CPD Flashcards
What did you learn from the following CPD: Workshop – Compulsory Purchase?
When acquiring a site using a compulsory purchase order (CPO) you have to pay an unblighted value i.e. one which cannot include any increase or decrease in value associated with the scheme
What did you learn from the following CPD: Workshop – Accounting Principles?
- A PLC will have to publish their accounts because they are listed on the stock exchange.
- Savills reported group revenue of £1,761m and profit of £77.2m in their 2018 accounts
What did you learn from the following CPD: Workshop – Measurement?
IPMS introduced the idea of the Internal Dominant Face i.e. ‘inside finished surface comprising more than 50% of the floor to ceiling height for each IDF wall section’
What did you learn from the following CPD: Online Training – RICS Professional Ethics Course?
- Act with integrity
- Always provide a high standard of service
- Act in a way that promotes trust in the profession
- Treat others with respect
- Take responsibility
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – What Workers Want: UK and Europe?
- 73% of workers in the UK are in open plan offices whereas it is only 40% in Germany
- Workers in private offices felt 3 x more productive
What did you learn from the following CPD: Presentation – The New Competencies Needed in a Digital Supply Chain?
- Sustainability in supply chain has dual benefit of reducing environmental impact and cost
- Typically supply chain managers have focused on reducing cost but now need to learn to reduce the environmental impact
What did you learn from the following CPD: Presentation – Future of Logistics Real Estate?
- Building intensification in the industrial sector has meant an increase in construction of multi-level warehouses in Paris and London
- Gazeley has speculatively developed a 3-storey warehouse in London’s Docklands
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – European Industrial & Logistics Market Updates?
• Poland being used as a strategic hub for distributing to Europe, in particular being used to deliver to Germany to take advantage of cost arbitrage e.g. Amazon
What did you learn from the following CPD: University Module – Legal Resolutions of Property and Construction Disputes (London South Bank University)?
- Negotiation: parties try and solve themselves
- Mediation: neutral mediator facilitates discussions
- Arbitration: quasi judicial as per Arbitration Act 1996
- Expert witness: surveyor provides expert evidence
- Expert determination: parties bound by opinion
What did you learn from the following CPD: University Module – Property Investment Appraisal (London South Bank University)?
- Advantages of direct property investment: control/ownership, larger returns, gearing
- Advantage of indirect property investment: lower entry cost, lower transaction costs, increased liquidity, diversification, no expertise required, divisible, transparency regulated
What did you learn from the following CPD: RICS CPD Seminar – Advice for Purchase and Sale Procedures?
- Can put property in an SPV (e.g. Luxembourg structure) where is a share sale so no transaction costs are payable
- Purchase price in SPA will be stated by the way of Net Asset Value (NAV)
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – Auctions?
Online auctions introduce greatly flexibility on dates, opened up to a wider pool of bidders who no longer have to be in the room and means AML checks can be done ahead of time
What did you learn from the following CPD: Workshop – CoStar Training?
Using the ‘Building’ tab to collate known information about a properties leasing, sales and construction history
What did you learn from the following CPD: Workshop – Leases?
- Lease date: when the lease is signed
- Term commencement date: when term begins
- Rent commencement date: when begin paying rent
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – Wellbeing?
- 1 in 4 people affected by mental health problems in a given year
- Savills working with ‘Time to change’ project
- ‘Mental Health Champion’ are trained to try and make mental health a more normal topic of conversation
What did you learn from the following CPD: Presentation – EMEA Update?
- Savills European revenue is €241m with a revenue target of €450m in 5 years time which reflects 18% growth per annum
- Mix of organic growth and through acquisitions
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – Valuation Quarterly Seminar?
- Extension will bring non-residents holding commercial real estate in scope of UK Capital Gains Tax (CGT)
- Historic gains protected and will only be subject to tax on the extent the asset has increased in value since April 2019
What did you learn from the following CPD: RICS CPD Seminar – RICS Valuation: Professional Standards Update?
RICS ‘Red Book’ ensures that those who value do so in accordance with the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC)
What did you learn from the following CPD: Presentation – Lloyds Bank Plc Presentation?
When underwriting an opportunity Lloyds will look at the asset age, tenant covenants, re-letting assumptions, micro-locational strengths, specification (i.e. is it fit for purpose), obsolesce
What did you learn from the following CPD: Presentation – IFRS 16 Update?
- IFRS 16 is a new lease accounting standard which companies have to comply with from 1st January 2019
- Full cost of leases have to be accounted for on the balance sheet
- Occupiers obligation to pay rent is recognised as a liability, though service charge/turnover rent is treated separately
- Exemptions exist for leases of 12 months or shorter
What did you learn from the following CPD: University Module – Real Estate Economics and Finance Module (London South Bank University)?
- Economic cycle drives occupational demand, which sets rents and determines value of real estate assets. Access to financing will also have an impact on real estate sector
- Property exhibits highly localised, spatial immobility, multidimensional heterogeneity, high transaction costs and infrequent transactions, production lags and dual function (i.e. an investment good and consumption good)
What did you learn from the following CPD: University Module – Corporate Real Estate Management (London South Bank University)?
- Business strategy needs to be closely aligned with corporate real estate strategy
- Seen a shift in CREM being viewed as a ‘strategic resource’, with a greater appreciation of how property can strategically enable and add valuable
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – West End Office Agency: Our Changing Marketplace?
- Office tenants becoming disenfranchised with the typical leasing model and do not want to tie capital up in deposits and want to upscale and downscale easily
- Move away from taking 10 year leases to using service office providers e.g. WeWork which provide a greater level of flexibility
What did you learn from the following CPD: Workshop – An Introduction to Planning?
- Localism Act (2011) represented a devolution of power from central government to local communities
- National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) puts onus on local planning authority to come up with Local Plan aligned with the NPPF
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – Retail: The Big Sell?
- Increase in business rates and decline in consumer sentiment associated with Brexit also having an impact on retail
- Large proportion of online retail sales touch a physical shop at some point
- Importance of an omnichannel offering as a retailer
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – Place Shaping?
- Place shaping’ implies a continuous process, whereas ‘place making’ implies that it has an end
- Long term solution for retail is creating a place which consumers want to be in
What did you learn from the following CPD: Seminar – European Retail Investment Board Meeting?
eCommerce penetration is strongest in northwestern European. Beginning to spread across Europe which is impacting pricing in secondary retail locations