2020 Sponsors

Aldermore Group PLC is a specialist bank offering straightforward products to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), homeowners, landlords and individuals. 

Building on its core values of being reliable, expert, dynamic and straightforward, Aldermore aims to deliver banking as it should be.

Aldermore supports commercial investors, commercial landlords and experienced property developers to fund, invest, purchase and develop quality residential and commercial property through its Commercial Mortgage range and Property Development Finance offering. 

Speak to the team to find how Aldermore’s bespoke underwriting, flexible terms and award-winning service can help you realise your ambitions from the ground up. For more information visit aldermore.co.uk/realestate 

With 40 years’ experience, FirstPort is the largest residential property management company in the UK. It manages more than 184,000 homes in England, Wales and Scotland across more than 3,900 developments, and has in excess of 3,000 employees dedicated to looking after people’s homes. 

Harris Associates provides advice and expertise at each stage of a building’s lifecycle, from feasibility and pre-acquisition stages, statutory compliance, maintenance, renovation and refurbishment, through to remedial work and latent defect resolution including façade assessments, analysis and works coordination.

Understanding the direct correlation between effective Asset Management, Risk Assessment and Compliance, with Asset Value is key to the way in which Harris Associates operates. The ethos of the firm goes beyond technical excellence and places customers at the heart of service delivery. Working with colleagues across the sector and developing strategies that fit our client’s needs helps us to achieve this.

A young dynamic approach to the ever evolving world of property insurance, the exceptionally experienced team at Insurety ensure that clients across all disciplines within the Property sector experience a market leading approach to insurance and risk management. A core focus on Property Managers, Landlords and Freeholders means that we focus solely on what matters – supporting our clients when they need us most.

Osborne Clarke is a future-focused international legal practice with over 850 talented lawyers and 260+ expert Partners across 25 locations. We help clients across eight core industry sectors to succeed in tomorrow's world. We're listeners, innovators and problem solvers, finding new ways to join the dots between our clients' challenges today and the opportunities being created in an ever-evolving, ever-developing global society.

Rentify works with developers, institutional investors and private landlords to let properties at market rent and guarantees the rent irrespective of arrears, voids, or maintenance costs for the duration of the contract. The company uses machine learning and automation to fuel everything from price prediction to real-time offer negotiation.

Shoosmiths is a UK leader in the ‘living’ sector. We have invested heavily in this sector for over four decades and have one of the largest national legal practices, advising on schemes the length and breadth of the UK and working with housebuilders, landowners, PRS developers/investors, registered providers of social housing, retirement housing and care home operators, planning authorities and government bodies in all regions of the UK, including Scotland and Northern Ireland. We are able to offer a truly “cradle to grave” service for all residential requirements, supported by experts in tax, planning, environmental, regulatory and real estate ligation, amongst other specialist departments.

Sigma is a private rented sector, residential development, and urban regeneration specialist, with offices in Edinburgh, Manchester and London. Sigma's principal focus is on the delivery of large scale housing schemes for the private rented sector. It has a well-established track record in assisting with property-related regeneration projects in the public sector, acting as a bridge between the public and private sectors. Its subsidiary, Sigma PRS Management Limited, has been appointed as Investment Adviser to The PRS REIT plc, the first London-quoted REIT to focus purely on the private rented sector. 

With over four decades of experience in the provision of award-winning investment, asset and property management software to the residential sector, Yardi understands the multiple factors required to create a rewarding build-to-rent community. 

From core property accounting to attracting investors, managing budgets and costs, branding and marketing, engaging prospects, delivering lifestyle choice and accessing real-time business intelligence to help evolve strategy, Yardi’s fully connected, end-to-end and cloud-based technology stiches the success of this entire journey together for many build-to-rent operators in the UK market. 

Today, Yardi employs more than 6,000 dedicated professionals working in 40 offices throughout Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia, and Australia and has grown to become a leading provider of high-performance, connected software solutions for residential and commercial real estate.