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A totally joyous conversation about a successful transition. Louise and Rachel kick off the New Year with a conversation with, and between, Leanne Tritton, founder of ING Media, and her successor as MD, Damian Wild. https://ing-media.com Coaches On The Couch is co-hosted by Louise Rodgers and Rachel Birchmore who are exec and leadership coaches. They design and deliver bespoke leadership development programmes and coaching for architects, engineers and other consultancies across the built environment. For more information, please visit www.StepUpLondon.com
After more than a decade at EG, this summer Damian Wild became managing director of ING, the leading PR + Communications agency for the built environment.Damian has spent more than 25 years working in business information, as a journalist, editor and publisher. He has worked in the UK and Hong Kong, across a number of sectors. He began his career at Public Finance magazine in 1993 covering local government and moved to Hong Kong in 1997 where he worked on the South China Morning Post during the handover.
Jess Harrold is joined by EG's former editor and current director of market development, Damian Wild, for the latter's final episode of EGLSM as part of the team. Wild discusses his impending departure from EG after 13 years, reflects on how the real estate industry has changed in that time, outlines plans for his new role as managing director of ING Media, and offers his thoughts on the sector - and EG's important role in it - in 2022 and beyond. Plus, discover where his fascination with public toilets began and learn more about his life in music - including his soft spot for a certain Kylie Minogue classic.
Neil Slater, global Head of Real Assets at abrdn, is taking over from Rob Bould with a focus on social impact. In this latest Future of Real Estate podcast, Slater explains his new approach to EG's Damian Wild, who is also joining a refreshed LandAid board.
In a special cross-Channel episode of the weekly round-up, Jess Harrold is joined by Sam McClary and Damian Wild, as they wait for pizza outside a restaurant in Cannes, to share their experiences from the eagerly-awaited return of MIPIM. McClary details her long cycle ride to the event, raising money for charity, while Wild discusses the difficult sartorial decisions he faced while packing. Both share their thoughts on how MIPIM has changed since it was last held, the key themes that have dominated conversation and their overall reflections on a very busy week. But how well have they adapted to their surroundings? Find out, as their language skills are put to the test in a quick quiz we're calling "Pardon my French".
Jess Harrold is joined by Pui-Guan Man and Damian Wild for EG's latest weekly round-up podcast. Man and Wild share their thoughts on the long-awaited Independent Review of Real Estate Investment valuations and what it means for RICS going forwards. In addition, Wild addresses the recent announcement that he will leave EG later this year to take on a new role as managing director of PR and communications agency ING - including his personal reaction to the industry's response, and what he has planned for his last six months at EG. But when our news editor takes on our director of market development in the quiz of the week, who will triumph?
For the latest Future of Real Estate podcast, Damian Wild joins an investor tour of Birmingham to learn how the city is pitching inward investment opportunities. The council is the 20th biggest land owner in the country and, with the Commonwealth Games and HS2 on the horizon, believes it is on the cusp of a golden decade. He asks leader Ian Ward and interim chief executive Deborah Cadman why they believe their investment story stacks up.
Jess Harrold is joined by news editor Pui-Guan Man and former EG editor (now director of market development) Damian Wild to review the week. Damian shares his experiences in Cannes, at September's slightly smaller scale MIPIM event, and his hopes of a return towards normality next March. Pui outlines the findings of Alison Levitt QC's 467-page report into the governance of RICS, the fallout at the organisation and the industry reaction. But, up against a serial winner, can Damian claim glory in his first ever appearance in the quiz of the week?
Plans to create a Westfield in the south were officially binned this week, as Croydon Council confirmed that the mega project, so long in the making, was not in its post-Covid future for the London suburb. Who is to blame for this apparent inability for Croydon town centre to get its much needed facelift? Is it the developers - Hammerson and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield? The council? Could it even be John Lewis's fault? In this special episode of EGLSM, editor Samantha McClary dials in for a chat with a man who spent his formative years in Croydon, Damian Wild, to get his very special and personal take on just what went wrong and what Croydon and the real estate community need to do now.
Celebrating Earth Day, this latest Future of Real Estate podcast sees Guy Grainger join Damian Wild in EG’s virtual studio. Appointed JLL’s global head of sustainability services & ESG earlier this year, Grainger talks about how real estate can go from being part of the problem to being part of the solution when it comes to climate change. He talks about the challenges of finding a net zero building in London for JLL, how valuation models will have to change to capture operational costs, and warns that real estate has five years to get its act together. “We are relevant,” he says. “The question is, how are we going to use that relevance for positive good – which, by the way, can also equal commercial good.”
Damian Wild is joined by Mark Farmer for the latest Future of Real Estate podcast. Five years on since his landmark report brought modern methods of construction to real estate’s mainstream, Farmer says he hopes to see its influence extend beyond residential and into infrastructure and commercial real estate. MMC also has a big role to play in meeting sustainability challenges, says Farmer, who expects more international players follow moves by the likes of Japan’s Sekisui House into the UK market.
In another Future of Real Estate podcast, Damian Wild speaks to UK Hospitality’s CEO Kate Nicholls about the impact on the sector of a third lockdown, and how recovery is some way off despite good news on the vaccine front. Nicholls warns that much of the sector will collapse without help from government and support from landlords. And she says that landlords hoping to recover all the rent they have lost from hospitality businesses are being unrealistic. More than that though, Nicholls says that the impact of the coronavirus pandemic will be felt by urban centres nationwide. What’s needed is nothing less than a Marshall plan for town centres to ensure their survival.
Future of Real Estate: In a critical week for Brexit negotiations, investment minister Lord Grimstone tells Damian Wild that this sector has a vital role in driving post-Covid investment in the UK. He’s hoping for geopolitical and health-related uncertainties to lift in the new year, and for the “propensity to invest” to return. Tech, home working and, especially, sustainability will propel change, he says – and real estate should lead the drive to build back better.
How can real estate be part of the solution when it comes to tackling the most pressing societal issues – inclusion, demographic change (not least an ageing population) and wellbeing? Damian Wild, EG's editor-in-chief, speaks with Bharat Mehta CBE, chief executive, Trust for London, followed by a panel with: - Jenny Herrera, chief executive, Good Business Foundation- Paul Alger, partner, Shoosmiths- Peter George, programme director, Meridian Water Project, Enfield Council
Damian Wild, EG editor-in-chief, speaks with Greg Dyke, chair of Make it York, on whether cities such as York can flourish without leaving London in the dust.
On this week's episode of We're Still Here, host Emily Wright is joined by EG publisher Damian Wild to talk all things local. From the power and clout of local governments to an increased focus on retail in local markets and commuter towns, this episode of the podcast delves into how we maintain our newfound familiarity with local areas and hometowns while supporting businesses and commerce in our global capitals. The pair discuss retail marketplace Appear Here's move to expand into more local markets including Somerset and Connecticut in response to changing human behaviour and consumer trends post-COVID and reflect on a week of EG events focused on regional markets including Cambridge, Southampton and Swansea. Also on this episode of the We're Still Here podcast, talk turns to well-being. Wild advises listeners to "reclaim their lunch breaks" and pledges EG's support for LandAid's Steptober Campaign. A great opportunity to support an excellent cause and get out of the office/home office/kitchen/garden shed to get those steps up, whatever the weather. For more information on how you can support Steptober check out all the details here https://www.landaid.org/events/steptober.
In a major new report on Real Estate in the 2020s, EG and Radius analysts James Child and Graham Shone ask how this sector can be a catalyst for UK plc’s recovery. They join Damian Wild to discuss the futures of work, cities and the high street. And they talk about whether recent soundbites and adverts encouraging a return to the office will do more to hinder, than help, the cause.
Swansea Council is seeking a long-term development and investment partner to become part of the city’s £1bn regeneration story. Join EG as editor-in-chief Damian Wild interviews Swansea Council to find out more.
EG editor in chief Damian Wild talks with an expert panel about the city's future recovery and growth
EG's editor in chief Damian Wild discusses the vision for Leeds – and how football might just help – with Leeds City Council chief executive Tom Riordan
Damian Wild, editor in chief and publisher, EG, interviews Manchester mayor Andy Burnham
This week the Future of Real Estate podcast takes to the road, or rather the Thames towpath. This year’s LandAid 10k isn’t happening but into its place jogs the QuaranTEN, raising money to end youth homelessness. Damian Wild sets out on a training run with Knight Frank senior partner Alistair Elliott to talk about how the event, taking place between 8 and 15 July, will work and at how Covid is changing London’s residential, office and retail markets.
In another Future of Real Estate podcast, Brewdog chief operating officer David McDowall tells Damian Wild why government and landlords need to do more to help tenants if the hospitality industry is to survive. He also sets out a vision for reopening bars, talks about the impact of Covid on Brewdog’s people and profits business and how social media can be a powerful tool when used well.
In this special FORE podcast, originally broadcast live and on video, Fiera Real Estate's Peter Cuthbert and Alex Price discuss 2020 investment scenarios with Damian Wild – post-Brexit and pre the worsening of the Coronavirus situation. What opportunities will be created by the sector’s increased focus on relative value, tech, sustainability and demographic change?
On this week's Tech Talk Radio Emily Wright meets HB Reavis's innovations and partnerships lead Gaia Arzilli for one of our most high octane podcasts to date. Arzilli concedes that it takes a particular type of person to take on her role as she must bring together a community of people across a number of offices and countries and "excite them about new innovations." She talks about the challenges of the role, the importance of change and urges the industry to be "Netflix, not Blockbuster" as priorities shift from pure bricks and mortar to prioritise humans. "Planet, people and productivity are at the heart of everything we do," she says. Then, Damian Wild steps in for Sam McClary this week as TTR co-host as he talks all things Mipim and reveals what EG will be up to out in Cannes next month. For this and much more, tune in now.
A Future of Real Estate Christmas cracker rounds off 2019. This year saw the Stirling Prize winner and government design chair Sadie Morgan launch a new Quality of Life Foundation. She tells Damian Wild how the foundation will improve the impact that the built environment has on people’s lives, and what it will deliver in 2020. “We need to do better,” she says.
We were blown away by the quality and quantity of entries for the new Social Impact category we introduced to this year’s EG Awards. It revealed an industry where firms of all shapes and sizes are committed to change and to thinking beyond just their own bottom line. Manchester-based developer Capital & Centric stood out for its commitment to social impact, from setting up a Regeneration Brainery to initiatives tackling homelessness. Damian Wild caught up with co-founder Tim Heatley
Jo Negrini, chief executive of Croydon council, is this week’s guest. Come for Basil Brush’s first mention on the podcast, stay for insight on progress of the Westfield/Hammerson redevelopment of the Whitgift Centre and the future of local housing companies in a climate where the cost of council borrowing is on the rise. Croydon-born Damian Wild hosts.
On this week's Tech Talk Radio Emily Wright is joined by guest co-host EG publisher Damian Wild to talk all things offices in a sparser than usual space as the studio prepares to go on the road. Then Smart Spaces CEO Dan Drogman makes his TTR debut as he joins the podcast to talk about the growth of the IoT platform and what it means for office space in and around London and beyond. Tune in to find out about his future plans as well as why he recently drove from one side of London to the other with a robot in the boot of his car.
M7’s Richard Croft tells Damian Wild about his new role at the business and how Brexit may force him to make fundamental changes to the way it operates. He also reveals that M7 is set to launch a tech fund. LandAid deputy Alice Lamb also joins the podcast, to talk about this week’s LandAid Day fundraiser and the charity’s month-long Steptober challenge.
The Future of Real Estate podcast is back from its summer break with bang. Derwent London’s Paul Williams talks to Damian Wild about taking over as chief executive of London’s most admired developer, how the business is embracing the sustainability agenda and, after another extraordinary week in Westminster, where he sees opportunity in uncertain times.
This month’s London Festival of Architecture might end up connecting more members of the public with the built environment than ever before. In this latest Future of Real Estate podcast, director Tamsie Thomson tells Damian Wild why this year’s event theme of boundaries is so relevant and why Brexit could mean architectural quality in the capital suffers.
Already accounting for 6% of London office space, flexible offices could double their share in the next few years. The growth of The Office Group has been as impressive. And it too has ambitions to grow – at home and overseas. Co-founder Charlie Green tells Damian Wild where the business is heading next and what that IPO could mean for the sector.
At EG’s latest Peter Wilson lecture last month, Dame Fiona Reynolds, former head of the National Trust, said: “Beauty can often be a means to deliver a better outcome, rather than a choice between no development and development. Beauty is not just aesthetics, it is a way of looking at the world. Understanding the qualitative bit as well as the quantitative bit really does matter.” Many developers get it. But not all. “Developers have got to realise that there is more to development than bricks and mortar,” says Capital & Centric’s John Moffat. “I don’t think it’s necessarily that you have to be philanthropic to take the view of development that good commercial sense and community social impact sit hand-in-hand. If we’re not delivering a positive social impact from what we’re doing, then even if it’s made a profit that’s still not a successful development. That is a step change in mindset that we need to see.” Here, Moffat, alongside Rob Sadler, head of Savills’ Cambridge office and Ami Kotecha, co-founder of AREP and managing director of AmroLiving, discuss how the regional development market is slowly – but perhaps reluctantly – embracing the change. EG editor-in-chief Damian Wild hosts.
In this week’s FORE podcast, we speak to CBRE’s Amanda Clack, former RICS president and author of the new book Managing Diversity and Inclusion in Real Estate. Where is the sector going right – and wrong? Also new editor Samantha McClary joins Damian Wild, outlining her plans for EG.
In this week’s Future of Real Estate podcast Damian Wild speaks to JLL’s Guy Grainger who is at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Tech and environmental issues are combining to ensure global political and business leaders are paying more attention to real estate than ever before. Will it continue?
Yes, we talk touch upon Brexit. But in this episode EG editor Damian Wild and deputy editor Sam McClary focus on Google’s ambitions to build a city from the internet up, a bad week for WeWork and the shopping centre on sale for a pound. Meanwhile Wired Score and start-up co-working space Runway East tell us how landlords need to change with the times.
The Future of Real Estate podcast looks at the events, the people and the issues that are changing real estate. In this first episode Damian Wild is joined by Revo president Mark Robinson as well as EG deputy editor Samantha McClary and retail correspondent Pui Guan Man. Should there be relief or recriminations after this week’s retail trading updates? And is the industry finally making progress on diversity?
If passenger drones are the future of travel, where will they land? Where will they take off from? Or travel to? All questions that Skyport Drones' founder Duncan Walker hopes to answer as he plans to build a network of "vertiports" on London's rooftops. With 15 rooftop's already secured for ports, which Walker hopes will eventually be used to dock drones carrying people around the city, he reveals the the complex planning required to ensure the infrastructure for this method of future travel is in place. In this episode of Tech Talk Radio, Emily Wright talks to Walker about everything from the safety of drone travel to how we protect our skies from a future of increased air travel and we welcome a special guest in Sam McClary's absence as EG editor Damian Wild takes to the studio for his second Tech Talk turn.
Concerns from property bosses over the local elections may have been mollified after Labour failed in its attempt to take key councils, but uncertainty still remains. London’s mayor Sadiq Khan is at the halfway point in his term and is still falling short of his target of building 60,000 homes per year in the capital. The differing ways to hit that target will be central to discussions to debates between developers and newly elected local councillors will be key. Martin Bellginer, Ian Fletcher is director of policy at the British Property Federation; Dean Clifford, co-founder of central London residential developer Great Marlborough Estates; Martin Bellinger executive chairman of housing developer and contractor Guildmore and one of the founders of PRS developer Essential Living and EG’s London residential analyst Paul Wellman joined EG editor Damian Wild to discuss the battles ahead.
After a week in MIPIM, EG’s Damian Wild, Sam McClary, Emily Wright and Louisa Clarence Smith pick through the week’s most important discoveries from diversity to tech, market sentiment to lunches on secret islands, and from the growth of urban farming to Freddie Flintoff’s development plans. And the team answers the big questions. Will Sadiq Kahn make it to MIPIM one day? And just what is an impression of a fish soup?
West Midlands Mayor Andy Street talks to EG editor Damian Wild about the funding announced in the Spring statement for the combined authority.