Intelligence Talks

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After two years of boom conditions is the cost of living crisis leading to a reset of pricing and activity in global housing markets?

Liam Bailey talks to Kate Everett-Allen and Tom Bill to discuss the outlook for this critical market sector. 

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This week, Anna Ward is joined by Oliver Novakovic, technical and innovation director at UK housebuilder, Barratt Developments, and Andrew Shirley, editor of our Wealth Report magazine and head of rural research. 

Oliver is working on Barratt’s zero-carbon concept home, the Z House in Salford, Manchester. He explains how the current inflationary environment is impacting the project, discusses what Barratt has learned from trialling 50 new technologies within the home, and indicates a likely timeline for the UK housebuilder to scale up the technology across new homes nationwide.

You can read more about the Z House in our interview with Oliver in The Wealth Report.

We also talk about the current challenges facing British farms following surges in grain prices, fuel and energy costs. Andrew suggests farmers need to look to the past and follow less energy-intensive practices and that indoor farming can help supply certain higher value foods like salad products and fruits locally, rather than flying them in.

This is an area we explore in depth in this interview with Benjamin Swan, founder of Sustenir, a Singapore-based pioneer of urban, vertical farming in the Wealth Report.

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This week, the Queen's Speech covered 38 pieces of new legislation, up from 30 last year, with Boris Johnson seeking to reboot his premiership. In this podcast, we focus on a couple of the bills most relevant for the property sector - energy security and levelling up and regeneration. Anna quizzes Knight Frank’s heads of planning and energy – Stuart Baillie and David Goatman – about the likely impact on housing development.  

They discuss the impact of shelving comprehensive planning reform and giving local residents more say over development, and assess government plans to toughen up net zero rules, with housebuilders mandated to reduce carbon emissions in new homes by 30% from next month (June 15).  

So how will this impact the delivery of new homes? Baillie suggests ‘street votes’ on local design codes could “further stifle rather than stimulate development”, while Goatman says that developers are “understandably asking a lot of questions” about how to meet new net zero targets at a time of build cost increases and lengthy planning delays for much needed green infrastructure projects. 

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Last year, someone spent a little under a half-million dollars to be Snoop Dogg’s next-door neighbour. In the metaverse or Snoopverse, of course. Snoop first started building his own virtual world in September last year on the Sandbox platform, one of the world’s biggest metaverse firms.  

In this episode, our second Wealth Report special, we hear from the man behind the launch of the Sandbox, Yat Siu. The Hong Kong based entrepreneur and angel investor is CEO of block chain and gaming firm Animoca Brands. Animoca, valued at $5bn, has pivoted dramatically in recent years towards blockchain, NFTs and the metaverse - buying up The Sandbox in 2018. Anna is also joined by Knight Frank partner and Wealth Report deputy editor Flora Harley who interviewed Yat for the magazine. 

They discuss investor appetite for buying up virtual real estate, how dealmaking works in the Sandbox and how the virtual will influence physical real estate trading – plus, what’s it really like being Snoop Dogg’s neighbour?

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This week, Anna is joined by Knight Frank Finance managing partner Simon Gammon and head of UK Residential Research Tom Bill. They discuss the latest outlook for UK house prices and the impact of rising inflation and slowing economic growth. Simon gives his take on interest rate hikes, how fast and how much higher they will rise, and the impact this will have on the mortgage market and house borrowing costs. Tom delves into Knight Frank’s UK house price forecasts and gives his long-term view on the outlook for prices around the country.  

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This week we take a look at Britain's wine boom and how it is impacting the land market. British sparkling wine in particular has been portrayed as one of the wine world's big success stories. While it currently only represents a fraction of global sales, sales are growing. Overall, there are now over 700 vineyards in England and Wales.  

Anna speaks to Richard Balfour-Lynn, formerly CEO of MWB Group Holdings, the owner of Malmaison and Hotel du Vin. Richard is co-founder of Balfour Winery – on the Hush Heath Estate in Kent, one of England’s biggest wine producers which makes over 400,000 bottles of still and sparkling wines each year. 

We also hear from Knight Frank head of viticulture Ed Mansel Lewis. Ed’s role sees him support vineyard managers and wine producers grow their business. 

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The rising cost of living was the main theme for Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement. In this podcast, we explore how increasing energy and household bills are impacting sentiment, both for shoppers on the high street and buyers of new homes. What will be the key challenges over the next few weeks and months, and what metrics will retailers and house builders be watching closely? On the retail side, has the cost-of-living crunch hit sales yet and how are retailers responding to the increasingly challenging economic environment? And how is build cost inflation impacting residential development, and how are increased cost pressures affecting first time buyers? 

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This week Anna is joined by Knight Frank’s global head of occupier research Lee Elliott and head of research for Asia Pacific, Christine Li. 

They take a look at the latest twist in the back-to-work debate – with Google having recently ordered its workers back on a hybrid basis from April – three days a week in the office and two at home. So, how will companies fare in adopting hybrid work styles around the world? And what are the big trends employers are adopting to lure workers back to their desks?

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