The Real Deal Podcast

Danni Drummond Brassington talks with Giles Barrie (Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting) and Clare Thomas (Real Estate Partner, CMS) to discuss the research findings from this year’s tenth CMS thought leadership report. Giles and Clare comment on the overall real estate market outlook and explore findings that have derived from the research. The report is based on a survey of 300 real estate professionals and 15,000 consumers. In addition to reviewing the trends that have shaped the sector over the last decade, the report considers how our towns and cities might evolve in a post-COVID world and the role of the Government's Levelling Up agenda.

Danni Drummond Brassington talks with Giles Barrie (Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting) and Clare Thomas (Real Estate Partner, CMS) to discuss the research findings from this year’s ninth CMS thought leadership report. Giles and Clare comment on the overall real estate market outlook and explore how the pandemic is expected to accelerate real estate’s adoption of technology by four years according to the 4,000+ real estate professionals, office occupiers, retail specialists, renters and life sciences leaders we surveyed this year.

Danni Drummond Brassington talks with Julie Gattegno (Real Estate Disputes lawyer) and Glenn Flannery (Restructuring & Insolvency lawyer) to discuss the important topic of tenant insolvency processes. As restrictions are slowly being lifted, what impact has the pandemic really had on insolvencies.  

Danni Drummond Brassington talks with Julie Gattegno (Real Estate Disputes lawyer) and Glenn Flannery (Restructuring & Insolvency lawyer) to discuss the important topic of tenant insolvency processes. As restrictions are slowly being lifted, what impact has the pandemic really had on insolvencies?

The Hotels & Leisure sector has faced a challenging time with Brexit and Covid-19 forcing the industry to change and adapt. In this episode Danni Drummond-Brassington and Roland Smyth discuss how the sector continued to see pockets of investment and how the outlook for 2021 and beyond seems to be positive and the sector will bounce back.

CMS real estate partners Danni Drummond-Brassington and Cheryl Gurnham discuss the main ESG themes highlighted in our thought leadership report.

We discuss the findings from the eighth real estate annual thought leadership report. CMS partner Clare Thomas and Giles Barrie, FTI Consulting discuss leading asset classes, regional investment and offices post pandemic

Danni Drummond-Brassington, Christopher Luck and Ciaran Carvalho (Partners at CMS), take a look back on the real estate investment market in 2019 and discuss the key trends that are set to influence the UK and European real estate industry in 2020.  Learn more about our Real Estate team: https://cms.law/en/gbr/global-reach/europe/united-kingdom/expertise/real-estate 

Following the ‘Sustainability in real estate: trends, opportunities and challenges’ panel discussion held at CMS in London, Danni joins Chinyelu Oranefo (Senior Associate, CMS) to interview Josien Piek, Head of EMEA at GRESB, to understand GRESB’s role in assessing the sustainability performance of real assets and how the market is changing to incorporate ESG to be an industry norm. Want to find out more? Read about the work CMS is currently undertaking in Sustainable Finance & Responsible Investment (https://cms.law/en/GBR/Insight/Sustainable-Finance-Responsible-Investment). You can also listen to more episodes of The Real Deal Podcast at the CMS website: https://cms.law/en/GBR/Publication/CMS-Real-Deal-Podcast

Danni sits down with Clare Thomas (Real Estate Partner, CMS) and Giles Barrie (Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting) to discuss CMS' latest thought leadership report "Urban Being: The Future of City Living". The report considers housing and demographic pressures in six key cities: London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Manchester and Glasgow. Through a major census of almost 6,500 people (more than 1,000 respondents per city), we uncover the preferences of consumers when it comes to their living environment. Find out more, here: https://cms.law/en/GBR/Publication/Urban-Being For more information about The Real Deal Podcast, contact CMS UK.