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PropCast is a property podcast produced by Lauder Teacher. PropCast covers issues across the whole of the real estate market; from finance and funding through to development and construction.

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PropCast: Abri’s Theo Plowman on what comes after the £39bn affordable housing settlement

Abri may be one of the UK’s most significant large-scale housing organisations you have never heard of. It owns and manages almost 60,000 homes, stretching from Somerset and Bristol through a Hampshire heartland to Bracknell, Berkshire and, through Octavia, west London. As Andrew Teacher observes on this week’s PropCast, that scale would make it comparable in size with a FTSE 100 company, were it…

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Making co-living institutional with Bywater and Ackroyd Lowrie

In the latest episode of PropCast, Chris Riley of Bywater Group and Oliver Lowrie of Ackroyd Lowrie discuss what it takes to design, fund and deliver co-living at scale, why timber construction halves upfront carbon, and what the sector’s rapid growth means for institutional capital. “Design shouldn’t cost extra,” says Oliver Lowrie, co-founder of Ackroyd Lowrie, the architecture practice behind a…

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Raoul Malhotra: Building value through operational real estate

In this week's PropCast episode, Andrew Teacher, co-founder of Lauder Teacher, speaks with Raoul Malhotra, founder and CEO of Orka Investments, about building a £700 million real estate manager in just a few years. From partnering with global institutional investors to navigating volatile markets, the discussion explores why operational expertise has become a defining advantage in today's real…

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nHabit’s Steven Charlton on taking on the Rightmove and Zoopla duopoly

For two decades, finding somewhere to rent in Britain has meant typing a postcode into Rightmove or Zoopla and scrolling. Steven Charlton thinks that is a thin idea of search, and he has built a platform to prove it. nHabit, which reaches the App Store and Google Play in mid-June, lets renters describe the life they want in plain language and hands back neighbourhoods they would never have thought…

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#245 TR Property’s Marcus Phayre-Mudge on manager-investor alignment and the NAV problem

Three decades on from joining a graduate scheme during one of the deepest property recessions in living memory, Marcus Phayre-Mudge, fund manager and partner at Thames River Capital, has watched the listed real estate sector cycle through booms, busts, structural change and a creeping crisis of confidence between boards and shareholders. Speaking to Propcast host Andrew Teacher, the long-serving…

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#244 PropCast: Tom Sleigh - the City of London's planning optimist

Tom Sleigh, Chairman of the Planning and Transportation Committee for the City of London Corporation, is the youngest planning chair the City has ever had, and potentially the country. Working in one of the most important square miles to the UK economy, infrastructure must be at the heart of all decisions made. The City has undergone a revival in recent years, driven largely by the macro and micro…

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#243 Propcast: Homes England on the future of housebuilding

From banking to building, this week on PropCast we are joined by Homes England’s Innovation Lead Ed Jezeph. With an insight into Homes England’s new bank, modern construction methods what positives there are for the future of housebuilding in England. Ed starts by saying how excited he is for Homes England to be launching a bank, noting how it is a natural progression for them as an organisation.…

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#242 Grainger's Michael Keaveney on Build-to-Rent and a radical fix for social housing

Michael Keaveney, Director of Land, Development and Acquisition at Grainger PLC, has spent nearly eight years helping to reshape the country's largest listed landlord into a focused, operationally driven Build-to-Rent specialist. In a wide-ranging conversation for Propcast, he covers the logic behind Grainger's in-house model, the progress of its joint venture with Transport for London and a…

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#241 Coastal regen could solve Britain’s New Towns challenge

Across England’s south coast, a quiet experiment in coastal regeneration is under way. Partnering with local authorities across Torbay, Weymouth and Dover, a JV between Milligan and Willmott Dixon is proving how some of the country’s forgotten towns can be revitalised for new generations. Milligan’s Stuart Harris and Willmott Dixon’s David Atkinson speak to Andrew Teacher alongside David Carter…

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#240 Inside SQUARE, Europe’s anti-MIPIM escape in Ibiza

In this week’s episode of PropCast, José María Pons, joins Andrew Teacher, co-founder at Lauder Teacher, the global strategic communications agency, to discuss the founding of SQUARE – a discrete Ibiza-based event for a select number of industry leaders in Ibiza.

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