Property People
Property People is a media brand featuring conversations with a wide variety of property professionals sharing ideas, experiences, problems, and solutions within the property industry. Are you a property professional with something interesting to share? Or maybe you'd like to sponsor an episode and get your business in front of our audience of property investors & developers?Drop us an email if you'd like to feature on the pod or sponsor an episode!Email: yasmin@propertypeople.co
Episodes
78 episodes
Ep 78 | Building a Lettings Business of 600+ Properties & Becoming a Property Developer | Hamza Anwar
In this episode, Saam chats to Hamza Anwar. Hamza has run a number of successful lettings agencies across the North West of England with a combined portfolio of over 600 managed properties. After a life-changing family event, Ha...
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Ep 77 | Risk vs Reward When Leveraging Finance: What Property Developers Should Know with Piragash Sivanesan
In this episode, Saam speaks to Piragash Sivanesan - Head of Structured Real Estate at Shawbrook Bank.Shawbrook Bank is a UK Challenger Bank. The Structured Real Estate Team look at property development deals over £5m focusing on in...
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Ep 76 | From 0 to £12M of Property in 5 Years: How Kazeem Alli-Balogun (PropertyByKazy) Built His Business
In this episode of Property People, Saam chats to Kazeem Alli-Balogun (aka Kazy).Kazeem is a property investor, owner of PropertyByKazy and the Founder of LOCO management, a project management company specialising in property renovation...
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Ep 75 | What Property Developers Need to Know About Development Finance with Uliana Kuzmis
In this episode of Property People, Saam sits down with Uliana Kuzmis, Deputy Managing Director at Hampshire Trust Bank's Development Finance team.With over 20 years of experience in underwriting, development finance, and credit risk, U...
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Ep 74 | Revolutionising Property Finance, Lending £500m and Building TAB with Duncan Kreeger
In this episode of Property People, Saam chats to Duncan Kreeger - Founder & CEO of TAB, serial property investor and entrepreneur.Duncan started his first company at the age of 17 and has since built and sold a £120m valuation busi...
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Ep 73 | How Marc Turnier Built an Award-Winning Architecture & Property Development Firm
In this episode of Property People, Saam speaks to Marc Turnier - Founder and MD of Arcvelop, a Chartered UK Architect, Winner at the Property Investor Awards 2023, and property development mentor.Marc has worked at some of the UK’s mos...
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Ep 72 | Creating Multiple Income Streams in Property with Jack Jiggens
In this episode, Saam speaks to Jack Jiggens - Property Developer, Social Housing Investor, Land & Acquisitions Director at XP Property, and Co-Founder of XP Surveys.Jack is responsible for finding, structuring and securing de-riske...
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Ep 71 | Mastering Money & Property Investing: Why You Need to Think Differently with Vanish Patel
In this episode, Saam speaks to Vanish Patel - successful property investor and developer, master networker and capital raiser. Vanish Patel started his journey towards financial independence in the early 2000’s, when he quit his day jo...
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Ep 70 | How to Build a Profitable Property Trading Business with Saif Derzi
In this episode, Saam speaks to Saif Derzi - award-winning Property Trader & Investor.Having bought and sold over 200 properties, Saif has demonstrated a great track record in building and scaling a large scale property portfolio su...
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Ep 69 | Raising £14M in Equity and Doing £35M Worth of Property Development with Ben Richards
In this episode, Saam speaks to Ben Richards - multiple award-winning business owner, architect and property developer. Ben is the Owner of AURA Architecture and Interiors, and Co-Founder of XP Property (a property development busi...
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Ep 68 | How PropTech & FinTech are Transforming Property Development with Michael Bristow
In this episode, Saam speaks to Michael Bristow - CEO of CrowdProperty, the UK’s leading specialist property development lending platform.Mike has built an 8-figure personal property portfolio and a portfolio of over 25 PropTech, FinTec...
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Ep 67 | Mastering Construction for Profitable Property Development with Dave Forde
In this episode of Property People, Saam speaks to Dave Forde - Chartered Construction Manager, Property Developer, Construction Consultant.Dave has 42 years experience across all sectors of the Construction and Engineering industries i...
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Ep 66 | Navigating the Planning System & Succeeding in Property Development with Justin Owens
In this episode, Saam chats to Justin Owens, Founder and Managing Partner of Silverleaf Group - a real estate development and investment company focused on delivering aspirational contemporary residential-led developments across the South...
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Ep 65 | Everything You Need to Know About Securing Property Finance with Samantha Gilbank
In this episode of Property People, Saam talks to Samantha (Sammi) Gilbank - Regional Account Manager for Central London at Castle Trust Bank, a challenger bank offering savings, mortgages and retail finance. Sammi started her career as...
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Ep 64 | Profitable Property Development: How Paul Higgs Survived a Recession and Built 7000+ Homes
In this episode, Saam chats to Paul Higgs - Experienced Property Developer, Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor, Expert in Land Planning, and Founder & CEO of Milbank Group.Pauls experience spans 39+ years’ in construction a...
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Ep 63 | Lessons from 40 years & 4000+ Deals with John Howard
In this episode of Property People, Saam talks to John Howard - Serial Property Developer & Investor, Mentor, and Angel Investor on Sky's Property Elevator and Property Graduate.John is one of the UK’s most experienced property cons...
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Ep 62 | How to Get Started in Property and Build a Multi-Million Pound Portfolio with Kam Dovedi
In this episode of Property People, Saam chats to Anoop Kumar Dovedi, also known as Kam Dovedi. Kam has over 29 years of property experience. He is regarded as one of the UK’s most influential and respected property investors and develo...
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Ep 61 | Unlocking Property Finance: What Lender's Look for with Catalyst Finance James Farge
In this episode, Saam speaks to James Farge - Sales Director at Catalyst Property Finance & Managing Director at HIVE & Partners.James is a property and finance sales professional with over 15 years of experience working on glob...
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Ep 60 | Lessons from Two Decades of Property Investing with Hayley Andrews
Hayley Andrews is one of the co-founders of Your Freedom Empire - an accredited, National LIS award-winning property training organisation based in the UK. She's been investing since 2002, adopting many different strategies ranging from BTLs, S...
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Ep 59 | 0 to 250 Properties: Building Wealth through Property Investing with Malkit Purewal
In this episode, Saam speaks to Malkit Purewal - an experienced property investor, developer and Co-Founder of Savoys.Savoys refurbish and manage properties across the UK to provide high-quality homes for professional tenants. They turn...
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Ep 58 | How Proptech and AI are Changing the Property Industry | Charlie Tarr
In this episode, Saam speaks to Charlie Tarr - Property Investor and Founder & CEO of Stacked. Stacked is a property platform providing investors and developers with everything they need to get their projects off the ground - from s...
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Ep 57 | The Secrets of Successful Property Sourcing with Paul Stapleton
In this episode, Saam speaks to Paul Stapleton - Buy-to-Let Investor, Off Market Sales Specialist, Public Speaker, Podcaster and Mentor.Paul is a dynamic professional who's turned a passion for sales training and property into an exhila...
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Ep 56 | Impact Property Investing with Jack Wicks: Social Housing for 1 Million People
In this episode, Saam chats with Jack Wicks - Co-Founder of the Social Housing Group. Social Housing Group are on a mission to house 1,000,000 people in the UK and make a positive impact on the lives of vulnerable people. They do this b...
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Ep 55 | Andrew McDonald | Inside the World of Property Consulting
In this episode, Saam speaks to Andrew McDonald - Experienced Property Consultant, Property Agent, Coach & Mentor.Andrew is the co-founder of TheCredo.Group, who provide complete property services to stakeholders within property mar...
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Ep 54 | Buying Property at Auction: What You Need to Know | Andrew Brown - Strettons
In this episode, Saam speaks to Andrew Brown - Director of Auctions at Strettons.Strettons is a leading multi-disciplinary property consulting firm advising throughout the UK. For over 90 years, the firm has worked with clients to share...
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