The Estates Gazette Podcast

UK capital values fell 0.8% in the three months to 30 September owing to wary investor sentiment, according the latest IPD figures.The UK Quarterly Property Index found that values have now fallen for a full year, and declines at the headline level in this "second dip" have amounted to 2.6%. Regional office and retail sector falls have been over 5%.

Crossrail and a series of new major redevelopments will transform the St Giles Circus area, WC1 and W1, into a global retail hub. Research by GVA, sponsored by New West End Company, claims that the area, comprising Eastern Oxford Street, New Oxford Street and High Holborn, is on the verge "of a major retail renaissance".

A formidable team of panellists debated the current state of Manchester and Greater Manchester at the Estates Gazette North West Question time on Friday, 19 October. The panel was: Tom Bloxham, chairman of Urban Splash; Pete Bradshaw, head of infrastructure at Manchester City FC; Alice Webb, COO of BBC North, Patrick Joynson, head of Savills' Manchester office, and Ruairidh Jackson, strategy and development director at NOMA (The Co-operative). EG editor Damian Wild chaired. The compelling debate covered everything from being a corporate destination to generating talent, bank lending and being green.

David Turner, chief exec of HEROtsc talks to Estates Gazette

Estates Gazette's Sophia Furber talks to Peter Damesick, EMEA chief economist with CBRE on why foreign investors are still targeting London.

Estates Gazette's Sophia Furber talks to John Feeney, head of real estate debt at Henderson Global Investors, on the burgeoning market for senior debt funds.

Estates Gazette's Nick Whitten talks to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles on amendments to the Community Infrastructure Levy.

Plugging into the tech crowd. The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector is becoming the bedrock of London's office market. Its space and funding needs and its ambitions were debated at Estates Gazette's latest London Forum event. This is a recording of the entire debate.

Estates Gazette's Nick Whitten talks to British Land's Chris Grigg on the decline of the High Street and the future of the Community Infrastructure Levy

Birmingham city council development director Mark Barrow said today that building in the green belt is needed to help meet the city's housing needs. He talks with Estates Gazette's Nick Whitten from the Tory conference.

Estates Gazette's Nick Whitten talks to Barratt Developments chief Mark Clare at the Conservative Party Conference on why the government must act as a wholesale lender to prop up the mortgage market

Topland Estates paid around £12m for the landmark Capital Tower in Cardiff. With Admiral due to vacate the building in three years what's behind the buy? Two agents give their views on what Topland could do with the building and options for its revival. EG's Nadia Elghamry talks to investment specialist Peter Graham, director at Stephenson Alexander and Mark Sutton at Knight Frank.

Estate Gazette's Samantha Baden talks to Robert Hoban, director of auctions at Allsop Space on Ireland's new Property Price Register, launched this week

Estates Gazette's Samantha Baden talks to Allsop Space auctioneer Gary Murphy on its Dublin auction on Oct 3, which raised £14.3m

Estates Gazette's Annabel Dixon talks to Steve Smith, British Land's chief investment officer, on the opening of its fashion mall in Puerto Venecia in Zaragoza, Spain