Real Estate Insights, from Savills

Join Guy Ruddle and guests: Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth Advisory Services, alongside Tom Hill Director of Impact Assessment at Savills, Sarah Jackson, Director in the Rural Consultancy team at Savills and Henry Le Fleming, Founder of Sustainability Analytics Ltd in the penultimate episode of the second Savills Earth podcast series. This episode highlights how environmental economics c...

Join Guy Ruddle and Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth Advisory Services, alongside Phil Pearson Director of Energy, Infrastructure and Renewables at Savills and Emma Andrews, Director of Planning at Savills in the third episode of the second Savills Earth podcast series. This episode sheds light on the challenges facing the UK’s grid infrastructure, emphasising the crucial collaboration bet...

Confidence has returned to the UK’s prime residential market in the first few weeks of 2024 and rising numbers of buyers and sellers are talking of increased commitment to moving in the first six months of the year.      But is 2024 a good time to be in the market?  Should you go early or wait to see what the spring brings?  And what makes prime different from the mainstream?   Andrew Perratt, Fra...

Join Guy Ruddle and Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth Advisory Services, alongside Dan Jestico, Director of Sustainable Design at Savills, Robert Godfrey, Director of Investment Strategy and Management at Savills Investment Management, and guest speaker Helen Newman, Director of Sustainable Investing at Fabrix in the second episode of the second Savills Earth podcast series. This episode ex...

Join Guy Ruddle and guests, Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth Advisory Services, alongside Wesley Ankrah, Head of Social Value, James Evans, Head of Savills Manchester and National Office Agency, and guest speaker Shravan Joshi from the City of London Corporation, in the first episode of the second Savills Earth podcast series. This episode explores the evolving concept of social value and...

Cal Lee, global head of Workthere (Savills flexible office specialist), is joined by Natasha Guerra, co-founder and CEO of Runway East and Simon Rowley, director of Flex Workspace at Great Portland Estates, to discuss the outlook for the flexible office sector, addressing the impact of the recent news regarding WeWork against the wider dynamics of the sector and where the opportunities for growth...

Stephen Down, Richard Garside, Emma Steele and Jonathan Gardiner from Savills Central London Investment team join Guy Ruddle in the studio to discuss the Central London investment and occupier market against the challenging economic backdrop. The Savills experts seek to uncover how the investment market is performing, including cross-border investment activity, as well the occupier market and what...

‘It takes thousands of years to form 1 centimeter of soil. Yet, it can be destroyed in almost no time at all.’ Dr. Cristiana Paşca Palmer’s words have never been more pertinent as we stare down the barrel of the climate crisis. In this final episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, we explore how regenerative agriculture can bring our soil back to life, improve water absorbency and improve...

More than half of the world’s agricultural land is degraded and, according to the World Economic Forum , ‘within 50 years, there may not be enough soil left to feed the world’. But this doesn’t have to be the end of the story.   In this episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, we explore how regenerative agriculture can bring our soil back to life, improve water absorbency and improve biodi...

When it comes to climate change, the message is clear: native woods and trees are one of the best ways to tackle the climate crisis. So, why is Britain one of the least wooded countries in Europe? In this episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, we delve into how we can restore our native woodlands and temperate rainforests, and the transformative impact that trees and hedgerows can have on...

“The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world and despite nature struggling against all odds to survive, more than one in seven native species face extinction and more than 40% are in decline.” But these statistics from the WWF do not mean that all is lost for UK biodiversity. In this episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, we hear from Dr Samantha Lacey and Tom Ludwig...

Is Restoration & Rewilding the only way of truly saving UK habitats?  In this episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, Jake Fiennes , Conservation Manager at the Holkham Estate , discusses how his radical habitat restoration and agricultural work has nurtured Holkham’s species and risen its crop yields - bringing back wetlands, hedgerows, birds and butterflies over 25,000 acres of land....

According to the UN, climate change is primarily a water crisis. It impacts everything from gender equality to biodiversity loss, but often remains on the periphery of the climate conversation. In this first episode of the Nature-Based Solutions takeover, we take a deep dive into the world of water with experts from WaterAid and The Beaver Trust . Kathryn Pharr is a Senior Policy Adviser for Inter...

Despite challenging macroeconomic conditions, including the fundamental stock problem, EPC requirement implications, and the rising cost of debt, Global investor appetite for UK PBSA has remained high.  In this podcast, our experts discuss the extent to which investors will continue to target UK PBSA, and what the key opportunities and challenges are for the sector in the next 12 months.

With the theme of Savills 2023 Impacts research programme being ‘purpose’, Paul Tostevin and Eri Mitsostergiou from Savills World Research debate with Wes Ankrah, Savills Head of Social Value, and Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth, the different purposes that real estate can serve and how the role of property is changing. The team discusses how financial, environmental and social purposes i...

As organisations continue to make decisions regarding their work space post-Covid, change management has played a crucial role in helping people to adapt to these new ways of working across the globe. With a lot of these changes likely to be met by resistance, how best can businesses overcome this and get people on board to ensure a smooth transition?

How are wedding venues changing? Are they profitable for operators? Who is buying or selling and why? These are just some of the questions that Savills experts answer in this podcast focused on the wedding venue sector.

In this annual podcast episode, Savills agents discuss whether its commercial, rural and residential investment property predictions, made at the end of last year, have begun to emerge in the first three months of 2023. 

Which locations around the world come out top in Savills 2023 Tech Cities research, and how are tech occupiers’ real estate requirements evolving in response to industry changes? 

This final episode of the Savills Earth podcast series will introduce social value and how it is evolving. The podcast will look at some of the challenges around social value and also what can be done to ensure social value continues to mature in line with the E and the G in ESG. 

Join Guy Ruddle and Co-host Marylis Ramos, Director in Savills Earth alongside: Stephen Lloyd, Associate, Sustainable Design within Savills Earth, Nick Taylor, Director in Building Project Consultancy and Julia Mountford, Director in Savills Planning division.  This fourth episode of the Savills Earth podcast series explores the topic of retrofitting alongside rebuild, unpicking and exploring diff...

The way businesses use offices have evolved, with a shift towards higher quality office space, more amenity and flexibility. 

Experts from Savills join Guy Ruddle to discuss how retail can be reimagined and repurposed for the future. Together they explore the drivers for change and the key challenges and opportunities when it comes to developing greener retail real estate.   

In the third episode of our Savills Earth podcast series, our experts discuss biodiversity, what it is and why it’s important to us all. Our guests explore why it is now one of the moment’s buzz words, recent legislation and government commitments that are driving legislation as well as the integration of biodiversity into urban spaces and how this will effect developments in future.

Life science remains a hot topic for many within real estate, with a number of new entrants looking to break into the UK market as the sector continues to mature. However, with the current funding landscape impacted by wider macro-economics, and more hesitancy from those looking to invest, it is important to stress that the fundamentals remain strong.  Join Guy Ruddle and guests, Tom Mellows, Savi...