The next monthly instalment of Derby Property Meet takes place on Wednesday 11th October 2023 at 7pm (networking from 6:30pm), held at the amazing premises of our partners Nelsons Solicitors in Derby.

Nelson Solicitors, Stern House, Lodge Lane, Derby. DE1 3WD.

Click the link below to book now to secure your place at this exciting event.

Derby’s only independent property networking event held in the city returns to some more awesome property investment content and a chance to meet fellow property professionals. We have more excellent guest speakers this month to share their expertise, knowledge and experience and will be there to answer your questions. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the evening to network with fellow property professionals in the room.

Book your ticket now!!

Speakers in October

Peter Speight

Peter served for 20 years in the British Military specialising in surface to air missile systems, managed the largest air defence workshop in the British Army and served with the Defence Procurement Agency working on tri-national billion pound weapon systems

He held senior engineering management role for Howdens and was responsible for the National Distribution Centre, developed 3 new warehouses (totalling £1.6 million sq ft) and capital projects of up to £19 million

He owns commercial property and is experienced in commercial conversion and development projects with £million GDVs

He has a large serviced accommodation portfolio including R2R and Buy to hold, has developed a 28 bedroom ApartHotel, maximising the ground floor space into multi income revenue streams including gym / cafe / dark kitchen 2022-23

He is going live NOW with a former YMCA hostel developed into a 76 bedroom serviced accommodation centre and has performed land development of 4.6 acres site into specialist care units.

Peter is a mentor to business and property owners specialising in mindset and motivation techniques and is passionate about health, fitness and family.

The next monthly instalment of Derby Property Meet takes place on Wednesday 13th September 2023 at 7pm (networking from 6:30pm), held at the amazing premises of our partners Nelsons Solicitors in Derby.

Nelson Solicitors, Stern House, Lodge Lane, Derby. DE1 3WD.

Click the link below to book now to secure your place at this exciting event.

Derby’s only independent property networking event held in the city returns to some more awesome property investment content and a chance to meet fellow property professionals. We have more excellent guest speakers this month to share their expertise, knowledge and experience and will be there to answer your questions. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the evening to network with fellow property professionals in the room.

Book your ticket now!!

Speakers in September

Dawn Deakin 

Dawn Deakin is the Service Manager for the Housing Standards Team at Derby City Council (DCC).
She started her career as a nurse working for the NHS and sidestepped into working for DCC in Environmental Health (EH) in 1993. She worked as the Communicable Disease Control Nurse, then DCC sponsored her through a MSc in EH to become a qualified Environmental Health Officer.

Dawn also worked in Health Promotion, followed by 11 years in Occupational Health and Safety and has now worked in the Housing field for 12 years.
She has seen many changes and challenges along the way, and as now as austerity measures and the cost of living crisis bites hard, budgets are being cut and recruitment is very challenging.

Dawn leads a team of 14 and is passionate about good landlords being recognised for their hard work and non-compliant landlords being brought to task by robust enforcement actions.

Claire Saunders

Claire has been trained in many aspects of property and what with her background in lease finance, this enabled her to start her Asset Leasing Business “CashFlow Leasing” in June 2019.

CashFlow Leasing helps Limited Company property investors to grow their businesses quicker, by furnishing their rental properties, such as HMO’s, SA’s, Care homes, Social housing properties and hotels, by leveraging lease finance.

Leasing is tax efficient, and has minimal upfront costs, meaning she has helped 1000’s of investors to keep their cash in their business with her forward, out the box thinking. 

The next monthly instalment of Derby Property Meet takes place on Wednesday 9th August 2023 at 7pm (networking from 6:30pm), held at the amazing premises of our partners Nelsons Solicitors in Derby.

Nelson Solicitors, Stern House, Lodge Lane, Derby. DE1 3WD.

Click the link below to book now to secure your place at this exciting event.

Derby’s only independent property networking event held in the city returns to some more awesome property investment content and a chance to meet fellow property professionals. We have more excellent guest speakers this month to share their expertise, knowledge and experience and will be there to answer your questions. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the evening to network with fellow property professionals in the room.

Book your ticket now!!

Speakers in August

Ranjit Seehra

Ranjit Seehra is a Chartered Civil Engineer based in Derby, UK and has over 30 years experience within property and construction. After gaining some ‘formal’ property training in 2015 he and his business partner invested in single lets and HMOs. Ranjit left his corporate life in 2019 and alongside property investing he has helped over 800 people and families with their property projects through his design consultancy, SREAR Design & Consulting. He also offers mentorships to ensure businesses set off and grow successfully. And in his spare time he is a SSAS pension trustee!

This month he will talk about ‘Maximising the benefits of Permitted Development Rights for your projects’

Sarah Poynton-Ryan

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by how to make money in property in 2023? Does “success” feel like it is slipping further and further out of reach?

Sarah Poynton–Ryan felt the same at the end of 2015. After getting married in September 2015 Sarah took stock of life and realised that she was not where she needed, wanted or deserved to be. Having built up around £60,000 of debt since starting University through poor money management, Sarah needed to make a change. Sarah needed a strategy to bring in sustainable cash flow that would give her financial independence and clear the debt. Sarah launched her property business that focused on start up investment models that need little savings to start. Just 6 weeks after making that decision in 2015, she landed her first deal worth £56,000 net profit and has never looked back and she billed over £100,000 in her first full year of trading in 2016.

Sarah is a self diagnosed sales and marketing geek and truly believes that in business we get paid as a consequence of doing the best job possible for our clients.

Since 2015 Sarah has built a mixed strategy property portfolio that has made her financially free. Working on development projects, new build, buy to let, rent to rent, HMO, Serviced Accommodation and other exciting projects Sarah’s love for property and its results grows every day.

Sarah has built a reputation as being “accessible” and “supportive” to those she works with and trains. Sarah has achieved incredible results and if you can relate to having “too much month left at the end of your money” then Sarah understands and remembers how you feel.

Sarah will be joining us on Wednesday 9th August to talk about how you can make moves to operate a more profitable business in 2023 regardless of your experience level. Leveraging best practice, systems and operational evolution will help you stay on top of the ever changing property landscape. In her talk she will be sharing a simple to implement set of ideas that also won’t cost you thousands of pounds whichever property business model you are running.

The next monthly instalment of Derby Property Meet takes place on Wednesday 12th July 2023 at 7pm (networking from 6:30pm), held at the amazing premises of our partners Nelsons Solicitors in Derby.

Nelson Solicitors, Stern House, Lodge Lane, Derby. DE1 3WD.

Click the link below to book now to secure your place at this exciting event.

Derby’s only independent property networking event held in the city returns to some more awesome property investment content and a chance to meet fellow property professionals. We have more excellent guest speakers this month to share their expertise, knowledge and experience and will be there to answer your questions. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the evening to network with fellow property professionals in the room.

Book your ticket now!!

Speakers in July

Paula Haverkamp

Paula Haverkamp is an Associate and Litigation Executive at Nelsons, specialising in landlord and tenant issues and property disputes. Her areas of expertise include: 

• Residential landlord and tenant disputes;
• Removal of squatters to include travellers; and
• General litigation support.

Paula achieved the CILEX Level 3 Diploma in Law and Practice and enrolled as an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives in September 2010.

Ritchie Clapson

Ritchie has been involved in property development for almost 40 years, and as co-founder of propertyCEO, he coaches both novice and experienced property developers how to create substantial returns from small-to-medium scale developments.

Ritchie’s development pedigree speaks for itself. A structural engineer by profession, he’s not only worked on hundreds of new-build, commercial and industrial conversion projects, he’s also trained and mentored countless developers and property professionals during his long career in the industry.

A business coach and strategist, he built up one of the country’s leading structural engineering firms and was appointed by the government as peer review engineer for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium.

Today Ritchie and his business partner Ian Child head up propertyCEO, one of the country’s most exclusive property development training companies.

www.propertyceo.co.uk

The next monthly instalment of Derby Property Meet takes place on Wednesday 14th June 2023 at 7pm (networking from 6:30pm), held at the amazing premises of our partners Nelsons Solicitors in Derby.

Nelson Solicitors, Stern House, Lodge Lane, Derby. DE1 3WD.

Click the link below to book now to secure your place at this exciting event.

Derby’s only independent property networking event held in the city returns to some more awesome property investment content and a chance to meet fellow property professionals. We have more excellent guest speakers this month to share their expertise, knowledge and experience and will be there to answer your questions. Of course, there will be plenty of opportunities throughout the evening to network with fellow property professionals in the room.

Book your ticket now!!

Speakers in June

Luke Bilson

Director of C & B Property Solutions LTD – Since the age of 21, alongside my full time job in real estate, Luke has consistently carried out property flips in his spare time. This started as a passion and has since matured into a business which was officially set up in 2020 and is now operated by Luke and his fiancé, Amy Cooper.

We are hugely passionate about property and being open and honest when it comes to sharing our journey with others. I will run the group through a few of our recent projects, the up’s, the down’s and the lessons learnt along the way.

Richard Stone

Richard is a Builder/Developer and Chartered Construction Manager as well as a Non-Exec, Trustee, TEDx Speaker, Public Speaker, and Coach Mentor & respected trainer with a quick wit and a great sense of humour along with a real handle of what it takes to deliver results in Construction, Property and business as well as a passion to support the learning of others. 

His 30+ years experience construction from building sites to senior management and board level on companies large and small

As well as training and mentoring those in property, Richard also works with other business owners to help them maximise their profits and regain time and has become known for his ability to dispense valuable no nonsense insightful advice either as a Non Exec or in fractional roles. 

Respected for his extensive expertise and his unrivalled commitment to his own and others personal development as well as his work ethic. 

Richard is a sought after public speaker and highly regarded Non-Exec and coach and mentor