This week on The PropCast, in partnership with Property Week, Andrew Teacher, Founder of Lauder Teacher, sits down with Halima Aziz of Criterion Capital. Halima’s journey into hotel real estate has been anything but conventional. Growing up under the watchful eye of Criterion Capital’s founder — and renowned property entrepreneur — Asif Aziz, she gained a first-hand education in the world of real estate long before entering it professionally.

On the latest episode of PropCast, our co-founder Andrew Teacher is joined by John Lewis Partnership’s Katherine Russell and Anne Breen of Aberdeen Investments to discuss how their partnership to deliver rental homes is creating long-term value for investors and communities alike.

The latest PropCast, hosted by Andrew Teacher and in partnership with Property Week, features Ben Lee, Head of Data and AI at Bidwells, who explains how generative AI is already changing what ‘knowledge work’ is and what successfully integrating tech looks like in the property industry.

This week’s PropCast, hosted by Andrew Teacher, brings one of Irish real estate’s most forward-thinking and innovative executives, Colin MacDonald. MacDonald, having followed an unconventional path into property, puts forward a compelling investment thesis as well as offering sage wisdom on the dos and don’ts of commercial real estate in an increasingly complex market. 

In this week’s PropCast, Marshall, the current chair of the investment committee for the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea’s Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) – offers a robust, clear-eyed assessment of how pension money should be managed, what’s wrong with government pooling proposals, and why most investors are paying too much in fees. The conversation, led by Andrew Teacher, was direct, illuminating, and refreshingly free from the usual fog of institutional platitudes.