Brave Ideas

Welcome to Season 3 of the highly popular #WorkBold podcast. Caleb Parker , Founder of Bold , returns for another season to challenge commercial real estate on the only podcast in the world dedicated to the future asset class called Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS). Now downloaded in 49 countries, each week Caleb chats with the leading experts in commercial real estate to prepare you for the new world o...

Tushar Agarwal , Co-Founder & CEO of HubbleHQ , the leading online marketplace for finding and renting office space in London joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to talk about the changing demands for the office. Tushar shares why the traditional office is dead using data to back up his claim, and explains how landlords should respond. The discussion covers how remote work going mainstream has crea...

Award winning Architect turned property developer,  Martin Prince-Parrott  from  Blackswan Property, a Birmingham, England residential property developer, joins  Bold  Founder,  Caleb Parker , to discuss the work from home (#WFH) movement and what it could mean for existing and emerging residential assets The lines between work and life have long been blurred and now we’re going to see a blurring...

Forward thinking real estate developer, Jacob Loftus , who is Founder and CEO of London-based General Projects , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker to discuss how his company is reinventing assets to be customer focused and create long-term value. Jacob tells the story behind repositioning a 150k sqft asset with Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS), then trading that asset for nearly £200M. He follows that up...

Space-as-a-Service veteran Borislava Tzvetkova joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker from Sofia, Bulgaria to chat about her experience supporting global corporates, and why brand matters in commercial real estate. We learn why demand from global corporates for Space-as-a-Service has grown in recent years, policies for transitioning back to the office after lockdown, hybrid spaces, how a Netflix model s...

Ryan Simonetti , CEO of Brookfield -backed Convene , joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker in an inspiring episode on leadership and optimism on the future of commercial real estate. Ryan shares the core values that’s helped make Convene successful over the last decade, what’s enabled him to take decisive action during the Covid pandemic, why he believes we’re in the middle of “ The Great Accelerator "...

Annie Rinker , Director for the Office of Innovation at Hines and Board Member for the Global Workspace Association joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to share how Hines is future proofing their portfolio with Space-as-a-Service. Annie is the woman leading the roll out of Space-as-a-Service across the Hines global portfolio , which includes 539 properties across 205 cities in 24 countries on 5 con...

Susan Freeman , 'The woman who knows everyone' according to  Bisnow joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to share why she believes "Third spaces" will play a role in bringing back life to the high street and smaller towns. Susan, who is partner at law firm Mishcon de Reya , shares some of the back stories from her favourite guests on her own PropertyShe podcast , including Founder of Regus , Billion...

The outspoken #CRE Broker and social media influencer (11k+ followers on Twitter) , Duke Long , joins Bold founder, Caleb Parker to share the story behind his Top 100 people in commercial real estate to follow on Twitter list and explain his recent rants about the negative pitching that is happening in CRE during the current pandemic, including on social media and in the press. In this uncensored...

Jonathan Weinbrenn (JW), Space-as-a-Service veteran and MD Bespoke , a BE Offices company with locations across England and Northern Ireland, joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker to discuss the impact Covid-19 will have on commercial real estate. The two chat about the human side of the pandemic, both the negatives and positives, how JW and his team are helping customers transition to working from hom...

In this first episode of Season 2, Samantha McClary , editor of real estate media company, EG , (virtually) joins Bold founder Caleb Parker to share some of the chatter she’s hearing in commercial real estate. The two discuss whether p eople are really productive working remotely, what the “new normal” looks like when we come out Covid-19 lockdown, how companies are rethinking their office strateg...

Welcome to Season 2 of the #WorkBold podcast. Following a successful Season 1 (now downloaded in 36 countries), Caleb Parker, Founder of Bold , returns to chat with the leaders in #CRE to share insights into how the office sector can prepare for work life after Covid-19, better known as Coronavirus. Will everyone get back to business as usual, or will there be significant changes to the buildings...

Dror Poleg, world renowned author of Rethinking Real Estate , chats with Bold  Founder,  Caleb Parker in London during his UK book tour. Dror explains why the old way of leasing space is becoming obsolete and how to finance the next phase of growth for Space-as-a-Service. Follow Dror on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drorpoleg *(More about Dror below) Subscribe Apple  |  Spotify  |  Google  |  Stitc...

Chris Richmond , Senior Head of Real Estate for PricewaterhouseCoopers ( PwC ) joins Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , and dives deep into what drives his real estate decisions. He's responsible for for ensuring 24,500 team members have a happy and productive office environment across the portfolio and shares how flexible working and the war for talent require buildings to level up their service game....

Mark Tyson , Head of Service Delivery at Legal & General Investment Management ( LGIM ) sat down with Bold Founder, Caleb Parker , to share how space moving from product to service can create successful businesses, driving demand, premium rents and ultimately high building valuations. About Mark Tyson Mark is Head of Service Delivery at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM). He is responsib...

Elaine Rossall , Head of UK Offices Research and Strategy at JLL joins Bold founder, Caleb Parker , to discuss how flexible working trends impact commercial real estate assets and how landlords are responding. About Elaine Rossall Elaine joined JLL in 2018 from Cushman and Wakefield where she spent 24 years, first as a member of the associate European research group and later as head of London gro...

James Goldsmith , Head of Leasing for AXA Investment Managers at 22 Bishopsgate sits down with Caleb Parker to share his vision for creating a community and breeding successful companies. 22 Bishopsgate is the newest skypscraper altering the London skyline and is leading the way when it comes to deliver space-as-a-service and amenities to delight consumers. About James Goldsmith James has worked o...

Matt Filkin , Chief Operating Officer for London-based property investment company Almacantar , joins  Bold  Founder  Caleb Parker , and shares his views on why landlords should challenge the status quo to provide the services people want from buildings today. He goes on to explain how partnering with experienced operator brands can work well and have a positive impact on building valuations. Abou...

Dan Hughes , Founder at Alpha Property Insight, joins Bold Founder Caleb Parker , to talk about the changes coming to building valuations - more specifically about the impact Space-as-a-Service has on the valuation of commercial assets. About Dan Dan spent his career working across the built environment and has held senior roles in some of the world's leading data organisations. Dan led the Land a...

Mark Bott , Head of Serviced Offices for Colliers International UK ,  tells Caleb Parker why he believes landlords should incorporate flexspace and coworking footprints in their assets on this third episode of the #WorkBold Podcast.   About Mark Bott Mark is a Corporate Real Estate professional advising organizations of all sizes (FTSE 100 to SMEs and landlords) on how their real estate strategy &...

Lucy Watts discusses trends driving the demand for Space-as-a-Service with Caleb Parker on the second episode of the #WorkBold Podcast. Lucy is Senior Director of Strategic Projects for The Instant Group. She shares insights on customer demand: why customers want flexibility and space-as-a-service average requirement sizes what buildings can do to attract fast growing companies Lucy manages Instan...

World-renowned real estate advisor, Antony Slumbers talks about the future of Commercial Real Estate and the future asset class, Space-as-a-Service. Transformation, Technology, and Innovation. A well-known speaker in property, a globally recognized expert on PropTech, and #SpaceAsAService expert talks to Bold Founder, Caleb Parker on this first episode of the #WorkBold Podcast. Antony travels the...

Welcome to the Brave Ideas podcast (formerly #WorkBold) Hosted by Caleb Parker , we’ll be answering all questions about the future asset class called Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS), which only represents 6-10% of the overall CRE market. But we’ve seen the predictions that SPaaS will grow to 30% over the next decade. That level of growth will change CRE forever. If you’re an asset manager, fund manager...