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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
What I’ve Been Secretly Building For the Last 12 Months
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There are currently 728,000 people working across real estate in the UK.
And yet, just 2% of real estate funds are managed by women.
This, despite the fact that most firms are actively trying.
And, the data shows that diverse leadership creates better commercial outcomes.
So why the gap?
I’ve spent the past year having quiet, off the record conversations with women throughout the industry, and I kept hearing the same 3 things:
Lack of role models - you can’t be what you can’t see, so imbalance creates more imbalance
Isolation - when you’re the only woman in your firm and you feel disconnected, you feel less good and frankly, in a people business, you will be way less effective
Unique challenges that it’s possible to overcome with the right support/training - from balance and boundaries to redesigning your career in a slow market - women in this sector need specific advice
The thing that broke my heart about these conversations was the fact that so many of these highly talented, high achieving women were looking at their escape plans from an industry that really needs them.
So we decided to run an experiment.
We wondered if we could bring a small group of these women together and get them to define the specific problems and frustrations they were facing…
Maybe, together, we could solve them.
And thus, Lead As You Are, a leadership programme created by and for women at Director level in real estate investment, was born.
After 12 months, the first cohort has now wrapped, featuring women from firms including Legal & General, Patron Capital, Tristan Capital Partners and Pinnacle Investments.
The response told us this needed to go further. We were massively oversubscribed for the second and third cohorts. And lots of people expressed interest who aren’t in London.
So we decided to launch a Lead As You Are podcast series - conversations with the members, helpers, and incredible guest speakers - like Dame Allison Nimmo and Jenny Buck.
In the first (mini) episode of the series, we dig into three things that stuck with us from the first cohort and where we’re going from here.
Tag anyone who might enjoy this, or who should be involved with the programme.
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
LAYA LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lead-as-you-are/