Annual Market Update Panel Discussion

Our panel of experts will debate the current state of the commercial property market, and look at what might happen in the year ahead.

Chair:  Colm Lauder – Principal, Lingard Capital Advisers

Colm Lauder is a principal at Lingard Capital Advisers, an international strategic consultancy business in the real estate, housing, and built environment sectors. Colm advises some of the UK’s largest listed and private investors and developers on strategy, allocation, communications, and investor relations. Prior to LCA, Colm built and led the real estate desk at investment bank Goodbody and previously spent time at market analytics house IPD and agents DTZ (now Cushman & Wakefield). Colm holds a MPhil in Real Estate Finance from Cambridge.

Confirmed speakers:

Alison Puhar – Head of Portfolio Management, European Real Estate, Fidelity International

Alexandra Thur – Founder, Tollington Group

Alexandra founded Tollington Group in 2021, identifying the ongoing needs of real estate developers to access more institutional-level capital and professional investors to allocate capital to quality real estate projects. By guiding the concept, strategy and positioning of a firm’s unique capital and investment requirements, Tollington expands access to more creatively structured debt and equity.

Prior to Tollington Group, Alexandra was the youngest founding team member and equity partner of two Blackstone Group portfolio companies, Invitation Homes, America’s largest single-family owner-manager, and B2R Finance (now Finance of America), the first private “buy-to-let” lender in the US. She subsequently co-founded a UK residential ground rent investment firm, which specialised in building portfolios of secure, long-income assets that were sold to pension funds.

Alexandra holds a MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BSc from University College London.

Nick Knight – Head of Valuations UK, CBRE

Nick is an experienced leader in the valuation of commercial and residential real estate in the UK market with 30 years experience of proving valuation advice across all sectors to a broad range of clients and is trusted by many market participants.  Nick sits on the CBRE UK Executive Board and is responsible for the day to day running of a team of 350 valuation professionals in the UK and Ireland.  Nick is committed to maintaining the highest ethical and technical standards in the valuation industry.

Valuation is the cornerstone of the real estate industry and has a key role to play in attracting capital, driving economic growth and the efficient working of the market.  Valuation is thus integral to the reputation and trust of the UK economy on the global stage.