Can we reach a consensus on how many homes we need to be building? And, can we deliver them? With a housing backlog mounting, our speakers spell out their recommendations for a radical policy reset.
7:30am
Registration and networking breakfast
8:50am
Outlook for the economy and property sector
Managing Director – Residential & Advisory, Sherry FitzGerald
9:05am
PANEL DISCUSSION
Planning ahead: Shaping Ireland’s future growth and development
Director of Strategic Delivery & Policy, Cairn Homes
Managing Director, Tom Phillips & Associates
Chairman, Reddy Architecture + Urbanism, Director and former Chair, Academy of Urbanism, Director, Property Industry Ireland
The challenges for the next government
9:05am
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Wish list for the next government
Freelance Business Consultant, Board member of Progress Ireland, former Chief Commercial Director & Acting CEO, Clúid Housing
President, The Irish Planning Institute, Director, Tom Phillips & Associates
Chair of The Housing Commission and former CEO of The Housing Agency
Head of Research, Savills
The crucial role of sustainability and financing the transition to net zero buildings
9:40am
Decarbonising the building sector by 2050 – expected changes in legislation Is legislation is going to impact the sector? How?
The EU policy landscape: what’s on the horizon for the real estate sector?
Head of Research, BPIE (Building Performance Institute Europe)
9:45am
SPOTLIGHT ON:
Apartment construction costs: Understanding the costs, improving viability and affordability
Ronan and Bryn discuss tackling the challenge of high construction costs in Dublin in particular, as a barrier to new housing supply
Director, Head of Cost Management, Turner & Townsend
Associate Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
10:00am
Improving performance on delivering major projects
Large real estate projects continue to fail and underperform due to their increased complexity. We’ll hear how improvements in supply chain and collaboration, embracing digital and being more agile can improve efficiency and productivity when it comes to delivering major building projects.
Head of Real Estate and Major Programmes, Europe, BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA, MCIOB, MAPM, MAIPM
Commercial Outlook
10:05am
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Commercial real estate review and market outlook
- Sectors attracting investment – what finance is available, for what purpose and on what terms?
- Office market recovery: Is hybrid working is here to stay? What is the path forward?
- Purpose Built Student Accomodation & Build-To-Rent
Chair, Commercial Agency Committee, SCSI, Head of Property – Acquisitions, Assets & Estates, Tesco Ireland
Director of Research, BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland
Head of Research and Insights, Cushman and Wakefield
10:15am
FIRESIDE CHAT
ESG: Meeting the challenges of the changing regulatory environment
Partner, Maples and Calder’s Funds & Investment Management, Maples Group
Of Counsel in Maples and Calder’s Construction team, Maples Group
10:35am
PANEL DISCUSSION
How does the CSRD & SFDR impact the real estate sector?
Sustainability has been a key concern for the EU for many years which has led to significant EU legislation, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). As a sector that heavily impacts the environment and society, the CSRD will require real estate companies that fall within its scope to report on a range of ESG issues, such as energy efficiency, carbon emissions, social responsibility, diversity and inclusion:
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- What does the CSRD and EU Taxonomy mean for the real estate sector?
- How are ESG principles driving real estate investment? The challenges of integrating the E of ESG into sustainable investment decision-making
- Investor action in supporting the transition to net zero buildings: What key actions can policymakers and regulators take to incentivise investment in green buildings and support alignment of real estate holdings with net zero?
- Priority policy and regulatory interventions necessary to achieve net zero building
Aviva
Lecturer in Real Estate and Valuations, Work Placement Co-ordinator Property Economics, Technological University Dublin
Director, TWM
10:45am
Networking Morning Break & Exhibition Viewing
11:05am
Networking break and exhibition viewing
11:15am
SPOTLIGHT ON:
The revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
How will it transform our building stock?
Vice Chair of the Sustainability group, SCSI
11:30am
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Decarbonisation: What are the biggest challenges for the real estate sector?
- How to make decarbonisation more viable for businesses rather than a liability
- ESG and retrofit: The role of repurposing and regeneration to meet housing needs
- Stranded assets: Understanding and mitigating the risks and positioning assets for long-term sustainability and resilience
- Exploring the potential of technology to accelerate net zero buildings
Head of Business Supports in SEAI
Founder, Carrig Conservation
Managing Director UK & Ireland, Ecocem
Director of Innovation, Irish Green Building Council
Residential
11:35am
What’s in store for the private rented sector?
- Is apartment construction heading for a slowdown?
- Are rising interest rates and planning delays driving investors away?
- Creating a viable rental market for tenants and landlords
- Policy responses
Economist, National Economic & Social Council (NESC)
Bsc MRICS MSCSI; Dip Con Law, Director, Mitchell McDermott
12:00pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
Obstacles and solutions to delivering Dublin’s affordable housing at scale
According to recent research, Dublin has one of the lowest concentrations of low-cost or affordable housing in the world, reflecting the huge affordability gap facing housebuyers in the capital. With affordable housing being key to ensuring Dublin retains the talent and skills of key workers, how can it successfully deliver the volume needed? What are the obstacles and solutions for financing affordable housing?
CEO, Fingal County Council
Director of Housing & Planning, Construction Industry Federation
Managing Director, Amvic Ireland
Managing Director, Mortgage Navigators
PropTech & Innovation
12:10pm
PROPTECH SHOWCASE:
Technology solutions for the Irish property industry
Share your greatest operational challenges with our panel of tech solutions providers in this interactive session led by Carol Tallon of Property District. Submit your question for this panel in advance to us at slido #property24
Founder, MARC
Founder of Homely – reinventing home ownership
Strategic Communications & PR (MPRII) for the construction & property industries, Property District Ireland, Radio Host, iProperty Radio
PropTech Consultant, go to market & growth leader
Co-Founder of PropGen
Is retirement living set for a golden age?
12:35pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
What are the key challenges the senior living sector must overcome if it is to grow to the larger scale seen in other countries
Countries such as Australia have led the way with purpose-built retirement communities that people want to be part of, while in Ireland, the sector remains undeveloped. However, with our rapidly aging population and the shift towards rent culture in Ireland, could the golden days of retirement product be on their way?
Introduction from Tom Sheridan, Head of Development, Tetrarch Capital Limited
CEO, Circle Housing
Author of Rethinking Housing Options for Senior Citizens
Tom Sheridan, Founder, TAHC Ltd.
1:00pm
Networking Lunch Break & Exhibition Viewing
1:10pm
Networking lunch & exhibition viewing
Residential
2:05pm
SPOTLIGHT ON:
Co-Living: Time for a rethink?
Should co-living be accepted as a mainstream asset class? What effect would it have on diversity of product offering?
MD, Grayling Properties & Founding Partner, Lugas Capital
ENERGY PERFORMANCE
2:15pm
FIRESIDE CHAT
How to revitalise our town centres
Principal Planner & Project Manager, Nicholas O’Dwyer Ltd
Strategic Communications & PR (MPRII) for the construction & property industries, Property District Ireland, Radio Host, iProperty Radio
2:20pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Retirement Living
- Are we planning for older renters and buyers?
- What do buyers and renters really want?
- Are policymakers listening? What policy changes are needed to create retirement housing?
- Innovative funding solutions for delivering later living schemes
Director of Services for Housing Delivery and Regeneration, Cork City Council
Housing Policy Analyst & former Chair of Threshold
Managing Director and Founder, Arc Villages
CEO, Fold Housing
2:35pm
CASE STUDY
Galway’s Ceannt Project: Compact growth and regeneration
Project Ceannt is described as one of the largest urban regeneration schemes in the history of the State, with scope to build several hundred houses/apartments, along with retail, food outlets, a hotel and an arts space next to the rail/bus station and overlooking Eyre Square. We’ll hear how this project will create “A new heart for an old city”
Architect Principal, BDP Ltd (Building Design Partnership)
Founding Partner, Summix
Key trends driving Ireland’s commercial property sector
2:55pm
PANEL DISCUSSION
The office marketplace
- How will flexible working and digitisation continue to impact the office market?
- What investment is needed and the economics of retrofitting in order to avoid stranded assets?
- The market for green and sustainable buildings: What are the threats and opportunities?
- Repurposing opportunities – residential, healthcare, life sciences, urban logistics, leisure facilities.
Head of Offices, Cushman & Wakefield
Managing Director, Scott Tallon Walker (STW) Architects
2:55pm
SPOTLIGHT ON:
Policy & politics in the PRS
Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, and Director of the Equality Studies M.Sc., UCD
3:20pm
Retail, hospitality and Industrial
- How is retail performing?
- The outlook for the hospitality sector
- With ecommerce driving distribution, logistics and warehouse demand, investors continue to expand in this sector
- What will the next chapter of industrial hold?
Managing Director, M7 Real Estate Ireland
Kate Ryan, Head of Research, Colliers Ireland
Kevin McHugh, Director, HARVEY
Corporate Development Director, Dalata Hotel Group
Residential Development Finance
3:25pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Development Finance: Outlook for the availability, composition and flow of finance for residential development
- Attracting private capital: How does the State ensure adequate funding from institutional investors to deliver the increased housing supply?
- What will happen to the cost of capital and will build costs decrease?
- Securing equity finance for SME builders
- Dealing with deterrents to investment
- Funding affordable and social housing
Group CEO, Elkstone
Managing Director, Greystar Ireland
Head of Investment, Activate Capital
3:55pm