The Crowd with Us Podcast

“I don't think the property market actually, unless you are a forced seller, is going to be too negatively affected.” - Akhil Patel

Listen to this podcast to better understand economic cycles, where Covid-19 fits into this and what will be the impact on property prices as we surface from Lockdown

We invited a highly experienced panel to join Co-Founder Rob Wilkinson to give you an insight into the impact Covid-19 and living in lockdown is having on property professionals and investors.

In this podcast you’ll hear how social distancing is affecting their businesses and informing their development and investment strategies, now and moving forward. They candidly discuss the precaution measures they are putting in place to be able to navigate these unique times we find ourselves in.

Fran Boorman is without doubt an accomplished woman. Recognised as the UK’s No. 1 Female Business Influencer 2019, her business, Goal 17, has been featured in Forbes, she’s a TEDx speaker, winner of the National Mentoring Awards, she was a competitive skier and is a radio contributor. She has scaled a very successful Networking Marketing business, written and published a book about it and is part of a non-political government steering group focused on women in enterprise.

Rod has had an unconventional career, at the age of 16 he started working as a bouncer which unexpectedly snowballed into building a 100-man security business. He also set up a sports nutrition company on the way before turning to property development, purchasing his first property sharing a party wall with Wandsworth prison!

Since then he’s structured and pulled off creative property development deals in major UK cities, he’s built a sustainable business by adapting to market conditions.

The developers behind HGS Properties, Paul Goodsir and Philip Howard join CWU Co-founder, Rob Wilkinson, to share their decades of combined property investment, planning and construction experience. They discuss their most successful strategies and share how they’ve been able to mitigate risk in their developments.

Predominantly focused on projects in and around London they made their success in areas such as Clerkenwell before they were trendy.

Mark is an experienced entrepreneur, business leader, investor and published author. He retired from corporate life at Board Level after 26 years deploying global infrastructure projects. Alongside his business partners he established EquaGroup in 2015, focusing on his passion for creating shared and sustainable value through property, driven to build multi-generational legacy.

Rod has had an unconventional career, at the age of 16 he started working as a bouncer which unexpectedly snowballed into building a 100-man security business. He also set up a sports nutrition company on the way before turning to property development, purchasing his first property sharing a party wall with Wandsworth prison!

Since then he’s structured and pulled off creative deals in major UK cities, he’s built a sustainable and sizeable business by analysing and adapting to market conditions.

Thor has been investing in property for over 20 years, having bought his first property at age 19 in Australia. He worked in the UK construction industry for five years up to 2010 as site foreman and project manager.

Thor started investing in London in 2009 and bought and/or sold 50 properties totalling over £17 million in value before creating Crowd with Us with his co-founders. His key skill sets are mitigating risk & structuring deals to be profitable and win/win for all involved.

A New Zealand Chartered Accountant and Project Manager, she has vast experience in Financial Services. Michelle spent a large proportion of her career working on massive financial transformation programmes before building a buy-to-let property portfolio.

More recently Michelle’s focus has shifted to investing, with a particular interest in SSAS - small, self administered scheme. As an advocate of crowdfunding she began investing personally before exploring the possibilities available with SSAS.

Deeply passionate about the construction industry, Michelle started working on site at just 17. Since then she’s worked and trained as QS, EA, CA and PM (listen to the podcast to find out what these mean!).

Michelle established Redshell Consulting in 2013 as an independent construction consultancy of cost, project and development managers, working holistically with clients to support them going beyond cost and project level results and providing strategic solutions to construction challenges.