REACT News | Housing with impact: The ‘value’ in social value

Andy joined QSix in July 2019 and is Co-Head of Affordable Housing. He is jointly responsible for developing the firm’s offering in this area. Prior to joining QSix he spent 27 years at Deloitte and Arthur Andersen, 16 as a Partner. Andy was appointed founding UK Head of Deloitte Real Estate, EMEA Real Estate Industry Leader and Global Chair of Real Estate. He also advised a variety of clients in both the public, private and third sectors on strategy, capital markets and finance transactions on residential assets. Also Chair of Governors of the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools and trustee of two local community charities. Andy is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA) and holds an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

As chief executive of ULI Europe, Lisette van Doorn is  responsible for the development of the Institute’s activities across the region, including its renowned pan-European conferences and over 250 local meetings and events across 14 countries. She is also responsible for the ULI Charitable Trust, which raises money to advance ULI’s mission and philanthropic activities across Europe. Van Doorn joined ULI from LIRE, her own consultancy business, which advises international institutional real estate investors and fund managers on strategy, organisational optimisation and portfolio structuring. Prior to this, van Doorn was country manager for CBRE Global Investors where she managed a €1.6bn portfolio of assets in Italy and fund manager of two shopping centre funds (€ 1.3 billion) with assets in Spain, Portugal and Italy. Before joining CBRE Global Investors, van Doorn was founding chief executive for INREV, the European association for Investors in Non-Listed Real Estate Vehicles for four and a half years.

Schroder Real Estate is the c.£16bn AUM property investment management business within Schroders, the UK’s largest listed investment manager with over £0.5 trillion under management. Robin manages the teams responsible for the development, launch and distribution of new investment strategies.  For many years Schroder Real Estate has been incorporating ESG into all of its policies and investments, but over the last two years it has been increasingly focused on impact investing and achieving social value. In particular, it has launched real estate strategies focused on the social supported housing and retirement living sectors in the UK which aim to deliver measurable social value for residents, their families, their neighbourhoods, the NHS and, ultimately, the taxpayer.  Robin joined Schroders in 2018 from InfraRed Capital Partners, a leader in PPP infrastructure investment. He has 30 years’ experience in raising capital across the globe the last 15 of which have been related to real estate and infrastructure investments. He holds a Masters in Finance from London Business School.

Paul Bell has been a councillor for over ten years. Before joining the cabinet, he served as a board director at Lewisham Homes – Lewisham Council’s ALMO, and chair of planning. He is passionate about council housing – as a child, he was homeless. If Sheffield City Council had not helped and provided a home for him and his family, they would have been street homeless. Paul believes that housing along with health, education and employment is vital to enable social mobility and eradicate poverty. As Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning, his responsibilities include housing need, homelessness, planning, regeneration, landlord licensing, private rented sector regulation and the gypsy and traveller community. Paul is also leading on the delivery of 1,000 new social homes and the procurement of properties to house people in temporary accommodation. In his spare time, he advocates for veganism and the rights of people living with disabilities.