IPSX Podcasts

Our Moderator Paul Shearer is joined by the sponsor of this episode Rob Bould (IPSX) as we take a look at asset management in real estate, best practices,  and how IPSX factors into the future of this discipline. Paul and Rob are joined by Huw Stephens (Patrizia), and John Jones (Tandem Asset Management). 

Topics covered in this episode:

• Rob Bould sets out the lay of the land for asset management from the view of IPSX. 
• Huw discusses the investor’s point of view when considering the benefits of using IPSX to invest in a single asset property. 
• What new asset management strategies can be used when the investor can choose to invest in single assets. 
• The opportunity for investors to effect change on individual buildings and keep tenants happy and ensure consistent income from the asset. 
• How companies like WeWork serve as examples of ‘space as a service’ and illustrate the increasingly customer facing nature of asset management.
• The changing state of lease contracts, their length, responsibilities of tenants and owners, and costs. 
• The power of using management techniques as a brand across properties, and the benefits that can bring to valuation. 
• The explosion of available and transparent data that will come from assets listed on IPSX. 
• Best practices for asset management. 

Rob Bould

Rob Bould is the former CEO of leading International property agents and advisory firm GVA Bilfinger. Currently Rob runs his own consultancy business and is Chairman of both LandAid and of Coyote Group, as well as holding various senior advisory and Non Executive Director roles, including being a Non Executive Director of IPSX - the world's first securities exchange dedicated to commercial real estate. https://www.ipsx.com/

Paul Shearer

Paul Shearer has worked extensively in both Television and Radio in front of and behind the camera as an actor, writer and presenter and script editor. As a journalist he has written for both The Times and The Financial Times on residential property.  http://www.paulshearer.com/

Huw Stephens

Huw Stephens joined Patrizia’s pan-European transactions team with a focus on central London. Previously Huw worked at AXA for 24 years, where he was head of UK transactions. Huw and his team have pioneering proponents of putting together JVs and club deals, such as at 22 Bishopsgate, Ropemaker Place, and the Google HQ at Kings Cross, where compatible capital is stitched together to buy an asset and execute a specific business plan. https://www.patrizia.ag/en/ 

John Jones

John has worked in the property sector since graduation from Reading University in 1982. No gap years and no sabbaticals mean he has worked through all the property cycles and economic events of the last 30+ years. John completed his APC training with the Greater London Council in the Red Ken era followed by several years in Asset Management with Investment Bank, Morgan Grenfell and agents Morgan Grenfell Laurie and Vigers. Following a merger in 1990 John settled as a Partner in the property management team at Grimley JR Eve and was at the heart of what became the GVA business for over 25 years. In this period John worked with a wonderful range of loyal and leading clients and an array of complex property assets from portfolios to major mixed-use assets and developments. He has worked for investors, developers, occupiers and major public -sector organisations. https://www.tandem-property.com/

Moderator Paul Shearer is joined by our sponsor of this episode Rob Bould (IPSX) as we explore the future of real estate transactions, and how owners, lawyers, governments and investors are innovating to make the process more efficient, more transparent and more secure. Joining Rob and Paul are Andrew Baum (Oxford University), and Philip Nell (LaSalle Investment Management). 

Topics covered in this episode:

● The effect of technology on the changing face of property transactions. 

● How IPSX handles transactions.

● What does IPSX do that REITs don’t already do?

● Digitisation versus digitalisation. Will tokenisation and blockchain revolutionise the market?

● What will be the pace of change in the real estate market?

● The state of commercial real estate transactions in today’s market.

● Transactional delays. 

● Andrew discusses the solutions to transactional delays, and the challenges surrounding the process of shortening them. 

● The need for a dedicated stock exchange for property. 

● Philip discusses his experiences in selling property, and how the housing market collapse affected him.

● The effect IPSX will have on the future of property trading. 

Rob Bould

Rob Bould is the former CEO of leading International property agents and advisory firm GVA Bilfinger. Currently Rob runs his own consultancy business and is Chairman of both LandAid and of Coyote Group, as well as holding various senior advisory and Non Executive Director roles, including being a Non Executive Director of IPSX - the world's first securities exchange dedicated to commercial real estate.

https://www.ipsx.com/

Paul Shearer

Paul Shearer has worked extensively in both Television and Radio in front of and behind the camera as an actor, writer and presenter and script editor. He has also worked for over thirty years in the corporate communications sector for many of the UK’s blue chip companies producing internal videos on a wide variety of subjects. As a journalist he has written for both The Times and The Financial Times on residential property. He has written and presented video work on commercial property for consulting real estate agents GVA Bilfinger as well as Capita Real Estate.

http://www.paulshearer.com/

Andrew Baum

Andrew Baum is Professor of Practice at Oxford University and currently leading an industry funded four year research project into the impact of innovation and technology on the global real estate industry. Andrew splits his time between the world of academia and the world of business and is chairman of Property Funds Research as well as Newcore Capital management.

https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people/andrew-baum

Philip Nell

Philip Nell is Head of Real Return Funds at LaSalle Investment management and as such is responsible for over 3 and a half billion pounds of invested assets and available capital at LaSalle. Philip came to LaSalle from Hermes Investment Management and before that Aviva Investors where he was in charge of 2 and a half billion pounds of real estate assets across four open ended funds. Philip sits on the Strategic Advisory Board at LaSalle and is Chairman of the Investment Property Forum, as well as being a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a member of the Governance Committee of the Association of Real Estate Funds.

https://www.lasalle.com/  

To learn more: https://www.ipsx.com/ 

Moderator Paul Shearer and host Anthony Gahan of IPSX lead a conversation on data, looking at how changes and innovations in data collection, technology and analysis are altering the course of commercial real estate. Paul and Anthony are joined by Simon Hughes (Liquid Real Estate Innovation Limited), Jack Sibley (Nuveen), and Oli Farago (Coyote). 

Topics Covered:

● Data and its relationship with the future of commercial real estate. 

● The state of data in commercial real estate; it’s usefulness, relevance, and volume available. 

● Does the nature of commercial real estate as a private asset market class hinder the proliferation of data?

● Anthony explores the relationship between IPSX as a stock exchange and data sets that will emerge from securities that are admitted to trading . 

● Oli discusses the quality versus quantity of data out there in the commercial real estate industry. 

● Has the modern ‘data deluge’ developed for the right reasons? How should it be used?

● How will data change the relationship between buyers, sellers and the balance of knowledge when going into deals?

● How do you ensure data accuracy and transparency? 

● Encouraging innovation, clarifying data and data strategies. 

● The value data adds, and how it adds that value.

Anthony Gahan

Anthony Gahan is Chairman and founder of IPSX - the world’s first securities exchange dedicated to commercial real estate. He brings his 30 years of experience as an investment banker to the table. He has worked at Robert Fleming and Co, Lehman Brothers and is a founding partner of Wyvern, the London Investment Banking firm and is a non executive director at Maru group a technology-enabled, International Insight services group. Anthony is also the host for this IPSX sponsored podcast. https://www.ipsx.com/

Paul Shearer

Paul Shearer has worked extensively in both TV and Radio in front of and behind the camera as an actor, writer and presenter and script editor.  He has written and presented video work on commercial property for consulting real estate agents GVA Bilfinger as well as Capita Real Estate.  http://www.paulshearer.com/ 

Simon Hughes

Simon Hughes is an industry leader, recognised for innovation and transformation across the built environment.Until recently, Simon led the innovation agenda for Arcadis, a global design and consultancy for natural and built assets. Simon is also founder of 'Jell Consulting' a consultancy that develops innovation and market strategies across multiple sectors. https://www.jellconsulting.co.uk/

Jack Sibley

Jack Sibley leads Nuveen Real Estate’s initiative to embrace technological innovation, change and disruption within its tomorrow’s world philosophy. His focus includes analysis and solutions for how technology is changing what end-users want from real estate, proactive engagement with PropTech start-ups and disruptors, and leveraging emerging technologies such as Big Data & AI. These efforts are integrated into Nuveen Real Estate’s investment process, driving asset selection, asset management and portfolio resilience. https://www.nuveen.com/

Oli Farago

Oli Farago is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coyote. He has been fundamental in scoping, designing and developing Coyote since its beginning in 2009. In fact, for the first three years of Coyote’s journey, he wrote every line of code himself. Prior to Coyote, Oli was one of the founding partners and CTO of M7 Real Estate.  https://coyotesoftware.co.uk/