Seminars by industry professionals will be running throughout the day
Sarah Thompson
Sarah has been Financial Services Director for Your Move for 11 years; prior to that she was head of Business Development for Aviva for three years. Sarah also worked for three years at Bradford and Bingley and was Regional Sales Manager for GA Life in the estate agency business. |
Simon Cox
Simon is approaching 30 years’ experience in the property and mortgage market. He is currently employed in the role of Company Director to Your Move – the UKs largest single branded estate agent, with overall responsibility for the Financial Services Business. Simon has recently brought an 18th century alehouse in Kent with his partner Jaynee and he spends most of his spare time renovating it. |
Kate Faulkner
Kate Faulkner (BSc (Econ), CIM, MBA, DipM) is one of the UK’s leading property analysts, commentators and advisors. Kate’s consultancy helps businesses and organisations communicate better with people carrying out property projects and helps introduce new property products and services. Kate was a commissioner on the RIBA Future of Homes report. She invests in consumer property education, via free seminars and sites such as Propertychecklists.co.uk – which gives people independent, up-to-date, and accurate property project help. Kate is the author of the Which? property books and appears weekly on BBC, ITV and C4, in the national press and on radio. She is regularly called upon to commentate on housing policy, the housing market and to give quality advice to anyone carrying out a property project. |
Lucy Chitty
Lucy has worked at L&Q for over five years. In her current role as Sales Assistant Director, she is responsible for the organisation’s regional sales programme, which includes shared ownership, intermediate market rent (IMR) and a large private sale portfolio. Lucy has over 17 years of experience in the newbuild sales market, 11 years in senior management and has developed various affordable home ownership processes. She is well known within the sector and is a member of the London Home Ownership Group. After Lucy’s seminar, please feel free to talk to her about your concerns regarding buying your first home. She will be able to answer your queries in detail. |
Nick Masheder
Over the 15 years Nick Masheder has been specialising in residential conveyancing, he has helped thousands of people move into their first home. He has also been at the forefront of developing Beaumont Legal into one of the most successful conveyancing firms in the UK, and winners of First Time Buyer magazine’s Best Law Firm for Conveyancing award for the past two years. Having seen many times how stressful moving home can be – especially for those who haven’t done it before, Nick has tailored his firm’s conveyancing services to be personal and to guide home movers through the process, as well as using the latest systems available to make the process as straightforward as possible. |
Joanne Leahy
Joanne Leahy leads the communications team with Experian’s Consumer Services business, which includes Experian’s credit monitoring services. Since joining Experian over two years ago, Joanne has lead a comprehensive credit education campaign to help people really understand and recognise the ways in which they use and manage credit. She aims to teach people how to identify the little changes they can make and to take greater control of their credit rating and finances, in order to achieve the things they want in life. Working with the media, financial education groups and lenders, Joanne wants to help demystify the black box of credit ratings and credit scores. Joanne is originally from Ireland and has worked in public relations and communications for 10 years, across a variety of sectors, including technology, corporate and retail. |
Sam May
Sam has been working for Aldwyck Housing Group for just over two and half years, where he started as a HomeBuy Advisor. After a successful bid for Help to Buy London, he became the Equity Loan Manager, where he oversees the administration of the Help to Buy scheme for London. |
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