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Claire joined Stanhope in September 2018 from Grosvenor Britain & Ireland where she lead the Asset Management team for the Belgravia portfolio.  At Stanhope she leads the Asset Management team which is responsible for a portfolio of just under 6 million sq ft and £4bn of assets under management.  As well as her day job Claire is also a Mentor for Stanhope-backed initiative Mentoring Circle. I sat...

Sam has responsibility for all retail, leisure, office and meanwhile components of the live 42 acre £8bn Power Station estate. He joined the business in 2015 and led on the curation of the occupier mix from masterplan inception, delivery of the pre-letting campaign through to public launch in October 2022, taking BPS from a former derelict industrial site to a best in class fully let mixed-use Lon...

Established in 1999, Patron Capital Partners has evolved into one of the leading opportunistic real estate managers in Europe. To date, it has raised over €5.4bn Euros, and has undertaken more than 200 transactions across 106 investments in 17 countries. The Patron organisation includes a 64 person in-house team, with offices in the UK, Spain and Luxembourg. Patron's strategy is to back local part...

At Birchgrove Honor and her team believe that renting instead of owning a home is the most liberating form of tenure and allows their residents to retain their independence without the burdens of homeownership. Birchgrove, backed by Bridges Fund Management they operate a portfolio of assisted living developments with contemporary apartments for rent in brand-new, purpose-built facilities within an...

Christian set Valor up in 2016, with investment partners Jeffrey Kelter and Robert Savage, with the idea of creating a pan European Real Estate investment and Asset Management partnership focused exclusively on the logistics sector. Today they have over 3bn Euros under management, spanning over 180 properties and 12 million square feet. Prior to Valor, Christian, established Delin Capital Asset Ma...

Crispin Gandy, CEO - Argo Real Estate Argo is a dynamic UK-based thematic investor focused on delivering outperformance for their investors. As a group they have concluded c. £2bn of transactions and have expertise across all mainstream asset classes investing across core to opportunistic risk profiles. Prior to joining Argo, Crispin was previously head of Investec Property in the UK. He has over...

Morwenna Hall, Chief Operating Officer - Related Argent. Related Argent is a complete developer, owner and operator with a c. £13bn, 21 million sq ft portfolio and an unrivalled track record of delivering global exemplars of city-building. It creates and manages a diverse portfolio across workspace, residential, education, retail, hospitality, leisure and public realm with schemes ranging from 270...

BGO is a leading, top 10, global real estate private equity investment management advisor and a globally recognized provider of real estate services. Its specialist central London office fund, Welput, was formed in 2001 and is the largest unlisted specialist real estate fund to invest in and develop Central London offices. The fund currently holds a portfolio of 9 assets, comprising over 1 million...

Oli started his career at Architype, as a Project Architect where he spent 9 years honing his skills in Project Management, Design and Project Delivery. He left in 2014 to set up Ackroyd Lowrie with business partner Jon Ackroyd to build an innovative architectural practice with a reputation for putting people at the heart of the design process, they are able to deliver characterful, sustainable, h...

Rod Lockhart CEO of LendInvest PLC.   LSE Listed LendInvest (LINV) is the UK's leading FinTech platform focussed on mortgages.  They offer residential, buy-to-let, short term and development mortgages to intermediaries, landlords, developers and homeowners.   Rod joined LendInvest in 2015 to lead the business' Capital Markets and Fund Management division. Within that time Rod has overseen LendInve...

Nigel set Fusion Residential up in 2006 with business partner Warren Rosenberg, where they sourced land and build remarkable homes. In 2012 they formed Fusion Students where you guess it they focus on developing and managing UK student accommodation in the UK. They have developed over 5000 PBSA beds, with a pipeline of over 9000 beds underway, and this is where Nigel now devotes most of his time....

Nneka Ejindu- Senior Asset Manager - formally of LaSalle Investment Management. Nneka was responsible for the proactive asset management and asset transformation of business space (primarily offices and industrial) assets in the London & South East of England. As well as driving results across various portfolios she manages she is passionate about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. I sat down with N...

MARK, formally Meyer Bergman is a multi-platform investment manager with specialised strategies that run parallel to their closed-ended, value-add funds. As a vertically integrated real estate investment business, they have assets across multiple geographies and sectors, including last mile logistics, mixed-use, retail, offices and residential. At MARK Inger is responsible for driving ESG initiati...

Richard Bains, Managing Director - Chancerygate. Chancerygate is a highly successful property developer, investor and asset manager specialising in the UK's urban logistics and industrial warehousing sectors. They offer a full range of in-house services to manage the entire development process and asset manage funds. Richard has over 30 years' experience in the UK property sector and prior to join...

Penny Hacking, Principal, Member of the European Executive team, and Managing Director of European Capital Markets at Avison Young. Penny has over 25 years' experience in EMEA Capital Markets having transacted in excess of 3bn Euros in all the major markets in Europe including the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Nordics and CEE. She has experience across all sectors but has a predominant...

Established in 2010 Vestas Investment Management invests capital, raised from single or multiple investors into global real estate – throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. It does this through a variety of products that target Core, Core+, Value Add & Opportunistic returns by investing in Office, Retail, Hotel, Multifamily & Logistics assets. In Europe they focus on Office and Logistics assets....

Bored by conventional thinking, Rupert, along with his Co-Founders Phil Nevin and Tayna Donald started x+why to unite a community of mission driven entrepreneurs, leaders and companies within inspiring and sustainable workspaces. x+why enters into management agreements with landlords to design, manage and operate flexible workspaces to create more profit than they would otherwise, through either o...

Phil Irons, Managing Director, and Head of Transactions UK & Ireland at Patrizia. Patrizia is a leading partner for global investments in real assets, with over €57bn of assets under management they offer institutional and private clients a broad range of attractive investment opportunities delivering long-term sustainable growth. Phil has over 25 years' experience in the UK commercial property ma...

George has worked in UK commercial real estate for 17 years, starting his career at Knight Frank Investment Management and then becoming an Investment Director of FORE Partnership. George Co-Founded Kinrise in 2015, with a focus on reimagining and restoring iconic buildings to their former glory. ​I recorded this conversation with George ​back in October 2022, and wanted to reshare given the fact...

Described by Spears magazine as the most important super-prime property company you have never heard of - Rhodium specialises in providing bespoke development consultancy, property and lifestyle management services to London most prestigious residential developments. The current portfolio is more than £12 billion pounds for a range of clients including Brockton Everlast, Ronson Capital Partners, N...

Pithos Capital was named after the largest storage jars used throughout the ancient Greek world to store, trade and preserve value – so it will come as no surprise that Pithos Capital invests in self-storage assets across European cities. Craig started his career at Madison International Realty - a business focused on providing liquidity to real estate owners and investors who otherwise had few op...

Richard is an avid real estate entrepreneur with an insatiable appetite for starting or backing numerous industry known businesses from Halverton, M7, Mirastar, React News and Coyote to name a few. He sold his last venture – M7 real estate to Oxford Properties in 2021 and at the time M7 employed over 220 people across 13 countries, with over 569 assets and 4.3bn Euros worth of assets under managem...

Set up in the depths of the pandemic Trigon is a B – Corp Development Manager with the sole aim of making their clients lives easier.  Their track record spans the full breadth of development, front to back, back to front – and that includes all the unique challenges one would expect! Andy studied Civil Engineering at the London South Bank University, as well as undertaking his BSc in Construction...

Shaun is the Founder of Compton, a best in class, London City Fringe District commercial real estate agency that takes an enterprising and collaborative approach to leasing, capital markets and occupational services. He started his career in 2000 as a Negotiator, built and then exited his first business Hatton Real Estate to Colliers international in 2016 and along with Founding partners Elliot St...

Here Paddy and his team specializes in providing a full suite of capital services, including equity and debt raising, transactional services, operational consulting, and real estate technology, to investors and operating platforms in various sectors where real estate investment performance is directly linked to an operational business. Paddy has a deep expertise in Build to Rent, Student Accommoda...