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Monica O'Neill is CEO of ENSO Advisors LLC. She was a Co-Founder at Tristan Capital Partners, and a Managing Director at AEW Europe. She joined Anna Clare Harper for this episode of The Return.

Monica has grown two multi-billion dollar real estate platforms and helped shape the US affordable housing system (via Low-Income Housing Tax Credit).

Now she’s doubling down on UK residential, especially affordable and supported housing.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Why 2025 is a ‘vintage year’ for UK affordable and supported housing

- What the UK can learn from US affordable housing tax breaks

- Why it’s so important to ask more questions - and ignore hype

Her advice?

“If you can’t explain the risks out loud, you don’t understand it.”

Wire Wisdom https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wire-wisdom/id1797011168

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-oneill-greenstrategies/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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Richard Hyde, founder of Thinkhouse joined Anna Clare Harper for this episode of The Return.

ThinkHouse is a brilliant, hand-selected library of housing insights.

Written by people who’ve been in the weeds.

So you don’t need to reinvent the wheel.

→ Work smart, not hard.

This week on The Return, Anna spoke to Richard Hyde, founder of Thinkhouse

A library of 1,000+ reports on housing, policy and strategy.

Highlights:
- 98% of homes we’ll live in by 2030 already exist → retrofit is key
- Land release is blocked by inertia, not intent
- Planning reform alone won’t fix viability
- Small builders + compliance tools = overlooked opportunity

Listen in to learn what’s working, what’s missing and where the real opportunities lie.

Guest website: https://www.thinkhouse.org.uk/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/

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In this episode, the podcasting roles were reversed. Erica Sosna interviewed Anna Clare Harper, Host of The Return and Co-Founder of GreenResi.

Anna says, 'I was lucky to be invited on The Career Equation, hosted by Erica Sosna - career coach and Good Housekeeping’s in-house career expert.

The format is that each guest brings a career challenge they are facing and Erica helps them through it using her methodology.

My challenge (at the time of recording - a few months ago now) was: should I focus on solving problems for individual investors (the backbone of the residential market, who I worked with on 300 deals, who I wrote for in the Telegraph etc) or institutions (whose interest in UK residential is growing, and who are my main clients now).

Erica did such a good job that this question hasn’t bothered me at all since recording, but I thought it was useful to share as, underneath it all, it’s a common problem we all have to navigate at some point: how to adapt to market changes.'

Guest website: The Career Equation®
Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericasosna/
Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/
Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/