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
How to deliver 1,000 homes per day with Alex Notay (repeat)
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It’s hard to make housing developments stack in today’s market.
Build costs are up
Policies are changing
Planning is a dragging.
So I asked Alex Notay -
Chair of the Radix Big Tent Housing Commission and one of the most respected strategic voices in UK housing -
what it really takes to deliver 1,000 homes per day.
She shared the big lessons on the podcast, including:
- Treat housing as national infrastructure - not just a market product.
- Planning + policy + funding must operate as one ecosystem.
- Solve for delivery capability, not just land and capital.
- Communication matters - complexity without clarity kills momentum.
- The biggest risk in the sector? Unintended consequences from siloed decisions.
If you’re trying to develop or retrofit UK housing over the next 2–5 years, this conversation is a powerful scene-setter - first published almost a year ago.
Listen in.
This episode is in association with (and thanks to) Lloyds.
In association with:
https://www.lloydsbank.com/business/industry-expertise/real-estate.html?utm_source=The+Return&utm_medium=podcast+partnership&utm_campaign=sponsored+episode
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandranotayparr/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/