The Return: Property & Investment Podcast
The Return is a podcast for property investors and developers who want to get UK housing deals done, even in a tough market.
Getting homes built is harder than ever. Planning delays, rising construction costs, funding gaps and shifting market conditions stop most projects before they start.
Learn from investors, developers and policymakers discussing what's happening in the UK housing market right now and how to learn from their experience.
Each episode features a real life case study or topic including: planning reform, policy shifts, funding conditions, deal viability, sales, delivery challenges and measuring impact.
Hosted by Anna Clare Harper, Director at Pinnacle Investments and author of three best-selling books on residential investing. Her mission is to help mobilise capital to drive the delivery of 10,000 more, better homes by 2030.
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The Return: Property & Investment Podcast
David Smith, Sunday Times: Fixing Housing Unfairness
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David Smith, Economics Editor at the Sunday Times, Award-winning journalist and Author with Anna Clare Harper.
In Anna’s words:
The housing crisis isn’t just about supply.
It’s about who owns what – and who pays for it.
In this episode, I spoke to David Smith, Economics Editor of the Sunday Times since 1989 – and a role model who first got me (and many others) interested in economics as a teenager.
We covered:
- Why 68% of property wealth is held by over-55s
→ creating intergenerational unfairness and a sticky housing market
- What a reformed property tax system could look like
→ and why politicians are too scared to go there
- Why the loss of Buy-to-Let as a ‘starter business’ model is especially bad for women
→ and how we can boost financial confidence and investment by closing the gender gap
Guest website: https://economicsuk.com/
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-smith-71730325/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/