Property Hub

This is the prime location for informed opinion on property matters: finance, law, development, investment, planning, taxation, offices, retail, industrial, distribution, residential, healthcare, hotels and leisure. If it’s property, it’s in the remit. In online courses, conferences, webinars, and journals, we make sure the important issues are covered – sound, comprehensive and thorough.

Here to keep you informed; because it’s knowledge that underpins value – CPD at its very best. 

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Craig has been a Partner in Knight Frank Capital Advisory for the past 3 years, providing debt advisory services to clients ranging from UHNWIs and family offices to corporate and institutional clients. Craig covers development and investment finance across all real estate sectors in the UK and continental Europe. Craig’s background is in banking and finance, having spent over 17 years originating and structuring development and investment finance in the UK social housing, student accommodation and commercial real estate markets for Barclays Bank, Metro Bank and OakNorth Bank.

Dan is Head of Hotel & Real Estate Finance at Virgin Money (formerly Clydesdale Bank), playing a key part in creating and evolving a now well established alternative lender in the sector. The team provide specialist financial solutions to support a variety of hotel and real estate investment and development businesses. 

Omega joined LendInvest in September 2021 to head the Capital Raising team and became Head of Funds Management in October 2022. She has over 19 years of professional experience in real estate as a corporate finance advisor, debt advisor, financier and lawyer. She originally trained as a corporate tax lawyer, however following her MBA at INSEAD held non-legal roles at a property developer, a German bank and provided restructuring advice to unlisted real estate funds as a Director in the Corporate Finance team at CBRE.

Carina is a planning lawyer based in London. She acts for a range of clients including private developers, institutional investors, local authorities, charities, retailers, utility companies and student accommodation providers.

Ross is a leader in innovation within the Real Estate industry, and he has been in innovation roles for nearly 10 years. During this time, he has reviewed over 800 solutions and profiled them against core requirements for large corporates and their associated clients, leading to the delivery of multiple projects across several innovation verticals. Using his knowledge in Real Estate, together with his technical background, Ross can quickly understand and execute on strategic projects, leading to significant increases in ROI or cost savings.

Adrian joined OSB Group in December 2015, and took on the role of Group Sales Director in 2020 which involved being responsible for all field and telephone-based sales teams across all group
lending brands. At the beginning of 2022 Adrian became Group Intermediary Director and unified the intermediary sales leadership which brought together Precise Mortgages, Kent Reliance for
Intermediaries and InterBay.

Stacey is a Managing Director and Head of Origination in the Wells Fargo commercial real estate business for the UK and Ireland. She has over 20 years of banking experience within real estate lending. Stacey has held various roles at Wells Fargo (and its predecessor Eurohypo business) with a considerable focus on development and more recently on the BTR and student asset classes.
Stacey holds a Commerce degree and an Economics degree from the University of Queensland.

Sebastian is a Director within the London Valuation Department and has been at Savills for over 18 years. He has a degree in architecture, qualifying as a surveyor in 2004 although he has worked in the London property market since 1994. Sebastian is now a Fellow of the RICS and an RICS Registered Valuer.