Residential Property Conference 2026

Emma Fletcher

Innovation Director | Chair - RICS Residential Professional Group Panel , Octopus Energy

Emma is the Innovation Director at Octopus Energy Homes. Her career has centred on leading high impact, high innovation projects in real estate, with a particular focus on housing, energy performance and green energy production. Her practical experience includes starting her career in rural surveying and estate management moving into award-winning housing and regeneration developments. Emma is a passionate advocate for change, community resilience and sustainability solutions for all. She established and led the UK’s first fossil fuel-free district heating scheme in her village, Swaffham Prior. Her work regularly features in trade, national and international press & media.

Tom Bill

Partner, Head of UK Residential Research, Knight Frank

Tom is Head of UK Residential Research, producing reports that include Knight Frank’s flagship Prime London indices, the Super Prime London Insight and the London Residential Review. He writes regular articles on how economic and political events shape the UK housing market and has contributed to The Wealth Report, Active Capital and the Global Cities report. Tom, a former Bloomberg and Reuters property journalist, is a regular media contributor on the UK and London property markets and has presented at events in Europe, the Middle East and North America.

Edward Banyard Smith

Partner, Farrer & Co

Tina Mistry

Associate Director, Fire Engineering, WSP

Karen Stanbridge

Director, VX Block Limited

Karen Stanbridge is co-founder and Director of VX Block Limited, a Prop Tech-led residential block management company based in Greater Reading, where she provides strategic oversight across the business. She is a Chartered Management Accountant, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMI-certified project and programme manager, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and holds MTPI status. Karen is also co-owner of KPC Property Group, which primarily invests in asset-backed opportunities, and owner of The Business Coach. Through The Business Coach, she helps SME owners and directors bring structure, commercial clarity, business strategy and disciplined AI governance to their businesses, enabling better decision-making, reduced operational noise and measurable commercial value from AI.

Ellodie Gibbons

Barrister, Landmark Chambers

Marie Joyce

Partner, Marr-Johnson & Egerton LLP

Professor Richard Fitton FRICS

Technical Director; Professor of Building Performance, Energy House 2.0, The University of Salford

Richard is the Technical Director for the Energy House 2.0 project a world leading building physics test lab at the University of Salford. He holds a PhD in Building Physics and is a chartered building surveyor, and a Fellow of the RICS. He leads a task group for the development of international standards around energy performance. He has authored over 40 publications in this area. Richard is the Chairperson of the British Standard for Retrofit Assessment. He holds a place on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) which oversees the domestic energy model used in the UK. He is a panel member on the RICS Professional Group Panel for residential property. He is the lead of an Annex of the International Energy Agency studying the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency metrics for dwellings.

Victoria Clark MTPI AssocRICS

Head of Region, Anthem Management

Victoria (Vicky) Clark MTPI AssocRICS, Governing Council Member (Residential Property) Victoria (Vicky) Clark is a recognised leader in property management, with extensive experience driving transformation, reform and professional standards across the sector. Specialising in leasehold and estate management, she has built a career defined by strategic vision, decisive leadership, and an unwavering drive to elevate standards across the property management profession. Now Head of Central London and the South & Southeast regions at Anthem Management, Vicky’s career spans prominent leadership roles across the UK’s property management and development landscape. Formerly Associate Director at Quadrant, Head of Estates at Strawberry Star, and Area Manager at Mainstay, she has directed integration, governance reform, and asset strategy across full-cycle operations. Her ability to align developers, clients, and managing agents around lasting operational excellence continues to distinguish her as a leading voice within the profession. Vicky brings a relentless commitment to advancing property management, driving higher standards, stronger professional recognition, and renewed respect for the expertise at its core.

Justin Young

Chief Executive Officer, RICS

As CEO, Justin is leading the transformation of RICS into an experience-led organisation that puts members, colleagues and other stakeholders at the centre of everything that it does. His background is in business transformation, particularly in the areas of growth and customer experience. His career has been primarily in professional services, including real estate, where he was the Chief Operating Officer at Knight Frank for five years. He has lived and worked in the UK, Europe and Asia, including six years in Singapore with the law firm Clifford Chance where he built successful partnerships and alliances between firms in global networks, and established operations in new locations. Prior to that, Justin was in the technology industry with Hewlett Packard (HP) and the military.

Peter Mitchell

Head of Sustainability & Innovation, Gascoyne Estates

Annabel Huffer BSc (Hons) MRICS

Associate Chartered Building Surveyor, Knight Frank

Annabel Huffer BSc (Hons) MRICS is an Associate Chartered Building Surveyor at Knight Frank, specialising in building consultancy across both commercial and residential sectors. She joined the industry through a Chartered Surveyor Degree Apprenticeship with the University College of Estate Management (now the University of the Built Environment) and has since built a strong reputation for delivering technical advice to a wide range of clients. Annabel is the chair of the RICS Matrics UK Board, a Trustee of the Built Environment Schools Trust, and an RICS Inspire Ambassador, actively promoting the profession to a wide range of people. Recognised as UCEM Alumni of the Year 2024, she is passionate about inspiring young people from all backgrounds to pursue careers in the built environment.

Charles Golding MRICS

Head of Professional Standards, RICS, RICS

Tom Storey MRICS

Senior Specialist - Data, Technology & AI, RICS

Chris Brady

Founder of Metrix and AI Adoption Consultant, RICS Tech Partner

Nina Young, FCA

CEO, Surveyors UK

Nina Young FCA is the founder and CEO of Surveyors UK. A chartered accountant and daily AI practitioner of four years, she translates the RICS AI standard into practical terms for firms, and publishes to 6,500 professionals every week.

Emma Wherry

Of Counsel, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP

Geoff Hunt FRICS

Director, Geoffrey Hunt Building Surveying Services Ltd

Sandy Bastin

Interim TDP Director, TDS

Sandy Bastin is a qualified solicitor with extensive experience in real estate and has been with TDS since 2008. As TDP Director, she oversees the strategic direction and operation of the tenancy deposit protection service. Previously Director of Resolution, Sandy continues to draw on her extensive expertise in dispute resolution, promoting self and early resolution and ensuring disputes are resolved fairly and efficiently, with independent adjudication available where needed. She has also played a key role in the development, training and quality assurance of adjudicators, helping to maintain high decision-making standards across the service. Alongside her operational role, Sandy contributes to raising standards across the sector through TDS Academy, webinars and industry speaking engagements.

Donna Butler

Technical Support Lawyer, Talbots Law

Lorna Pringle

Deputy Agent, South East and East Anglia, Bank of England

Mark Crunden-White AssocRICS

Retrofit Surveyor, People Powered Retrofit

Joanne Baily

Existing Dwellings Trainer, Elmhurst Energy