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100 Episodes Of Rented Shared Living Truth - Reflections, Predictions and Bold Calls

Elephants in the Room, Controversial Topics and Putting the Rented Shared Living Sector on the Agenda - a UKREiiF Preview Special

Flexible Living Isn't Just Short Stay Anymore - Why It Should Be a Strategic Decision, not a Plan B - a Lavanda Special

Inside The Student Happiness Index, Does Hybrid Hospitality/Living Support Community? Accommodation and the 2yr Degree and our 'I told you so' Moment

Is the Sector Preparing Students for Shared Living? Why First Impressions Count, Rent Setting & The Energy Crisis and Barriers to Building in PBSA & BTR

Renting Without Shame. Can Students Change the Decline of the High St? Is Flexible Living Profitable? Plus the Latest Zoopla Rental Data

Is BTR dead? What Happens to the Housing Market if Renting Stalls? Is Uni Accommodation to Blame for the Rise in Commuters? And Unhelpful Scaremongering Headlines (again!)

Does Anyone Actually Want Blended Living? Unite - The Barometer of PBSA Health, The Social Hub, Benchmarking Real Estate Sales Skills and Stop Ignoring a Solution to Reducing Resident Loneliness

Smarter Tech, Higher Rents. Is the Sector Encouraging Commuting Students? Is All-Inclusive Bills a Scam? Why Renting Has a Reputation Problem

The Student Loan Scandal: The Impact on BTR & PBSA, Why Rent Controls Don’t Work (or do they?), Can Marketing Ever Be Too Much?

Careers in Rental Living; Is the sector Paying Enough? BTR - Thriving or Failing? Replacing Old With New in PBSA and Coliving with the 'Co'

Winning direct bookings from China; busting the myths and giving practical takeaways with expert guests Sam Rason and Gabriel Nicklin

If you can't build it, dont! Unite takes stock. Is this BTRs 'time to shine'? Do studio-heavy schemes breed transience? And Ireland again falls into a rent cap trap.

Shared Living in 2026: PBSA, BTR, Co-Living & Later Living Predictions (or hopes!)

We Called It: Which 2025 Shared Living Real Estate Predictions Were Actually Right? (Or Wrong!)

Student Accommodation Podcast Summit #2 - Reflecting & Projecting with Special Guests Jenny Shaw, Stephen Willis & Timothy Owen

Listener Q&A Special: Anti-social behaviour, Is PBSA a Help or a Hindrance? HMO Voids, Millennial parents, Desks in Bedrooms, Fair Usage for Utilities and Tax Chat

Why Marketplaces aren't just for PBSA, Is Labour Making the Housing Crisis Worse for Renters and What Exactly Is Subscription Living?

The Amenities Battle - what is BTR without them? The Missing Middle Excluded from Shared Living, Affordable vs affordable, Void Room Innovations and Where are all the University Courses Going?

PBSA vs HMOs is the gap getting wider? Is this the year of the re-booker? Why Pricing & Incentives Involves Fighting with Investors, The Sector need to get more Political and why Ops teams are Heroes

Sector Realism, Rebooking Kicks Off, The Reputation of Renting And Ask the Expert Special on The Renters’ Rights Act - what you can do NOW to prepare

Kitchens not Gyms Build Real Community, Tech vs Humans - what do tenants want? Keeping Residents 'Sticky' in BTR and Empowering the Next Generation of Real Estate Professionals

Is Social Media Undervalued in the Sector? Are Investors Getting More Realistic? The Unite Share Price and Have Wellbeing Claims Become a Box-Ticking Exercise? Plus data from Cushman & Wakefield and Native.

How Renting Can Innovate Faster Than Sales, Is there really a Student Quota in BTR? Why do we still need Women only Awards? With guest host Brendan Geraghty.

Living away at University - dangerous headlines, Stigma of HMOs, Drivers in BTR and Co-Living and should the sector be concerned about buying and selling houses getting easier? Plus a BIG announcement!

The Future of Renting, Irresponsible Market Data (again), Student Financial Struggles and Smarter Rent-Setting Strategies

The silver lining void beds can offer, have we cracked the definition of co-living, AI won't wait & Ireland development stalls

Has the 25/26 season been tough for PBSA? Should void beds be a Plan A? Later living housing targets, Uni mergers, The impact of a new housing secretary. Do more 18 year olds going to uni mean more in student accommodation?

Why London's Student Housing Market Plays by Different Rules - recorded LIVE in partnership with Fusion

Cultivating Tomorrow's Leaders: Building Bridges Across PBSA featuring Kelly-anne Watson, Romy Levin and Jon Badge

The Collaboration Revolution in European Student Housing Featuring Kelly-anne Watson and Frank Uffen from The Class Foundation

Reinforcing Student Accommodation in Europe with special guests Frank Uffen and Kelly-anne Watson from The Class Foundation

Audience Q&A Special: Is BTR better than PBSA? Is the Uni Resi Experience still Relevant? What do Neurodiverse Residents Need? And Rental Growth vs Ops Budgets.

Are we failing at training our People? Sales vs Leasing (and which one is right?) Building the 50,000 later living homes needed and we explore AI with The Class Foundation Community Hubs.

Controversy about Housing Supply, Comparing Glastonbury to Shared Living, Having it all and Why are Affordable Rooms only for University Nominations?

Latest Impacts For Universities and PBSA, The Building Safety Act Process, Viable Options For Later Living, The Coliving vs Studio BTR Terminology Debate PLUS Ask The Expert Feature on the Renters' Rights Bill

Data-Driven Sustainability in Shared Living: The Utopi Story with special guest Jonathan Burridge

How Flexible are Contracts Really? Homeviews BTR Report, The Key Feature not Being Communicated and AI in Planning.

Beyond 9-to-5: Creating Spaces That Serve 24/7 Lives, Is PBSA less sexy than BTR and coliving? The Highs and Lows of UKREiiF and Will the UK see a Resurgence of International Students?

The Dangerous Data Driving Student Housing, PBSA Headwinds, Immigration Mixed Messages, Hypermixity and Youth Mobilility

All-inclusive bills: the end of an era? Is entering industry awards worth it? And an exclusive interview about the Housing (Scottish) Bill

Who is responsible for educating tenants? Why are operators changing management companies? Are students using AI to check tenancies and what will happen to PBSA stock in Glasgow in the future?

Are Marketplaces Killing Direct Bookings? Why Laundry Facilities Are a Critical Accommodation Feature, Segregating Students, Twin Rooms and Sector Terminology

Marketplace Challenges, Twin Rooms: The Missing Key to PBSA Affordability? Is dual occupancy really for two people? Why all the single occupancy studios?

Who Represents PBSA? The Flatshare Concept, Living Subscription Models and Ask the Expert on The Building Safety Act

The Student Loan Scandal, Why Accreditation Matters, Rental Security PLUS Ask the Expert Feature on The Leasehold and Freehold Act

Investing in the Future of Student Living, HMOs, Market Trends, Student Wellbeing PLUS Ask the Experts feature on the Renters’ Rights Bill

A UKREiiF special with guest Matt Christie - what makes this such a great event for the shared living community

Being Shy About Sales in PBSA, the Gender Pay Gap, The Rental Living Salary Guide 2025, What is Hypermixity?

What exactly is Single Family Housing and do we consider PBSA a home - and should it contribute to the Labour housing targets?

50th Episode! Laundry poverty, insights from the latest industry events plus EPC legislation and rent controls

Live Altitude Special - In Conversation with a global powerhouse panel on the importance of brand and values, frustrations with marketplaces, Women in PBSA, AI, Geo-political outlooks and more.

The balance between occupancy and revenue, the role of data analytics, and how the sector is reacting to the Renters' Rights Bill

Emotional intelligence, multigenerational living and will international students come back? With Guest Host Zafar Bhunnoo

Find out what students really want from their PBSA booking journey - with special guest Mariel Rubinstein from theEword

What will 2025 bring for the shared living sector? We share our predictions and hopes.

Q&A Part 2 - Bonus Episode - solving the housing crisis, third-party management and rising rents, balancing investor returns, what do students really care about, data inconsistencies and how do the Housed team balance work/life?

Q&A Part 1 - planning consent, uncomfortable truths, design reinvention, the people problem and data.

The Property Week Student Accommodation Conference: our opinions, takeaways and insights from this year's event

What does wider participation mean for accommodation, living black at university, allocation choice and coliving guidelines

Burnout in PBSA, B-Corp making an impact, (more) misleading figures and creating collaborative opex budgets

How to drive change in gender diversity - are men worried about being 'cancelled'? The growing requirements to support wellbeing and is The House of Innovation the answer for the future room?

The future of the rental product in 5-10 years; repurposing and future proofing buildings, the lack of innovation and is policy and red tape a restriction or an enabler?

How The Budget may impact the sector, AI in shared living, do students see the value in uni and should marketplaces be charging booking fees?

The Dangerous Headlines Being Used In PBSA, Empowering Women In Property, Differentiating BTR and How We Can Offer More Affordable Housing

The future of PBSA and the convergence of shared living, Is dynamic pricing out of control? Are you ready for Gen Alpha? And having the perfect streamlined booking journey

How will the Renter's Right Bill affect PBSA? Is everyone getting involved in third-party management? And are students really getting value for money from their accommodation?

Are marketplaces collaborators or competitors? Utilising international connections and local vs national marketing strategies

Where are all the CTOs? Do we really understand PropTech? The appeal of single-family housing (without amenities)? And have we got lazy about promoting Wi-Fi?

Capping numbers of students living in BTR, are all shared living sectors just serviced apartments and looking after the wellbeing of operational staff

Is the PBSA sector having an identity crisis?

Is Clearing really relevant for PBSA, what's shifted this year and long-term strategies

The Importance of Data in Student Accommodation - Paul Humphreys and Tuely Robins of StudentCrowd

UCAS: more than just an application body a summer series episode with Stephen Cleal

Later Living - the sexy part of the property sector with Honor Barratt

Student Accommodation Podcast Summit

International Students Collaboration with ICEF - challenging stereotypes, learning from other countries, affordability and changing study patterns

Hannah Chappatte from Hybr on Fundraising, Female Founders and Innovating the Student Accommodation Sector

Incentives v Price Reductions, Marketing Budget Lines and Cohousing Communities

Build to Rent vs Build to Sell, General Election, ESG and Fire Safety and AI in the Shared Living Sector

Students Being Better Prepared For Uni Life, Data on Renters and Homelessness - will SFH be the saviour? And shared learnings from all Operational Real Estate sectors

Budgeting, Video Content for B2B Marketing and UG Data

Property Ownership vs. Rental Living, Increasing Maintenance Loans and Third-party Management Fees

University League Tables, Purpose-Built Rentals and Single Family Housing and Fractional Support vs Consultancy vs Advisory

Resident Brand Ambassadors, Strategic Planning and Budgeting and Election Season Insights

What does the future look like for investors, developers and operators?, UKREiiF, Investors vs customers, The amenities arms race and The MAC Report

Managing Data, Industry Awards, Pricing and Budgeting and Product Diversity

A Shift In PBSA, Student Protests And The Conference Season

Marketing and Brand Management in the Shared Living Sector

Is There Really a Shortage of Student Accommodation? And What Does Stacking Up Really Mean?

Market Research, Effective Management, Emerging Trends and Tech Innovation

PBSA from an international student perspective, Social Spaces Inspired by Co-working and Trends in Planning Approvals

MIPIM, The COM1 Marketing Conference and legislative measures around student tenancy lengths

Single Family Housing, Generational Shared Living and Allocating Residents in Communal Living

Effective LinkedIn marketing, the popularity of HMOs and the Amber fundraise

Property Marketing Trends, Mixed-Used Schemes and Affordable vs affordable

The big events of 2024, degree apprenticeships, sustainability targets and are studios really coliving?

International students, refurbishing, lobbying and hospitality

The impact of universities being in financial difficulty, diversity and inclusion in the shared living sectors and how students engage with marketing

Cop 28, Later Living and fraudulent international bookings