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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/

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I chatted with ex-Silicon Valley multi-national real estate investor with 30 years experience, and specialist in structured finance and legal capital raising for real estate, John Corey for this week’s episode on topics including:

• How can processes be used to shift away from emotional investment decisions and overcome ‘analysis paralysis’?
• How can data gathering be used to improve financial and non-financial outcomes?
• What is the optimal stopping point in the hunt for deals?

Guest website: https://propertyfortress.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncorey/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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I chatted with my brilliant mentor, ex-Silicon Valley multi-national real estate investor with 30 years experience, and specialist in structured finance and legal capital raising for real estate, John Corey for this week’s episode on topics including:

• Why get or be a mentor, and how to get the most out of the relationship
• What are the rules around using ‘OPM’ (other people’s money)
• How Financial Promotion is regulated in different geographies.

Guest website: https://propertyfortress.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johncorey/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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I chatted to Emily Hamilton, Chief Sustainability Officer at Savills Investment Management about how to create a career you love in sustainable investment management in real estate.

We covered:

• What a Chief Sustainability Officer is, and also what Investment Management actually means - in words my mum can understand
• The importance of networks - speaking to others in the industry and sharing data and best practice - with some tips on how via the Better Buildings Partnership and ULI
• Advice on driving innovation and change in a corporate context, from seeking senior management buy in to laying out a plan that includes urgent ‘now’ tasks and an inspiring vision for the future.

Guest website: https://www.savillsim.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-hamilton-0973b31b/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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I recently chatted on the podcast with Kate Faulkner OBE, one of the UK’s leading property experts, the founder of free consumer education site Propertychecklists, The Home Buying and Selling Council and The Lettings Industry Council - which is how I came across her.

Kate has worked with the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government and regularly features on BBC TV and radio including You and Yours and Moneybox.

As well as an impressive career, she’s also infectiously enthusiastic about creating positive change in the property market, and seeing property problems as business opportunities. It’s this attitude, as well as her impressive achievements, that make her uniquely qualified to discuss how to create a career you love and drive positive change in property.

We discussed:

• Getting started in the 1990s - and making the leap into property ‘full time’
• The importance of growing your network, and looking outside of your focus area
• Embracing problems and the unexpected - which are everywhere in property

Guest website: https://www.propertychecklists.co.uk/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katefaulkner/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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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, we 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/