The Return: Property & Investment Podcast

Updated: 22 May 2025 • 182 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 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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Send us a text I spoke to Guy Horne, CEO of HSPG, a real estate company that acquires, manages and develops residential property, in particular Affordable housing. We covered:What are the key differences between affordable, Affordable, social, and supported housing, in words my mum can understand?What are the hottest s

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Send us a text I chatted with Gus Wiseman, Global Head of Investor Relations for the UK Government’s Office for Investment about: 🌍 What international capital thinks about UK housing vs. Europe and the US📈 How UK real estate platforms can position themselves to secure investment from global pension funds📢Why self-de

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