By Susan Freeman2020-12-17T00:00:00+00:00 My recording studio locked down in March, so the Propertyshe podcast series continued digitally. My aim is to capture the thoughts and aspirations of key influencers. Each guest has been an inspiration. Below are some of the highlights. Pre-lockdown, I interviewed Dror Poleg, whose award winning book Rethinking Real Estate pinpointed key trends. Talking about a ‘tectonic shift’ he said: “Almost anything that is happening in retail I think will also happen in offices and residential.” Poleg has been in much demand to read the runes as the pandemic accelerated those changes. Talking retail, Appear Here founder Ross Bailey told me: “People forget sometimes just how bad a lot of retail is; a lot of it is just boring.” The retail theme continued with Ellandi’s Mark Robinson, chairman of the High Streets Task Force. The self-styled ‘retail apocalypse denier’ summed up the difficulty of retail investment: “If fundamentally you can’t tell me whether a place is a success, how can I invest in it?” He half-jokingly said he expected to spend the next 15 years “demolishing all the stuff that has been built” and was excited about the “creative destruction on steroids” happening in the industry.