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CPD (Ready) Flashcards

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Can you tell me what you learnt in your CPD about Building Safety Bill?

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  • Better understanding of how it will impact on build cost

- How to mitigate potential risks associated with the new laws

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WiredScore - What is this?

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  • Gained an understanding of the Home certification system and how it is being implemented into BTR schemes
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KPMG - Private Equity Review

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  • Learned market activity 2020 subdued

- Cause for optimism resulting from vaccine rollout

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Finding sites and development opportunities with Serac Tech

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  • Alternative land search tool
  • Learned how it could help us to find potential opportunities
  • Learned how it performs due diligence on sites quickly
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Greenford Quay (Greystar) Guided Tour

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  • Gained understanding of Greystar BTR product
  • Learn about what works and what doesn’t in BTR
  • Quantum of amenity excessive
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Affordable Housing Development Appraisal Session

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  • Online session on AH valuation
  • How do AH providers value
  • Value using DCF
  • Learned typical inputs
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Build to Rent: Design Specification Workshop

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  • Understand McLarens product offer for BTR
  • Key competitors Watkin Jones
  • Fizzy Living
  • Dandara
  • Essential Living
  • Moda
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Build to Rent: Development Appraisal Workshop

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  • Key inputs for appraisal
  • How to cash flow on forward funded basis
  • How McLaren using equity would impact on returns
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Annual Review / McLarens Vision

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  • McLarens ambition to position themselves within Public Sector
  • Larger proportion of workload to be public sector based
  • Pursuing build to rent investments
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Student Property Webinar

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  • COVID’s impact on student market

- Student demand down slightly year on year although much anticipated to fall away as students return to uni

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Registered Provider Workshop

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  • How would you set up a registered provider?
  • What are the potential returns?
  • Company’s wider goals?
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Permitted Development Workshop

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  • You can perform certain types of work without requiring planning permission
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Unlocking Opportunities - The risk of planning refusal

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  • How can early engagement with key stakeholders assist in planning?
  • Pre-application advice
  • Making stakeholders feel they have fed into the design
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Property Finance Masterclass

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Learned about different types of funding available

  • Senior debt
  • Mezzanine funding
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Property Measurement Workshop

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  • What are the IMPS?

- When would you use each type?

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Temporary Accommodation Workshop

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  • Helping councils to meet their requirement to house homeless people by providing temporary accommodation
  • Potential to sign Council up on a lease on the finished units
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Savills Research Webinar - What COVID 19 means for the UK property market?

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Discussed how COVID is likely to impact on investor sentiment
- Likely investors will approach with caution

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Open Asset Training Course

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Software that McLaren use to store project photographs securely for future reference

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London RESI Conference 2020

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New London Plans impacs on development

- Shift towards using technology in development to improve efficiencies, costs and product quality

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BTR Forum London

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Learned about key players

“Generation rent” - Young adults aged 18 to 40 who have been priced out of the housing market

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The New London Plan (Pinsent Masons)

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  • Overarching theme of “good growth”

- Shift away from policy making from Local Boroughs to the Mayor in order to encourage development

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London Residential & AH Review

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  • How key players in AH industry feel sector is evolving

- Learnt how AH providers are more commonly partnering with developers to increase provision of AH

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ARCADIS Project Cost Workshop

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Learnt current costs of resi/student/PRS

- Impacted negatively by Net to Gross inefficiencies

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PodPlan Affordable Housing Toolkit

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How to model Section 106 element of scheme using Podplan

  • Excel software that models long term cash flow of different tenure types
  • Gained understanding of AH assumptions (typical)
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JLL Residential Forecast 2019

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Understanding of current political makeup of UK

- Gavin Barwell forecast of potential outcomes of election

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EGI Demonstration

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How to use EGI

- Detailed analysis of how to use EGI for market evidence/planning policy

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Argus Developer Refresher

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  • Investment appraisal (BTR / Student)

- Affordable housing cash flow (Package Price / Golden Brick)

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Anti-Bribery Act 2010

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  • Different forms of Bribery
  • Giving a bribe
  • receiving a bribe
  • Failing to prevent a bribe
  • Bribing a foreign public official
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Site Due Diligence Seminar

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Understanding of key due diligence for site purchase

- What issues can arise when insufficient DD has been carried out?

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HTA Modular Construction

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Benefits and constraints of modular construction
- Potential time savings
- Quality control
 Constraints
- If contractor goes bust
- Supply chain
- Potential lack of flexibility in design
- Increased capital cost of construction
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Living in an Urban World: The case for investing in alternative living assets

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Issues that face housing market

  • Senior Living ad Co-Living can help to address current issue of supply
  • Quantum of elderly people in oversized homes
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Knight Franks Residential investment Breakfast 2019

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Current appetite for investment in “retirement rentals”

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Maximising Proptech’s Potential in Residential Property

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New technologies in buildings

  • Particularly senior living
  • Motion sensing floors that can sense when elderly people have fallen over
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Developer Planning Obligations workshop

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What can be included in s106:

  • Travel plans
  • Contributions to local infrastructure
  • Healthcare
  • Education contributions
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Savills Retirement Living Seminar

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  • Retirement rental model

- Been successful in Australia, France and US

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Promap

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  • Check site boundaries
  • Measure land parcels
  • Create location maps
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CoStar Training

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Can use CoStar to find the age of a building

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Health and Safety at Work

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Health and Safety protocol in office and on-site including necessary PPE.

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Heads of Terms workshop

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Key points within HoT’s

  • Subject to Contract
  • Details of parties
  • Solicitors details
  • Timings
  • Conditions
  • Financials / Price

RICS FINAL INTERVIEW COPY (21 decks)

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