The Return: Property & Investment Podcast

Updated: 19 Jun 2025 • 184 episodes
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Stay ahead of residential market trends with award-winning insights from industry leaders. --> Join 350k who’ve downloaded so far.  --> Top property podcasts on FeedSpot. Featuring expert guests like:  - Helen Gordon, CEO of Grainger PLC (the UK’s largest listed residential landlord)  - Aubrey Adams OBE, FTSE 250 and leading Housing Association Chair, and former CEO of Savills  - Liz Peace CBE, former CEO of the British Property Federation Plus leaders from Aviva Investors, Legal & General, JLL, Zoopla, British Land, University of Cambridge, Octopus Energy, and many more. Hosted by Anna Clare Harper, CEO of GreenResi.com and 3x bestselling property author. "The best property podcast out there - ★★★★★" – Oliver "Great… I can’t stop listening - ★★★★★" – Nicola "Compelling, insightful and easy to listen to - ★★★★★" – Ben

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Send us a text Monica O’Neill has grown two multi-billion dollar real estate platforms and helped shape the US affordable housing system (via Low-Income Housing Tax Credit). Now she’s doubling down on UK residential, especially affordable and supported housing. In this episode, we discuss: -       Why 2025 is a ‘vintag

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Send us a text The housing resource I wish I’d known sooner. A brilliant, hand-selected library of housing insights. Written by people who’ve been in the weeds. So you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. → Work smart, not hard. This week on The Return, I spoke to Richard Hyde, founder of Thinkhouse A library of 1,000+ re

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Send us a text In this episode, the podcasting roles were reversed. I was lucky to be invited on The Career Equation, hosted by Erica Sosna - career coach and Good Housekeeping’s in-house career expert.  The format is that each guest brings a career challenge they are facing and Erica helps them through it using her me

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Send us a text ‘AI will replace us.’ No. AI will scale us. AI will free us. AI will sharpen us. To become a high-performing, high-growth real estate business, you embrace it all. → Automate what slows you down - like messy bank reconciliations  → Focus your team on value-add work - like relationship-building.  → Use ro

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Send us a text What people think you should do: Take a huge mortgage.Own a home ASAP.Consider your home to be your main ‘investment’.Spend the bulk of your money on your home. Or, you could:Enjoy living in a much nicer place than you could afford to buy.Waste less time on property maintenance.Enjoy the flexibility, and

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Send us a text I spoke with Aubrey Adams OBE, Chair of Tritax Big Box REIT (FTSE 250), Former Chair of L&Q (105,000 homes) and Former CEO of Savills about building trust and how housing gets funded. We covered: → How to fund and scale Housing Associations  (Including cash flow, bonds, grant etc) → How real estate Board

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