Accelerating Careers in Real Estate

This evening I am sat with Professor Sadie Morgan OBE, founding director of Stirling Prize-winning architecture practice dRMM, alongside Alex, Philip and latterly joined by Jonas, Judith and Saskia. Sadie’s involved in a number of advisory roles including chairing the Independent Design Panel for High Speed Two, and a series of accolades including but not limited to being the youngest ever president of the Architectural Association, New Londoner of the Year by the NLA in 2017, Female Architectural Leader of the Year at the BD awards and AJ100 Contribution to the Profession. In the New Years' Honours 2020 she was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to design advocacy in the built environment. That’s quite an intimating resume, but I need not have been worried as Sadie was down to earth and incredibly humble. She shared not only personal stories of loss and illness mixed in with some absolutely hilarious stories of some of the biggest moments in her career.

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This evening I am once more on my globe-trotting travels, looking to test our theory of accelerating careers in new markets. Today I am talking to Uwe Hellendahl, based in Dusseldorf and he is one of the co-founders of COLCAP independent investment boutique and a pioneer in sustainable real estate investments. COLCAP took over the real estate activities of the Duxton Group in Germany in 2019. Uwe shares his career with us filled with unique personalities, opportunities, and pitfalls made all the more enjoyable by being a relative newcomer to real estate with his fresh perspective.

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In this episode, I am joined by Katherine Russell, former Head of Property for John Lewis Partnership and now Head of Build to Rent the retailer's gargantuan efforts to build 10,000 homes across their portfolio. Katherine was described as someone who put the people before the properties and we dug into this mentality and her career from the lows of redundancy to securing her first role on the client side to moving through the traditional ranks of management and having the ambition and confidence to take her employer into unchartered territory.

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In this episode, I am sat with John Kenny, Executive Vice President of Operations for RealStar. John has built a career in operational assets, such as flex office space, student accommodation, or most recently, rent.

Realstar’s UK residential portfolio is £1.5bn and over 3,500 apartments across 16 properties of which 11 are operated under its UNCLE brand. It is part of the Real Star Group, a Canadian investment and operator with total assets of $9bn.

John has never stood still and always sought out new challenges to stretch himself and you can see this in the variety of his experience and asset class.

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This evening I am sat with Richard Bourne, Managing Director of Martin’s Property a mixed use £350m private PropCo focused in London and the SE. Richard has established a career in development whether for private family offices or listed plc development companies and shares the highs and the "booms" of his career so far.

To read more of Richard's charity Abling, please go to ablinguk.com

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This evening I am sat with Cedric Bucher, CEO of Hearthstone Investments a real estate investment manager 100% focused on UK suburban private rented housing or as the US call it Single Family. Cedric is not a real estate native, he was born in Switzerland began his career in Switzerland with Mckinsey and worked within in multi-asset investment and finance for Barclays Wealth and Architas to name just a few. So I am curious how he settled on this last venture leading a business investment business in an asset class he was less than familiar with.

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This evening I am sitting with Tom Pocock, Central London MD for Berkeley Group St Edward, Tom has spent 17 out of his 18-year career inside the Berkeley Group beginning as a land graduate to a series of MD designate titles including for West London at just 30 followed by MD of its strategic land business in Central and West London and now MD of Berkeley’s St Edward Central London. I’m always fascinated by those who can create opportunities for themselves in a single business and I’m very much looking forward to hearing how Tom has done this so expertly. 

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In this episode, I get to sit down with Helen Martin, a seasoned leader in construction and development, who is now MD of the central region of Wates Construction. A former engineer, Helen has built a career on the fundamentals of honesty, direct communication and ultimately not allowing external forces to dictate her path. In the episode, Helen describes her path from engineer to contractor, turned developer and leader of Skanska's development company to returning to contracting in 2021.

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In this episode, I get to interview Chris Davies, CEO of Uncommon a flex office provider with 7 buildings owned and operated by Uncommon. Chris is a self-confessed non-conformist in real estate and has led an incredible career over a steep trajectory to running a portfolio of 250k sq/ft worth £350m. Chris shared his thoughts on his own career and answered the questions of our audience on the topics of mentoring, where to find help and how he assesses risks vs opportunities. Oh did I mention we recorded this in front of 150 people strong audience at Uncommon's Liverpool Street largest and newest offering?

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In this episode, I am joined by Ian Morrison Co-Founder of Beyond a young and entrepreneurial developer of mixed-use projects. Ian began his career as a QS with EC Harris and has moved his career and reinvented his skills moving through the roles of QS to PM, DM and Director and now Co-Founder. Ian spent 14 years with Grosvenor eventually leading their London development team and a development pipeline of £3bn, followed by leading the international developer Craigewan as CEO before establishing Beyond in 2019. In the episode, you will hear a very modest account from someone who has played a very active role, in their own career, aware when they aren't learning and doing something to return to an accelerating phase of their career.

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