This is the second podcast in our third Savills Earth series. Join Guy Ruddle and Marylis Ramos alongside Andrew Buroni, Director, Environmental Planning & Infrastructure, Vinita Dhume, Director, Urban Design, and guest, Matthew Morgan, Director and co-founder of the Quality of Life Foundation, as they explore the critical importance of integrating health and education considerations into planning and development practices. The experts share insights on the benefits of holistic placemaking t...
May 28, 2025•26 min•Season 1Ep. 164
Join host Guy Ruddle and guests Michael Maguire, Adam Mirley and Sophie Rosier from Savills Mixed Use Development team as they discuss the pivotal role mixed use development plays in shaping urban centres and their communities. This podcast puts the cities of Birmingham, London and Manchester under the microscope and explores the challenges and solutions required in these cities through the lens of mixed use development.
May 14, 2025•25 min•Season 1Ep. 163
Join host Guy Ruddle and guests Patrick Moseley, Nick Matthews, and Emily Williams from Savills Development, Planning, and Research teams as they delve into England's housing crisis. Building on a previous discussion about London's housing targets, this podcast broadens the scope to a national level. From unlocking large sites to the implementation of the new National Planning Policy Framework, this episode explores the challenges and solutions required to address England's housing needs....
Apr 23, 2025•29 min•Season 1Ep. 162
Join Guy Ruddle and Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth Advisory Services, alongside Robert Godfrey, Head of Investment Strategy & Asset Management, Joe Dance, Savills Strategic Ecologist and Paul Tostevin, Head of World Research in the first episode of the third Savills Earth podcast series. This episode delves into the interdependencies and interconnectedness of rural and urban environments. We explore the significance of multifunctional land use, recent policy developments and global...
Apr 10, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 161
In this annual podcast episode, Savills heads of commercial, residential, and rural research discuss their outlook for UK property this year. Lucian Cook, Kelly Hewson-Fisher, and Mat Oakley join Guy Ruddle in the studio to discuss if the markets are, so far, behaving how they predicted, the impact of Government policy changes, and how the global economic outlook and geopolitical environment may affect UK investor confidence.
Feb 19, 2025•30 min•Season 1Ep. 160
Savills office sector experts discuss why there is divergent sentiment across occupational and investment markets. With most major UK office markets having no new buildings coming on stream in the next three years, how will businesses position themselves as the economy improves? Office rental growth continues to be strong across the quality spectrum, so is there a better time to kick-start the development cycle? And with some investors hesitant to dip their toes back in, will the returns be comp...
Feb 12, 2025•22 min•Season 1Ep. 159
Now in its eighth year, the annual Future Space report canvased the opinions of more than 330 occupiers, investors and developers about what we might expect from the industrial & logistics market in 2025 and beyond. Join Guy Ruddle and guests: head of Savills national industrial & logistics team, Toby Green, head of Tritax Big Box’s Manchester office, David Travis, and CEO of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA), Clare Bottle, as they unpick the responses from this year’s survey. Lookin...
Feb 05, 2025•23 min•Season 1Ep. 158
Matt Richards, Sophie Rosier and Katy Warrick from Savills Planning, Mixed Use, and Research teams join host Guy Ruddle to discuss a major topic, London’s housing crisis. The team raises some of the challenges the Labour government is facing to meet housing targets, including existing market pressures and the availability of sites for development. Do we have the solutions to deliver the number of homes needed? Savills experts seek to give you the answers we’ve all been wondering, and more....
Nov 07, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 157
The removal of both VAT relief on school fees, and potentially also business rate relief, has added to the financial challenges facing many UK private and independent schools. In response, Headteachers and their teams may be looking to their buildings and wider estates to save or raise capital. Olivia Haslam, co-Chair of Savills Education group; David Collier, Director in Leisure, Tourism & Events; and David Parker, Head of Rating, run through the processes and pitfalls institutions should b...
Oct 02, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 156
Join Guy Ruddle as he hosts a discussion with Savills experts: Catherine Barnard, Associate Director in Out of Town Retail Agency; Sam Arrowsmith, Director in Out of Town Retail Research; and Ella Dryden-Peck, Associate Director in UK Investment. Together, they explore the factors driving the resilience of the out of town retail warehouse market. Despite a decline in new store openings, the reduced take-up isn't a sign of waning retailer interest – it’s a reflection of limited supply. With compe...
Sep 18, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 155
As the real estate world reaches an inflection point, Paul Tostevin and Kelcie Sellers from Savills World Research; Simon Smith, head of research for Savills Asia Pacific; and Rick Schuham, CEO of Savills Global Occupier Services, based in Denver, debate the opportunities that may be emerging around the globe. From Asian cities benefitting from a ‘demographic dividend’ to global infrastructure and energy investment, and new ways of working and talent hotspots, a number of real estate opportuniti...
Sep 04, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 154
Despite the headwinds facing luxury spend, real estate remains a key battleground for luxury brands. Join Guy Ruddle and guests: Savills retail experts Marie Hickey, Anthony Selwyn and Nick Bradstreet, as well as the head of London bureau for Women's Wear Daily Samantha Conti, as they put global luxury retail under a magnify glass and delve into the trends that are shaping the landscape. Which global markets are moving up the agenda for international luxury brands? Exploring the findings from th...
May 22, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 153
For generations many rural businesses have actively engaged in providing social value for their local communities but without talking about their contributions. However, this is changing with farms and estates beginning to recognise the importance of talking about what they are doing and why. Join Guy Ruddle and guests Kelly Hewson-Fisher, Michael Blake and Sarah Butler as they discuss what rural businesses are already doing, what to expect in the future and what’s driving the evolution in socia...
May 08, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 152
Three months into 2024, Savills heads of commercial, residential, and rural research review their forecasts for the year: are the markets behaving how they predicted, which sub-sectors are performing well, and what impact could a general election have on UK property this year? Join Guy Ruddle and guests Lucian Cook, Kelly Hewson-Fisher, and Mat Oakley in the studio to thrash out the ins and outs of what’s going on.
Mar 27, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 151
Join Guy Ruddle and Marylis Ramos, Director of Savills Earth Advisory Services, alongside David Jackson, Head of Planning and Savills Earth and guest Melissa Murphy K.C., Barrister at Landmark Chambers in the final episode of the second Savills Earth podcast series. This episode highlights the importance of ESG strategies to futureproof businesses and real estate assets and how this in turn helps them to remain ahead of the curve and competitive in a saturated environment. The podcast looks at e...
Mar 20, 2024•29 min•Season 1Ep. 150
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 can be used to value impact. The podcast discusses the differences between ESG investing and impact i...
Mar 07, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 149
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 between planning and grid specialists to achieve successful outcomes. It also outlines key consideratio...
Feb 15, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 148
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, Frances McDonald and Alex Christian join host Guy Ruddle to share thoughts on what’s to come in their specialist...
Feb 01, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 147
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 explores vital considerations and actions for investors when it comes to ESG. It delves into recent ch...
Jan 29, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 146
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 its impact on real estate emphasising the importance of wellbeing and quality of life for all indivi...
Jan 10, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 145
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 are moving forwards.
Nov 29, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 144
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 trends are coming through as tenants in Central London continue their flight for quality.
Nov 08, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 143
‘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 biodiversity, while still feeding the world. Last week, we heard from New Foundation Farms ’ Clare H...
Aug 29, 2023•53 min•Season 1Ep. 142
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 biodiversity, while still feeding the world. In this two-part episode, Nicky and Alex first speak to New Fo...
Aug 22, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 141
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 everything from our mental health to natural ecosystems. Sara Lom , Chief Executive of The Tree Cou...
Aug 15, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 140
“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 from NatureMetrics on how they are helping to push biodiversity up the climate agenda. From diversif...
Aug 08, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 139
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. We also hear from Natural Capital Consultant at Savills, Samantha Skinner , on the work currently be...
Aug 01, 2023•44 min•Season 1Ep. 138
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 International Climate Action at WaterAid and the co-founder of Community of Women in Water . Kathryn disc...
Jul 25, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 137
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.
Jun 19, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 136
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 intersect, and how they can be measured, as well as unveiling some of the key findings to emerge from...
Jun 07, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 135
