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Adam Lawrence is the Founder of Propenomix, which has many thousands of subscribers across platforms who are keen to explore the economics of property.

He’s been involved in over 700 UK property deals in the past decade, using 8 figures of joint venture funding and retaining the vast majority. He co-owns multiple investment and asset management companies that provide end-to-end services to residential property investors. And he is my favourite source of insight on property economics and finance!

In this episode of the podcast, sponsored by Cohort Invest, Anna Clare Harper and Adam Lawrence discussed whether you should have property in your portfolio in the 2020s - and how.

Topics include:

• The pros and cons of directly owning residential investments in the current economic and regulatory environment
• What returns should you be targeting right now, over what timeframe
• The pros and cons of a ‘passive’ property portfolio, and how investors can diversify their income without taking on a second job
• Common mistakes investors make - and how to avoid them

Sponsor website: https://cohortinvest.co.uk/
Guest website: https://propenomix.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamglawrence/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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Damien Fogg is a Chief Financial Officer, chartered Building Surveyor, CFO, ex-Financial Advisor and the Author of two amazon best seller books on real estate and investment.

In this episode, Damien joins Anna Clare Harper to discuss what you need to know but were afraid to ask about investing for the future and paying less tax.

Damien has helped a wide range of clients, from people who have unexpectedly inherited money to those who have built and sold multiple businesses. He does all this in plain English, so he’s the perfect guest to help de-mystify investing for the future, and navigate how to legally pay less tax. 

This episode is part of our series on ‘How to make the most of your money’ sponsored by Cohort Invest.

It covers:

• How ‘time in the market’ compares with ‘timing the market’ (answer: very favourably!)
• How investors can approach ethical or sustainable investing when they also want to make an attractive return
• When Robo Advice and Artificial Intelligence actually add value to investors
• What tax planning is
• What tax wrappers you could and should use, including how SIPPs compare with ISAs in practice
• What resources and tools to use, from tradingview to YouTube

Sponsor website: https://cohortinvest.co.uk/
Guest website: https://www.damienfogg.com/investing-made-easy
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damienfogg1/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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I'm very excited to share my conversation with Tom Bloxham MBE, one of the best known and loved personalities in the real estate industry and a pioneer of urban regeneration.

Tom is the chairman and founder of leading regeneration company Urban Splash, which has received 419 (!) awards to date for architecture, design and business success.

He has a reputation as ‘the property developer who makes property development socially acceptable’, and the best accolade I’ve heard to date: a portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.

Highlights of our conversation include:

• How to handle challenges, changes and cycles in the property market
  
• Changing mean streets to green streets - lessons learned from spearheading unprecedented changes to our urban landscape
  
• How to prepare for the future as a property developer/investor
  
• Living well by design - the ethos of Urban Splash investments
  

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Resources:

Guest website: https://www.urbansplash.co.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-bloxham-26055413/

Guest Twitter @TomBloxhamMBE

https://annaclareharper.com/

http://spi.capital/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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What’s changing in the UK rental market?

Zoopla’s Head of Research, Gráinne Gilmore, joined me to discuss what’s really happening in the UK Private Rental Sector.

Gráinne was previously Head of Residential Research at Knight Frank, and an award-winning Economics Correspondent for The Times before her role at Zoopla.

So, she’s brilliantly placed to help explain the fascinating and complicated dynamics that are affecting the UK rental market.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What’s driving the entrenched ‘two-speed market’, with UK rent growth of +1.7% vs -5.2% in London’s rental market
  
• Tenant demand 25% higher than last year overall - with particular demand for properties with gardens, parking, garages, balconies and ‘pets allowed’, and a shift away from office-driven cities such as Coventry and Reading
  
• What next for the UK rental market, in a context of reduced investment activity, muted earnings growth and limited affordability for many first time buyers
  

Resources:

Guest website: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grainnegilmore

Zoopla Rental Market Report: https://advantage.zpg.co.uk/insights/rental-market-report/

Host website: annaclareharper.com

Host website: spi.capital

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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Transparency, liquidity, and listed real estate

I had a fascinating discussion with Richard Croft, Co-Founder and Chairman of leading investment group, M7 and David Delaney, CEO of new property stock exchange IPSX about their first single real estate asset Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Richard and David have exceptional credentials in real estate and finance, with years of experience, and billions of transactions under their belts. Richard is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of the M7 Real Estate group, and has been involved in over €8 billion of transactions across the UK and Europe during his 26 year career in real estate, founded and sold a European real estate fund management business, and is a Non-Executive Director of IPSX.

David is IPSX’s Group CEO. His previous experience includes managing $1bn book of business at Thomson Reuters as Head of Strategic Clients and Solutions, and 25 years at Credit Suisse (where he became Head of Fixed Income Sales for interest rate products) and Barclays Bank.

Richard and David share a deep frustration with the issues that prevent investors from selecting and investing in assets for themselves, the lack of transparency in the listed real estate market, and the lack of liquidity available for many real estate assets.

Their current mission is to solve these issues, through an unprecedented single asset listing of Mailbox REIT on IPSX. So, will it work?

Highlights of the episode include:

• What liquidity is really worth to investors
  
• The high perceived risk of anything new
  
• The problems investors face with open-ended and closed-ended real estate funds
  
• Whether investors really value choice and democracy in investing
  

Resources:

Guest websites: 

www.themailboxreit.com / www.ipsx.com / www.m7re.eu

Anna’s website: 

www.annaclareharper.com & www.spi.capital

Anna’s LinkedIn page:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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It’s not glamorous.

Yet building management has the potential to make or break both investor returns and customer satisfaction.

Historically, it’s been rare for investors to know (and perhaps, to care) how their building can be managed better. Until now.

Ryan Collier has specialised in the management of large and complex buildings for 10 years, and has overseen tens of thousands of homes.

He and his team at leading specialist block managers, Pod Management, provide residential estate and block management services - and comprehensive data analytics - for clients such as Bellway homes, Berkeley Homes and Tipi (Quintain) across some 9,000 homes (contracted and pipeline).

We discussed:

• How data analytics can be used to reduce investor costs and improve customer service for tenants - from optimising postroom staffing to 24 hour ‘between tenancy’ turnarounds
  
• The myth that new buildings cost less to run - since maintenance is about people and the quality of the building, not its age
  
• The myth that more data means better results - it’s not the data, but how you use it!
  
• Optimising building lifecycle costs - and the shocking cost of cheap taps, lifts and gates
  

Resources:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pod-management/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Instagram: @podmanagement

www.podmanagement.co.uk

www.annaclareharper.com

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The flight-to-safety, dumb money and real estate

I had a great chat about Family Office, Private Equity and Institutional Investment in real estate in the current environment with Rebekah Tobias, leading investment specialist and Head of Business Development at Private Equity firm, Marcol.

Rebekah’s experience includes Partner and Director roles at Marcol, M7 and Cushman & Wakefield, spanning international capital markets through to operations-led asset management. So she is well-placed to comment, and is brilliant at explaining the complex real estate investment world.

Highlights of this episode include:

• How investors price real estate and take calculated risks in a fast-moving market - including re-pricing retail and offices, the premium required for investing further afield, and the ‘tech effect’ on valuations
  
• Dumb money and the financial consequences of herd mentality - even amongst sophisticated institutional investors
  
• The flight to quality and safety - and perceived low risk of prime real estate
  
• The importance of optimising operations as a way to create value - and how sophisticated investors are doing this across sectors.
  

Resources:

https://marcol.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekah-tobias-2187b66/

annaclareharper.com

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From valuations to international relations; cycles to ‘di-worse-ification’ - the world’s leading real estate investment textbook has a lot to say about investing right now.

I had the privilege of quizzing leading Oxford Professor Andrew Baum on what his latest textbook says, and what it means for investors.

Highlights include:

• Top tips for long term investors
  
• International drivers of demand - and how tense international relations will affect global real estate investment
  
• Common mistakes investors make with their numbers, and how to avoid them
  
• Understanding risk, and whether real estate can still be considered a ‘safe haven’
  
• Debt, development and market cycles
  

Resources:

Andrew's recently revised book: Real Estate Investment and Finance: Strategies, Structures, Key Decisions: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Estate-Investment-Finance-Strategies-dp-1119526094/dp/1119526094/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Oxford Future of Real Estate Initiative https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/research/centres-and-initiatives/oxford-future-real-estate-initiative

Andrew on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-baum-303a014/

Anna's website: annaclareharper.com

Anna on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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I had the pleasure of interviewing Gráinne Gilmore, Head of Research at Zoopla, following the release of their UK Rental Market Report to discuss what’s really happening in the UK rental market.

Previously an award-winning financial and economics journalist at The Times newspaper in London, and Head of Residential Research at Knight Frank, Gráinne is often interviewed by the media on the UK housing market, appearing on BBC Radio 4, Sky news, BBC Breakfast, and the BBC World Service.

So, she’s brilliantly placed to help explain the fascinating and complicated dynamics that are affecting the UK housing market right now.

Highlights of this episode include:

• The driving forces behind the emerging ‘two-speed market’, with London leading one track, and regional economies taking a different path
  
• What’s happened in the UK rental market this year, including a 3% fall in London rents
  
• Which rental markets are growing, and what this means for investors
  
• What next in an environment of rising unemployment, and why economic nerves are most likely to boost the UK rental market
  

Resources:

Zoopla website: https://www.zoopla.co.uk/

Gráinne on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grainnegilmore

Zoopla UK Rental Market Report: https://advantage.zpg.co.uk/insights/rental-market-report/

Anna's website: annaclareharper.com

Anna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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I had a fascinating discussion with the Head of Real Estate at leading investment bank, Goodbody, Colm Lauder.

Colm is a leading authority on listed real estate. Since graduating with a MPhil in Real Estate Finance at Cambridge, Colm became the youngest Vice-President in the UK at MSCI in 2013. He was ranked #1 Real Estate Analyst in Ireland (Extel) in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

In this episode, we covered resilience, liquidity and recent trends in listed real estate.

Highlights included:

• The consequences of recent quantitative easing for real estate, and why it makes sense to prioritise inflation-hedged assets right now
  
• How listed funds are adapting their investment strategies, including sector specialisations such as supermarket vs PRS REITs, in response to investor demand
  
• The liquidity premium, and how it affects valuations in listed vs unlisted real estate
  

Resources:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/colmlauder/

https://www.goodbody.co.uk/

annaclareharper.com

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Sustainable Investing with Co-Founder & Co-CEO of pioneer Bridges Fund Management, Michele Giddens OBE and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

If you work in sustainable investing, you probably already know the ‘Bridges Spectrum of Capital’. 

I discovered and loved it when I was researching my book on Sustainable Residential Investing, so I was especially excited to chat with Michele Giddens OBE, Co-CEO of Bridges Fund Management, which she Co-Founded alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen - who gets described as "the father of British venture capital".

Michele has 30 years experience in sustainable investing and international development finance, from chairing the Community Development Finance Association, the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing, and a Global Working Group on Policy for the G7 Impact Investment Taskforce to running pioneer Bridges Fund Management. So she is the perfect guest to talk about sustainable investing, pioneering new strategies and making financial and social returns from retrofit.

We covered:

• The thesis behind Bridges and the Spectrum of Capital which ‘went a bit viral’
• How to pioneer: what we can learn from prolific pioneers about the process of bringing innovative ideas to market, for example carbon optioneering
• How to create attractive financial returns alongside social and environmental impacts in Article 9 funds
• Example investments such as retrofitting an old vinyl factory with cross-laminated timber to the material health benefits for residents from assisted living schemes 

Guest website: https://www.bridgesfundmanagement.com/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-giddens-ab6b63145/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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In this episode, Toby Wilde and Anna Clare Harper discuss the common myths around how and whether proptech can solve housing market problems. Toby shared his controversial opinions on the major issues in the industry including the greenbelt, Airbnb and P2P lending.

Toby is a multi-time Proptech Founder whose experience includes scaling Sprift, currently the fastest growing property data resource for Estate Agents, Landlords, Developers & Solicitors, as well as in Estate Agency and in his family’s property development business.

Highlights includes:

• What problems can proptech (and specifically, algorithms) really solve in the UK property market, and how?
  
• How data can really be used to optimise where to build and what is built, from a developer and investor perspective
  
• What data reveals about a collapse in studio and 1 bed values, due to Covid-led limits on the airbnb ‘dark economy’
  
• The idea of a ‘barcode for every house’ and how tech can reduce inefficiencies in the housing market
  

Resources:

Oparo website: https://www.oparo.co.uk/

Sprift website: https://sprift.com/

Toby on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobywilde/

Anna's website: https://annaclareharper.com/

Anna on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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In this episode, Gavriel Merkado, CEO and Founder of leading residential property data and analytics company REalyse and Anna Clare Harper discuss the ‘myth’ of ‘material uncertainty’. What material uncertainty actually means, what the implications are for investors trying to assess a deal, and the real reason banks are cautious to lend when a valuation contains this clause.

A former quantitative analyst and expert in real estate data analytics, Gavriel shares his perspective on material uncertainty and whether there is a viable alternative right now in valuations. We also touched on why he believes ‘augmented valuations’ will be the future for companies looking to save time and cut costs.

Highlights of this episode include:

• How greater technology, transparency and ‘augmented valuations’ could revolutionise UK property transactions, and the implications for ‘industry middlemen’
  
• How disrupting the monopoly on valuations could impact the UK market
  
• Understanding value in the UK residential property market throughout market changes
  
• Why uncertainty is almost a certainty - in any market

Resources:

www.realyse.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavriel-merkado-17759917/

annaclareharper.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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In this episode, Mike Bristow, Founder of the UK’s leading property peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform, Crowdproperty, and Anna Clare Harper discuss why high rates don’t always mean high risk when it comes to property lending, and how peer-to-peer (P2P) is disrupting traditional bank finance.

As a registered chartered accountant, Mike also sits on the investment committee of proptech venture capital business Property Innovation Labs (Pi Labs), and is an angel investor in leading proptech and fintech businesses.

Highlights of the episode include:

• How tech is an enabler for solving problems in property and finance, and the importance for great proptech and fintech businesses of focusing on ‘holes’, not ‘drillbits’
  
• How investors (both lenders and borrowers) can understand and manage risks in P2P lending
  
• How the uncertain environment around Covid-19 has created an opportunity for P2P lenders to prove their point, and continue to disrupt traditional big bank lending in real estate.
  

Resources:

Crowdproperty.com

Blog - blog.crowdproperty.com = 40 articles all about alternative finance

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelbristow/

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In this episode, Guy Harrington, Founder of Glenhawk, one of the fastest growing property lenders in the UK, dispels common myths and misconceptions around short term ‘bridging’ property finance. Glenhawk has lent over £115m, secured £160m finance from JP Morgan, and is on track for its target £500m loan portfolio.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What’s really happening to lender appetite, through Coronavirus
  
• What developers and investors can learn from how lenders view risk
  
• How lenders are evolving from ‘shark’ to ‘heart’, becoming consumer-focused
  
• How to avoid the ‘loan to own’ lenders as a borrower
  

Resources:

Website: Glenhawk.com

Contact: gh@glenhawk.com & lendingteam@glenhawk.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guy-harrington-glenhawk/

Find out more about The Return Podcast at annaclareharper.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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I had the chance to discuss the truth about hiring in real estate with Louisa Dickens, co-founder of LMRE, a leading global proptech recruitment business helping startups scale and corporates find new talent.

As a UK PropTech Association board member, Louisa is well-placed to understand what both proptech businesses and candidates expect from each other during the recruitment process and the common hiring mistakes that proptech startups and corporates make.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What employees really want, and what businesses look for in candidates
  
• How to build a diverse team
  
• How hiring is changing, and the importance of having a hiring strategy
  
• Where start-ups and corporates go wrong, and how to avoid common mistakes
  

Resources:

Lmre.co.uk

https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisa-dickins-ab065392/

annaclareharper.com

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*What works and what doesn't in this complex UK residential property market? Part #2*

Panel discussion with one of the UK’s top planning lawyers, Martha Grekos, and Editor of the leading property investor magazine, Property Investor News, Richard Bowser, marking the paperback launch of Anna Clare Harper's book, Strategic Property Investing: What works and what doesn’t in a complex UK residential property market bit.ly/strategicpropertyinvesting

Highlights include:

• ‘Icarus syndrome’ - and the trouble with crowd-funding and over-leverage in property development
  
• Top tips for riding a challenging market, for long term landlords and ‘value add’ developers, including how to conduct due diligence right, and maintaining relationships so that you have the right people on your side, even if you’re not taking on new projects
  
• How to maximise the value of assets through planning uplift and how to avoid common mistakes developers make
  

Resources:

https://propertyinvestor.news

http://www.marthagrekos.co.uk/

bit.ly/strategicpropertyinvesting

annaclareharper.com/book

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Marking the launch and promo offer for Anna’s book, Strategic Property Investing: What works and what doesn’t in a complex UK residential property market - bit.ly/strategicpropertyinvesting -

Panel discussion with Melanie Bien, award-winning PR specialist, former Personal Finance Editor of the Independent on Sunday, and author of four best-selling property 'for dummies' books, and John Howard, property investor, business owner and author whose latest project is a £26 million development funded by Homes England, and who has bought and sold over 3,500 houses, apartments and developments.

Highlights include:

• How not all parts of the property market will be affected in the same way by coronavirus - some geographies and tenant types are resilient from an investment perspective, and some are less so. How sweeping statements and statistics are not so helpful in this context
  
• How challenges opportunities and house prices will be defined by two main things: cashflow and liquidity - and the last 2 months have shown us we don't collectively know as much about this as we thought
  
• Market predictions - and how the key to sustainable success is taking a socially responsible, sensitive approach focused on the long term - from working with tenants to pricing
  

Resources:

Link to buy Anna's book: bit.ly/strategicpropertyinvesting

annaclareharper.com/book

Bien Media: https://www.bienmedia.com/

Melanie Bien, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-bien-4b67144/?originalSubdomain=uk

John Howard, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-howard-a59a1b43/

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Data has been described as more valuable than oil. But not all data is created equally. Huge risks arise if you don’t have the right data, and you don’t use it correctly in property investment.

So how do you get it right, at a time when data collection seems topical, controversial and indeed essential for modern businesses?

Gavriel Merkado, CEO and Founder of REalyse, leading UK real estate data and proptech disruptor, joins Anna Clare Harper to discuss the value of data - including how successful investors are using it, and what the rest are getting wrong.

Gavriel is an expert in using data and analytics to drive the right investment decisions, with a strong background in quantitative analytics, hedge funds, trading and equity broking before making the shift to real estate, including at Quintain and Essential Living.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What data is actually valuable, and how it should be used in real estate
  
• The rapid evolution of data, and what this means for property investors
  
• Common mistakes investors make - that cause them to lose money and waste time - and the four characteristics your data needs
  
• Using data in a property crisis
  

Resources:

www.realyse.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavriel-merkado-17759917/

annaclareharper.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

https://annaclareharper.com/book 

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In this episode, Ranjan Bhattacharya and Anna Clare Harper weigh up the challenges and opportunities for investors following the impact of coronavirus on the property market, and discuss how to survive both long- and short-term by shoring up your position, prioritising cashflow and knowing the right strategies to deploy.

Property entrepreneur and investor Ranjan is a well-known personality in the landlord community as the host of ‘the UK’s #1 property meet’, the Baker Street Property Meet, and a popular YouTube channel.

Highlights of this episode include:

• How the investment landscape has changed overnight, and what it means for residential property investors
  
• Long- and short-term survival - why cashflow is king, and how to navigate government and bank support to help tenants
  
• Risk analysis and open communication with tenants - and the biggest jobs landlords have right now
  
• When to buy, and when to pause over the coming months
  

Resources:

Baker Street Property Meet: www.BakerStreetPropertyMeet.com

YouTube channel: Ranjan Bhattacharya - Property Investment https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCycEMZPP06TrEN_oilCrjyg

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjanproperty/

Anna’s book - ‘Strategic Property Investing: What works and what doesn’t, in a complex UK residential property market’ has never been more relevant than in these uncertain times. It will be published on 30th April 2020. Sign up to find out more and be the first to be notified about the 99p launch offer: annaclareharper.com/book

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How to change housing policy with Ian Fletcher, Director of Policy at the British Property Federation and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

I chatted to Ian Fletcher, Director of Policy at the British Property Federation about how to influence housing policy.

I found it fascinating to hear about:

• The latest on hot topics like Renters Reform Leasehold Reform and the up-coming election 
• How policy-making actually works, from consultations with Civil Servants to lobbying Members of Parliament
• What next for housing policy

Guest website: https://bpf.org.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ian-fletcher-15a57341⁠

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: GreenResi.com

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In this episode, Simon Hughes, Co-Founder of leading real estate innovation consultant, Jell Consulting and thought leadership and research business Liquid Real Estate Innovation, discusses shaping the future of real estate through innovation with Anna Clare Harper.

Simon has an extensive track record of working with board level executives at publicly-listed and private equity-backed companies. He explains how property companies often falsely believe innovation is driven by technology, and how to really unlock fresh ideas and discover potential solutions in a sector known for being slow to adapt to change.

Highlights of this episode include:

• How to fail: by putting technology first
  
• How to innovate successfully and the power of problem-solving
  
• How small and large property businesses and investors can innovate to get ahead in a fast-changing environment
  

Resources:

liquidrei.com/

jellconsulting.co.uk/about

Linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-hughes-a8a9a71b/

Twitter @SimonHughes497

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In this episode, Taylor Wescoatt, Founder of leading PropTech venture capital firm Concrete and Anna Clare Harper discuss analysing risk and reward, what venture capitalists look for, and the importance of understanding how to solve customer problems through new PropTech ventures.

Taylor brings his User Experience (UX) and Product Development experience with major brands such as eBay and Time Out to tackle real estate industry challenges and make the most of its opportunities.

Highlights of this episode include:

• What next for real estate and PropTech?
  
• What venture capitalists look for in a Founder
  
• Why we don’t learn from success and failure is crucial for growth
  
• The shift in focus in real estate from ‘occupier’ to ‘consumer’
  
• Why founders need inexhaustible energy
  

Resources:

www.concretevc.com

Email: info@concretevc.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorwescoatt/

www.annaclareharper.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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Value investing specialist, author and acclaimed researcher Mallika Paulraj and Anna Clare Harper discuss how the school of thought so commonly associated with Benjamin Graham, then Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger et al really applies in the property world. Mallika shares top tips from a global investment and research career, from checklists to use before you invest, to understanding brain chemistry so that you can avoid common mistakes.

A graduate and researcher from Stanford University and the London School of Economics, Mallika began her career in Silicon Valley as a programmer before moving into finance in 2001, working with large financial institutions such as Lehman Brothers in Wall Street and Morgan Stanley in London. She runs a global investment education business, Four Minute Investing, and guest lectures in investing at Stanford and the London Business School.

Highlights of this episode include:

• How even the best professional investors paradoxically misunderstand personal investing
  
• Top tips for real estate investors looking to echo successful value investors like Warren Buffet
  
• How to put emotions aside, and really find value
  

Resources:

fourminuteinvesting.com

To find out more about monthly investment seminars held in London, email mallika@fourminuteinvesting.com

Mallika Paulraj LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpaulraj/

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Anna Clare Harper LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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In this episode, leading investment specialist Rebekah Tobias and Anna Clare Harper discuss risk, reward, diversity and how capital is really allocated by financial institutions including high net worth investors, private equity houses, family offices and pension funds.

Formerly a Partner at global real estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield, an Investment Director at CBRE and a Director at leading Real Estate Investor & Asset Manager M7, Rebekah is now Business Development Director for international investment house, MARCOL. Her real estate investment expertise spans investment advisory, valuations, capital raising and investor relations working with major institutional investors and private equity.

Highlights of this episode include:

• The most important questions different types of investor really want answered when evaluating real estate investments, and how this differs from traditional RICS valuation approach
  
• How risk appetites and return targets compare between private equity firms, large institutions like pension funds, high net worth individuals and family offices
  
• How ‘emotional’ decisions and personal relationships play a role when family offices and high net worth investors allocate their capital
  
• Top trends and changing strategies in family office investment
  

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Linked In - Rebekah Tobias

marcol.com

www.annaclareharper.com

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In this episode, Anna Clare Harper is joined by leading smart building technology business Metrikus' CEO Gary Cottle (previously a global MD / Chairman at Nomura / RBS) and COO Michael Grant to discuss how the digitisation of buildings can increase well-being and transform profits for property investors.

The episode includes how real-time data capture can enable smarter decisions, making buildings and employees more efficient, profitable, healthy and better for the environment.

Episode highlights include:

• Why a busy, stuffy room is worse for productivity than drinking 2 pints of beer
  
• Why the biggest environmental crisis could be inside our buildings
  
• How live data can be used to save costs and increase business and investor returns
  
• Optimising New Build and Build to Rent schemes from day 1, to help investors and tenants alike
  

Resources:

Web: metrikus.io

Gary Twitter: @cottlegs

Gary LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-cottle-564508b3/

Michael LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrant26/?originalSubdomain=uk

Metrikus Twitter: @loveyourassets

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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In this episode, Anna Clare Harper and Vadim Toader discuss Artificial Intelligence as a tool for forecasting house price growth and making better lending decisions.

Vadim is an Entrepreneur First alumnus and Forbes ‘30 under 30’ listed Proptech Founder with a  first-class Masters degree from Oxford in Engineering, Economics and Management.

He co-founded the Savills-backed startup and FCA-authorised lender Proportunity, which uses machine learning as a way to predict property price rises and optimise lending decisions. The business was recently voted the ‘UK’s best proptech startup’ by Techworld.

Episode highlights include:

• Pushing the limits of first-time buyer mortgage lending by quantifying and modelling risk and returns, and making decisions driven by data
  
• How to understand value and forecast future house price growth using AI
  
• How local drug usage, sexuality and coffee shop menus influence lending decisions
  
• How the idea for Proportunity arose: from Vadim’s own property search and experience at Europe’s biggest incubator, Entrepreneur First.
  
• Working out the areas with strongest property price growth prospects in London, in an uncertain market
  

Resources:

https://proportunity.co/

@Vadim_Toader Twitter

@proportunity_uk Twitter

annaclareharper.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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In this episode, Anna Clare Harper and Ed Mead FRICS discuss how traditional estate agency needs to evolve, and how property viewing service Viewber is shaking up the process of buying, selling and letting residential property through what has been described as ‘the Uber of property viewings’.

Ed is a high-profile former London agent with 37 years’ experience. He is also a Non-Executive Director of London estate agent Douglas & Gordon and The Property Ombudsman. He has built a profile as one of the industry’s leading commentators, from two BBC TV series to writing regularly for The Sunday Times and The Telegraph as a property and agency expert. So, he is incredibly qualified to discuss the industry and its pain points!

Episode highlights include:

• Ed’s inside view on what’s really happening in estate agency - from referral fees to the impacts of new regulations
  
  
• Red flags around traditional practices that are now driving innovation
  
  
• How the new ‘Amazonised’ generation of property buyers will demand change
  
  
• Why landlords are abandoning agents and seeking different ways to let and manage their properties
  
  

Resources:

Viewber.co.uk

@ed_mead twitter

http://ed-mead.com

annaclareharper.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

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Getting deals done with Deepa Deb, Head of International Real Estate Investment at law firm Watson Farley & Williams and Anna Clare Harper.

Deepa Deb is Head of International Real Estate Investment at law firm Watson Farley & Williams, with accolades including regularly being ranked in Chambers & Partners as a leading lawyer in real estate and being rated as one of the Hot 100 Most Influential Lawyers (The Lawyer).

This episode includes:

• What innovations (in particular the use of AI) can improve efficiency and reliability of legal work in transactions
• What UK residential can learn from other parts of real estate and from other countries about transactions
• Career advice for aspiring lawyers

Guest website: https://www.wfw.com/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepa-deb/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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In this episode, Anna and Lucian discuss how the Prime and Mainstream UK residential markets have been affected by recent change and uncertainty. They look at the data Savills uses to gain market insight and what the future holds for property investors. Lucian also shares some great advice for private investors and provides context to current fragile market sentiment.

Highlights include:

• How Prime and Mainstream residential market drivers differ
• What house prices will look like over the next five years
• Why private investors must understand competition from institutions
• How Brexit will affect the housing market – today and tomorrow

Resources:

Website: www.savills.co.uk

Twitter: @LucianCook

LinkedIn: Lucian Cook

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In this episode, Anna and Mike discuss how P2P lending is supporting small and medium-sized developers to meet the UK’s housing needs.  Mike shares his thoughts on how quality data plus human expertise can inform better decision making by lenders and explains why Alternative Finance will simply become mainstream finance over the next few years.

Highlights include:

• How peer-to-peer lending solves both lender and borrower problems 
• Best practice approaches to balancing risk and reward 
• How and why P2P for property will continue to grow over the coming years 

Resources:

Website: www.crowdproperty.com

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Retail, real estate and Build to Rent with Katherine Russell, Director of Build to Rent at the John Lewis Partnership and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

I had the chance to chat with Katherine Russell, Director of Build to Rent at the John Lewis Partnership about retail, real estate and Build to Rent.

Topics included:

• The journey that the John Lewis Partnership - better known for homewares than housing - has been on with real estate generally, and residential property specifically, from owning ‘tops above shops’ to Build to Rent
• Lessons learned through John Lewis’s Real Estate Portfolio, the New West End Company’s (a partnership of 600 West End-based businesses) Advisory Board and Dolphin Living (an independent charity with an endowment of £120m to provide affordable homes for Londoners)
• What next for Build to Rent and the UK Private Rental Sector

Guest website: https://www.jlpjobs.com/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherine-russell-simmonds-73206933/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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In this episode, Anna Clare Harper finds out about construction apprenticeships in London with Paul Ruddick, Co-founder of K10, London’s largest construction-specific Apprenticeship Training Programme (ATA). Anna and Paul are joined by Peter Bannister, Senior Apprenticeship Programme Manager and George, an apprentice Site Manager on the scheme. 

Anna and Paul discuss why apprenticeships are vital to address the current construction skills crisis, which is a factor limiting the supply of new buildings.  Peter explains how K10’s approach offers a win/win solution for contractors and apprentices and George outlines how the K10 programme has put him on track for a £60-70k salary within seven years. 

Highlights include:

• How 40% of the construction workforce is due to retire within the next decade.
• Why taking on apprentices makes commercial sense and has a positive social impact.
• How the construction sector should see the industry skills shortage as an opportunity. 

Resources: 

https://www.k-10.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/k10

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/K10socialimpact/

Instagram: @k10apprenticeships

Twitter: @K10socialimpact

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In this episode, Anna and Ben discuss OakNorth’s approach to lending and how they use a combination of data-driven and human decision-making processes. They look at how challenger banks are addressing the finance issues experienced by property investors and developers and why OakNorth’s loan book currently stands at £2bn and rising, with continuing strong demand. Ben also shares some great advice for beginner investors and explains why there’s plenty of reason for optimism in the face of uncertainty.

Highlights include:

• Why property investors need to professionalise and learn the trade
• What lenders are looking for in successful applications
• Why no branches doesn’t mean no human interaction
• How the use of technology and data benefits bank customers

Resources:

www.oaknorth.com

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In this episode, Anna Clare Harper  finds out how interior design can increase Return On Investment for  developers, investors, in fact anyone selling or renting a property,  with the Founder of Award-winning London Design Studio, Anouska Tamony  Designs.

Anna and Anouska explore why interior  design is important, especially in a stagnating market. They also cover  the importance of knowing your target market and where to concentrate  your efforts for maximum impact if you have a limited budget. Anouska  explains how involving a professional designer can help to speed up  property sales and even the construction process, in surprising ways.

Highlights include:

• Understanding  interior design’s role in speeding up purchase decisions, by making  potential buyers fall in love with the property
• How to research your target market and set a budget for design
• How to make the most of a professional design studio in the development process – from start to finish
• Top tips for a high-quality finish, with a limited budget
• How to re-invigorate a property that isn’t selling

Resources:

Email: studio@anouskatamony.com

Website: http://www.anouskatamony.com/

https://www.facebook.com/AnouskaTamonyDesigns/

Instagram and Twitter: @anouskatamonydesigns

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In this episode, Anna discusses how technology and theory can be used to make better investments, as well as leading multimillion-pound investment businesses whilst teaching at Oxford & Cambridge, with Professor Andrew Baum.

Andrew has combined an academic career including professorships at Oxford and Cambridge, with leading several multi-million-pound investment businesses. He is currently Chairman of Newcore Capital management, Chairman of consulting company Property Funds Research and Visiting Professor of Management Practice at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Highlights include:

• The social obligation of investors – greedy investors don’t win!
• The importance of fundamental principles of investment – markets are generally efficient, and there are very few free lunches, which means speculative development to sell is like gambling
• Value investing – buy things that are worth more than you pay for them, with strong yields for the long term where possible
• The power of options – select assets that are performing well today with great upside potential
• The importance of never using the present tense (e.g. the stock market is rising) only ever explain what has happened (the stock market has risen)

Resources:

http://www.propertyfundsresearch.com/

http://www.newcorecapital.com/

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Unlocking responsible UK Residential investment at scale with Anna Clare Harper, CEO of GreenResi and Andrew Teacher, Co-Founder of Lauder Teacher Associates.

In Anna's words:

'My good friend Andrew Teacher grilled me in my capacity as CEO of GreenResi on unlocking responsible UK residential investment at scale.

Topics include:

• The residential market opportunity: scale, growing income and resilience underpinned by demographics
• How to deploy rapidly at scale: acquiring granular existing rentals for faster, less risky, less carbon intensive access to residential vs Build to Rent
• How processes can be optimised to improve efficiency and reliability throughout the deal lifecycle'

Anna Clare Harper LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Anna Clare Harper website: https://www.greenresi.com/

Andrew Teacher website: ⁠https://lauderteacher.com/

Andrew Teacher LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewteacher/⁠

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The Return interviewed one of the world’s leading bloggers on dividend stocks, Ben Reynolds of www.suredividend.com, to talk long term, income-generating dividend growth investing.

The interview includes:

• 8 rules for dividend investing
• How to find the right stocks to buy, and when to sell (rarely!)
• The importance of science over emotion in stock market investing for the long term

The interview dispels the myth that stock market investing is just about short term buy and sell decisions or gambling, and gives some great tips about how to get started and keep going, even when the market falls…

Resources:

www.suredividend.com (check out the Dividend Aristocrats list)

www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com

DRIP investing resource centre http://www.dripinvesting.org/

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Residential for rent with Cath Webster, CEO of Thriving Investments, the fund manager with a social conscience backed by the UK's leading Social Enterprise and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

'I loved chatting to Cath Webster, CEO of Thriving Investments, the fund manager with a social conscience backed by Places for People, the UK's leading Social Enterprise which owns or manages over 240,000 homes for 500,000 Customers across the UK.

We covered:

• The different segments in residential such as Affordable Rented, Social Rented and Private Rented
• How Build to Rent has evolved, from ‘Gen1’ to today, including the rise and fall of amenities
• Investment yield valuations, why liquidity is so low in Build to Rent and what this means for BtR players.

Guest website: https://www.thrivinginvestments.co.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/526783/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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UK property investing – is buy to let dead?

We asked multi-millionaire landlord and author of one of the most highly regarded books on property investment, Angela Bryant, what’s really going on in the property market.   Angela has bought 100+ properties and has 20+ years’ experience under her belt, yet remains incredibly humble…

Find out:

• If buy to let is worth the hassle, in the current market context
• Reducing costs in your property portolio
• The unanticipated impacts of policy change on homelessness
• The risks and rewards in stocks and shares vs property

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Retirement might seem a long way off. But with increasing life expectancies, you could easily be relying on your pension for 1/4 to 1/3 of your life (longer than you were at school!)

Which makes pensions important to understand…But where to start?

We had the privilege of interviewing Howard Brindle, the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the UK’s largest private pension scheme, USS to discuss what you need to know about pensions.

The interview includes:

• How the different types of pension work
• How regulations and taxes influence outcomes for individuals and their future lifestyles
• Why pension funds are becoming some of the most powerful investors in the world!

Resources:

www.uss.co.uk

https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en

https://www.pensionwise.gov.uk/en

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What next for Living Capital? With Simon Scott, Lead Director, Living Capital Markets UK at JLL and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

I chatted to Simon Scott, Lead Director, Living Capital Markets UK at the second largest global property advisor, JLL, about the future of ‘living capital’ (which is essentially the institutionally-funded segment of the real estate market which people live in).

Topics include:

• What we can learn from 2023 around the resilience of residential investment
• Factors influencing investment valuations, from fire safety to operating companies
• Will 2024 be the worst year yet for new housing developments?

Guest website: https://www.jll.co.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-scott-151a2669/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: GreenResi.com

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Anna Clare Harper, Host of The Return and CEO of GreenResi on Private Rental Sector Trends.

Anna says:

It’s been a while since I didn’t have a high powered guest on the podcast, and a lot has been happening in the market and in my world. 

So this week, I thought I’d take the opportunity to share some of that (read: talk to myself!), answering some of the questions I get asked frequently about the market and my business.

Topics include:

• Key social, environmental and investor trends in the UK Private Rental Sector
• Developing tools to scale, including acquisition pipeline management and portfolio monitoring
• The difference between Build to Rent, seen as ‘good’ and buy-to-let, seen as ‘bad’ in terms of management infrastructure (processes, systems, budgets, externalities etc)

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: www.GreenResi.com

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How partnerships, innovation & ‘insetting’ help achieve more sustainable investment outcomes with Jessica Pilz, Head of Sustainable Investing at £90bn Asset Manager, Fiera Capital & Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

I had the chance to chat with Jessica Pilz, Head of Sustainable Investing at £90bn Asset Manager, Fiera Capital.

Topics included:

• How to integrate Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) considerations into commercial investment decisions, and when to say no to attractive financial returns.
• Innovation and ‘insetting’ instead of offsetting.
• How to use partnerships to address complex environmental and social challenges whilst achieving commercial success.

Guest website: https://www.fieracapital.com/en

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-pilz-483b1b1b/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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Anna Clare Harper is joined by Kia Commodore, who founded financial education platform Pennies to Pounds at the age of 21, when she realised there was a major gap in her own knowledge: money matters.

Kia has since grown a significant social following and worked with the likes of Barclays, Natwest, Santander and Legal and General, the BBC and the Financial Times on her mission to demystify personal finance. 

So she was the perfect candidate to discuss the things you need to know but were afraid to ask about retirement planning and pensions, as part of our series on ‘How to make the most of your money’ sponsored by Cohort Invest.

This episode covers topics including:

• Why you can’t just rely on the state pension and auto enrollment
• How to take control of your financial future and get start planning for your retirement
• How to avoid common mistakes, and why now is the time to start thinking about pensions, if you haven’t already 
• The tax benefits of diverting income to your pension
• De-mystifying the jargon, from triple lock to SIPPs
• My personal favourite: FIRE, and how to be part of this global movement.

Sponsor website: https://cohortinvest.co.uk/
Guest website: https://www.penniestopounds.co.uk/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kia-commodore-34205a11a/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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How institutional real estate investors respond to change with Emma Long, Head of Business Strategy, LGIM Real Assets Equity and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

I chatted with Emma Long, Head of Business Strategy, Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) Real Assets Equity about how one of the largest asset managers in Europe, with global Assets under Management of £1.2 trillion, makes sound investment decisions and adapts to market changes.

Topics include:

• The implications of a changing investor landscape with Direct Benefit pensions buyouts and Direct Contribution pensions growth
• How asset management is increasingly about customer (occupier) engagement not just assets, and what this means
• What asset managers look for including investment strategies that work based on long term thematics or market timing/mispricing, alpha or unique access/expertise and scale 
• LGIM’s Social Value Framework and Net Zero Carbon Roadmap progress 

Guest website: https://www.lgim.com/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-long-906a785/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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ESG Investing in Alternative & Operational Real Estate With Sadie Malim, Head of ESG and Legal at Moorfield, a £3.9bn specialist investor and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

I had a wonderful chat with Sadie Malim, Head of ESG and Legal at Moorfield, a £3.9bn specialist investor, on the podcast. 

Key topics included:

• The democratisation of real estate
• What ‘alternative’ and ‘operational’ really mean (when UK residential is 8 x larger than UK commercial property and 4 x larger than the FTSE 100!)
• Advice for investors exploring ESG integration in residential to rent 
• Real life examples of the most exciting alternative real estate strategies including self-storage and single family rental, and critical lessons learned.

Guest website: https://www.moorfield.com/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadie-malim/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

The Return: Property & Investment Podcast has been featured in Feedspot’s UK and London ‘Best Real Estate Podcasts’ lists, coming in at #4 in the UK! 

⁠https://podcasts.feedspot.com/uk_real_estate_podcasts/⁠

⁠https://blog.feedspot.com/london_real_estate_podcasts/⁠

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How should we measure ESG in residential investment? 

Anna Clare Harper discusses, with Alex Notay, Director at Thriving Investments, and internationally recognised expert on Build to Rent and ESG in residential.

In Anna's words: 

Alex Notay is Placemaking & Investment Director at Thriving Investments, which aims to be the most socially responsible asset management company in the housing sector, and is part of Places for People. 

She’s an internationally recognised expert on Build to Rent and ESG in residential, and she has helped lead residential and ESG committees for leading industry bodies ULI, BPF and AREF.

So she was the perfect guest to explain how we should be measuring ESG risks and impacts in residential.

We covered topics including:

• What are the key trends shaping how we approach sustainability?
• Which are the best of 500+ real estate and sustainability benchmarks for residential?
• Key lessons from writing (my personal favourite ESG report of recent years), ‘Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG): Why it matters and how to get started - A Guide for the Institutional PRS (British Property Federation)

BPF Residential ESG Guidance report: https://bpf.org.uk/media/4534/bpf-residential-esg-guidance.pdf

Guest website: https://www.thrivinginvestments.co.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandranotayparr/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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What is Net Zero for UK homes? 

Anna Clare Harper discusses with Phil Mason, Head of Regulatory Engagement at Trustmark, the government endorsed quality scheme for home improvements.

In Anna's words:

I chatted to Phil Mason, Head of Regulatory Engagement at Trustmark, the government endorsed quality scheme for home improvements, an organisation that is critical for the urgent retrofit of UK homes, about the impact of regulations on retrofit and the path to Net Zero for homes.

We covered:

• What Net Zero means for UK homes 
• The path of least resistance for achieving Net Zero 2050 - avoiding inefficiencies and just ‘retrofitting once’ 
• How policies, practices and grant funding opportunities differ between tenures, and what finance is available for retrofit

Guest website: https://www.trustmark.org.uk/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-mason-29a5a9164/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

The Return: Property & Investment Podcast has been featured in Feedspot’s UK and London ‘Best Real Estate Podcasts’ lists, coming in at #4 in the UK! 

⁠https://podcasts.feedspot.com/uk_real_estate_podcasts/⁠

⁠https://blog.feedspot.com/london_real_estate_podcasts/⁠

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Is now the time to upsize? 

Anna Clare Harper discusses with Polly Ogden Duffy, MD at John D Wood & Co.

In Anna's words:

I had a great chat with Polly Ogden Duffy, Managing Director at prime sales and lettings agency, John D Wood & Co.

We covered:

• How to achieve your buying, selling or renting goals in the current market 
• How upsizers are winning in 2023
• What has caused the time taken to complete a sale to double since 2019
• How establishing pregnancy loss and menopause policies - as well as being vocal about such real staff issues - improves staff loyalty and so boosts long term profitability

Guest website: https://www.johndwood.co.uk

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polly-ogden-duffy-17070651/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

The Return: Property & Investment Podcast has been featured in Feedspot’s UK and London ‘Best Real Estate Podcasts’ lists, coming in at #4 in the UK! 

⁠https://podcasts.feedspot.com/uk_real_estate_podcasts/⁠

⁠https://blog.feedspot.com/london_real_estate_podcasts/⁠