Events
Property Futures - BPF Annual Conference 2008
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Past event report
What will the future hold for property?
How will it be affected by overseas and private equity investment, what will be the impact of climate change requirements and how will the current financial climate influence occupiers' demands?
Our speakers included Sir Michael Peat, principal private secretary to HRH the Prince of Wales; Sir David Walker, former Chairman of Morgan Stanley International; John Griffith-Jones, Senior Chairman of KPMG; and Joe Azrack, President and CEO of Citi Property Investors.
Event write up
We received tremendous support from members for this year’s well attended conference, with delegates enjoying a lively lunchtime speech from Alastair Campbell, and an afternoon of thought-provoking debate from a programme of esteemed speakers.
Minister for Housing and Planning Caroline Flint MP closed the conference with a shorter speech than expected, as she had to dash to get back to the Commons for the vote on 42 days detention for terror suspects, but she invited Richard McCarthy from the Department for Communities and Local Government to finish off the speech at the post conference reception.
You may also have noticed that this year's conference was accompanied by a series of high profile plugs on the UK's most influential business TV channels.
Liz Peace managed to do two full length interviews with Bloomberg:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoC2PmLAzm4
where she discussed private equity and the future of REITs, after joining CNBC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ev4U_vGk0
to talk about the future of renting.
Andrew Teacher also dropped into Sky News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXDirDUtnqA
to get a live grilling in branded rental.
We also had blanket trade coverage in:
Property Week 1
http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3115672&c=1
Property Week 2
http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3115670&c=1
Estates Gazette
http://www.egi.co.uk/Articles/Article.aspx?liArticleID=684232&NavigationID=464
Property Week (housing)
http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3115497&c=1
Building
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3115535&c=1
Planning and Regeneration & Renewal
http://www.regen.net/news/ByDiscipline/Housing/815420/BPF-demands-housing-market-remodel/
Contract Journal
http://www.contractjournal.com/Articles/2008/06/10/59647/bpf-build-to-let-market-will-encourage-housebuilders-back.html
For more information relating to press coverage at our conference, or to discuss any ideas in which you would like to work with our PR department on any future projects, please contact Andrew Teacher on 020 7802 0113 / email
Downloadable documents
Session 2 - Sir Ian Andrews Presentation - 664kB
Session 2 - John Griffith-Jones Presentation - 466kB
Session 3 - Sir David Walker Speech - 43kB
Session 4 - Liz Peace and Ian Marcus Presentation - 1MB
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