For millennia, across cultures and continents, we have looked to the stars to navigate when we are lost. In this era of transformation, in which everything is in flux, we are locked onto old stars that are pulling us in a perilous direction. We need to discover new possibilities, and reset our course. New Constellations exists to help people imagine and create better, more beautiful futures; futures in which humanity and the planet flourish together. We invite you to meet and journey with so ...
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An exploration into real estate businesses and asset backed investments. Rod talks to property developers, investors, business owners and professionals about the nitty gritty details involved in making their businesses move in the right direction. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A podcast for women (and even men) with an honest voice about the realities of living without children. It is my mission to provide a platform for this global group, to create a supportive environment & community for the Childless and Childfree to share our stories and experiences.(un)Ripe is a vibrant, supportive community hosted by me, Jo Vraca. Each fortnight, I speak with women and men, counsellors, spinsters, hypnotherapists, journalists, authors, women who are in the middle of grief, o ...
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Pieter Zitman has spent 37 years in the construction industry with the last 2 decades focusing on Affordable Housing. His developments have achieved 4 RIBA awards, 5 Evening Standard awards, The RICS award and The Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust Award. So when he suggested we discuss some of the ways that more housing can be built I jumped at the …
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In this episode I was joined by Toby Wilde the Founder of Oparo www.oparo.co.uk to discuss what has become the "Wild West" industry of Supported Living. We discuss; Toby's background in property development and lettings and his motivation to be in the supported living sector. What the definition of Supported housing. Challenges of running an invest…
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James Pick founder of Konnexsion www.konnexsion.com joined me for this episode to discuss how AI is being used in Property Management. We talk about communication and how important it is in property management. Different ways to communicate and to whom eg voice, SMS, Whatsapp, email etc. Audit trails Record keeping Getting all stakeholders communic…
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Offices, Hotels, Residential & Data Centre Investments - Michael Kovacs
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Before we get started, I’m delighted to say our next Property Business Workshop on 4th July only has 10 tickets left. This time Adam Lawrence and I will be taking on: The fundamentals of property investment. Risk mitigation and control. Relevant investment metrics. Differing secured debt arrangements and loan structures – and – Scaling your propert…
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If you are interested in Supported living, Impact Investment, Private Equity, Operational Efficiencies, EBITDA, ESG, Housing Crisis then you are in for a treat. I was joined by Honor Barratt the Managing Director of Birchgrove, https://www.birchgrove.life/ a Senior Assisted Living operator that is funded by Impact Fund, Bridges https://www.bridgesf…
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Commercial Property Investment - Jo Seth Smith
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Jo Seth-Smith is the Investment Manager at Olim Property https://www.olimproperty.co.uk/index.html an FCA regulated property investment manager of UK commercial property portfolios, whose Funds Under Management total is approximately £1 billion with individual discretionary mandates for pension funds, investment trusts and Oxford colleges. Jo has a…
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Our Quarterly Investment Mastermind with Manish Kataria and Adam Lawrence kicked off with a brief discussion on the performance of some of our previous investment picks and the current investment environment. We then got onto our picks for this quarter. If you haven't listened to one of these mastermind episodes before the premise is we each pick a…
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When Business Goes Wrong - Richard Nicholls
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In this episode I am joined by Richard Nicholls who has a fantastic knowledge and track record in the sales market of HMO properties. We also discuss the HMO market and what HMO owners can do to maximise sale values. Selling portfolio's and large HMO to funds and what they may be looking for. However in this episode we discuss another property rela…
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In this episode I am joined by Planning Consultant Lorenzo Pandolfi from https://logic-planning.com/ to talk about the current state of the UK's Planning System. We discuss; His career and how an Italian town planner came to be in London. How Morale, Money and perspective are causing issues in the planning system. What is causing the issues with st…
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In the last 5 years we have had Covid, Trussonomics, Market volatility, been paid to stay home, inflation and the fastest increases in mortgage rates for 100 years. So it was an absolute pleasure to have the first ever Rodcast guest back on the show to celebrate our 100th episode and hear how his fantastic property business has navigated the diffic…
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In January 2024 we embarked on a remarkable journey with a group of young people from all countries of the UK and many different backgrounds; a voyage of discovery into a future imagined by and for young people and future generations. Together with leaders from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and as part of Kinship Discovery, we explored the challenges faci…
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I was delighted to welcome back Paul Higgs to the Rodcast. Paul was last on the Rodcast in 2020 on episode 15. If you have not listened to it please give it some of your time as it discusses Paul's amazing career from being Head of Land at Barratt Homes (The UK's biggest House builder) to his own business. https://shows.acast.com/rodcast/episodes/p…
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Richard Berridge CEO of the UK Single-Family Association SFA https://uksfa.org/ has over 40 years experience in UK Residential Real Estate. We had a brilliant conversation centred on Richards passion for rental Houses We discussed; Richards Career and how he came to be CEO of UKSFA The history of Build to Rent (BTR) in the UK. The current make up o…
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Adam Lawrence joins me in this episode to discuss Joint Ventures and the mistakes people make as well as due diligence and some info on M&A in SME property businesses. We will go into much more detail at our live workshop in London on 24th April. More info here https://bit.ly/propertybusinessworkshop2 Points we cover in this episode are; Joint Vent…
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Joined again by Adam Lawrence and Manish Kataria we each pick a specific investment that anyone can do in their ISA or pension and explain the reasoning behind it. As well as our picks, we discuss; Pound cost averaging, changing a portfolio for retirement Bias to home nations How value vs growth has performed Nominal vs real numbers. How long do yo…
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In September 2023, a small group of transformational leaders from across the world gathered deep in the Somerset countryside to go on a journey together. They came together in recognition that these times demand new kinds of leadership; that we must dream big, dig deep and act bravely. Through their journey, the group opened up to new and radically…
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Jess Steele OBE is a community entrepreneur and bold innovator who has spent over thirty years working with communities, creatives, governments, funders, corporates and academics to transform neighbourhoods. Here she introduces us to the wonderful people, places and history of Hastings Commons, a community-led regeneration programme she spearheaded…
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How Banks Price Mortgages - Daryl Norkett
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I spoke with Daryl Norkett the Head of Real Estate Proposition at Shawbrook Bank, one of the biggest Buy to Let and property investment lenders to discuss how mortgages work from the banks point of view. You can also watch this episode on our youtube channel https://youtube.com/@rodcastITP?si=MbqPWAGHJEmlvcfZ please don't forget to subscribe and hi…
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Li An Phoa and Maarten van der Schaaf: Drinkable Rivers
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Li An Phoa and Maarten van der Schaaf are behind Drinkable Rivers – a movement bringing people together around a vision of a world in which we can drink from all our rivers; a sign of whole ecosystem balance. Follow them in this encounter as they walk the Thames engaging with local people, school children, farmers, fishermen, politicians, pilgrims …
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Scarlett Somerville: experience the world under your own steam
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Scarlett Somerville is an artist and activist currently studying for her A-levels. Deeply connected to her landscape and enchanted by nature, here Scarlett shares her vision for a simpler future as well as her perspective as a teenager profoundly troubled by a world that seems to be getting exponentially worse, yet not entirely sure her generation …
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The question of how to define and how to identify ‘glimmers’ of the future has been an important part of our journeys and wider research at New Constellations. Gemma has been collaborating with Graham Leicester and Cassie Robinson on a collective enquiry around how to identify examples of the flourishing futures we hope to help reach towards. Made …
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Across four summer days in July 2023, 17 people from all walks of life in York came together to explore the future of the city that they call home. This audio piece tells the story of the journey they went on to discover and create more beautiful futures in York. Made by Jo Barratt with Gemma Mortensen, Iris Andrews, Lily Piachaud, Yasmin El Dabi a…
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Autumn Budget News for Property Investors
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In this episode I run through the points of the Autumn Budget that are relevant to the Property Industry including parts that were not in Jeremy Hunts speech. Largest ever increases to minimum wage. LHA increased to 30th percentile of local rents. Freeze on how Business rates are calculated and the discount in leisure, retail and hospitality is ext…
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Ian Goldin is an academic, economist, author and optimist. Born in South Africa, he was involved in the anti-apartheid struggle and returned from exile to work as Nelson Mandela’s economic advisor. He was later Vice President of the World Bank, founding director of the Oxford Martin School and now works as Professor of Globalization and Development…
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Lucy Neal is an artist, theatre maker, writer, celebrant and community activist. Steadfastly involved in the grassroots Transition movement in her beloved Tooting since 2008, in this encounter Lucy invites you to join her as she bikes through her community and marches through the streets of central London, exploring what it means to hold the grief,…
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Property News Update - Simon Das 17/11/23
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I was joined by Simon Das from the award winning Mortgage brokers 978 Finance to discuss the latest Property News. Simon gives us a great update on; The Buy to Let mortgage market. Commercial mortgages and where prices are at now. Development and Bridging loan market. We also discuss; The latest inflation figures and what that means. The 7th Housin…
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I am joined in this episode by Ian Humphreys the CEO of Brickflow. Ian explains why he, along with industry experts such as Knight Frank and PWC, came up with a white paper (https://brickflow.com/solving-the-uk-housing-shortage) to present the government with. He talks about what has led to the UK having a deficit of over 4.75 million Homes and pos…
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In this episode I give a run down of the latest Property News. I go into details of the Kings speech briefing notes on the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Bill and what each point means for property investors. Also the points raised from the Renters Reform Bill that were written about including how the government expect to carry these out and what they…
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I am joined again by Manish Kataria and Adam Lawrence to do our quarterly Investment Mastermind. These episodes are a bit of fun where we each pick one investment such as an ETF, Stock, Bond or REIT and explain our reasoning. Pretty much all of our picks can be invested in via an ISA or Pension wrapper but these episode are NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. W…
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Scrapping of EPC targets - Anna Clare Harper
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I am joined in this episode by Anna Clare Harper. Anna's career has focused on strategic residential investments throughout regulatory and market changes which made me very eager to speak to her about the Governments recent scrapping of EPC targets and what that means for property investors. We discuss; How EPC targets align with the two main Polic…
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Building a short term rental portfolio of 6000 units accross 7 countries in a short space of time is an incredible achievement! And this is one of the incredible feats my guest on the latest rodcast episode being released tomorrow has done. Alexander Limpert Co founder and CEO of GuestReady tells us about; How he identified the short term rental in…
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Saving Costs with Structural Design - James Nevin
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In this episode I am joined by James Nevin the CEO of Blue engineering https://blueengineering.co.uk/ and Re Structured https://re-structured.com/ to discuss the importance of structural design on projects. We discuss; James' background. The concept behind Re structured. Traps that SME developers get caught in when choosing a structural engineer. W…
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Manish Kataria and Adam Lawrence join me once again to discuss our latest quarterly investment picks. If this is your first time listening to the Quarterly Investment Mastermind we each pick a stock, Bond, ETF or any other investment asset class and explain our reasoning and then open it up for comments to the others. In this episode we discuss wha…
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Property News Update - Inflation & Interest Rates with Adam Lawrence 26/06/23
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In this episode Adam and I discuss; The latest Inflation Print. The Bank of Englands Response. What are the tools that the Bank of England has at its disposal to reduce Inflation. Demand vs Supply Inflation Issues. What this means for Property Investors. Some traps that Property Investors should be concerned about. And much more If you are interest…
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Coping With Challenging Times in Business - Matt Haycox
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I was fortunate to get to speak with Matt Haycox who has a fascinating story of building an empire only to lose it all and having to start over. In the episode we discuss; How he got into business. What motivated him. Some of the businesses he built. His Ventures into the leisure industry. His Debt fuelled expansion. The fallout from Bankruptcy. Ho…
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Property News Update with Tony Houlihan 19/05/23
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Myself and Tony Houlihan delve into the detail behind the latest property news headlines to make sense of the stories. In this episode we discuss details on ; The Renters Reform Bill Purple Bricks bought out for £1. 100% Mortgages are back. £250 million Investment into Stockport City Centre. If you are interested in attending this years Property Bu…
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Property Cash Buying Company - Jason Harris-Cohen
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I spoke to Jason Harris-Cohen to understand what's involved in scaling a Property Cash Buying Business. It really was a fascinating discussion hearing about Jason's career and how he started and scaled Open Property Group https://www.openpropertygroup.com/ Jason clearly understands every aspect of his industry and how to optimise his business. We d…
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I was joined by David Sandeman who really does know it all when it comes to property auctions in the UK. He tells us; The background to setting up his business 33 years ago Essential Information Group which is a comprehensive data and reporting system for UK property auctions. It has data on over 800,000 auction lots with 35,000 added each year. Wh…
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Property News Update with Raj Sharma 19/04/23
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Raj Sharma joins me on this episode to discuss the latest Property News. In the episode we discuss; The latest news on Holiday Lets and will they have their own planning use class. Is Commercial Real Estate the most at risk sector with fall out from the Banking Crisis in the USA. The latest stats on MEES and energy performance of Commercial Real Es…
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Satish Kumar: nature is my teacher, nature is my love
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Peace-pilgrim and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years as an activist, author, editor and speaker, seeking to inform and inspire a just future for all. In this encounter he reflects on how his spiritual relationship with nature can teach us to be compassionate, how to be kind, how to be generous, how to be no…
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Shevaun Haviland: the power of the collective
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Shevaun Haviland is the Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, responsible for representing British business in front of government, and around the world. An optimist who believes in vision and the power of positive thinking, Shevaun shares her passion for business as a force for good, her fundamental belief in community, and her dre…
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Kersten has worked in local government for over 30 years, most recently as Chief Executive of Bradford Council and previously in the same role for the City of York. She has worked across the voluntary and community sector, education and central government. As she approaches retirement from her current role, Kersten talks to us about her transformat…
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*THIS IS NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE* I am joined once again by Adam Lawrence and Manish Kataria to give a a thorough breakdown of the investment landscape and pick our investments for this quarter. Each quarter we each pick a retail investment such as a stock, ETF, Bond or anything else that is fairly easy for most people to buy as well as being hands o…
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Property News Update with Adam Lawrence 23/03/2023
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Adam Lawrence and Myself unpick the News Stories from the last 2 weeks to understand what they mean for Property Investors. We discuss; Rent Controls, Landlord Taxes & Legislation - Looking specifically at the latest comments from Michael Gove on Rent controls and Landlord Taxes. What the Budget Meant for Property - There was not a huge amount of P…
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Operating a 300 unit Residential Portfolio - Ross McColl
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This is another cracker of an episode which is jam packed with phenomenal advice for anyone with a residential portfolio. I am Joined by Ross McColl who, with his brother owns and operates a high yielding portfolio of approximately 300 residential units in the South East. We discuss; How Ross left school at 16 with no qualifications then going back…
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Property News Update with Alicia Barlow 06/03/23
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This is the first of our series on Property News Updates which we will be bringing you every fortnight. In this episode I am joined by Alicia Barlow who helps me to digest the big property news stories as well as deliver our opinions on them. We discuss; The most expensive residential property in Britain that has gone on the market for offers in ex…
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In this episode we are joined by James Hadley from www.propertyfrompensions.co.uk James has a depth of knowledge on all things to do with property and pensions. If you think this is another sales pitch from a product seller about SSAS pensions then think again. James discusses the biggest mistakes he sees when people want to set up SSAS pensions. J…
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Q4 Investment Mastermind- recorded 04/01/23
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In the 4th episode of our series on investment picks we look over the investment environment as well as looking at how previous picks have performed so far. We then go on to discuss our investment picks for the last quarter of 2022 which include; High Yield Emerging Markets Bond ETF Gold and REITs If you enjoy the show please do not forget to leave…
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Gemma, Winter Solstice 2022: solace and encouragement
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Gemma marks the winter solstice, and the tilt from darkness towards light, tucked up at home after a dawn foray into the Dartmoor squall. Reflecting on the year passing out and the one to come, she finds solace and encouragement in Six Ethical Maxims for a Marginally Livable Planet – the work of David Schenck and Larry R Churchill – one of the many…
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Bold Dreams: a journey for courageous leaders
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‘Bold Dreams: A journey for courageous leaders’ brought together 17 people from all four countries of the UK, all innovating in service of people and communities. Spanning different generations, public and private sectors and many walks of life, the group explored their visions for flourishing futures and the transformation they want to contribute …
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