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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  • What do the regulations mean for existing tenancies and new tenancies if the building has less than the minimum EPC
  • Impact on existing leases, future leases, lease drafting and rent review practice
  • Importance of reviewing energy efficiency works to protect asset value
  • RICS Guidelines – what’s important now, likely developments and further changes
  • Valuation challenges

Professor Sarah Sayce is Emeritus Professor at Kingston University, having recently retired as Head of the School of Surveying & Planning a position she held for many years. She initially qualified as a Chartered Surveyor and worked in both the corporate field and in consultancy specializing in property valuation and management.

James is a founding partner of Voltaire with a background in arranging complex real estate transactions. For a number of years James specialised in arranging structured investment facilities for requirements across all asset classes. During the last few years James has increased his focus on facilitating equity injections into both development and investment transactions – often as part of arranging the entire capital structure.

David Penston is a London-based property banker with a strong track record in both property and corporate banking. David is a highly experienced specialist in Structured Property Finance.

Alistair is a partner in the Real Estate group and head of Planning & Environment. He works closely with clients and advises on the range of planning and environmental issues that need to be addressed in obtaining planning permission and developing land.

There are real challenges in running care-based businesses. Care must be central to the service, but equally, if you don't run as a business, you won't survive to provide the care. Profitability ensures sustainability. Profitability also underpins the value of the business when the time comes to raise finance or sell. Profit is that thin layer between revenue and costs.

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Craig joined Savills at the turn of the millennium to create the Healthcare division. Prior to that, he spent 16 years at Christie & Co where he was a main board director and their head of Corporate Healthcare team. Craig's main focus is business and property transactional work across the healthcare sector this includes portfolios, individual assets, C2 property and land and development. Outside of work, Craig's hobbies include watching his two sons play rugby, touring Europe and beyond on Adventure motorcycles with two Savills colleagues.

Ion Fletcher is the Director of Finance and Commercial Policy at the British Property Federation (BPF).  He is responsible for developing the UK real estate industry’s response to policy decisions affecting real estate businesses from a tax, finance and commercial perspective.  Ion was previously a tax advisor in Ernst & Young’s real estate group and has a degree in Management Sciences from the University of Warwick.