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Hosted by Anna Clare Harper · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 152 episodes
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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 de
Anna Clare Harper hosts The Return: Property & Investment Podcast, a business show with 152 episodes published.
Send us a Text £39 billion is going into UK affordable housing. Sounds like a lot. But in practice, the estimated need is 145,000 affordable homes per year. This programme could deliver 30,000. That gap is the opportunit
Send us a Text The share price of the biggest student accommodation provider fell 43% in 12 months - suggesting that confidence in the sector is starting to crack. But in the same period, £4.3 billion was invested into U
Send us a Text Build-to-Rent was meant to fix Britain’s housing crisis. Then everything changed: Interest rates rose. Build costs jumped. New regulations hit. And suddenly, the pipeline slowed. That’s when Single-Family
Send us a Text The Return - Format Update A quick note from Anna on what is changing and why. After putting a question out to listeners on LinkedIn, a few clear themes came back - so we’re making changes. From next month
Send us a Text Most property developments run late, over budget, or both. Not because developers are lazy. Because they’re running projects without systems. Anjuim Moied approached development differently. Before propert
Send us a Text If you're a developer trying to get homes built right now, you're stuck between two impossible choices: Pay what the landowner needs and lose money on the build. Or offer what the numbers say you can affor
Send us a Text I just interviewed a Former Housing Minister And he didn’t hold back. UK housing policy generates headlines daily. For serious UK housing investors and developers, the challenge isn’t keeping up with annou
Send us a Text I had to be on my best behaviour for this - interviewing my boss. Andy Hulme is CEO of The Hyde Group One of the largest UK Housing Associations With 125,000 homes (Also my employer) He’s also a former Gro
Send us a Text Even if the land was free, many property deals don’t stack. Zombie pricing. Rising costs. More regulations. I asked Nicola Haigh, Head of Real Estate & Housing, Lloyds. Who’s served 10,000+ real estate bor
Send us a Text Solving the housing crisis isn’t just about building more. It’s about the right homes, in the right places, for the people who need them most. The sharpest edge of that challenge? Supported housing - for p
Send us a Text I loved recording a no-fluff episode of The Return With Richard Donnell at Zoopla (Source of the best insights in the industry.) The headline? → Stop investing like it’s 2021. → Start investing like it’s 2
Send us a Text 99% of real estate investors say the model tells the truth. But in practice, the data is messy. And the herd is loud. 3 weeks ago, I got to interview a real estate finance hero of mine: Colin Lizieri - Pro
Send us a Text Most housing schemes don’t stack in this market. Those that do get three things right. On the latest episode of The Return, Andy Garnett (CEO, Breck Homes) and Dale Parkinson (Lloyds Bank) shared what they
Send us a Text 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 o
Send us a Text People say the housing market is broken. Homes England aims to fix it. It touches 1 in 4 new homes. I spoke to ex-CEO Peter Denton CBE. About how developers and housing providers Use Homes England support
Send us a Text It's hard to scale in real estate Without a big budget, expensive team or endless meetings. I asked Kelly Bream A multi-time founder and ex-COO, Bidwells How she has grown multiple real estate businesses f
Send us a Text Anna Clare Harper is joined by Hayley Rees, Managing Director at £50bn+ Pension Insurance Corporation. In Anna’s words: There’s lots of advice for private investors. Almost nothing on how big institutions
Send us a Text Richard Donnell, Executive Director at Zoopla joined Anna Clare Harper to share what the latest rental market data means for investors, and how to underwrite real estate deals with the right rent growth as
Send us a Text Riccardo Ianucci-Dawson, CEO of £50m Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Alto Software Group, joined Anna Clare Harper for this episode. It’s hard to get real estate deals done in 2025. With caution, fall-throu
Send us a Text 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 que
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The Return: Property & Investment Podcast is hosted by Anna Clare Harper. The show is categorised under business (investing) and has published 152 episodes.
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