Real Estate Insights, from Savills

The retail industry is changing. Questions are being asked around the future of fast fashion and the sustainability of the clothes we buy is now under the spotlight more so than ever before. The fashion sharing economy is the antidote to this and has the potential to create long term change in the fashion world.

In the first episode of this five part retail takeover series, Guy Ruddle and his co-host Tiffany Luckett are joined by guests from two of the most innovative and exciting brands within the world of fashion sharing – Depop and ByRotation. Together they discuss the concept of the fashion sharing economy and its impact of an ever-changing retail market, discussing key issues such as the growing awareness of sustainability, the notion of community and the role that physical stores have played for their brands.

The dynamic in the London land market is changing, with sites previously earmarked for residential development remaining as industrial as land values for the sector soar in the capital. With a need for new homes and for well-located industrial & logistics space to service them, how do we balance these two competing uses? While the London Plan, adopted in 2021, supports co-location as part of its ‘beds and sheds’ policy, it’s clear that this is not always viable and alternative solutions are needed.

Join Guy Ruddle and guests, Lydia McLaren, associate in the residential research team, Bridget Outtrim, director in the industrial & logistics team and Ed De Jonge, director in the development land team as they discuss the impact on both sectors and how they might co-exist moving forward.

Join Guy Ruddle and guests: Caryn Donahue, Senior Director, Savills Healthcare, Henry Elphick, Senior Advisor, Savills Healthcare, and Richard Valentine-Selsey, Director, Savills Residential Research.

Our experts discuss the supply and demand fundamentals underpinning the UK’s Independent Private Hospitals sector, the key operators in the market, some major recent transactions, and the further opportunities for investors in the sector.

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Co-living is a form of purpose-built rental housing that generally consists of studio bedroom units and large amounts of high-quality communal amenities, including gyms, cinemas, co-working spaces and resident’s lounges. 

Join Guy Ruddle and guests: James Hanmer, Head of UK PBSA Investment and Co-Living, Savills Operational Capital Markets and Paul Wellman, Associate Director, Savills Research.
 
Our experts discuss the many benefits the product offers for tenants, the enormous scale of demand, how local authorities are planning for Co-living, participants in the sector and key transactions to date, as well as how the lender pool is evolving. 

To launch the 2022 edition of Impacts, its global thought leadership programme, Savills experts from the US and Middle East discuss what peoples’ priorities are post-pandemic and how the built environment is responding to new trends. What does the future look like for resilient cities? What are the top destinations for ‘executive nomads’? How are supply chains coping with geopolitical uncertainty, and which cities are making headway in meeting the net zero challenge?

With the world opening up again, we explore how real estate is fundamental in reconnecting faces, spaces and places; helping people and businesses to connect and thrive.

There are approximately 560 marinas in the UK. Historically marinas have been operated by private individuals and many still are, but as private equity have taken an interest in the sector, we have started to see the emergence of a two-tier market.  The first was when Premier Marinas were sold by Blackrock to Welcome Trust in 2015, followed by British Waterways (now known as Aquavista) to Lloyds Capital in 2018 and who have most recently added Castle Marinas to their portfolio in 2021. As with holiday parks the stable income stream derived from mooring fees is what has attracted them to the sector making them good investments, and with a third of marina operators reporting occupancy levels at 100% in 2020 with less than a quarter having an occupancy rate of lower than 85%, the sector has proven incredibly resilient through the Covid disruption.

Join Guy Ruddle and sector specialists: Ian Simpson, head of the leisure and trade related team; Kay Griffiths, associate director in the leisure and trade related team; and, Tom Griffiths, associate in the leisure and trade related team as they discuss how the marina market has evolved over the years, where investment activity is coming from, can occupancy levels be sustained and what opportunities there are in the market.

The gaming industry is experiencing rapid growth and right now the UK is the leading video game market in Europe and sixth globally. We’ve experienced multi-billion pound deals at the start of 2022 reinforcing the opportunity and appetite there is in the sector. However, as these gaming companies grow they need specific physical spaces to enable and support the production and creation of their products. As the industry continues to grow, where can we expect these gaming businesses to expand and can existing office stock be repurposed to provide studio space?

Join Guy Ruddle and sector specialists: Rob Pearson from the Office Tenant Representation team, Emerging Trends Director Nicky Wightman and Sam Collins, Head of Commercial and Membership at UKIE, as they discuss how important it is for gaming companies to be located near talent and knowledge centres, what the specific real estate needs and requirements are for gaming companies, and how this can be met amid a shortage of stock.

Further Information
https://www.savills.co.uk/blog/article/320050/commercial-property/the-growth-of-the-video-gaming-industry-and-the-vital-role-of-real-estate.aspx
www.ukie.org.uk
www.gamesmap.uk

Six months on from COP26 in Glasgow, we’re asking how Net Zero and ESG goals are being applied to workplace design and operation. This podcast explores the biggest changes for good on a building by building level, with a focus on than the host country for COP26 - Scotland.

Join Guy Ruddle and experts: Nadeem Khan, director in Savills Engineering and Design Consultancy team working closely with Savills Earth, Clare Bailey, Research Director and Basil Demeroutis, Managing Partner at Fore Partnership

With take-up of warehouse space reaching over 50 million sq ft for the last two years, alongside record investment volumes, can this be sustained in light of ongoing global supply chain issues, construction delays and material shortages?  

Join Guy Ruddle and sector specialists: Jack Booth, from the Savills industrial & logistics agency team, investment agent Charlie Foster and development project manager Will Cooper as they discuss how the delivery of speculative space will be key, how second hand stock will have an important role to play and how rising rents and limited options might impact the occupier market moving forward. Also, most importantly, what the solution might be. 

There’s been a lot of speculation over whether or not the pandemic has permanently changed how we live, work, socialise and shop, but these debates tend to be shaped by older experts. What is the view of younger people?

Join Guy Ruddle and guests: three Savills researchers – Josh Arnold for retail and leisure, Simon Preece for offices and Sophie Tonge for residential - who give a view from the ‘next generation’: as the users of tomorrow’s real estate, how do they think they and their peers’ behaviour and attitudes have been shaped by Covid-19, how do their views differ from older generations, and how could they impact how developers approach property?