Living Markets: Making the Numbers Work

Justine Edmonds - Chair

Director, Build to Rent, LRG

Justine has over 20 years in the UK residential property sector and holds national responsibility for leading the Group’s Living Markets strategy across Single Family Housing and Multifamily portfolios. Justine works closely with institutional investors on capital deployment, operating model design, mobilisation and stabilisation strategy and the delivery of capital efficient, performance led rental platforms. Alongside operational oversight, Justine plays a key role in pre acquisition viability analysis and development due diligence, supporting Investment Committee decisions through rigorous review of rental assumptions, absorption rates, operating cost benchmarks and long term performance modelling.

Duncan Williams

Acquisition Director - Single-Family Housing, Apache Capital/Present Made

Duncan Williams is Acquisitions Director, Single Family Housing, at Apache Capital and has overall responsibility of acquiring opportunities for Apache's pioneering Single Family Housing Platform Present Made. He has 10 years of real estate experience in real estate property planning and development and has delivered numerous large-scale housing developments. Apache Capital is a UK-focused, vertically-integrated investment manager and operator specialising in residential rental real estate. Its unique approach allows it to oversee the full asset lifecycle, from site acquisition and planning to operations and asset management. Apache partners with leading development partners to deliver high-quality, scalable housing that meets the needs of diverse renters. With a clear focus on institutional-grade operations, Apache delivers real estate expertise and operational excellence to address housing demand in high-barrier-to-entry markets. Apache’s strategic vision is focused on scaling its platforms and adapting to evolving market dynamics including Single Family Housing, BTR for a wider part of the market, operational innovation through its in-house capability and long-term investment in the rental living sector partnering with institutions for sustainable value creation. Apache’s portfolio covers 8,000 homes across both BTR and SFH with over 3,000 operational homes in communities across the UK.

David Lamm

CEO, L1 Capital

David Lamm is the Chief Executive Officer of L1 Property and was a co-founder of the business in 2017. L1 Property is a London based UK residential property fund manager sitting within the L1 Group, an ASX-listed, specialist alternative investment manager with ~A$18 billion funds under management. L1 Property has aggregated a sizable portfolio of PRS and BTR assets throughout England and continues to grow its exposure to the strategy.

Sandra Jones

Managing Director, Price Hubble

Sandra is a Director of PriceHubble, an global proptech business that supplies data and analytics on living markets across 11 countries. She was previously CEO of Dataloft, until she led the business through its acquisition by PriceHubble in 2023. PriceHubble holds a unique dataset of achieved rents and renter demographics which is used to underwrite rents and rental demand in any UK local market. It works with clients from across the build to rent sector as well as housebuilders, advisors and policymakers. Dataloft collaborates with BPF, BusinessLDN and ARL to produce the Who Lives in Build to Rent series of reports.