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In this episode, Viewber co-founder Ed Mead talks to an insider, and important team member. Chris is a key member of the business development team and talks with clients daily. Many of you might be familiar with him now, so do let him know you’ve listened to this episode, and of course make your comments!

What is Chris’s background? Career journey? It started in South Africa in the fast-paced, banking and property world. Full of interesting facts and knowledge

Want to hear more real ‘behind the scenes’ stuff from Viewber? Here is your chance.

Trading Standards (NTSELAT's) research showed that >90% of those going on portals wanted to see detailed info about a property. So I'm not sure I understand why there should be any backlash at all against such info being mandated?! I've seen solicitors and agents worrying about it - why?

Interested to hear what James Munro, Head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team thinks about this 🤔

One of many news articles about it: https://www.estateagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2022/2/lawyer-says-some-agents-wont-cope-with-property-listings-regulations

This episode of The Crexi Podcast explores how proptech will streamline future CRE investing with Jake Marmulstein, CEO of Groundbreaker Technologies.

The Crexi Podcast explores various aspects of commercial real estate in conversation with top industry professionals. In each episode, we feature different guests, tapping into their wealth of expertise and exploring the latest trends in the world of commercial real estate. 

In this episode, Crexi's Yannis Papadakis sits down with Jake to discuss the story of founding a proptech company and how technologies will define and empower the future of commercial property investing.

Their wide-ranging conversation covers:

• The initial challenges of entering the proptech space and how Groundbreaker overcame those obstacles.
• How specialized CRE technology works in partnership with investment groups to facilitate operational processes.
• The importance of intentional team building and empowering new hires to lead as a company grows.
• Trends in the adoption of commercial real estate technology and how the industry is becoming more confident in its usage.
• The importance of data in building out AI/machine-learning-powered processes. 
• And much more!

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About Jake Marmulstein:

Jake is the Founder, President & CEO of the Real Estate Investment Tech SaaS company Groundbreaker Technologies. 

At Groundbreaker, Jake owns the Company's strategic vision, recruiting, fundraising, and company culture. Before founding the company, Jake held several roles in real estate and technology, supporting the growth of early-stage digital technology ventures. In 2011, he started his real estate career while underwriting distressed hotel investments for Watermark Capital Partners, a private REIT based out of Chicago. He graduated from The Hotel School at Cornell University with a concentration in Real Estate Finance. 

Before moving to Chicago, Jake lived abroad in Europe, Brazil, and Puerto Rico, learning both Spanish and Portuguese.

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Starting off 2022 with Ed doing a special solo episode. Ed reveals more of his true thoughts and feelings on working in the property industry.

As we all know, working from home is STILL a hot topic.​

Ed has lived both lives, as a fast paced, face-to-face London property estate agent surrounded by fellow colleagues, and the complete opposite working solo from home on his own business ventures. He's gone from being an 'insider' in the estate agency world to an 'outsider' running a company that services estate agents.

He is ready to report back and spill some of his secrets to help others that are on their own property journey.

This is very open, very honest episode from Ed and some things may certainly surprise you.
"There is no excuse these days for people not to improve the service!"

Julieta Moradei, Partner at Hometeam Ventures, talks about their vision "to close the housing gap" through investing in ambitious founders developing revolutionary technology for the construction industry. Julieta shares an inspiring story of how they created Hometeam Ventures from a non-profit, about being a first-time fund manager, and authentic examples of startups making phenomenal innovations to improve the construction life cycle.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

[6:01] How working with an AEC-based non-profit inspired our unique journey into venture capital

[10:07] Why is the construction and housing industry hungry for innovation?

[14:15] Your personality and reputation is everything in VC

[27:46] How a 3D printing startup is changing lives through affordable housing

Non-profit that Julieta is passionate about: New Story Charity

About Guest Speaker

Julieta Moradei is a Partner at Hometeam Ventures. She drives dealflow and operations of the fund. Prior, Julieta led R&D at New Story Charity, where she formed 50+ partnerships with key academic and industry leaders to pioneer groundbreaking solutions for affordable housing. This includes a partnership with ICON, which built the world's first 3D printed community. Julieta’s industry research focuses on circular economy, automated drone inspection, resiliency, and sustainability. 

About Hometeam Ventures

Hometeam Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in and scales double bottom line startups that improve the construction life cycle by reducing cost, increasing speed, and improving quality, resulting in more adequate housing globally. Hometeam focuses on BIM & Digital twins, Finance, Project & Job Site Management, Supply Chain Optimization, Industrialized Construction (3D printing, modular, prefab), Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning. Portfolio companies include AirWorks, ICON, and REDIST.

Next Week’s Episode

Coming up next week in Episode 73, we welcome a special guest, Charles Hudson, Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures, to talk about why Precursor is unafraid to back unproven, first-time entrepreneurs. Charles explains how he finds the most promising investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure.

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Ed welcomes social housing expert and consultant, Jonathan Gregory to the podcast.

Plenty to learn about the sector in this very open and honest chat between the pair - one experienced in the private rental sector, the other in the social rental sector.

Jonathan has a background in social care and managing children’s homes and is well-known as a part of the social housing, maintenance and repair side of the industry. He also provides coaching/advice to organisations and is a consultant at sector expert Campbell Tickell.

Ed admires what Jonathan has achieved, not only for himself and building up his businesses but for what he has done for other people.

Differences between the Social Housing and Private sectors is an interesting point that comes to the fore.

This is exactly why Ed invited Jonathan on the show – we can all gain something and learn!

They talk about differences, challenges, life-long relationships between tenants and landlords, what the future holds and more.

Before you tune in, we’ll leave this fact with you – there are around 5 million houses in the social housing sector, an enormous number. There are big issues with positive changes happening and MOST IMPORTANTLY we are beginning to talk about it.

Enjoy the episode.

Speaking with Heidi was one of the most interesting conversations I've been able to have in the investment side of ClimateTech because of her background and story to getting her and also because of her perspective for us in the US and what we can learn from what Europe has done. 

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Viewber co-founder, Ed, has recorded episode two of what we are calling ‘The Ed Mead Diaries’ – a solo series, revealing more about his property career, personal stories, wins, losses – with a whole lot of honesty thrown in there too. 

This time, Ed talks about renting. 

Lately, we’ve been researching this topic in more detail. It can be a touchy subject and there are LOTS of opinions about renting vs buying – take our latest blog post for example, ‘Why are Brits hung up on homeownership?’ - https://viewber.co.uk/news/why-are-brits-hung-up-on-homeownership 

Everyone’s experience is different, but we want to know more about why Ed went down the road he went down (*hint* he would rather rent than buy) – surprising? 

Thinking about starting a career in the property industry or know someone who is?

Would REAL insight into Estate Agency help?

Or might you just like to know a bit more, have a refresh, learn some new tips and tricks from a long term, successful player.

We've started a new series with Viewber Co-Founder Ed Mead - it could be time to reeeeally find out what Ed's journey has been like.

With 40 years in this industry, he has some salient knowledge to pass on (plus a few amusing and rather honest tales!)

If you have anything in particular you would like Ed to cover, or maybe you have a specific question - fire them over to Ed at: emead@viewber.co.uk

Visit the Viewber website: https://viewber.co.uk/

This time, it's Ed's turn to be in the hot seat and we really wanted to share this with you.
Viewber co-founder, Ed Mead was invited onto David Sandeman’s new series – ‘Dialogue with David’

David is head of the Essential Information Group and has been watching us grow the business at Viewber since 2016 

David IS Mr Auctions and is so full of knowledge. 

This is a relaxed and honest chat between Ed and David, the two share snippets of their personal journeys in property – both very different (ex-estate agent vs auctioneer) and we start by jumping straight it with ‘what gave you the idea to set it (Viewber) up in the first place?’ 

Longevity works?

Ed talks to London based Ludlow Thompson MD, Alexander Rawlinson in this Lockdown edition episode.

Alex has been part of the company for a long, long time (unusual these days) and is partly why Ed wanted to talk to him.

Alex reveals that typically, Ludlow Thompson mainly deal with more lettings properties than sales, but Covid has levelled that up.

Ed: “Why are you experiencing more lettings and sales at the same time now?”

Alex: “We’ve not experienced this before. Both lettings and sales are seeing inflated numbers because of changed circumstances”

Short lets are out the window. Those Landlords have looked for longer, more traditional rents – or are putting them up for sale.

An interesting episode, a first-hand perspective from a long-term agent reporting on what changes are REALLY happening on the agency front line – it’s definitely got us thinking!

Property technology, or proptech as the industry calls it, has been around for decades. However, a new breed of data driven startups in the proptech space are starting to disrupt the proptech industry that has traditionally been dominated by the incumbent, legacy platforms.  Individuals looked to build their own portfolio of properties as a side income or a main livelihood have never had it better with platforms enabling  developers to make fast, intelligent and insightful choices on where to buy land or build properties. Larger companies who are in the property building and land development space are also reaping the benefits of proptech where they are able to respond faster to economic and climate change and therefore maintain that dominance in their niches. 

In this episode of Tied Together, we speak with Ro Sharma who owns an established property portfolio and is also a proptech enthusiast who is connected with some of the leading  startups. With his experience in the property markets and love for proptech, Ro shares his insights into how new proptech platforms are disrupting their industry and shares his thoughts on the possibility of developing an ecosystem based solution that brings together many of these startups and established players in the proptech field. 

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This week Viewber co-founder, Ed Mead caught up with CEO of Prospect Engine, Ishmael Herrera-Lee.

Prospect Engine is a clever lead management outsourcing outfit.

As Ishmael describes his company, it’s a white labelled outsourced prospecting firm, working predominately through historic data i.e. previous appraisals, landlords, listings, withdrawn stock, applicants with properties to sell on the market selling privately. They also manage and handle any type of lead source, giving a response within minutes – extremely efficient.

Ishmael bought some thought-provoking topics to the table – not just to get Ed thinking, but maybe for you too.

Ishmael’s company, Prospect Engine and Viewber work in sync with each other at different points in the customer journey – Proptech, two for the price of one.

We will let the podcast do the rest of the talking...

Another positive collaboration that’s come from Viewber co-founder Ed’s lockdown…

Rupert Bates has spent his career in journalism with a property background including twenty years at The Telegraph covering property and sport.

He's now editorial director and owner of industry bible Show House Magazine and B2C portal Whathouse.com. Anyone familiar with his Social Media feeds will understand his passion for Rugby and Wolves(!). He's also fearless about wandering out of his comfort zone.

Show House is the go-to publication in the housebuilding and development arena and Rupert realised that many of his readers might struggle post Covid with understrength staffing and booming demand. Thinking practically, he figured Viewber's last mile services could be a perfect fit for their readers’ businesses and the upshot is a thoroughly modern partnership between his magazine and the flexible Viewber services.

If you are connected to the housebuilding industry see if you agree with what they say...

As the world came to a Covid halt, Viewber co-founder Ed turned lockdown around and used it to positively listen to a variety of industry experts.

If you don’t know Richard Rawlings, founder of Estate Agency Insight already, he is an award-winning estate agency trainer and sought-after coach and always at top-industry gatherings.

The reason Richard is here is because Ed was trouble shooting with the team on why all high street agents don't at least use Viewber occasionally – Ed knew exactly who would tell him how it is.

Richard’s insights into the industry and how it's changing are worth listening to, his seminars are always targeted at generating income and maximising profits and they have 70 years of property experience between them.

They also talked about something Ed used to do a lot during his time at Douglas & Gordon - acting for buyers. At uncertain times it's clearly a source of income that benefits from your local expertise and requires no extra set up costs, it’s very interesting to hear what Richard has to say about that too...

Welcome back to ‘#EdTalks’ the property podcast!

Ed has invited an old friend into the recording booth this time (a familiar face to a lot of you), Phil Spencer.

In this open and honest episode, Phil talks more about his journey, starting work as an estate agent at 23 and learning the hard way, especially when recession hit the property market! He has developed quite the career for himself in the property industry, seemingly mostly on the buyer’s side, so it was a fantastic opportunity for Ed to delve a little deeper into finding out more.

Ed asks more about filming on his hit TV shows such as ‘Location, Location, Location’ and ‘Love it or List it’ and uncovers more of what goes on ‘behind the scenes’.

We also learn more about Move iQ – Phil’s business that has just turned 2 and is based around guidance and advice for buyers, which is certainly growing at a rapid pace.

Grab your headphones and tune in!

(Watch the video recording of this podcast episode over on the Viewber YouTube channel)

Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) used to be a dirty word in Ed's day, but are they now a passport to better yields.

Do you worry about keeping up with lettings legislation in general and should you be actively thinking of turning your existing rental into one for a better return?

Do you even know if that rental you own/manage even IS an HMO and requires licensing?!

With over 300 authorities in the UK to understand and stay compliant with, how do you keep up to date?

Ed's guest this month has been working with some of London's top names for three years to manage compliance in this area. Let someone else keep up with constantly changing legislation and avoid headline grabbing and eye watering fines!

Hear how Paul Conway, owner and co-founder of HMO Services London, has been taming this fast growing area, is trying to rebrand HMOs as ''Co-Living" and how he can connect you with experts nationally who'll give simple on demand advice.

A great discussion - see what you think...

Everyone coming on the #EdTalks podcast series has something to say, they're also increasingly listened to as our figures show. This month, however, Ed's guest is not only Chairman of one of the UK's biggest agency groups, but is also MP for Thirsk and Malton. 

Kevin Hollinrake MP talks to Ed about Affordable Housing, Stamp Duty, Regulation vs beefed up Redress, Hunters and much much more.

If you want to listen to someone who actually has a voice and a say in YOUR future, this is your chance.

The perfect commuting listen and if you have any comments to make please let us know or go to Kevin's own website - www.kevinhollinrake.org.uk

Happy listening...