In this episode of Property with a View, our host Mike Harlow speaks to  guests Robert Stevens, Head of Property Risk at Nationwide Building Society, and John Baguley, Principal for Mortgages at UK Finance. The property market depends upon an efficient lending system. Our guests Rob and John provide insights from lenders on how the property market could be improved along with their perspectives on the property purchasing process as we know it.

In this episode of Property with a View, our host Mike Harlow speaks to  guests Robert Stevens, Head of Property Risk at Nationwide Building Society, and John Baguley, Principal for Mortgages at UK Finance. The property market depends upon an efficient lending system. Our guests Rob and John provide insights from lenders on how the property market could be improved along with their perspectives on the property purchasing process as we know it.

Maria Harris, Chair of the Open Property Data Association (OPDA), joins us on our latest episode of ‘Property with a View’ where we discuss how adopting a digital mindset can positively influence behaviour change in the property industry.

About the Open Property Data Association (OPDA): https://openpropdata.org.uk/

The Open Property Data Association (OPDA) is the UK’s independent industry body for companies revolutionising the property industry through data collaboration. Their mission is to be a leading voice for open property data in the homebuying and seller sector by supporting the creation and adoption of data and technology standards to create a digital, efficient, and trusted home moving sector that works better for everyone.

Our guest on this episode is Hannah Cook from the Norwegian Mapping Authority Kartverket.

About the Norwegian Mapping Authority

The Norwegian Mapping Authority has an extensive remit that encompasses both land and sea. We collate and manage detailed public geographical information for Norway, from the highest mountain to the deepest ocean floor and facilitate easy access through our national spatial data infrastructure in our role as Norway’s national geodata coordinator.

In this ‘Property with a View’ podcast series, we are talking to leaders from across the conveyancing sector to discuss how the process is today and how we can change things for the better. In the 5th episode our host Mike Harlow is joined by Rob Hailstone of Bold Legal Group – Rob is an ex-residential property conveyancer with over 45 years’ experience. He formed the Bold Legal Group in 2010 which is a national network of over 650 high street law firms who are kept fully informed about all property-related matters via a weekly news and update bulletin and an online forum. Bold Legal Group members vary from sole practitioners to firms with fifty-plus partners, ABS, LLPs and licensed conveyancers.

In this episode, we are joined by the DPMSG’s newest member Sammy Pahal, Managing Director of UK PropTech Association (UKPA), a not-for-profit membership organisation set up to drive the digital transformation of the property industry by promoting engagement between PropTech and property businesses.

Sammy has extensive knowledge of the value of location data in the land and property industry, and within this episode she discusses her vision for a digital property market whilst utilising the benefits of engaging PropTech to support with upfront information and the adoption of data standards.

Our third podcast episode captures a short selection of speeches from our launch event in London on the 12th of September. In it we have insights and ideas from leaders within the industry and from Government. We hope you are able to gain a sense of what the Steering Group is about, and the changes that we hope to bring to the way the property market works. #DigitalPropertyMarket #DPMSG

We are joined today by Kate Faulkner OBE, Chair of the Home Buying and Selling Group. She is one of the UK’s leading property experts. She is passionate that most of the problems in the residential property market can be solved if the media industry and government work together to educate consumers on how to carry out property projects. 

The Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG) is formed of a cross-section of institutions and bodies representing both the commercial and residential sectors. It has a shared goal of accelerating change to a digital property market whilst ensuring it is transparent, secure, and user-friendly. Much good progress has already been made through innovation within the market generally and by collaborative initiatives like the Home Buying and Selling Group (HBSG). The DPMSG members' aims are to support all that by ensuring their collective and individual actions are conducive to that healthy progress. It’s all about pulling together to remove the barriers, fill in the gaps, and speed up progress to a simpler faster and less stressful process.  

In this first episode – available on all podcast platforms – Mike Harlow and the Home Buying and Selling Group’s Beth Rudolf talk about the need for change in the property market and how, in supporting the work of the HBSG to identify solutions to improve the process for consumers, the Digital Property Market Steering Group (DPMSG) has been formed to develop a more positive, certain and transparent digital market place for all.