Blocktalk - the podcast for UK Property Management Professionals

Brian is joined by Thomas Beswick, BDM at CPL Software, to chat about his experience at The Property Institute Annual Seminar in May.

1:33 The focus of the event

2:58 Key points that were raised and any more insight from you

5:30 Statistics from the seminar

8:10 With your CPL focus, what can the system offer to help solve any pressing issues

11:00 Quote of the day - what Tom noted as being the 'QOTD'

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The Blocktalk Podcast is produced by the team at CPL Software.

Listen to a snippet from the latest Blocktalk Podcast which is a special episode with producers of the podcast - the CPL Software team.

Damien and Tom achieved the Three Peaks Challenge as part of the Charity of the Year fundraising efforts and Brian chats to them about their climbs x 3! Brian is also joined by Helen Doyle, People & Culture Director and Andy Bright from Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis.

Donate to Damien and Tom's the Three Peaks Challenge:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/cplthreepeaks2024

Find out more about APF - https://www.actionpf.org/

Why did Damien and Tom do the Three Peaks Challenge?

As producers of the Blocktalk Podcast, the CPL Software team has hijacked the show for a special episode to hear from Damien and Tom who completed the Three Peaks Challenge on the weekend of the 14/15 June as part of the company's efforts to raise funds for Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis, the team's Charity of the Year.

Brian is also joined by Helen Doyle, People & Culture Director, organiser of the Charity of the Year initiative (and instigator of the Three Peaks Challenge idea!) and Andy Bright, Corporate Partnerships Co-ordinator for the charity, and he has personal experience of life as a PF patient having developed pulmonary fibrosis in his 40s and, following a 10 year journey, eventually receiving a life-saving double lung transplant in 2018.

You can show your support for their fantastic achievement by visiting the JustGiving page - https://www.justgiving.com/page/cplthreepeaks2024

Find out more about APF - https://www.actionpf.org/

On the show

02:16 Tom Beswick's Three Peaks story

11:16 Damien Porter's Three Peaks story

17:25 Helen Doyle

20:18 Andy Bright, APF

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On this episode of the Blocktalk podcast we're joined by Alec Rose, Strategic Partnership Manager at Blink Payments. Alec has been working within partnerships for the last 5 years across financial services at Lloyds Bank, Mambu a fintech platform and more recently delivering payment solutions to the market at Pay360 and Blink.

On the episode:

02:40 Role at Blink

06:50 Benefits of Blink to property managers

12:30 3 things property managers should look out for when choosing a payments provider

22:00 Changes in the FinTech space in the next 5 years

29:38 Developments at Blink in the pipeline?

Visit https://www.blinkpayment.co.uk/ to find out more.

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It's Bitesize week this week with Aaron McWilliam, Managing Director at Propcall. Aaron is responsible for the day-to-day management of the business, across everything from operational service delivery, business development, customer service, marketing, and process improvement.

Find out more about PropCall

https://propcall.com/

Thanks for joining us on the Blocktalk Podcast. Today we’re speaking to Aaron McWilliam, Managing Director at Propcall. Aaron is responsible for the day-to-day management of the business, across everything from operational service delivery, business development, customer service, marketing, and process improvement.

01:06 Tell us about Propcall, what is it and how will it help our listeners?

02:12 What advice would you give to anyone starting out in business?

15:10 What challenges do you think are facing the industry now and in the next 3 years?

24:30 We recently did a podcast about AI – what’s your perspective on AI?

Find out more about PropCall

https://propcall.com/

On Blocktalk Bitesize this week we have Chris Ashurst updating us on the latest developments with the cladding remedition in Scotland.

Welcome to a new episode of the Blocktalk podcast with your host Brian Welsh.

On this fortnight's podcast we welcome back Chris Ashurst, Founder of the High-Rise Scotland Acton Group, which was formed in June 2020 to offer a forum for owners’ associations, owners and residents of high-rise developments in Scotland, to facilitate communication with government and other relevant bodies. Chris retired in 2007, following 20 years with Mazars where he was Head of London Corporate Recovery & Insolvency Services.

On the show

01:01 Update on cladding remediation since May 2022
09:44 What happens when the builder no longer exists and conflict of interest.
29:92 Property managers and cladding remediation
38:82 What would you do tomorrow if you could fix it?

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The Blocktalk Podcast is produced by the CPL Software team. 

Welcome to Blocktalk Bitesize week - the short 8-minute segment from this fortnight's podcast which is with Opeyemi Funsho, a CPL Software developer and keen AI enthusiast.

Opey chats to Brian about AI - the benefits, concerns, its effects on property management and regulation.

Listen to this shorter episode or catch the full episode which went live last week.

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Welcome to a new episode of the Blocktalk podcast with your host Brian Welsh.

On this fortnight's podcast Brian is in conversation with CPL Software developer, Opeyemi Funsho. Opey is a keen AI enthusiast. Opey was the secretary of the AI and Robotics Society at university, where he held multiple sessions that explored the operation and application of various AI models. During his placement year, he independently investigated how AI can be incorporated to improve system forecasting.

On the show

04:30 Regulators and AI
05:20 Benefits of AI 
06:00 Health and food
07:30 Property management industry and AI
08:00 Future of AI
09:00 Participation of AI
09:25 Preparing for AI
11:00 Training
12:00 CPL and AI
13:40 Estimating and forecsting with AI
15:00 Negativity around AI

We hope you enjoy the episode!

The Blocktalk Podcast is produced by the CPL Software team.