead last week. He also says the broader industrial market in the region is ticking along nicely, with particular demand from owner-occupiers.