Leading figures from the real estate world – Nick Leslau, from investment adviser Prestbury; Morgan Garfield, Founder and Managing Director of Ellandi LLP; and David Phythian, Head of UK Corporate Real Estate at HSBC – will join us on Tuesday 24 January to take part in a Q&A discussion on some of the opportunities and challenges that the next 12 months might hold for the real estate sector.

Uncertainty and volatility featured strongly following the vote to leave the EU on 23 June. Yet, in contrast, we also saw an increase in new foreign investors entering the market to take advantage. We will debate whether underlying market trends have in fact not changed, and whether Brexit has only accelerated trends that were already present before the referendum.

Our guest panellists

Nick Leslau

The youngest-ever chief executive of a listed company, Burford Estate & Property, and current chairman of investment adviser Prestbury and shareholder in Secure Income REIT, Nick is one of the UK's most successful property investors and has ridden out several property cycles. He is superbly placed to debate what could be in store for 2017.

Morgan Garfield

Morgan established Ellandi in 2008. It is now the largest community shopping centre investor in the UK, managing 30 shopping centres with an aggregate value of more than £1 billion. Ellandi invests on behalf of a broad range of global and domestic equity. Prior to establishing Ellandi, Morgan was a managing director at Deutsche Bank with responsibility for its UK lending business.

David Phythian

Boasting over 25 years of real estate finance experience amassed at UCB Bank, the United Bank of Kuwait and a number of private property companies, David has been with HSBC since 2006 and is currently Regional Head of Real Estate, London.  Join us to debate what 2017 could have in store for us as uncertainty surrounding Brexit continues and as political outsider Donald Trump is handed the key to the White House.

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