Profiles

The landlords, investors, founders and financiers shaping UK property — their strategies, mistakes and bets for the years ahead.

Best known as a one-club man at Manchester United, a Champions League winner and a mainstay of England’s back line, Neville’s post-football life has unfolded in public: as a pundit, entrepreneur, property developer and, increasingly, a hotelier with serious intent.

Profile

From pitch to property: Gary Neville’s second career in hotels

Owner & Managing Director, Relentless Group

Best known as a one-club man at Manchester United, a Champions League winner and a mainstay of England’s back line, Neville’s post-football life has unfolded in public: as a pundit, entrepreneur, property developer and,…

short-term holiday lets

Geoff Marlow: ‘Three cottages out-earn my teaching pension, and I feel slightly guilty’

Owner and host, Marlow Coastal Cottages

Residential HMOs

Sarah Okafor: ‘The landlord exodus is the biggest buying opportunity of my career’

Founder and director, Okafor Property Group,

student HMOs

Priya Nair: ‘International students saved my portfolio, and most landlords turn them away’

Founder and director, Nair Student Homes

Multi-let light industrial

Tom Brindle: ‘My tenants repair their own roofs. Try that with a buy-to-let’

Founder and managing director, Brindle Estates