The Return: Property & Investment Podcast

By Anna Clare Harper

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Stay ahead of residential market trends with award-winning insights from industry leaders.


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Featuring expert guests like:


 - Helen Gordon, CEO of Grainger PLC (the UK’s largest listed residential landlord)

 - Aubrey Adams OBE, FTSE 250 and leading Housing Association Chair, and former CEO of Savills

 - Liz Peace CBE, former CEO of the British Property Federation


Plus leaders from Aviva Investors, Legal & General, JLL, Zoopla, British Land, University of Cambridge, Octopus Energy, and many more.


Hosted by Anna Clare Harper, CEO of GreenResi.com and 3x bestselling property author.


"The best property podcast out there - ★★★★★" – Oliver
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Episode Date
How property developers make deals stack in the 2020s
Dec 04, 2025
How to deliver 1,000 homes per day with Alex Notay (repeat)
Nov 20, 2025
Former Homes England CEO Peter Denton CBE: How to get funded
Nov 06, 2025
How I scale Real Estate Businesses
Oct 23, 2025
MD at £50bn Insurer: How I Invest
Oct 09, 2025
What next for UK rentals?
Sep 25, 2025
£50m Real Estate CEO: Growth in 2025
Sep 11, 2025
Martin Wolf CBE - Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Aug 28, 2025
Unlocking a £2.2 trillion housing opportunity with AI
Aug 14, 2025
Melanie Leech CBE, British Property Federation CEO
Jul 31, 2025
David Smith, Sunday Times: Fixing Housing Unfairness
Jul 17, 2025
Why new build tenants are happier than owners
Jul 03, 2025
Why UK Affordable Housing Investment?
Jun 19, 2025
The Return Podcast Host on Career Challenges
May 22, 2025
Double Your AUM Without Hiring - ft. The Robot
May 08, 2025
CEO of FTSE 250 Landlord, Helen Gordon
Apr 24, 2025
Aubrey Adams OBE, FTSE 250 Chair: Funding Homes
Apr 10, 2025
What Works in Affordable Housing Investment?
Mar 27, 2025
UK Government: Attract Global Capital for Housing
Mar 13, 2025
Invesco Real Estate MD: UK vs European Real Estate
Feb 27, 2025
How to become a Real Estate Non Executive Director
Feb 13, 2025
How to get your finances in order
Jan 30, 2025
Affordable Housing: Who’s Who, What’s Next?
Jan 16, 2025
How to Build 1,000 Homes a Day
Jan 02, 2025
Greystar MD: Work in Property Management
Dec 19, 2024
How to beat Analysis Paralysis
Dec 05, 2024
My Mentor + Money-Raising Rules
Nov 21, 2024
Savills IM: Work in Sustainable Investing
Nov 07, 2024
Kate Faulkner OBE: Create a Purposeful Property Career
Oct 24, 2024
Is UK Property Still Worth It?
Oct 10, 2024
How to Invest and Pay Less Tax
Sep 26, 2024
Get Ready to Retire
Sep 12, 2024
Inheritance Made Simple
Aug 29, 2024
£750bn Schroders Capital: Best-in-Class Living Investments
Aug 15, 2024
Digital Connectivity + Real Asset Values
Aug 01, 2024
Decarbonising Social Housing: Who Pays, Who Gains?
Jul 18, 2024
UK's Leading Impact Investor: Lessons Learned
Jul 04, 2024
What's Happening in the UK Rental Market?
Jun 20, 2024
Impact Investing Institute: Place-Based Investing
Jun 06, 2024
Michele Giddens OBE: Sustainable Investing Pioneer
May 09, 2024
British Property Federation: How to Shape Housing Policy
Apr 25, 2024
Getting Deals Done: Real Estate Law + AI
Apr 11, 2024
John Lewis: Retail + Rental Housing
Mar 28, 2024
Responsible Residential Investment at Scale
Mar 14, 2024
Fund Manager CEO: Residential for Rent + 240,000 Homes
Feb 28, 2024
JLL: What Next for Living Sector Investment?
Feb 15, 2024
Top Private Rental Sector Trends
Feb 01, 2024
£90bn Asset Manager: Sustainable Investing
Jan 18, 2024
£1.2 trillion Legal & General IM: What's changed?
Jan 04, 2024
£3.9bn Investor: ESG + Single Family Rental
Dec 21, 2023
Fund Director + BPF: The Best ESG Measures
Dec 07, 2023
What is Net Zero for UK Homes?
Nov 23, 2023
Should You Buy a Multi-Million ££ Home Now?
Nov 09, 2023
£223bn Aviva Investors: How to be a Fund Manager
Oct 26, 2023
EPC Rules Scrapped - So What?
Oct 12, 2023
TrustMark: Retrofit, Rogue Traders + Regulations
Sep 28, 2023
£1bn Property Lender: How Family Offices Protect Wealth
Sep 14, 2023
Octopus Energy: Zero Bills, Technology + Green Innovation
Aug 31, 2023
5% Home Deposits + Better KPIs
Aug 17, 2023
PAS2035 + Training 200,000 Retrofitters by 2030
Aug 03, 2023
What Next for Offices + The Airbnb Approach
Jul 20, 2023
Fix Your Rental Properties (+1 Million Others) Cheaper
Jul 06, 2023
Aviva's £100m Socially Responsible Property Development
Jun 22, 2023
Go Digital + Augmented Reality to Fix Homes Faster
May 25, 2023
Missing: 500k Green Skill Workers
May 11, 2023
Liz Peace CBE: Navigate Politics + Energy Efficiency
Apr 27, 2023
The Future of UK Housing: Downsizing to Development
Apr 13, 2023
UK’s First 30-Year Fixed Mortgage
Mar 30, 2023
Roger Madelin CBE: Sustainable Development + Place-Making
Mar 16, 2023
Aubrey Adams OBE: What are Housing Associations?
Mar 02, 2023
Single Family Rental + Tech-Enabled Asset Management
Feb 16, 2023
What the Building Safety Act Means for You
Feb 02, 2023
800% Insurance Cost Increase, Post-Grenfell
Jan 19, 2023
What's Happening in the UK Rental Market? 2023
Jan 05, 2023
Blackstone's Invitation Homes + Single Family Rental in Europe
Dec 22, 2022
Property For Dummies Author: Is Buy-to-Let Dead?
Dec 08, 2022
Manoj Varsani MBE: Making Tax Digital
Nov 24, 2022
RICS Director: What is Whole Life Carbon Assessment
Nov 10, 2022
Savills: What Next for UK Housing?
Oct 27, 2022
What’s happening in the UK rental market? 2022
Oct 13, 2022
Baroness Brown of Cambridge: Climate Change Risk Adaptation
Sep 29, 2022
Dubai Housing + ESG?
Sep 15, 2022
£350m Fund Manager: New Homes
Sep 01, 2022
Oxford Prof Andrew Baum: Become a B Corp
Aug 23, 2022
UK’s First 100% Renewable District Heating Scheme
Aug 04, 2022
Cambridge Prof Franz Fuerst: Research vs Practice
Jul 21, 2022
Rescuing $ trillions of Chairs + Carpets
Jun 23, 2022
Oxford Prof Andrew Baum: Inflation + Real Estate
May 26, 2022
Sustainable Residential Investing Book Launch + 4th Birthday
May 12, 2022
$3bn VC: Can Tech Solve Climate Crisis?
Apr 28, 2022
Cambridge Prof Franz Fuerst: Sustainable Real Estate
Apr 14, 2022
Leading Retirement Village Provider: What is Later Living
Mar 31, 2022
When to Change Career?
Feb 17, 2022
Work-Life Balance + Early Retirement
Feb 03, 2022
Should I Have Children + Cost Benefit Analysis
Jan 20, 2022
Life-threatening Illness
Dec 23, 2021
Cambridge Prof: How EPCs Affect House Prices
Dec 09, 2021
Building a Legacy: Book Launch Special
Oct 28, 2021
Leading Regeneration / Property Manager: Build to Rent
Oct 14, 2021
Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords and New Rules with Paul Shamplina, TV star and Founder of Landlord Action and Anna Clare Harper
Jul 22, 2021
How institutions see the UK Private Rental Sector with Paddy Allen, Head of Operational Capital Markets at leading international property business, Colliers and Anna Clare Harper
Jun 10, 2021
Women and Wealth with Elspeth Kinder (Head of Family Law, JMW), Ann-Marie Atkins (Managing Partner, Tilney), Ruth McCarthy (Managing Director, SPI Capital) and Anna Clare Harper
May 27, 2021
Planning for an Early Retirement with Ann-Marie Atkins, award-winning Financial Planner and Managing Partner at Tilney, and Anna Clare Harper
May 13, 2021
Where to invest in a post-Covid property market? With Lucian Cook, Head of UK Residential Research at Savills and leading commentator and Anna Clare Harper
Apr 15, 2021
What’s next for the UK rental property market with Head of Research at Zoopla, Gráinne Gilmore and Anna Clare Harper
Mar 04, 2021
How Artificial Intelligence is transforming Private Rental Sector housing investment with Co-Founder of ground-breaking Investment Manager Immo Capital, Samantha Kempe and Anna Clare Harper
Feb 18, 2021
Investing in residential property at scale with Cedric Bucher, CEO of leading specialist fund manager Hearthstone, and Anna Clare Harper
Dec 24, 2020
Making a Splash! Developing throughout downturns with Tom Bloxham MBE, urban regeneration pioneer, Chairman and Founder of award-winning Urban Splash, and Anna Clare Harper
Dec 10, 2020
What’s changing in the UK rental market with Head of Research at Zoopla, Gráinne Gilmore and Anna Clare Harper
Nov 26, 2020
Making real estate assets liquid with Richard Croft, Co-Founder and Chairman of leading investment group, M7, David Delaney, CEO of property stock exchange IPSX, and Anna Clare Harper
Nov 12, 2020
Using data analytics to optimise building management with Ryan Collier, Operations Director at leading residential block manager, Pod, and Anna Clare Harper
Oct 01, 2020
Private Equity and Family Office real estate investment myths with Rebekah Tobias, leading investment specialist & Head of Business Development at investment house, Marcol, and Anna Clare Harper
Sep 17, 2020
From valuations to international relations; cycles to ‘di-worse-ification’ - what the world’s leading real estate investment textbook tells us, with Oxford Professor Andrew Baum
Sep 03, 2020
What’s really happening in the UK rental market? With Zoopla’s Head of Research Gráinne Gilmore and Anna Clare Harper
Aug 20, 2020
Listed real estate insights with Colm Lauder, Head of Real Estate at Goodbody, and #1 ranked Real Estate Analyst
Aug 06, 2020
Proptech myths with Toby Wilde, Founder of Oparo, one of the first algorithm-driven real estate investment companies in the UK
Jul 23, 2020
How to value residential property, with ‘material uncertainty’ - Gavriel Merkado, CEO and Founder of leading residential property data and analytics company REalyse, and Anna Clare Harper
Jul 09, 2020
Property Finance myths Part #2: Alternative Finance myths, with Michael Bristow, Co-Founder and CEO of Crowdproperty, the UK’s leading property peer-to-peer lending platform, and Anna Clare Harper
Jun 25, 2020
Myths about property finance: how bridging lenders are becoming less shark, and more heart with Guy Harrington, Founder of Glenhawk and Anna Clare Harper
Jun 11, 2020
How to hire top talent in real estate and avoid common hiring mistakes that proptech and property startups make with Louisa Dickins, leading global proptech recruiter, and Anna Clare Harper.
May 28, 2020
What works and what doesn't in a complex property market? Part 2. Paperback book launch panel with top planning lawyer Martha Grekos & Editor of leading property investor magazine, Richard Bowser
May 14, 2020
What works and what doesn't in a complex property market? Special book launch panel with Melanie Bien, best-selling property 'for dummies' author, and John Howard, veteran property investor
Apr 30, 2020
Is data the most valuable commodity for UK real estate investors? With Gavriel Merkado, CEO and founder of leading proptech disruptor, REalyse, and Anna Clare Harper
Apr 16, 2020
How coronavirus affects ordinary property investors and what to do about it, with Ranjan Bhattacharya, Real Estate Investor, Business Owner and Host of the UK’s #1 property meet, and Anna Clare Harper
Apr 02, 2020
Simon Hughes, leading real estate innovation consultant, discusses being agile and innovative in property with Anna Clare Harper
Mar 05, 2020
PropTech Venture Capital Founder Taylor Wescoatt discusses investing in early stage PropTech startups with Anna Clare Harper
Feb 20, 2020
Value investing specialist, author and acclaimed researcher Mallika Paulraj and Anna Clare Harper discuss what real estate investors need to know to echo Warren Buffet’s success
Feb 06, 2020
How family offices, private equity firms, high net worth investors & institutions like pension funds really invest in real estate, with leading investment specialist Rebekah Tobias & Anna Clare Harper
Jan 23, 2020
Smart buildings for better profits, health and environment with proptech disruptor Metrikus’ CEO Gary Cottle, COO Michael Grant and Anna Clare Harper
Nov 28, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, data-driven decisions and proptech shaking up mortgage lending with Proportunity Co-Founder Vadim Toader and Anna Clare Harper
Nov 14, 2019
Co-Founder of Viewber - On-Demand Property Viewings
Oct 31, 2019
Knowing The Market – Anna Clare Harper talks to Lucian Cook, Head of UK Residential Research at Savills and one of the country’s most respected UK housing market commentators.
Jun 27, 2019
Leading the Crowd – Mike Bristow, CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdProperty, the UK’s leading peer-to-peer (P2P) property lender talks to Anna Clare Harper
Jun 13, 2019
Investing in the future of construction - Apprenticeships with Paul Ruddick and Anna Clare Harper
May 16, 2019
Through the Lender’s Lens - Anna Clare Harper talks to Ben Barbanel, Head of Debt Finance at OakNorth, a leading UK business challenger bank providing business and property loans to SMEs
May 02, 2019
Beyond Beige – Anouska Tamony and Anna Clare Harper discuss getting better returns through interior design
Feb 28, 2019
Oxbridge Professor, Business Owner and Investor, Andrew Baum, on Tech, Theory vs Reality, and Teaching Property Investment
Jan 17, 2019
Dividend investing with world-renowned dividend blogger, Ben Reynolds
Jul 12, 2018
Buy to let property investment with multi-millionaire landlord and highly-regarded author Angela Bryant
Jun 21, 2018
Pensions, with Howard Brindle, Deputy CEO and COO of UK’s largest private pension fund, USS
May 17, 2018