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Simon Loveridge

Musician

Jul 2, 2026

speaker_0HOST
35:48
What is your view on that? Important to you?
35:52
So I used to be very much in that camp.
35:55
And I think there are certain roles where it is almost a hygiene factor, particularly if you've got quite a lean team.
36:01
So if I think about... hiring like an investment associate or someone who's going to have to support the business on interfacing directly with banks and underwriting new deals, interfacing with that.
36:19
I think you lose a lot of time to bring someone in who's not worked in real estate because the fundamentals of how you talk about that, how cash flow works, returns are looked at, all the jargon that real estate people bore you with, is you will lose 12 to 18 months upskilling someone.
36:39
Now, if you had a team of 20 analysts, associates, VPs, you could probably carry a few people who are fresh too without real estate experience.
36:50
For us, when we're hiring in those roles, it's a bit of a non-negotiable.
speaker_0HOST
39:14
how is um we talked about you're implementing ai across the business yeah um how is that impacting your hiring strategy and people you hire now that, you know, this is a skill that most people are going to need to have in some respect or an awareness or a

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