“We look after the community and try to grow Manchester” 

Julie Twist is a property pioneer who has been helping to shape the city's skyline since 1994.

 In this episode of "We Built This City," Julie recounts her unexpected leap from supermarket employee to city centre property specialist celebrating 30 years of her company, Julie Twist Properties. 

Discover alongside host Lisa Morton how Julie took on a male-dominated industry aged only 23, and what it was like to navigate a business through historic events like the Manchester IRA bomb.

Julie shares insights on the seismic shifts in Manchester's real estate landscape, the rise of luxury developments, and the challenges of balancing motherhood with a burgeoning business. 

Find out how you create a community where there wasn’t one before and what it takes to create a 24-hour city.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre.  From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.

To celebrate the 26 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: 

Via our website

On Instagram

On X FKA Twitter

Connect with Julie 

On Rightmove

Via her website

On LinkedIn

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We Built This City's partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University

On this episode, We Built This City has partnered with Manchester Metropolitan University.

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