Big interviews

Interviews with leading figures from commercial property and residential property.

Big interviews

Get Living gets living
2020-05-29T00:00:00+01:00By Sally Hickey
Chief executive Rick de Blaby talks to Property Week about its upcoming projects, the importance of ‘neighbourhood living’ and the impact of Covid-19 and changing residential demographics on its business.
Q&A: Neil Young on relaunching start-up incubator business
2020-05-28T00:00:00+01:00By Emma Shone
The former Get Living chief executive talks to Property Week about his past successes, current challenges and future plans.
The Irish plan
2020-05-22T00:00:00+01:00By Samuel Horti
Quintain Ireland’s Eddie Byrne tells Property Week how Covid-19 is affecting business and what it all means for its plans to become one of the republic’s biggest housebuilders.
Whitbread and wisdom
2020-05-22T00:00:00+01:00By Jessica Newman
Whitbread head of property Mark Anderson tells Property Week how the hospitality company has approached managing its hotel and food-and-drink arms amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
David and the industrial Goliath
2020-05-15T00:00:00+01:00By Liz Hamson
As SEGRO turns 100, chief executive David Sleath talks to Property Week about how it became an industrial powerhouse, the challenges Covid-19 poses and what the business plans to do next.
Interview with the duo behind Plus X
2020-03-27T00:00:00+00:00By Simon Creasey
Having established proof of concept, the duo behind incubator hub Plus X plan to roll it out across other U+I sites and beyond.
Founders of Kontor map out its future
2020-03-05T00:00:00+00:00By Simon Creasey
James Townsend and Luke Appleby talk to Simon Creasey about their global expansion plans and the challenges of being a start-up consultancy in the US.
Turning the Big Apple green: interview with John Mandyck
2020-02-28T00:00:00+00:00By Simon Creasey
John Mandyck, chief executive of New York’s Urban Green Council, is working on a revolutionary real estate carbon trading system that could help New York and other cities slash emissions.
Smart sheds: interview with Segro’s James Power
2020-02-20T00:00:00+00:00By Adam Branson
SEGRO is trialling sensor technology across 20 properties in the UK and Europe. Digital director James Power talks to Adam Branson about the potential benefits of smart warehouses

View from the top

View from the top: Steven Skinner, CEO of HB Reavis

2020-05-29T00:00:00+01:00By Emma Shone

HB Reavis’s CEO reveals to Property Week how the Covid-19 crisis has affected its developments, what he believes offices will look like post-lockdown and why sustainability is now more important than ever

View from the top: Chris Ireland, UK chief executive of JLL

2020-05-22T00:00:00+01:00By Jessica Newman

The UK chief executive of JLL talks to Property Week about the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the firm and his own way of working – and why he thinks it offers an opportunity to reimagine the sector.

View from the top: Julie Hirigoyen, chief executive at UKGBC

2020-05-14T00:00:00+01:00By Sebastian McCarthy

UKGBC’s chief executive no longer has to plead the case for sustainability but thinks stakeholders still have a long way to go if the UK is to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

View from the top: Duncan Owen, global head at Schroder Real Estate Investment Management

2020-05-07T00:00:00+01:00

Duncan Owen is finding life in lockdown a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, he has been able to spend more time with his family. On the other, work is intense and his 19-year-old son, who has moved back home from university during the lockdown, has taken a ...