Property Hub

This is the prime location for informed opinion on property matters: finance, law, development, investment, planning, taxation, offices, retail, industrial, distribution, residential, healthcare, hotels and leisure. If it’s property, it’s in the remit. In online courses, conferences, webinars, and journals, we make sure the important issues are covered – sound, comprehensive and thorough.

Here to keep you informed; because it’s knowledge that underpins value – CPD at its very best. 

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Ben is a Chartered Surveyor with nearly 30 years experience across many commercial property sectors both across the UK and internationally. He began his career as an in-house surveyor with Trafalgar House PLC before moving into private practice with Stewart Newiss and Fletcher King and was last employed as Development Director at Travelodge where he spent 9 busy years including winning two industry awards.

Sophie is an experienced non-contentious construction lawyer advising on a range of construction projects, including real estate and infrastructure developments both in the UK and internationally across a wide range of sectors, including data centres, logistics, hotels, warehousing, student accommodation and general commercial projects. She acts for a mix of commercial clients, including project sponsors, employers, developers, contractors, purchasers, tenants and Registered Providers.

Peter is a Partner in Bird & Bird’s Real Estate practice based in the London office. He advises clients across a broad spectrum of real estate matters, including acquisitions and disposals, investment, landlord and tenant issues, security and finance, development and tax restructuring. Over the years, Peter has developed expertise across two key sectors: firstly, office and industrial investment and, secondly, hotels, entertainment and leisure.

Greg Dickson joined Barton Willmore in 2017 as Planning Director in the Manchester office and has varied private sector experience including promotion of major housing developments, strategic town centre, education and mixed-use and commercial development.

A detailed four-part online series chaired by Dan Mitchell, Planning Partner at Barton Willmore. A CONCISE, PRACTICAL and COMPREHENSIVE briefing on HOW IT ALL WORKS – from site finding to funding and from construction to disposal.

This is an ideal series for everyone who needs a quick, reliable briefing on property development and wants to recognise the pitfalls and problems BEFORE the problems find them. Suitable for developers, planners, landowners, construction and project managers and their legal and real estate advisers.

 

Phil is an Associate Director in AECOM’s Fiscal Incentives team and has been with the company since 2013. Having worked in the accountancy and property sectors for twenty years, he has a qualification from the Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) and is involved in delivering a wide variety of property-related tax advice. His areas of expertise include UK and Irish Capital Allowances, and Land Remediation Relief, and he has worked on numerous and diverse commercial and residential projects for a broad spectrum of clients.

Session 1: ​Heads of Terms, length of leases and the Leases Code

  • Ensuring the Heads of Terms are in enough detail, relevant and right for the current market
  • What should be added to the Heads of Terms that can make all the difference to lease negotiation – issues to consider earlier in the process
  • Update to the Lease Code
  • Length of leases and security of tenure – minimising the potential problems down the line when it might be too late to do anything about them
  • Impact of shorter lease terms on both parties

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Session 1: Measuring brand value (especially now) and performance and its relevance to the hotel’s worth

  • Branded vs non-branded – the implications for values
  • What impact could branding have on a hotel post-COVID-19?
  • Driving up performance – does it matter about the management structure or whether the hotel is a brand or not?  The difference the alternative arrangements make to value
         - Selection criteria of brands
         - What do brands look for?