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PODCAST: Encouraging SMEs and the next generation

Rupert Bates, Editorial Director of Show House magazine, is joined by Charles Worthington, Director at Lowden Construction, Daniel Norman, CEO at Aprao, Jonathan Kitching owner of Briahaze Homes and Dan Joyce, Lending Director at Close Brothers Property Finance, to discuss fundamental issues, including: The challenges that new and young developers face when attempting to advance in the industry and how to overcome them. Supporting the next generation of developers to enhance their skills and experience. The barriers to tech-innovation and the growth of Proptech within the sector.

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The Housebuilders Podcast: Building for the Future

This week, Close Brothers Property Finance has launched a brand-new podcast series alongside the property industry’s most well-read magazine Show House. The series is hosted by industry veteran, Rupert Bates, Editorial Director of Show House. Over the coming months and episodes, the podcast will feature a number of SME housebuilders from across the UK, talking about what they know best, building new homes. The topics covered in this series will include building for the future, the next generation of housebuilders, first time buyers and women in property. In the first episode, we speak to Bradley Gold, co-founder of Gold Property Developments, Paul Dipino, Chief Innovation Officer of Joseph Homes’ and Dan Joyce, Lending Director at Close Brothers Property Finance, about “Building for

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PODCAST: How housebuilders can find a wider customer base

In our latest podcast, Wayne Bennett, National Director of Heylo Housing, explains how housebuilders can widen their customer base with Home Reach.   To find out more about Home Reach, go to www.homereach.org.uk Who is Heylo? Heylo is a ‘for profit’ Registered Provider whose cornerstone investors to date include UK based county council pension funds, institutional funding and global private equity and asset management firms; Heylo have secured a new phase of circa £300m of private funding available for Home Reach portfolios, which is equivalent to 5,000 plots; Homes England continue to support its investment in the form of *SOAHP grant funding (*shared ownership affordable homes programme) launched in 2016 with a budget of £4.7bn to deliver an additional 135,000 plots “off

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