RICS Election debate : What does the new government need to do?
RICS Lecture Hall, 12 Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AD
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Overview
The evening will debate the practical solutions on what the new government should be doing, how we can unlock funding solutions to deliver new homes, as well as focus on planning reform, increasing competition within the market, rebooting local authority housebuilding, as well as ensuring that we achieve the required uplift in skilled workers to get builders building.
The aim of the debate is to help inform investors, developers, housing providers, public sector partners, and planners on the best way forward for what is becoming the key domestic challenge ahead of the July 4 General Election.
We will hear views and experiences from the panel on how we can initiate a local authority housing renaissance, how to attract more SMEs to the market and how government and planning authorities should be tackling this huge issue.
RICS Chief Executive Justin Young will welcome guests.
Then there will be a keynote presentation by Simon Rubinsohn, RICS Chief Economist.
A panel debate chaired by Times and Sunday Times Property Editor, Carol Lewis will follow and include:
- Peter Bill, Joint author Broken Homes and of the Localis report, `Public Rental Homes: Fresh Perspectives.’
- Emma Cariaga, Head of Residential and Co-head of Canada Water, British Land
- Giles Mackay, Founder, Heylo Housing
- Jackie Sadek, Joint author Broken Homes and of the Localis report, `Public Rental Homes: Fresh Perspectives.’
- Stephen Teagle, Chief Executive, Countryside Partnerships
Speakers
Carol Lewis
Property Editor, The Sunday Times
Carol is the Property Editor of The Times and The Sunday Times and winner of several awards including Columnist of the Year at the Property Press awards 2022. She has worked at The Times for more than 15 years on business, finance and property. Previously she was the Editor of a weekly medical newspaper.
Simon Rubinsohn
Chief Economist, RICS
Before taking up his current role at RICS, Simon was Senior Strategist at Barclays Wealth where he was part of team responsible for running the multi-manager investment portfolios and helping to develop structured products to widen the client offering. Simon initially moved into the financial services industry in 1985 where his first appointment was with ANZ Merchant Bank. He was the UK Economist and also spent a considerable amount of time supporting the sales force in the marketing of eurobonds.
Peter Bill
Author and Journalist
Peter is a surveyor-turned-journalist who edited UK construction bible, Building, for six years in the nineties, before editing weekly real estate bible, Estates Gazette, for 11 years, until 2009. Peter wrote a weekly ‘On Property’ page for the London Evening Standard City section between 2007 and early 2015. In 2013 he published his first book, Planet Property, a look at the commercial real estate sector in the UK. In October 2020, Peter co-authored Broken Homes, which takes a caustic look at the home building sector in Britain today. He continues to write, including a regular column for Property Week.
Emma Cariaga
Joint Head, Canada Water & Head of Residential
Emma jointly leads the development of Canada Water, a 53 acre development project in Central London. She joined the Executive Committee in 2019. She is a Non-Executive Director of Assura plc, a Non-Executive Director of TEDI-London, a higher education provider for future engineers founded by Arizona State University, King’s College London & UNSW Sydney.
Giles Mackay
Founder, Heylo
Giles established the business in 2017 and now sits on the boards for HHGL. He started his career in the structured finance sector, before moving onto a series of entrepreneurial endeavours in the property and housing sectors; he has established 13 businesses since his career began. In 1999, Giles founded market intelligence and valuations provider Hometrack, one of the first Proptech businesses and a revolutionary in the UK property valuation industry. Hometrack was sold to Zoopla in 2017. Other ventures include AI firm Outra, established in 2017, which identifies consumer patterns to connect brands with digital marketplaces. In 2022, Giles launched iBuying business Upstix and looking ahead Giles will be launching a single-family home PRS brand.
Jackie Sadek
Regeneration Practitioner, Urban Strategy
Jackie has more than 35 years’ experience in property, specialising in public-private sector partnerships, working with local authorities and investors. A former specialist adviser to Government on urban regeneration, she now runs Urban Strategy, an urban regeneration consultancy. She was part of the Grimsey Review team on the future of the high street and an honorary Fellow of the Association of Chief Estates Surveyors. Sadek is the co-author of Broken Homes, a book on the housing crisis written with former Estates Gazette Editor Peter Bill, which was published in October 2020. She is Chair of the UK Innovation Corridor, a bottom-up partnership of more than 15 local authorities, six universities and hundreds of innovation and science companies in the London-Stansted-Cambridge sub region.
Stephen Teagle
Chief Executive, Countryside Partnerships
Stephen is a Chartered Surveyor and has more than 25 years’ experience in the regeneration and affordable housing sectors, with time spent both commissioning schemes as well as working in the private sector, giving him a unique perspective on joint ventures, regeneration and mixed-tenure delivery. Stephen is also Chair of the Housing Forum, a cross-sector membership network of 150 organisations and businesses that collaborates to promote improved supply and better-quality homes. Stephen leads the Partnerships Division which is a hybrid business, fusing partner delivery programmes and mixed tenure housing delivery. He provides a unique perspective on joint ventures, regeneration and mixed-tenure delivery and oversees 10 operating business units.
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