The Rodcast - Property, Business, Investment

Adam Lawrence and Myself unpick the News Stories from the last 2 weeks to understand what they mean for Property Investors. We discuss; Rent Controls, Landlord Taxes & Legislation - Looking specifically at the latest comments from Michael Gove on Rent controls and Landlord Taxes. What the Budget Meant for Property - There was not a huge amount of Property related points in the Budget speech bu...

This is another cracker of an episode which is jam packed with phenomenal advice for anyone with a residential portfolio. I am Joined by Ross McColl who, with his brother owns and operates a high yielding portfolio of approximately 300 residential units in the South East. We discuss; How Ross left school at 16 with no qualifications then going back into education to do a Masters at Imperial Colleg...

This is the first of our series on Property News Updates which we will be bringing you every fortnight. In this episode I am joined by Alicia Barlow who helps me to digest the big property news stories as well as deliver our opinions on them. We discuss; The most expensive residential property in Britain that has gone on the market for offers in excess of £250 Million. The latest report from...

In this episode we are joined by James Hadley from www.propertyfrompensions.co.uk James has a depth of knowledge on all things to do with property and pensions. If you think this is another sales pitch from a product seller about SSAS pensions then think again. James discusses the biggest mistakes he sees when people want to set up SSAS pensions. James gives great insight into the tax advantages o...

In the 4th episode of our series on investment picks we look over the investment environment as well as looking at how previous picks have performed so far. We then go on to discuss our investment picks for the last quarter of 2022 which include; High Yield Emerging Markets Bond ETF Gold and REITs If you enjoy the show please do not forget to leave us a review it helps us in our rankings and to at...

I had a fantastic discussion with Ben Green, Principal of Atrato Capital the Investment Advisor to The Supermarket REIT (SUPR) SUPR is a FTSE 250 real estate trust and the UK’s only specialist grocery property investor. Atrato have advised SUPR since it’s IPO in 2017.   Atrato sources, advises and asset manages all of Supermarket Income REIT's investments.  Ben has over 20...

Mike Kovacs is a founding partner of uk based real estate investment firm, Castleforge. https://castleforge.com/ Under his leadership they have invested £1 Billion of asset value into the UK and Europe combining research-led investment themes with vertical integration and in-house operating platforms. Mike has a great way of explaining how he identifies sectors in the real estate market to invest...

Paul Davis is probably best known for being a Co founder of Nimbus Maps, a tool for Property Developers and Investors to find the best off-market opportunities, assess them quickly and connect with owners. But did you know that Paul has a fantastic career in real estate prior to this including; a family investment business, starting and scaling a property consultancy...

*THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE* I was joined by Adam Lawrence and Manish Kataria for our Investment Mastermind for Q3 of 2022. In these episodes we discuss the markets and then discuss what investments each of us are making in the Financial Markets. As ever we discussed the current markets and how the economy, Inflation and Interest rates are and maybe will, affect them. Topics include; Terminal I...

Charlotte has a stellar track record in Banking having been a Partner at Goldman Sachs and then as a Wealth Manager having won various awards and being Co Founder of Netwealth https://www.netwealth.com This Episode is Jam packed with info. We discuss; Charlottes background and why she co founded Netwealth. Individuals relationships with managing money. Property vs other investment options. Benchma...

Tony Gilbertson has over 30 years experience in the property finance market as well as being a property developer during the difficult time of the great financial crisis. He certainly learnt the hard way what being a Developer is all about and used his experience to ensure that his lending business puts relationships at the core of their business model. It is a fascinating story and one I know you...

I was so fortunate to be joined by Zoopla's Head of Research, Grainne Gilmore to discuss the UK residential market. In this episode we discuss; Grainne's background and how she came to be Head of Research at Zoopla? How does data from the portals typically differ from the likes of Land registry and Office for National Statistics (ONS) data? Benchmarking performance year on year can not give the cl...

Samantha Kempe is a Co Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Immo, Europe’s first technology-led residential real estate platform, designed to create quality portfolios of existing single-family rental (SFR) housing at speed and scale. https://immo.capital After a career in the corporate world of real estate at companies such as Cushman & Wakefield, PWC and Blackstone she met her other co fo...

**This is not Investment Advice** I was joined by Manish Kataria and Adam Lawrence on 21st June 2022 to discuss what is happening in investment markets. Both guests have a wealth of knowledge about the economy, the markets and investment in various financial assets. We decided to have a Quarterly Mastermind where we each pick an investment that is open to most people out there. Whether these are E...

Hannah Marsh is Co Founder of HomeViews  https://www.homeviews.com  the residential review platform that provides trustworthy verified reviews and assists buyers and renters in making decisions on their new home. She is also the Author of the 2022 Build to Rent Report which you can find here https://business.homeviews.com/2022-build-to-rent-report/   In This episode we discuss; Hann...

Paul Bridge is the CEO of Civitas a leading impact investor. Paul is responsible for the Social Housing side of the business and joined Civitas after a distinguished career running some of the top Housing Associations and Registered Providers. Paul was instrumental when Civitas had an IPO of the first social Housing specific REIT on the London Stock Exchange. In this episode we discuss; Paul's bac...

Jon Rose from Suitable life https://suitablelife.co.uk is not your standard IFA. He became one out of necessity and has an incredibly insightful perspective on how individuals should plan their finances around the different stages of their life. This is such a vital episode for everyone to listen to regardless of your business, job or investments. We discuss; Jon's career in Business and prop...

I was joined in this episode by Dion Mellows the Managing Director of SHA Envirnmental   https://shaenvironmental.co.uk Dion is an Energy, sustainability and Carbon consultant for the Built environment who has been awarded by the industry awards for energy for his pursuit of energy performance to make peoples lives better. In this episode we discuss the difference between carbon red...

In this episode I'm joined by investment expert Manish Kataria. If you do not know Manish then it may be worth listening to episode 30 where Manish gave an economic Outlook for Property Prices at the start of the pandemic and his predictions were on the money. Manish joins me again to discuss investment as a whole with some brilliant insights into portfolio construction as well as how you may...

As with the last time I spoke to Kwasi in episode 11 I thoroughly enjoyed this discussion. Kwasi Affum is a VP at Barclays as well as personally investing directly in property. He has a brilliant way of explaining complex subjects and it is just a shame we didn't have 4 hours to talk. In this episode we discuss; Investing for wealth creation vs wealth preservation.  The difference in strategi...

In this episode I spoke with Paul Heming from C-Link https://c-link.com for a discussion on the construction industry. We discuss how Paul founded C- Link, a platform that brings together all of your subcontract procurement into one Web App. Find subcontractors, manage your supply chain, create automated tender documents, compare prices, issue orders. How hard has getting buy in from an industry t...

In this episode Mike explains how he started, scaled and exited businesses before a career in Management Consultancy for Venture Capitalist Funds helped him refine his skillset and go on to co found Crowd Property a specialist development lender that has transacted on over £300 Million of deals to date. We discuss; Mikes background in business. The venture capitalist market. Challenges when scalin...

Sorry it has been so long since my last episode. I wanted to get something out before the end of the year so here is an unedited monologue (sorry) in regards to the residential investment market. Hope you take some good bits of info from it. The podcast is coming back with a bang from January 2022 with episodes every fortnight. Happy Christmas Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

It is businesses like T & B Capital that were the inspiration behind me creating The Rodcast and I have been trying to pin down co founder Ben puddle for some time. I was hugely excited when he said he may have some time once they had confirmed the sale of one of their businesses - Aria Resorts which merged this year for £600 million with Away resorts. Not bad for 4 years work and they look se...

If you have been involved in Development then chances are you have experienced one or more of these issues; Main contractors going bust on a job. Sub contractors not being paid on time. Contractors having cash flow problems. Developer not having evidence of what works sub contractors have been paid for. Lenders not being happy with your choice of contractor due to their balance sheet or credit fil...