People Property Place Matthew Watts

Richard Bains, Managing Director - Chancerygate.
Chancerygate is a highly successful property developer, investor and asset manager specialising in the UK’s urban logistics and industrial warehousing sectors. They offer a full range of in-house services to manage the entire development process and asset manage funds.
Richard has over 30 years’ experience in the UK property sector and prior to joining Chancerygate, was head of the UK business at Rockspring (now Patrizia) and was specifically responsible for their UK focused, closed ended, value-add funds. He is a graduate of Reading University and started his career at Cluttons before moving to Baring Houston and Saunders, as well as CIT.
I sat down with Richard to discuss a broad range of subjects, which covered some of the following topics:
* How he got into real estate
* Early career moves
* Taking risks
* Building the investment portfolio
* Growing the European platform
* Opportunity set in MLI
* How his role has changed
* Importance of your network
 
Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Richard invest should he have £500m of capital at his disposal.
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Penny Hacking, Principal, Member of the European Executive team, and Managing Director of European Capital Markets at Avison Young.
Penny has over 25 years’ experience in EMEA Capital Markets having transacted in excess of 3bn Euros in all the major markets in Europe including the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Nordics and CEE. She has experience across all sectors but has a predominant focus on industrial, logistics and offices.
She has worked with clients such as Tristan Capital Partners, UBS, CBRE GI, Prologis, Evans Randall and WP Carey, adding value to investors and owner occupiers on dispositions, acquisitions, joint ventures, forward funding and forward commits.
Penny has worked at King Sturge, JLL, Victorios and GVA during her career and is at the forefront of delivering change and driving diversity, equity and inclusion across our industry.
I sat down with Penny to discuss a broad range of subjects, which covered some of the following topics:
 
* How she got into real estate 
* European market recovery
* What makes a good agent
* Female representation in investment agency
* How the industry has evolved
* Sale & leaseback 
* Buyside & Sellside mandates
 
Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Penny invest should she have £500m of capital at her disposal.
 
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Established in 2010 Vestas Investment Management invests capital, raised from single or multiple investors into global real estate – throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.
It does this through a variety of products that target Core, Core+, Value Add & Opportunistic returns by investing in Office, Retail, Hotel, Multifamily & Logistics assets. In Europe they focus on Office and Logistics assets.
Alistair set up the European business in 2022 and is responsible for managing a portfolio valued at more than €3bn euros. He was previously Head of Industrial & Logistics – Europe at Savills Investment Management and has worked at LFF Real Estate Partners, Chapman Petrie and Colliers.
I sat down with Alistair to discuss a broad range of subjects, which covered some of the following
topics:
 
* How he got into real estate
* Cultural nuances working with Korean Capital
* Fund, JV and separate account structures
* Who is driving the ESG agenda in sheds?
* Plans to grow the business
* Big shed, renaissance?
 
Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Alistair
invest should he have £500m of capital at his disposal.
 
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Bored by conventional thinking, Rupert, along with his Co-Founders Phil Nevin and Tayna Donald started x+why to unite a community of mission driven entrepreneurs, leaders and companies within inspiring and sustainable workspaces.
x+why enters into management agreements with landlords to design, manage and operate flexible workspaces to create more profit than they would otherwise, through either operating the space themselves or from a conventional lease.
Rupert is a graduate of Bristol University, having studied History, before training to become a Solicitor and worked at SJ Berwin, Maples and Calder as well as Sunbird Group before setting up x+why.
I sat down with Rupert to discuss a broad range of subjects which covered some of the following topics:
 
* Career journey before real estate
* How he got into real estate
* Management agreements vs traditional lease
* Having fun at work
* Raising capital
* Challenges of building a business
* Balancing, purpose + profit
* Finding your passion
* Not being afraid to take a step back to go 2 forward
 
Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Rupert invest should he have £500m of capital at his disposal.

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Phil Irons, Managing Director, and Head of Transactions UK & Ireland at Patrizia.
Patrizia is a leading partner for global investments in real assets, with over €57bn of assets under management they offer institutional and private clients a broad range of attractive investment opportunities delivering long-term sustainable growth.
Phil has over 25 years’ experience in the UK commercial property market having started his career at Cushman & Wakefield, before moving to Benchmark Group PLC and has held roles at Schroders, Benson Elliot and IWG’s Workplace Capital Partners having graduated from the University of Cambridge – having studied Land Economy.
I sat down with Phil to discuss a broad range of subjects which covered some of the following topics:
 
* How he got into real estate
* Early career moves
* Debunking private equity jargon (IRR, equity multiples, return hurdles etc)
* Importance of corporate culture
* Managing home life + work life
* Key skills to succeed in real estate investment management
* Building a high performing team
* Working with JV partners
 
Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Phil invest should he have £500m of capital at his disposal.

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George has worked in UK commercial real estate for 17 years, starting his career at Knight Frank Investment Management and then becoming an Investment Director of FORE Partnership. George Co-Founded Kinrise in 2015, with a focus on reimagining and restoring iconic buildings to their former glory.
​I recorded this conversation with George ​back in October 2022, and wanted to reshare given the fact that Kinrise​ have recently launched their latest fund, targeting investments in the repositioning of iconic commercial real estate across UK cities. 
Kinrise have already secured the backing of family offices and are now calling new investors to partner with them in creating one the UK’s most exciting portfolios of iconic buildings.
George and I discuss​ed a broad range of subjects which covered some of the following topics:
 
* His route into the Real Estate industry
* How he met his co-founder Samuel Lawson Johnston
* How his view of success has changed
* Living and breathing your values
* Neuro-diverse teams
* Creating the job he always wanted
 
Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place George would invest should he have £500m of equity at his disposal.
 
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