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IPD/SPR RealWorld Conference - Special Reduced Rates for CULS Members £565 + VAT

Date:

27/06/2013

CUREFIC - Cambridge University Real Estate Finance & Investment Conference

Date:

02/05/2013

The Cambridge University Real Estate finance & Investment Society (CUREFIS) is an influential university association jointly run by renowned real estate academics and high-calibre students at the University of Cambridge.  Its aim is to bridge the gap between academia and the Real Estate Industry.

The Current acting President is Professor Andrew Baum, with Professor Colin Lizieri standing as Senior Treasurer.

CULS Member Edward Kitchen Appointed Partner at Montagu Evans

Date:

22/04/2013

CULS Member Edward Kitchen has joined Montagu Evans as a Partner in their Planning & Development Team.

New Apointment for former CULS President

Date:

18/04/2013

Former CULS President Douglas Blausten appointed as Deputy Chairman of the Board of the NHS Property Services Company.

Women in Real Estate Networking Evening

Date:

17/04/2013

New Society Secretary.

Date:

02/04/2013

Ali Young Joins CULS as the new society secretary, having taken over from Kathy Wallen on 2nd April, 2013.

Former CULS President Jenny Buck to chair IPD/IPF Quarterly Briefing 31st January

Date:

25/01/2013

London
31st January 2013, Congress Centre, London
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08.00  Registration and breakfast
08.30  Chair introduction
          Jenny Buck, Head of Property, Tesco Pensions
08.40 Multi Asset Performance Overview 
          Dimitris Melas, Executive Director -Research, MSCI
08.50 IPD UK Market Performance
          Phil Tily, Managing Director -UK & Ireland, IPD
09.10 IPD UK Benchmark Results
          Malcolm Hunt, Director, UK & Ireland Client Services, IPD
09.30 Economic Review
          George Buckley, Chief UK Economist, Deutsche Bank
09.45 Panel discussion and voting pad questions
          Marcus Sperber, Managing Director, Blackrock
          Tim Francis, TIAA-CREF
10.10 Q&A
10.30 Close

Womens Property Networking Breakfast 6th December 2012

Date:

20/11/2012

Maria Weidner, MPhil REF graduate and CULS Member, now working as a modeller for Strutt & Parker, is organising a woman’s networking event for current and prospective professional women working in the real estate sector.

 The event is to be held in London at Le Pain Quotidien, W1 at 8:30am on Thursday 6th December. http://www.lepainquotidien.co.uk/#/en_UK/locations/oxford_circus_w1f and is being organised via the group World Women in Real Estate (WWIRE) http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4617066&trk=anet_ug_hm&goback=%2Egmp_4617066

 

FREE TICKETS FOR CULS MEMBERS - Planning in London Magazine Conference

Date:

19/11/2012

A Planning in London magazine conference

 

  Sponsored by Savills and DS2

 

  Hosted by Arup

 

13 Fitzroy Street, London, W1

 

Monday 26th November 2012, 9:00 to 17:15

 

To members of CULS – Planning in London magazine would like invite to up to 10 members of CULS to our next Planning in London event (details below) as our guests - free of charge.

 

The event should provide a useful snapshot of how CIL and viability testing are developing, and will include a couple of discussion panels including local planning officers, which we are still finalising.

 

We are keen to ensure the event reaches as wide as possible an audience and generates lively discussion for coverage in the Planning in London Yearbook to be published in January next year.

 

All you have to do to register for their ticket is reply to Luke Wilcox Luke.wilcox@planninginlondon.com <mailto:Luke.wilcox@planninginlondon.com> and check in on the day.

 

The first 10 members who register via Luke will be able to attend free of charge (normal full day price £229.00), and we will keep a list of those applying if spaces become free.

 

As you can see below, the event is in two parts. If you can’t make the whole day, please let Luke know which part of the day you would like to attend, or all of it if they prefer. Lunch is included.

 

If you accept this offer, but subsequently find you can’t come, it would be much appreciated if you could please let Luke know so we can offer the space to others.

 

Panel discussion 'Understanding Society' at Kings Place on 27th November 2012

Date:

19/11/2012


Understanding Society



Panel discussion at Kings Place
7pm Tuesday 27 November 2012
Kings Place, London

Tickets for the panel discussion available via Kings Place.

Chair:
Professor Simon Franklin

Panelists:
Lord Giddens
Professor Juliet Mitchell
Professor Richard Sennett

Is there any more pressing question than Understanding Society? David Cameron has made ‘The Big Society’ a central plank of his agenda as if ‘society’ were self-evident. Can the great mavens of public thinking shed light on this central issue?

Lord Giddens, Professors Juliet Mitchell and Richard Sennett – some of the world’s leading sociologists, psychoanalysts, feminists and cultural historians – debate this issue at Kings Place. Lord Giddens is not only one of the world’s most distinguished sociologists but also a key intellectual figure in the development of the Labour government’s social policy the ‘Third Way’. Juliet Mitchell’s work on psychoanalysis and feminism defines the field. If the personal is political, what place is there for social psychology in understanding society? Richard Sennett – recently described as the sage of the tempers of our times – completes the panel. His combination of broad political and social insight is crucial for a question as general as understanding society.

Professor Simon Franklin chairs the discussion which is a culmination of the CRASSH lecture series on Understanding Society at the University of Cambridge autumn 2012 supported by the Thriplow Charitable Trust.

 

 

 

John Gosden, ex Land Economist, Champion Flat Trainer 2012

Date:

13/11/2012

John Gosden, who graduated in Land Economy from Emmanuel College in 1973, has become Champion Flat (Horse) Racing Trainer in the UK for 2012.

CULS Student Prizewinners 2012

Date:

17/10/2012

CULS annually awards three prizes in the undergraduate Tripos results and two prizes for performance in the MPhil.
The 2012 CULS Prizewinners are:

Cambridge University gets consent for £1bn scheme

Date:

14/08/2012

The University of Cambridge has been granted planning permission for its £1bn development in North West Cambridge.

Jim Garman of Goldman Sachs speaks at conference hosted by Private Equity Real Estate magazine

Date:

15/06/2012

CULS and CLEAB member Jim Garman, Global Co-Head of REal Estate at Goldman Sachs, spoke recently at a conference hosted by Private Equity Real Estate magazine.  Jim said: "We have been very cautious on Europe.  We think the European Central Bank's LTRO (Long Term Re-financing Operations) programme seemed quite effective in providing breahting room, but you can see with the shifting political dialogue - and with Greece and now Spain back in the spotlight - the problems have not been solved.  That said, as investors and owners of assets, I think we need to accept and embrace that volatility, and realise it can throw up possibilities".

CULS Member Francis Salway steps down as Chief Executive of Land Securities

Date:

06/06/2012

It was announced in January that Francis Salway, Chief Executive of Land Securities, the UK’s largest property company/ REIT, would leave at the end of March.  This brought to an end an eventful eight-year tenure in which he oversaw substantial growth, conversion to a REIT in 2007 and the global financial crisis four years ago.

Salway will leave the business after standing down at the end of the financial year on 31 March 2012.  He will be succeeded by Robert Noel, who is currently managing director of Land Securities’ London Portfolio.

 Salway, 54, joined Land Securities in 2000 and became chief executive in 2004. He said he will “take on a new challenge for the balance of my career”.  Salway’s leadership is credited with: fostering Land Securities’ strong customer focus; delivery of over 8M sq ft of development projects, including the award winning One New Change in the City and Princesshay in Exeter; and materially outperforming the index for commercial property in the UK, as measured by the Investment Property Databank (IPD).

 

Other major milestones of his tenure include the conversion of Land Securities from a PLC to a REIT on 1st January 2007, and the subsequent successful £755.7M rights issue just two years later, when most REITs had to shore up their balance sheets during the near 45% collapse in UK capital values.  Salway also presided over the almost simultaneous £750M sale of Land Securities Trillium, the outsourcing arm of the business, to the Pears Group-owned Telereal – Land Securities Trillium merged with Telereal to become Telereal Trillium.

 

Salway said, on the day of the announcement: “I have had a wonderful eight years as chief executive of Land Securities, and I am delighted that our achievements as a Board include a smooth succession process.  The business is in very good shape and has strong leadership for the future.  From a personal perspective, I now have the opportunity to fulfil my plan to take on a new challenge for the balance of my career”.  He went on to say:

 

I like to think we have led the sector in customer service, delivered great buildings – and developments that have made money overall and our portfolio has materially outperformed the market over those seven to eight years.

 In terms of next steps for me, nothing certain ... but I’m sure that I will find something that I find stimulating and challenging.  [However] I think it’s far more likely to be tangential to property rather than something very close to what I do now and it certainly won’t be a director of a listed property company.

 Francis has been a loyal member of CULS and a great supporter of the Society, speaking at and attending a number of our events.  He has also taken time out to mentor graduate and undersgraduate students – which must surely be a great advantage for the lucky mentee.

 

CULS Member Ian Marcus leaves Credit Suisse to become CEO of Evans Group

Date:

08/05/2012

Ian Marcus appointed MD of Evans Property Group

Ian Marcus, one of the UK’s best-known property bankers, has joined Leeds-based Evans Property Group as its managing director.

Colin Lizieri and Jamie Alcock, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge and Jenny Buck speak at IPD Property Investment Conference

Date:

25/11/2011

Professor Colin Lizieri, Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance, and Dr Jamie Alcock, University Lecturer will speak on Real Estate’s Role in the Mixed Asset Portfolio: a Re-Examination”.
 
Jenny Buck will speak in “The Grand Debate: UK property steps – or creeps – up to the challenge. Will evolution or revolution prevail?”

CULS Vice President appointed Head of Property with the Global Restructuring Group of RBS

Date:

01/11/2011

Aubrey Adams, CULS Vice President and ex-Savills CEO, is appointed as head of property within the Global Restructuring Group (GRG) or Royal Bank of Scotland, with responsibility for its global property portfolio including the West Register.

CULS Member Ian Marcus becomes Non-Executive Board Member of Crown Estate Main Board

Date:

17/10/2011

Ian Marcus, Chairman of European Real Estate Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, has been appointed to the Crown Estate’s Main Board, where he joins CULS member Chris Bartram, who is also a Non-Executive Board Member.
 
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Immediate Past President of CULS Jenny Buck appointed as Head of Property, Tesco Pension Fund

Society Honorary Secretary

Date:

26/09/2011

Proposed Honorary Secretary

CULS Committee Member Aubrey Adams appointed as Head of Property in RBS Global Restructuring Group

Date:

26/09/2011

Aubrey Adams, CEO of Savills from 1991 to 2008, has been appointed as Head of Property in RBS’s Global Restructuring Group.   He is also non-executive director British Land Co Plc and Max Property Group Plc.
 
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GIC's Dr Seek addresses the Society

Date:

20/09/2011

Dr Seek Ngee Huat, recently retired President of GIC Real Estate, gives the Annual Alastair Ross Goobey lecture.

President of CULS James Pavey appointed Partner of Thomas Eggar LLP

Date:

05/09/2011

James Pavey, who specialises in Property Dispute Resolution, has been appointed a Partner in Thomas Eggar LLP’s Property Practice Group, in particular to strengthen its offering to Rural Businesses and Estates.
 

Professor Andrew Baum elected Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge

Date:

01/09/2011

Andrew Baum, appointed an Honorary Professor in Real Estate Finance in the Department of Land Economy in 2010, has been elected to a Fellowship of St John’s.

Liz Peace CBE, Chief Executive of the British Property Federation elected CULS Honorary Vice President

Date:

07/07/2011

At CULS’ AGM, Liz Peace CBE, Chief Executive of the BPF, was elected an Honorary Vice President of the Society.

Gerald Parkes and David Higgins hired for government property panel

Date:

03/03/2011

Gerald Parkes and David Higgins among members of seven-man government property panel to advise the government on cutting the public sector deficit.