PropCast
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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Prime offices will survive an AI apocalypse says Jonathan Bayfield, Aviva Investors
<p>Private markets demand local intelligence, not just scale argues Aviva Investors director Jonathan Bayfield. In this week's podcast, in partnership with Property Week, Jonathan joins Andrew Teacher to discuss how a £50bn private-markets platform uses independent research, operating partners and bottom-up intelligence to allocate capital across living, logistics and offices, and why AI may strengthen the case for the best buildings rather than destroy it.</p>
Disability Urbanism on pioneering accessible design
<p>Amanprit Arnold, founder of Disability Urbanism and DeafCity Hub, joins Andrew Teacher on PropCast to explain why she deliberately avoids the word ‘accessible’, what disabled households’ spending power means for landlords, and why Stratford, South Kensington and Oxford Street are the real tests of London’s inclusive design ambitions.</p>
Abri’s Theo Plowman on what comes after the £39bn affordable housing settlement
<p>A year into his role as Head of Policy and Campaigns at Abri, former British Property Federation residential policy lead Theo Plowman joins Andrew Teacher, to explain why the sector’s hard-won settlement is only the start, and why pension capital, shared ownership reform and a dose of self-confidence will decide what comes next.</p>
PropCast: Abri’s Theo Plowman on what comes after the £39bn affordable housing settlement
<p>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 listed. For context, Grainger, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, owns just over 11,200 rental homes; Abri owns more than five times as many. Even adding Unite Group’s 64,000 student beds to Grainger’s total (and beds...
Making co-living institutional with Bywater and Ackroyd Lowrie
<p>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.</p><p>“Design shouldn’t cost extra,” says Oliver Lowrie, co-founder of Ackroyd Lowrie, the architecture practice behind a growing number of London’s co-living schemes. “Gone are the days when you hired a star architect to produce something that looked amazing but wasn’t buildable. We know what the thing’s going to be built out...
Raoul Malhotra: Building value through operational real estate
<p>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 estate sector.</p>
nHabit’s Steven Charlton on taking on the Rightmove and Zoopla duopoly
<p >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 to type in. “Instead of following the herd to the same old postcodes,” Charlton says, “our aim is to let people search the way they’d plan their perfect holiday with Cha...
nHabit’s Steven Charlton on taking on the Rightmove and Zoopla duopoly
<p>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 narrow interpretation of what search can be – hence why he’s set up nHabit, which reaches the App Store and Google Play in early June. nHabit will let renters describe the life they want in plain language, analyse London across those characteristics and give back neighbourhoods they would never have thought to type in. “Instead of following the herd to the same old postcodes,” Charlton says, “our aim is to let people search the way th...
#245 TR Property’s Marcus Phayre-Mudge on manager-investor alignment and the NAV problem
<p>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 manager of TR Property Investment Trust delivers an unvarnished assessment of governance, manager-investor alignment, communications and the persistent question of scale that continues to challenge the UK market.</p><p>Phayre-Mudge begins by setting out a framework he still uses...
#244 PropCast: Tom Sleigh - the City of London's planning optimist
<p>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.</p><p>The City has undergone a revival in recent years, driven largely by the macro and micro trends since the end of COVID. As Chair of the Planning and Transport Committee, Sleigh acknowledges he has got a lot of plates spinning to keep things running smoothly...
