075 - Using Institutional Finance in Supported Living with Toby Wilde

In this episode Toby Wilde explains how he is working with institutional lenders to develop supported and social housing. He shares his experience of developing supported living property in London and gives great practical advice for property investors about developing and investing in property for supported living. Toby is the Founder of The Oparo Group which was the first algorithm driven real estate investment company in the U.K. Working with Financial Institutions and Private Equity, Oparo invests in impact driven Residential, Social and Supported Housing. Toby comes from the multi generation Milne real estate family but carved his own path in the property industry. He started his career as a broker. Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Toby specialized in the high-volume lettings and management sector. Having gained experience as developer and a development consultant, Toby was then one of the founding partners of Sprift.com, a revolutionary property data aggregating platform. www.tobywilde.comwww.oparosocial.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobywilde/ Lisa Brown became a property investor after a long nursing career. She initially developed heritage properties and then a chance encounter led her to discover supported living. She realized this was a powerful way to invest in property while creating homes for people with a support need. Lisa set about discovering why property investors struggle to let their properties to supported living providers and why providers struggle to find property to let. She has been educating people, raising awareness and working on solutions to this problem ever since. Lisa is the host of the Supported Living Property Podcast and YouTube channel and formed The Supported Living Property Facebook Group.    Lisa is founder of The Supported Living Property Network, a place for property investors and supported living providers to connect, build relationships and communicate about property they have available and/or need. Membership includes access to training courses, monthly training events and networking events and access to The Supported Living Property Network Conference. To find out how you can join The Supported Living Property Network please follow this link: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/the-supported-living-property-network⁠ Lisa has written a free guide for you: If you are a property investor download this free guide to help you find providers to lease your property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-property-investors⁠   If you are a provider who is looking for property to lease then download this free guide to help you find property: ⁠https://www.supportedlivingproperty.uk/free-guide-for-providers⁠  These interviews are also available as podcasts from your usual podcast provider, just search for The Supported Living Property Podcast. Please make sure you click the "subscribe" button so you don't miss an episode.