Investors@Housing

Housing 2024, Europe’s largest housing festival, will be welcoming 9000 people from the housing and wider living sector to Manchester in June. For the first time in 70 years, we are delighted to be partnering the British Property Federation, the UK Apartment Association and the UK Single-Family Association among over 50 other core partners this year.

With a coalition of the willing including Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Homes England, Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and over 500 speakers in 10 theatres, we are confident we can make a change together. 

Housing 2024 will be the place for you to meet those responsible for:

• 4.4m UK social homes, raising new finance of £3.7bn in the last quarter
• £4.5bn invested in UK Build-to-Rent sector in 2023 with a record 59,000 homes in construction
• A record of £1bn invested into Single-Family Housing in the same year
• 30,000 homes in the UK now owned by For Profit Registered Providers

Investors@Housing gives 500 investors and funders the opportunity to claim a free delegate pass (worth £785) on Thursday 27 June giving you access to all areas. Register for your free* ticket here >>

Whilst Housing week starts on Monday 24 June, and you are welcome for all of the event, we know time is precious and we want to ensure we deliver the introductions, sessions and networking events, you really need so have curated a programme for you on the day as follows:

Wednesday 26 June
16.30 Inside Housing 40th birthday reception | 18.30 Unlock Net Zero Live awards (alternatively we have a networking reception at the Radisson hotel)

Thursday 27 June (*free of charge to all investors and funders)

08.00-08.55 BPF ‘Building More Homes’ breakfast 

At the beginning of the year, BPF launched their General Election Manifesto ‘Building our Future’. This invite-only breakfast will outline their ‘Building More Homes’ initiative which delves into the living sectors in depth asks from the next Government.

09.30-10.30 Who is investing in our sector, in what, and why?

A panel of leading housing investors will discuss their long-term investment strategies, what is required to reassure the markets, how short-term impacts over the past 18 months have had a negative impact, and how we learn from this to move forward. 

• Chair: Tim Reid, customer relationship director, NHBC
• Harry Swales, director and head of residential, Dorrington PLC
• Mike Shepherd, investment director, community housing team, Man GPM
• Rebecca Taylor, managing director of multifamily, Long Harbour 

11.00-11.55 Getting comfortable with for-profits

It is 16 years since the 2008 Act allowed profit making organisations to be registered with the social housing regulator. After a slow start, investment into the sector has accelerated, to the comfort of some and discomfort of others in the not-for-profit sector. What are the truths and myths about for-profits? What is the sector doing to improve understanding? What is the potential? (This session might include the launch of the For-Profit Code of Practice.)

• Andy Hulme, chief executive officer, Hyde Group
• Rizwan Khan, head of investments and partnerships, Sage Housing
• Cath Webster, chief executive officer, Thriving Investments
• Helen Collins, head of affordable housing consultancy, Savills
• Rob Beiley, partner, Trowers & Hamlins 

12.00-13.00 A planning roadmap for the next government

The planning system seems to be in a state of perpetual flux, yet support for housing delivery feels like it is in reverse. This session will explore what are the problems, what are the solutions a future Government should contemplate, and what can it learn from the current Government’s efforts?

• Ian Fletcher, director of policy, British Property Federation
• Michael Keaveney, director of land and development, Grainger
• Tom Dobson, managing director, Quod
• Colette McCormack, head of planning, partner, Winckworth Sherwood
• Brendan Kilpatrick, senior partner, PRP 

13.00-14.00 BPF Living Sector Investor Lunch
An exclusive networking lunch event which brings together leading UK investors, developers and registered providers.

14.00-15.00 Closing political keynote

15.00-17.00 BTR study tour

Plus at Housing week and alongside Lee Rowley MP, minister of state for housing, you will get the chance to hear from mayors, policy makers, local authority leaders and government agencies, take a look at the full programme here.

We can’t wait to meet you.