Leasehold London 2026

Shaun is a Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner and Chartered Building Engineer with over 25 years of experience in health, safety, and fire risk management. In addition to his role as Quality Assurance & Strategy Director at Tetra, Shaun is a visiting academic at the University of Greenwich and Middlesex University, and he serves as an external examiner at the University of Malta. He is actively involved with The Property Institute and the Building Safety Alliance, focusing on the impacts of emerging legislation on building safety. Shaun currently holds the position of Vice-Chair of the IOSH Construction Group Committee. His ongoing research interests include ethics, leadership, education, and competence in health, safety, and fire practice within the built environment.

Malcolm has worked the majority of his 30-year career serving the built environment sector, starting out in the construction trade press on national weekly titles such as The Architects’ Journal, Construction News and New Civil Engineer. Malcolm also worked at board level for an SME urban design studio and on the international vocation competition event ‘WorldSkills’. Malcolm’s experience in residential property comes from eight years at RICS before joining IRPM. Following IRPM’s merger with ARMA, Malcolm is now Chief Commercial Officer at ‘The Property Institute’ with responsibility for the Institute’s membership offer.

Shaun provides the management and strategic direction for Harris Associates. With over 35 years of experience in the industry, Shaun has worked across the residential, commercial, public, and private sectors, providing a full range of building surveying and project management services. Areas of expertise include pre-acquisition advice, due diligence, and bespoke analysis work, including the assessment of a building's compliance with relevant statutes, such as the Building Regulations. Shaun has had many years of managing complex major refurbishment and renovation contracts, and in the last 5 years has acted as lead consultant on multiple significant façade remediation and re-cladding contracts.

Other areas of expertise include acting as a retained surveyor and delivering building surveying services to large estates and residential developments. Shaun is heavily involved in the running and development of the façade remediation services, working closely with the façade investigations and technical team. He takes the lead on our Historic Compliance Review services and the development of new services to meet new statutes and regulatory requirements. Shaun also provides bespoke advice and project management services in situations where projects or contracts have become distressed.

Russell Pallister is a passionate advocate for passive fire safety in buildings. A qualified Fire Risk Assessor, Russell has extensive experience in fire and building safety for residential blocks. He is highly skilled in tackling complex challenges, maintaining a laser focus on delivering effective solutions from start to finish.

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, Russell and the team at Karntek Fire Safety have played a vital role in guiding residential property managers through the complexities of new fire safety legislation and guidance. His unwavering commitment to enhancing building safety has made him a trusted expert in the fire safety community.

With over 20 years in the leisure management, Rob has provided consultancy to many of the UK’s leading developers, architects, and property management firms. Recognised as an expert in residential leisure facilities, he has been with motive8 for over a decade, having held multiple roles across the business before joining the Board of Directors in 2020. At motive8, Rob now oversees central operations, facility management services, business development along with supporting consultants on client projects.

Emma is a Client Director at Thomas Carroll Insurance Brokers where she leads the insurance and risk management proposition for Residential Block and Estate Managers.  

Emma has worked closely with the residential property industry for almost 20 years, as both an insurance and risk management adviser and as a director of property data and technology businesses.  

Driven by a passion for collaboration and knowledge sharing, Emma founded the award-winning Women in Residential Property network. She has also contributed her expertise to several industry working groups and is a regular speaker and writer for leading property conferences and publications.

Yanthé Richardson is an equity partner at growing national top 100 law firm Foot Anstey LLP with a specialism in new build and affordable housing.  She has extensive experience advising on all aspects of residential property and a keen interest in the role that technology can play in improving the home buying and selling process. 

Sitting on the Land Registry Advisory Council, Digital Property Market Steering Group and acting as the lawyer representative on the New Homes Quality Board's Code Review Council, she is known as an industry expert in new build matters.

Mark Loveday is general editor of Service Charges & Management (5^th Ed) and has been involved in several of the leading leasehold cases in recent years:

• FirstPort v Settlers Court RTM (2022), Supreme Court (Right to Manage)

• Dell v 89 Holland Park (Management) (2024), Court of Appeal (sweeper clauses)

• Avon v Canary Gateway RTM (2023), Court of Appeal (Right to Manage)

• A1 Properties (Sunderland) v Tudor Studios RTM (2024), Supreme Court (Right to Manage)

• Adriatic Land 5 v Long Leaseholders of Hippersley Point (2025), Court of Appeal (Building Safety Act 2022)

• Arc Time Freeholds v Secretary of State (2025), Divisional Court (Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024)

• Cloisters Business Centre v Anvari (2026), Court of Appeal (service charge jurisdiction)

Mark is a judge of the First-Tier Tribunal (Property Chamber) and his property law column appears every Friday in The Times online.