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John Woodger

John Woodger

Head of Central London Capital Markets at JLL, leading the firm's City of London office investment business.

Sep 16, 2026

4:12
What happened there and how do we get back that notion of championing the capital city on a global stage?
4:22
I think there's a lot of noise out there, and that's the issue.
4:25
We are in more difficult times, and a lot of that is driven by global instability.
4:29
And you work out pretty quickly that interest rates govern the mood of the world on a day-to-day basis.
4:36
And I think it becomes a noisier environment when things are more challenging, and therefore the ability to champion slips down the agenda a bit.
4:45
But if I think about the way we positioned London in the good times when there was capital flowing strongly from global regions between 2011 and 2020 leading into COVID.
4:57
The way we positioned it was around, as Ali says, the educational system, the familiarity of London for global investors.

8 MINS LATER

12:50
So we're definitely confident about an uptick in investor activity through into 2027.

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