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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/
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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/
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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/

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

He 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.

We covered:

• 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/
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Kia Commodore 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.

She 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.

We covered 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/
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Ann-Marie Atkins is a Managing Partner and award-winning Financial Planner at Evelyn Partners. She came on the podcast as part of our series on ‘How to make the most of your money’ sponsored by Cohort Invest, to discuss the things you need to know but were afraid to ask about inheritance.

We covered topics including:

• What exemptions are available for Inheritance Tax
• Trusts, Family Investment Companies and other structures which mean you don’t need to pay Inheritance Tax
• When should you start thinking about your Will, and what happens if you don’t
• Tips and tricks for how to have awkward conversations, to avoid stress and drama later
• How to protect and pass on wealth under a Labour government 

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

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I spoke to Allen Chilten, Global Head of Capital Formation at the £750bn Schroders Capital, previously Head of Funds at Patrizia.

In this episode we covered topics like: 

• What kind of returns, and what magnitude do investors expect from Living?
• How do returns from different UK Living strategies compare with one another, and the returns available from other geographies? What are the factors that investors consider significant? 
• What makes a best-in-class ‘living’ platform, which others can learn from?

Guest website: https://www.schroderscapital.com/en/global/professional/ 

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-chilten-48ab596/

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

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