Cityscape Intelligence Podcast

In our first episode of 2022, Cityscape Intelligence’s Teneshia Naidoo sits down with Hamza Betraoui Managing Director at Land Sterling and Vinodh Mahadevan, Head of Land Sterling’s Strategic Consulting and Valuation Advisory to discuss a few game changing real estate trends expected to headline the GCC region in 2022.

From Saudi Arabia’s giga-project plans, Expo’s impact on the UAE’s property sector, and the impact of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, Hamza Betraoui Managing Director at Land Sterling and Vinodh Mahadevan, Head of Land Sterling’s Strategic Consulting and Valuation Advisory, reveal some of the region’s trending real estate topics.

We speak to Jason Burnside, Partner at Godwin Austen Johnson, about the opportunities and challenges of designing during a pandemic for architects.

Jason Burnside shares some thought-provoking insights on how the architecture profession has responded to a year of disruption, delves into the effect of the pandemic when designing schools, and finally reveals how architects can bridge the gap between creativity, collaboration and working remotely.

Will the pandemic have a lasting impact on the way architects and urban planners design future cities? Cityscape Intelligence explores how the pandemic has presented the industry with real opportunities to reimagine cities.

Architects and urban planners have been optimistic about the future and have looked at the pandemic as a means of improving the way cities are designed and run. In our latest episode, we talk to Kourosh Salehi, Design Director at architecture firm, LWK+PARTNERS, to understand how urban planners and architects will have to adapt and what adjustments will endure beyond the end of the pandemic.

As agile working and demand for more flexible office space continues to rise, we look at the impact on London’s commercial sector and what it means for investors.

Today, even as certain businesses emerge out of lockdown, many workers are still confined to their homes as trends around hybrid working come to the fore.

So, what will the pandemic mean for London's sprawling collection of corporate headquarters? Is it fair to say that commercial real estate is under threat? We speak to Faisal Durrani, Head of London Commercial Research at Knight Frank, who paints an optimistic picture about what the future of the office sector in London will look like.

The industrial and logistics real estate sector in the UAE is growing into one of the most attractive asset classes in the country, driven by technological innovation.

We talk to Ian Albert, CEO of Colliers for the MENA region on the impact of COVID-19 on manufacturing, 3PL, warehousing and logistics, and what it means for investors interested in the sector in 2020 and 2021.  

In our first episode, we look at the effect of COVID-19 on the real estate sector in the UAE and discuss how the industry can look beyond the pandemic.

We talk to Murray Strang, Director and Head of the Dubai office at Savills to get this thoughts on how the pandemic has impacted the retail, industrial, commercial and residential sector in the UAE and the role technology will play in the industry’s road towards recovery.