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Confidence in the property industry is climbing again. The prospects for the residential and office sectors look promising. It's a stark contrast to the results of EG and Grosvenor's Property Sentiment Survey last year. In this podcast, Features Editor Emily Wright interviews a panel of property experts about the outlook for the sector. Panelists include Graham Parry, head of research GB and Ireland at Grosvenor, Bill Grimsey, former CEO of Wickes, Iceland, Focus DIY, and author of Sold Out; Who Really Killed The High Street, and Grenville Turner, Chief Executive of Countrywide.

IPD has reported its most positive results for the UK for almost two years for Q2 this year, with total returns of 1.9% and a 0.4% rise in capital values. IPD’s Greg Mansell and Henderson Global Investors Head of Research Alice Breheny discuss the reasons to be cheerful with EG finance reporter Sophia Furber, but explain that buyers should still think twice before embarking on any spending sprees.

Land Securities has delivered an upbeat update on first quarter trading, announcing further lettings progress on its London development pipeline.

Britain’s biggest REIT said it had completed £5.5m of development lettings since 1 April 2013, with a further £12.3m in solicitors’ hands.

Chief executive Robert Noel speaks to Estates Gazette's Jack Sidders about the company's results.

Nine Elms programme director Helen Fisher and councillor Govindia, leader of Wandsworth council, talk to residential correspondent Annabel Dixon at the Nine Elms Vauxhall open day at Battersea Power Station about the regeneration of the area moving forward and how it will provide a wide variety of housing options.

Revised plans by Almacantar and Frogmore for a £350m transformation of iconic skyscraper Centre Point, WC1, were given the green light. Estates Gazette editor Damian Wild interview's Almacantar's Mike Hussey about the company's plans for the building.

Volume and long term vision are the secret behind the UK’s largest portfolio of lock of garages, said property company owner and classic car enthusiast Rodger Dudding.

Known as the King of Lugs (lock up garages), Dudding owns and manages 12,000 lock ups. He also owns several hundred retail units, about 7,000 flats and a range of commercial mews properties.

Worth £155m, the Estates Gazette Rich List regular took Estates Gazette on a tour of Studio 434, a specially adapted warehouse where he keeps the majority of his 170 classic cars and 160 motorbikes – the UK’s largest privately owned collection.

The Grimsey high street review has called for a realistic look at town centre first planning. In the latest monthly market update report from Estates Gazette, Matthew Hopkinson, director at the Local Data Company, has called for a "realistic look at what is economically possible" for in town retail development. Hopkinson, who last month joined forces with Bill Grimsey to launch an alternative high street review to Mary Portas, said "we need to look at what consumers want.….we need to look at what is possible and if there isn't the money to sustain it then we have got no legacy, no matter what the government."

This week saw the last raft of the 800-strong Savills West End team leave Mayfair, for its new 95,000 sq ft 33 Margaret Street headquarters, W1.
Estates Gazette was given a sneak peek tour of the building by Savills UK chief executive Mark Ridley and Sean Monie, building and project consultancy director. The pair discuss the reasons behind the relocation and the work behind the scenes to make it possible.

Regional office values plunged 10.4% in the 12 months to May, according to the latest figures from IPD.
The commercial property index showed that for capital value growth, offices outside of London and the South East were the worst performing sector, closely followed by in town shopping centres and regional shops. In this podcast, EG finance reporter Sophia Furber interviews IPD's head of research UK, Greg Mansell, about this month's figures.

The mounting sums raised by debt funds will never replace the retrenching clearing banks with a market wide deleveraging likely to result, a panel of alternative investors told the British Property Federation conference this week. BPF President Chris Grigg reviews the conference in this podcast.

Savills has identified 50 new lenders coming into the UK property lending market, with 47 of them looking specifically to lend on deals of over £100m. EG speaks with Savills' William Newsom.

In this month's Market Update podcast, EG Markets Editor Noella Pio Kivlehan speaks with the Local Data Company's Matthew Hopkinson about the increasing variety of outlets in the fast food sector. Our Scotland correspondent, Lisa Pilkington, speaks with BNP Paribas Real Estate's head of Scotland Gavin Willins about investment in offices.

Qatari Diar and Delancey have unveiled their private rented initiative, Get Living London, and promised transparent lettings to all tenants. Delancey’s Stuart Corbyn, chairman of Get Living London, vowed to own, manage and let the private homes direct at East Village, E20, the site of the Olympic Village. Corbyn speak with EG's residential reporter Annabel Dixon at the Chelsea Flower Show.

BCO 2013: Developers should look to the Far East, not to the TMT sector, for growth, the former chairman of Land Securities told delegates at the BCO conference today. Estates Gazette's editor Damian Wild spoke with Lord Myners about the need to re-capitalise the banks.

BCO conference 2013: The UK economy will post modest growth this year, but still runs the risk of further shocks, former chancellor Lord Lamont told the BCO conference in Madrid this morning. Estates Gazette's editor Damian Wild interviews Lamont about the UK's relationship with Europe.

Crown Estate chairman Sir Stuart Hampson has warned that government’s failure to move quickly on infrastructure decisions was putting London’s status as a leading global city at risk. Estates Gazette's editor Damian Wild interviews Sir Stuart Hampson.

More than 50 delegates cycled 290 miles to this year’s BCO conference in Madrid and are closing in on their target to raise £30,000 for charity. Estates Gazette editor Damian Wild interview Great Portland Estates' James Pellat, one of the organisers of the ride.

EG finance reporter Sophia Furber talks to IPD’s UK and Ireland head of research, Greg Mansell, and Aberdeen Asset Management’s global head of property Andrew Smith at the launch of IPD’s UK quarterly index. A 1.1% total return over the quarter gives some signs for optimism, as do patches of growth in the regions. But how will investors – particularly institutions – meet their requirements for higher yields plus their need for stable and predictable income?

EG finance reporter Sophia Furber talks to DTZ’s head of global research, Hans Vrensen, at the launch of DTZ’s annual Money into Property report, which tracks international financing trends. There are some concrete signs that a recovery is on the way, as the real estate world clears up its legacy issues and builds a healthy base for new growth, says Vrensen. Find out what he has to say in response to those who believe that DTZ’s view of the market is too bullish!

This podcast is a full recording of the Movers & Shakers/British Property Federation breakfast held at London's The Dorchester Hotel on April 30th, 2013. The discussion theme was: "Top Guns - Three Different Perspectives on Property". Panelists included
Chris Grigg, chief executive of British Land, David Marks, co-managing partner at Brockton Capital and Bill Hughes, managing director of Legal & General Property. The discussion was chaired by Estates Gazette editor Damian Wild.