Sessions 2025

The Negotiator’s Head of Content, Nigel Lewis and Zoopla’s Chief Operating Officer, Rich Hayes welcome delegates to the Conference and start the day’s sessions.

Rt Hon. Sir James Cleverly MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, will be in conversation with Maryam Moshiri. Followed by Q&A.

Four industry leaders discuss the changing shape of estate and letting agency, sharing their perspectives on an industry in flux, driven by legislative and economic force – Connells’ Helen Charlesworth, Zoopla’s Paul Whitehead, Propertymark’s Nathan Emerson and Lomond’s Sam Mitchell.

David Willetts is President of the cross-party think-tank The Resolution Foundation, a major influencer on Government economic policy.

Two days before the Conference, Rachel Reeves will have delivered her Autumn Budget, perhaps the most significant fiscal package of this century.

D-Day for landlords and letting agents is May 1st, so agents need to be ready. Our panel of lettings and legal experts – Ben Beadle, Valerie Bannister, Paul Shamplina and Dan Radford, will discuss the new legislation and explain its priorities for agents to keep them on the right side of compliance, as the Act’s […]

Helen Charlesworth is CEO of Connells Group. The industry blue-chip operates the nation’s largest estate agency network with a 1,200-office presence through its main brand and over 80 other local estate agency brands on every high street.

The Government has been in consultation with the industry for many months and has announced its intention to legislate to reform the property sales process and bring in minimum qualifications. And we have the experts with the greatest coalface experience of the legislation on hand.

Richard Donnell is Executive Director at Zoopla and a leading analyst of housing market trends. With a wealth of current data at his fingertips, courtesy of Zoopla, he will look at key trends to help agents plan for 2026.

Our panellists are all property tech experts, innovators and entrepreneurs, steeped in the automation and digitalisation of everything to do with buying, selling and letting a house. They at the forefront of innovation in proptech with their hands on the levers that will steer the industry both now and in the future.