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I chatted to Rob Beiley, a Partner at law firm Trowers & Hamlins with over 20 years of experience in the affordable housing sector.

Rob advises housing associations, local authorities, developers and institutional investors on topics including corporate governance, housing finance, development and structuring.

He’s also a board member of the Housing & Finance Institute, Chair of the British Property Federation's Affordable Housing group and a contributor to Inside Housing and the BBC on topics like council-led housing initiatives and the rise of local authority housing companies.

We covered:

• What are the different types of Social Housing and who is involved in delivering it
• A potted history of Social Housing, including large-scale stock transfers and the growth of the Housing Association sector under the Conservatives and New Labour administrations in the 1990s and the early 2000s
• How investment in Social Housing has evolved over the years, and what kind of returns investors can expect

Guest website: https://www.trowers.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-beiley-8a906944/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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I chatted to the brilliant Alex Notay, who succeeded Dame Kate Barker as Chair of the Radix Big Tent Housing Commission and was previously Placemaking and Investment Director at Thriving Investments (formerly PfP Capital). There, she facilitated a £390m joint venture with the Housing Growth Partnership and the acquisition of the award-winning sustainable developer Igloo Regeneration, where she also served as a board member.

Alex is one of the most knowledgeable, practical people I know in housing, so it was a great joy to record this - we talked:

• The Reality of Housing Targets - what’s needed to achieve them?
• Why it makes sense to treat housing as infrastructure
• The challenge of communicating complicated ideas simply
• The significance of language around housing… Our self-built barrier to entry to the industry, where we talk about #housing when referring to social housing, #residential for private investment, #living for institutional investment, #property for individuals, #realestate for the American market #builtenvironment in relation to planning and development, and so on.

Read the Radix Paper here: https://radixuk.org/papers/beyond-the-permacrisis-delivering-1000-homes-per-day/

Guest website: https://radixuk.org/
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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I chatted to Bella Peacock, Senior Managing Director – Investment Management and Operations Europe, at Greystar. Greystar is one of the largest property managers globally with over 1m+ Units and Beds under management, over $78bn+ assets under management and a development track record of circa $36bn.

We covered:

• Career forks in the road - and how an early decision to try something that sounds interesting can create your future if you decide to follow the thread
• How to navigate the complexities of working in a big global business
• How to stay focused in a world full of information and ideas - and how to stay positive in a challenging market

Guest website: https://www.greystar.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bella-peacock-5a289360/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/