Housing & Build to Rent Conference; Sponsored by Howard Kennedy

Lloyds Banking Group – Andy Mason, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Housing

Lloyds’ banking group is one of the largest mortgage lenders in the UK and is set to become the  biggest landlords by 2030 – supporting the recovery of the UK housing market. Recently providing £16 billion to first time buyers in 2021, aiming to deliver £10 billion in green mortgage lending by 2024, £3.4 billion in social housing funding and 2.4 billion in ESG- related improvements in social housing.  Recently announcing a JV with Kier worth £80 million with targets to build 2000 home across England by 2027. Andrew will be joining us to discuss major development, drive retrofit, challenges of NetZero, lending changes and strategies, consumer affordability and the demand for shared ownership.

The Church of England – Rt Revd Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Chelmsford & Bishop for Housing

Guli Francis-Dehqani has been appointed as the first Bishop for Housing alongside her role as the Bishop of Chelmsford and will sit in the House of Lords. Her role will involve implementing the findings of the Church’s Commission on Housing, Church and Community, which is likely to include how the church can help tackle housing inequality and increase the amount of social housing across the UK.

The Church of England is one of the UK’s largest landowners, possessing over 200,000 acres and has reported that 28,500 affordable homes could be constructed there. The Bishop will discuss the contribution the Church is hoping to make towards hosing development, as well as how she is hoping to work with leadership from across the industry.

Legal & General – David Reid, Managing Director, Suburban Build to Rent

Legal & General Capital recently launched a Suburban Build to Rent business, which will develop large scale ‘single family’ rental communities in suburban locations across the UK. The new housing arm will undertake a direct delivery programme to bring forward 1,000 homes each year by 2024. Legal & General’s SBTR schemes will be community focused and service-led, offering resident’s choice, security of tenure and flexibility, a level of offering widely unavailable in the wider residential market.

Castles and Coasts Housing – Jo Gooding, Development Manager (Delivery)

As expert rural registered providers, Castle and Coasts are embarking on their biggest development programme with the aim to deliver 600 new homes in the coming couple of years focused particularly in Cumbria and the North East. Jo will go into detail about their delivery model, how they’re levelling up development ambition within the organisation and what the next phase of projects will look like.

Serenity Parks – Rodger Till, Land Director

Serenity Parks are a developer and operator of retirement living communities, specialising in park home living. They are developing factory-built homes across the UK and place an emphasis on community creation as part of their schemes. Rodger will discuss their plans to expand and why park living has an important part to play in the UK’s housing market going forward.

Nationwide – Katherine Quigley, Social Investment Manager

Nationwide have recently created their first not for profit housing development at Oakfield in Swindon – an innovative project that heavily involved the local community in order to deliver high quality, sustainable homes that properly provide for the needs of residents and enhance the area they are located in. Nationwide are aiming to be an exemplar of future housing development and are keen to share their experience as a non-traditional housebuilder moving into the sector. They feel there is significant scope for other companies to follow their example and get involved in the housing sector, especially considering the major changes in property use we have seen over the last year. They will discuss their project, future plans and how their model can be replicated across the UK.

Placefirst – Max King, Director of Projects

With a rapidly growing number of UK wide developments in the pipeline, Placefirst are growing their property portfolio in a major way in 2021. Whether it being a main development partner in the £1bn Bolton masterplan or their £65m Wolverampton city centre housing scheme, Max will detail all of their ambitions as part of the event.

Modomo – Lorna Walker, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Lorna Walker is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of ESG at Modomo, the housing pioneer transforming underused land into beautiful, buzzing places to live. She previously spent 12 years at CBRE, playing a key role in high-profile commercial transactions in the UK and Europe. Her strong property background is backed up with a passion for social justice, diversity and sustainability. Lorna is a trustee of the UK Green Building Council, and founded Peer 20 to inspire and support millennial professionals. When she’s not tackling the housing crisis, she’s taking part in triathlons, climbing mountains, and wild swimming.

Vonder – Tomer Bercoviz, Chief Executive

Vonder is a leading global co-living and lifestyle brand, offering beautifully designed living spaces to emphasise experiences within a vibrant community. They are rapidly growing with over 30 locations spread across London, Berlin, Dublin and Warsaw, with several other locations and cities and locations in the pipeline. Vonder currently operates several hundred co-living apartments in London, spread over 9 facilities. They recently announced the UK’s biggest Co-Living scheme to date, Vonder Wembley, which will comprise 313 apartments when complete.

Packaged Living – Sophie Gunn, Development Manager

It’s an exciting time for the team at Packaged Living with approval granted for their 350-apartment scheme in central Manchester and are also bringing forward similar sized projects in Cardiff and the South East. Sophie joins us to talk about their business’ growth and future pipeline while also detailing their new approach to residential development.

Prosperity Capital – Ed Fowkes, Chief Operating Officer

With over fifteen years’ experience in branding and interiors, Ed has a passion for design that he brings to his work as development director at Prosperity Capital. Being a property investor and landlord, and having also owned a successful construction firm, Ed has a full understanding of the development process. With a £500m development portfolio, including in the Build to Rent sector, Prosperity Capital create institutional-grade assets with a focus on supporting communities, local businesses, and the built environment. Ed will set out their vision for the BtR sector, for 2021 and beyond.

HUB – Victoria Manston, Development Manager

HUB is an award-winning residential developer that offers better living, good design and real communities. Currently constructing 245 BtR homes at Abbey Place Road, London and The Landing projects which includes 429 rental homes. Victoria – Managing Director will be joining us on the session to discuss the rise of BtR and future developments.

Milligan – James Lidgate, Head of Residential

Milligan are best known as a retail and mixed use developer and manager, who have been responsible for over 3m sq ft of retail assets. Last year they appointed James Lidgate as their first Head of Residential, as they seek to incorporate significant levels of housing into their mixed-use projects. James will discuss how their new strategy will provide much needed rental housing, deliver compelling placemaking and community creation and help revitalise our failing high streets and shopping centres.

Howard Kennedy – Kate Woodgate, Partner and Head of Residential Development

Kate Woodgate is a real estate development expert who advises on substantial and complex development transactions. Kate heads up the Residential Development team at Howard Kennedy and is the co-lead of the Private Rented Sector core team. She has worked with many large developers and investors on PRS related transactions. Kate deals with site acquisitions/assembly, forward funding arrangements, forward sale agreements, overages, options, sub-sales, as well as, proposing structures for clients. Kate works with the other members of the PRS team on cross-practice work including financing, planning, construction, management of assets and corporate wrappers.

Vonder – Tal Golan, Head of Marketing

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Acres Architects – Edward Acres, Founder & Managing Director

From a desire to learn what the academic world could not teach, Edward started offering his Architectural design services to family and friends on a multitude of private residential projects whilst completing his Architectural Education. With the intention to learning the ‘Business of Architecture’ and providing high quality design expertise to the small domestic market.

Clients and projects increased in size and scale, in parallel with Edward’s continued education and eventually full-time employment.  Edward has worked within a multitude of Award Winning practices of scales from 2 – 200 staff members. On projects ranging from £50k – £1.2b in construction value. With the intention of learning and absorbing knowledge and analysing how ‘The Business Model’ could be improved to best serve Clients and produced the highest quality design for the built environment combined.  Edward gathered Knowledge and experience to gain the professional qualifications necessary to launch the practice and did so with an abundance of regular and returning clients in January 2015.  With a continually growing reputation, later that same year the practice began to employ further Architects.

Procore – Kris Carter, Product Marketing Manager

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