Overview

20 Apr 2023 Worsley Park Marriott Hotel & Country Club 9.15 – 16.00 Regional Conference

Make it free for 23

We have doubled the size of our conference programme for 2023 in response to demand and, for the first time ever, members will also receive a £100 conference credit as we commit to our make it free campaign. This means that members can attend a National or Regional Conference for completely free in 2023.

Ticket prices

Members: FREE *
Non-members: £100 (+VAT)

Featured session
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National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team

James Munro | NTSELAT

Learn how to look at compliance in a different way and use it to improve customer relationships and bring opportunity to your business.

Venue

Worsley Park Marriott Hotel & Country Club
Walkden Road
Worsley
Manchester
M28 2QT

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Speakers

Kevin Aspin

Chartered Surveyor, Aspin & Co

Kevin is a practising Chartered Surveyor with over thirty years' experience in commercial property. He specialises in valuation, asset management and commercial property management. Kevin also assists many organisations with the development of their property strategies, and lectures at the University of Salford on both under and post graduate property degree courses.

Sessions

Overview of Property Development Thursday @ 1:15 PM

Natan Bram

Policy Lead for Mortgages, Valuation and EWS1, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Natan Bram is the Policy Lead for Mortgages, Valuation and EWS1s within the Safer Greener Buildings Group at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC). The Group works to resolve the fire safety risks of unsafe cladding on buildings following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, and steward the building system of the future. He was previously an official at the Department for Transport and HM Treasury.

Sessions

Listing and selling flats with building safety issues post Building Safety Act Thursday @ 2:45 PM

Henry Griffith

Policy and Campaigns Officer, Propertymark

Henry joined Propertymark in April 2022 after having previously worked as the policy and research coordinator for a large Education Group. He supports members by digesting legislation and government policy to consider how this will impact the sector. On top of this, Henry currently attends and represents Propertymark at a number of government and industry working groups.   

Jason Lee

Commercial Manager, Propertymark

Jason is a vastly experienced sales and auction expert with a demonstrated history of building and growing companies. He worked in agency as both agent and supplier for over 25 years and is passionate about delivering excellent customer service and results. Jason takes pride in development, training and nurturing of all the team and watching them flourish. Multi-award winning in both agency and suppliers’ category from EA Masters, Sunday Times and Negotiator Awards.

Stephen McCarron

President, NAEA Propertymark

Stephen has worked in the Northern Ireland property market for thirty years and been an active NAEA Propertymark member since he began. He started out with Nationwide Estate Agents and working his way up the ranks to eventually open his own agency Donnybrook Estate Agents in 1997.

Sessions

Presidents’ update Thursday @ 1:55 PM

James Munro

Head of the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT)

James joined the Trading Standards profession in 1989 and spent many years as an operational Trading Standards Officer—he now leads the National Trading Standards Estate and Letting Agency Team (NTSELAT) and oversees the regulation of estate agency work in the UK and the private rented sector in England.

National Trading Standards works closely with the redress schemes, professional bodies and government, and the team is there to protect consumers and safeguard businesses in the property sector. James is a Chartered Trading Standards Practitioner, a qualified coach and mentor, and  a regular speaker at industry events.

Sessions

How improving compliance can make you stand out from your competitors Thursday @ 9:40 AM

David Votta

Immediate Past President, ARLA Propertymark

David started his career in 2009 as a trainee lettings negotiator for a large independent estate agency in Kent. He moved onto Spicerhaart as a senior lettings branch manager before setting up his own agency in 2018.

David is a hands-on, frontline agent with ambitions to see the industry professionalised through regulation which he helped drive forward through his time as ARLA Propertymark President. He shares Propertymark's belief that regulation will create a level playing field for all agents and see that housing standards are raised.

Sessions

Presidents’ update Thursday @ 1:55 PM

Francis West

CEO, Security Everywhere

Originally from South Africa, Francis has spent nearly 30 years in the UK delivering IT and cyber security solutions to businesses. He launched Westtek Solutions with the aim of redefining IT Support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Through hard work and innovation, he has formed strategic partnerships to provide comprehensive support and cutting-edge cyber security solutions through Security Everywhere, a cyber security focussed business aimed at educating and protecting over one million people from cyberattacks by 2023. Francis is a mentor for CompTIA, helping train the technology gurus of the future and believes that it is the increase in cyberawareness that is at the heart of the solution to the threats we all face.

Sessions

Are you cyber secure? Thursday @ 10:40 AM

Look back at 2022

Propertymark update
Sponsor
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Sponsor

The Letting Partnership

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Clare Yates—what a great speaker, very engaging and made it light-hearted while gaining valuable tips.

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Penny Preston Lewis Haughton Wills

I think the ''Baddies'' from Trading Standards, The Property Ombudsman and GDPR updates were the most informative speakers, and had a real enjoyable approach, keeping heavy material quite light. Also meeting lots of like-minded letting agents and property professionals was nice!

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Dan Alsop CGT Lettings

All speakers very good and those who had exhibitions up in the 'mingling room'. Propertymark are doing some really good work now and you can see this has been building for a few years, I especially appreciated the comms during the lockdowns and the panic of Covid. The constant communication and info was very good and really helped.

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Phillip Bishop Perry Bishop

Well organised with excellent speakers and presentations. It was good to catch up with people in the industry too.  

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Andy Goundry

It was the first conference I have been too and took so much away from each speaker. Loved it, great meeting such passionate people.

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Becky Dutton

The talks were not too long and there were good amount of breaks throughout the day. All were very interesting and engaging, especially The Trading Standards and TPO talks. It was interesting to understand what they are doing so we can improve our standards.

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Emma Sanderson

* Members can attend one conference for free in 2023 (Propertymark One not included). If a member wishes to attend another conference in the same year, the price will be £100 +VAT. Simply register for the conference as normal and our events team will be in touch to take payment.

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