On this week’s PropCast, Octopus Capital’s head of real estate, Ed Clough, joins Lauder Teacher’s founding partner Andrew Teacher to discuss how Octopus is harnessing its cross-sector investment strategy to scale living, care and renewable energy assets across the UK and Europe, while using its strong track record to build trusted partnerships with global investors.

In this week’s PropCast, in partnership with Property Week, Andrew Teacher speaks with Melissa Murphy KC about her unconventional journey from prosecuting pirate radio DJs to becoming one of the UK’s leading planning barristers. Murphy shares insights on affordable housing, compulsory purchase powers, and heritage protection — all while reflecting on how curiosity, conviction and balance have shaped her remarkable career.

This week on The PropCast, in partnership with Property Week, Andrew Teacher, Founder of Lauder Teacher, sits down with Halima Aziz of Criterion Capital. Halima’s journey into hotel real estate has been anything but conventional. Growing up under the watchful eye of Criterion Capital’s founder — and renowned property entrepreneur — Asif Aziz, she gained a first-hand education in the world of real estate long before entering it professionally.

On the latest episode of PropCast, our co-founder Andrew Teacher is joined by John Lewis Partnership’s Katherine Russell and Anne Breen of Aberdeen Investments to discuss how their partnership to deliver rental homes is creating long-term value for investors and communities alike.

The latest PropCast, hosted by Andrew Teacher and in partnership with Property Week, features Ben Lee, Head of Data and AI at Bidwells, who explains how generative AI is already changing what ‘knowledge work’ is and what successfully integrating tech looks like in the property industry.

This week’s PropCast, hosted by Andrew Teacher, brings one of Irish real estate’s most forward-thinking and innovative executives, Colin MacDonald. MacDonald, having followed an unconventional path into property, puts forward a compelling investment thesis as well as offering sage wisdom on the dos and don’ts of commercial real estate in an increasingly complex market. 

In this week’s PropCast, Marshall, the current chair of the investment committee for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) – offers a robust, clear-eyed assessment of how pension money should be managed, what’s wrong with government pooling proposals, and why most investors are paying too much in fees. The conversation, led by Andrew Teacher, was direct, illuminating, and refreshingly free from the usual fog of institutional platitudes.

Where does ESG find itself within real estate today, and does it have a future? This type of grand strategy within the sector is what Jon Lovell, co-founder of Hillbreak, is best placed to guide, given his role as one of the first movers and shakers in the industry to recognise the need for bridging the gap between financiers and the narrative-driving sustainability types. This week’s PropCast, with Andrew Teacher and in partnership with Property Week, seeks to engage with the big questions, ranging from the huge risk and opportunity of stranded assets, the looming deadline for 2030 net zero targets, the skills deficit on both sides of the ESG fence and, perhaps most importantly, the profound implications of the Paris Accord’s 1.5°C goal being effectively dead in the water.

Data fuels every aspect of investment, and one company pioneered this change more than any other: IPD. This week’s PropCast, with Andrew Teacher, charts the incredible story of how Rupert Nabarro and the late Ian Cullen laid the groundwork for decades of institutional investment growth when they founded IPD in 1985.

Could a smarter, data-led retrofit strategy unlock billions of pounds in value for investors and governments, boosting energy efficiency and stamping out fuel poverty? These are the big questions Anna Moore, founder at Domna, believes she has the answers to on this week’s episode of PropCast.