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.
Join 350,000+ listeners learning how to build, fund and deliver more, better UK housing deals.
The Return: Property & Investment Podcast
Martin Wolf CBE - Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
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Martin Wolf CBE is Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times.
Described as “the most important economics commentator in the world.”
I had such fun recording this.
Thank you for sending in your questions.
If you’re a real estate investor, policymaker or fellow economics nerd, this episode is for you.
We covered:
The costs and benefits of land/property taxes.
→ The right thing to do, but destabilising?
How house price increases don't create growth.
→ They transfer wealth from young buyers to older owners.
Cities like London can't be torn down and re-built.
→ Investors must embrace retrofit, urban intensification and greenfield development around stations.
Career advice:
→ “Choose something that stimulates you. If it bores you, you’ll be bad at it.”
Guest website: https://www.ft.com/martin-wolf
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/martinwolf_
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: greenresi.com