View from the 8ighth: Navigating 30 years in the commercial property market with Mark Gower

Allsop Partners Ed Dunningham, Nick Pemberton, and Chris Room discuss the Central London commercial property investment market, now that we are three quarters through the calendar year, including volumes to date compared with this time last year. They review the key London transactions that highlight the trends in both the City and West End markets, effects the macro environment are having, and run through who has been active in Q3.

Richard Adamson is joined by Jimmy Wilson and Mark Ibbotson from the Allsop Leeds office to unpack what is really happening in regional residential investment. The small buy-to-let landlord is being regulated out, and in their place come professionalised Propcos backed by private equity, family offices and overseas ultra-high-net-worth buyers hunting scale. Jimmy and Mark talk candidly about where pricing has landed, what vendors now have to accept to get deals away and why some stock trades while other stock stalls. They also make the case for the regions on fundamentals rather than sentiment, and each says how and where they would put £5m to work on air.

Host Richard Adamson is joined by Chris Brady and Aman Parekh from Allsop’s recently established Planning team. The episode dwells on some of the key recent changes to planning policy including the revised National Planning Policy Framework and consultation draft of the London Plan. Listeners can expect discussion around the recent Housing Delivery Figures and forthcoming National Scheme of Delegation and what this means for development and forthcoming planning applications. Allsop’s inhouse planning team prize themselves in seeking ways to successfully navigate planning policy and overcome delivery constraints in order to maximise the potential of the wide range of assets they advise on.

Host Richard Adamson is joined by Allsop's Student Housing specialists Anthony Hart and Will Ramshaw, alongside Richard Ward, Head of Research at StuRents - the UK's largest student listings platform. Together they explore how the student housing sector has evolved over the past decade, the growing divide between prime and secondary markets and what the current affordability crisis and Renters Rights Act mean for HMO and PBSA investors.

Host Richard Adamson is joined by Residential Investment specialists Michael Linane & William Shoebotham. They discuss the challenges the residential market has been experiencing and how they have managed to navigate through these times and deliver record successes.