EG is again programme partner to the London Real Estate Forum, which takes place in its new home in the City of London next week. Last year more than 2,600 developers, investors and advisers took part, and EG will be there again to keep you up to speed with all that happens at one of the capital’s biggest real estate events. Here’s what you need to know:
City, not Westminster
After six years on Berkeley Square, the London Real Estate Forum takes place at the HAC Grounds on 12 and 13 June. Don’t go to Mayfair!
Schools out at LREF
Last year more than 150 schoolchildren attended a special preview, hosted by industry leaders who encouraged them to follow a career in real estate. This year there are two projects planned to widen participation to schoolchildren.
The Lego project has been underway for two months, through a series of design workshops with year 5 and 6 classes from primary schools to engage pupils with the capital’s built environment. Sessions at the event will build on this. Meanwhile the schools conference will see 150 year 10-13 students invited to visit the exhibition and hear talks from industry figures representing career paths in architecture, construction, engineering, planning and property development.
View from the top
Almost 150 of London’s real estate movers and shakers will attend EG’s fourth LREF VIP dinner, hosted this year at Searcy’s, Level 39 & 40, at The Gherkin. An exceptional venue for an exceptional dinner.
Curtain up
The LREF opening reception always stirs. In previous years the leader of Westminster council has torn strips off developers, and it’s where then London mayor Boris Johnson described London as being “to the billionaire what the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutan”. This year Sinéad Burke – deliverer of a TED Talk, teacher, writer, broadcaster, fashion-admirer and advocate for disability and design – will challenge guests to think about people, not places.
Politics will rear its ugly head
With Theresa May stepping down as PM and the Brexit party topping the polls everywhere apart from London, what does this mean for Brexit, for Britain, and for London? Will we be back to an era of London vs. the rest of the country? Will there be economic consequences? And how is sentiment faring among the biggest players in real estate? LREF will provide a litmus test.
It’s the economy, stupid
Deloitte chief economist Ian Stewart will offer insight into the current performance and drivers of the London economy, key factors that will affect future resilience and what it means for the real estate sector. This may well prove a popular session.
You don’t like cricket?
Join the LREF Cricket Cup in support of LandAid and Centre 404, taking place on the grounds of the HAC Cricket Club on the afternoon of Thursday 13 June. This special charity cricket match will bring the property industry together to work in support of people with learning disabilities and ending youth homelessness.
EG Question Time
Always an event which gets LREF off to a cracking start. This year’s EG Question Time will be no exception, not least because it will include an early platform outing for new Derwent London chief executive Paul Williams.
Revelations
From Meridian Water – the £6bn, 20-year London regeneration programme led by Enfield Council, bringing 10,000 homes and 6,000 new jobs to the borough – to IPSX, the first stock exchange for real estate, there will be plenty of new projects getting attention. Others will emerge too. But what, and where?
EG Studio
As well as coverage across all our usual channels, this year EG will be taking its studio to the show, conducting interviews, staging podcasts and filming highlights. Look out for us behind a camera, holding a microphone or conducting debates among delegates. See you there.
For coverage of LREF next week, visit www.egi.co.uk/lref
