What does our panel want for the residential sector from the next government? Can we reach a consensus on how many homes we need to build? And, can we deliver them? Our speakers spell out their hopes under a new government
2024 Agenda
8:50am
Review of Budget 2025 & Market Outlook
Residential: 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
Head of Research, Savills
9:40am
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?
Co-founder, Grayling Properties
9:50am
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
Housing Policy Analyst & former Chair of Threshold
Managing Director and Founder, Arc Villages
CEO, Fold Housing
10:25am
Networking Coffee Break & Exhibition Viewing
10:55am
SPOTLIGHT ON:
PRS
A critique of the recently published Department of Housing’s review of the PRS
Lecturer in the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, and Director of the Equality Studies M.Sc., UCD
11:10am
FIRESIDE CHAT:
Apartment construction costs: Understanding the costs, improving viability and affordability
Director, Head of Cost Management, Turner & Townsend
Associate Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin
Residential Development Finance
11:30am
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
Commercial Outlook
12:05pm
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: Assuming hybrid working is here to stay, what is the path forward?
Chair, Commercial Agency Committee, SCSI, Head of Property – Acquisitions, Assets & Estates, Tesco Ireland
Director of Research, BNP Paribas Real Estate Ireland
12:40pm
Networking Lunch Break & Exhibition Viewing
Energy Performance, Tech & Innovation
1:45pm
SPOTLIGHT ON:
The revised Energy Performance Buildings Directive
How will it transform Europe’s building stock?
Urbanist, former Green MEP
2:00pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:
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
Founder, Carrig Conservation
Director of Innovation, Irish Green Building Council
2:40pm
PANEL DISCUSSION:
Driving digital transformation of the Irish property industry
How technology is revolutionising building design, construction processes, property management and more
Founder of Homely – reinventing home ownership
Strategic Communications & PR (MPRII) for the construction & property industries, Property District Ireland, Radio Host, iProperty Radio