Real Talk - A Colliers Podcast

In this episode of Colliers’ Real Talk we focus on the financial markets and how they interact with sustainability within commercial real estate.

Amy Griffiths, director in our Debt Advisory team speaks to Matt Sal, Colliers’ UK Sustainability Manager about the markets’ appetite for investing in the sector and how the attitude towards sustainability measures and climate change risk has evolved.

Listen in to find out what motivates and incentives investors when funding commercial real estate. 

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This week on Colliers’ Real Talk we are joined by Alanna Peach and George Adams from our Operational Capital Markets team. 

The duo sit down to discuss the trends affecting the UK student accommodation market from investors sentiment to demographic trends, whilst also forecasting how the sector will fare in 2024. 

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Our next Podcast is with well know drinks brand BrewDog, as we interview their President and COO David McDowall. He discusses his belief that businesses should be a force for good and how sustainability is more than just removing plastic from the supply chain. Instead, it sits at the core of their business, impacting on everything from packaging and distribution, right through to managing their diverse real estate portfolio, which includes 100 bars across the UK.

In our fourth episode Helen Drury, Head of Sustainability at Tritax Group, discusses how sustainability in the industrial property sphere is more than just installing solar panels on the roof. Helen highlights the problem of grid grab and balancing energy demands and also highlights some of the ways that the sector can provide social value to their local community.

Our next Podcast is with well know drinks brand BrewDog, as we interview their President and COO David McDowall. He discusses his belief that businesses should be a force for good and how sustainability is more than just removing plastic from the supply chain. Instead, it sits at the core of their business, impacting on everything from packaging and distribution, right through to managing their diverse real estate portfolio, which includes 100 bars across the UK.

In our fourth episode we talk to Lee Leston-Jones, Structural Partner at Cundall, the first consultancy in the world to achieve carbon neutral certification, and a consultancy that is continuing to set benchmarks in sustainability. Lee discusses how a focus on ESG at a local level leads to real impact on their projects, and how they think holistically, moving beyond Carbon Zero on projects such as Salford Crescent Masterplan to create real sustainable living environments for communities.

In the second episode, Sophie Carruth Head of Sustainability at LaSalle Investment Management, discusses the change in sentiment across the real estate industry towards ESG and how it is being driven from the bottom up. Sophie outlines LaSalle’s commitment to Net Zero Carbon with the Better Building Partnership, as well as the actual implementation and practical application of how they are intending to achieve it.  

In the first episode of Series Three, Matt Flood, Head of Occupier Markets at Landsec, discusses how as a pioneering sustainable developer, ESG is embedded throughout their entire decision making process. Outlining the importance of partnership, both with their occupiers but also with peers across real estate, he talks about how sustainability has impacted on the design, construction and operation of their development – The Forge.

Georgie Griffiths, Associate Director from Colliers UK talks to Lucy Puddle, Project Director at Grosvenor Britain & Ireland. Lucy takes us through the masterplan approved by Westminster City Council for the South Molton Triangle, with the aim to inject new life into the area whilst keeping Mayfair’s character preserved.

Meet Sam Gidley, who is part of our Business Support team in the Manchester office. Sam joined Colliers UK in 2004 as a Senior Secretary and has been recently promoted to Senior Business Support after 22 years of continued service.