Latest EDI news
Real Estate Balance names Avison Young’s Jo Davis as next chair
Survey: Help us measure progress in addressing diversity and inclusion in property
International Women’s Day: Moda Living launches mentoring programme
LRG signs PW’s Inspiring Diversity in Property Pledge
Willmott Dixon latest firm to sign PW’s Inspiring Diversity in Property pledge
Leaders Romans Group introduces fertility benefit
CBRE to become first ‘fertility friendly’ UK real estate firm
WPA launches three-year partnership to bring diverse backgrounds into property
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How to measure social value
While progress has been made in the understanding of social impact, there is still a long journey ahead to help businesses gain the most insight from the data that they collect.
Smashing the glass ceiling
Promoting and retaining women to enable them to reach a senior level is an ongoing challenge for the industry. Ceri Moyers explains how Mentoring Circle is helping to foster inclusion and tackle the gender biases hampering progress.
Pay gaps: pay attention
Gender pay gap figures provoke no end of disgruntlement when published each year.
Gender pay gap: property firms are ‘impatient for change’
Real estate’s gender pay gap has narrowed 5% since 2017 – but companies are trying to accelerate change through diversity and inclusion initiatives.
PSP becomes latest signatory of Property Week's diversity pledge
The parcel logistics services firm is “actively championing” the principles of the campaign.
Leaders, it is time for action
It is no secret that the property industry, like the wider built environment, is not where it needs to be when it comes to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) – and the lack of progress comes down to the lack of impactful leadership.
Diversity Case Studies
EDI Case Studies: British Land’s Brona McKeown
Often credited to management guru Pete Drucker, there is a saying popular in HR circles that ‘if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it’.
EDI Case Studies: Cobalt Recruitment’s Charlotte John
If property as an industry is serious about improving its diversity, equality and inclusion record, it will need to rethink long-standing assumptions around how it recruits people, argues Charlotte John, director for key accounts and client solutions at specialist property recruitment firm Cobalt Recruitment.
EDI Case Studies: Knight Frank’s Charmain Platt
With 1,332 men and 1,425 women across its commercial, residential and business services divisions in the UK, the gender split at real estate agency Knight Frank is actually looking pretty healthy at the moment.
EDI Case Studies: Carter Jonas’s Claire Matthews
Since its launch back in 2017, property firm Carter Jonas’s School Ambassadors Network has grown from just a single employee to 38 people from within its 1,000-strong staff.
EDI Case Studies: essensys’ Kally Kang-Kersey on neurodiversity
Tech giants such as Microsoft and Google, among others, have long recognised the very particular skills, attributes and talents that neurodiverse employees especially can bring to the software and technology arena.
EDI Case Studies: Sovereign’s Kathryn Bowe on social mobility
One of the great strengths of property as a sector is that it houses the whole nation, whatever our nationality, age, colour or gender.
EDI Case Studies: SEGRO's Margaret Murphy on childcare policies
Back in April, a poll by temporary work platform Indeed Flex highlighted that nearly two in five UK mothers are unable to return to work after starting a family because of the spiralling cost of childcare.
EDI Case Studies: Savills’ Noel McGonigle and Chanelle Gray on EDI representatives
With some 8,000 employees in the UK, real estate services giant Savills last year made a very public statement of intent around equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) by appointing Chanelle Gray as its dedicated head of EDI.
EDI Case Studies: The Hill Group’s Victoria Anthony on diversity in construction
The idea that modern-day construction sites are awash with unreconstructed ‘white van man’ brickies is, of course, a stereotypical cliché. But, like all clichés, what makes them resonate is the fact there is often at least some element of truth to them.
EDI Case Studies: Grosvenor Property UK’s Anne Sloper on the visibility of property as a career
The lack of visibility of property as a sector – and as a tangible career option – within schools, colleges and even universities is a key barrier hindering greater equity, diversity and inclusion, especially greater social mobility, within the industry, argues Anne Sloper, head of organisational effectiveness at Grosvenor Property ...
EDI Case Studies: Gerald Eve’s Helen Foley on what property can learn from other sectors on diversity
In its gender and ethnicity pay gap report for the year to March 2022, real estate advisory firm Gerald Eve neatly illustrates one of the ongoing challenges the whole property sector is facing when it comes to equality, diversity and inclusion: progression.
Networks and Groups
The Association of Muslim Surveyors
The Association of Muslim Surveyors Initiative for Muslims and Non-Muslins is a personal and professional development platform founded by Sarah Chaudhry, who has worked in corporate real estate for 30 years.
PREACH Inclusion
PREACH Inclusion became the new brand for BAME in Property in April 2024, to reflect its increasing support for greater intersectional inclusivity.
British Property Federation (Associate Partner)
From the homes we live in, to the spaces where we learn, work and relax, property is an essential part of modern life.
BPIC Network
BPIC Network is a built environment inclusion network that collaborates with industry organisations to increase ethnic minority representation and retention. It provides inclusion guidance, career opportunities, training, and networking events tailored to those currently working and aspiring to work in the industry.
Black Women in Real Estate (Associate Partner)
Black Women in Real Estate (BWRE) enables Black Women to be seen, heard and grow in the Real Estate industry.
The Deaf Architecture Front
The Deaf Architecture Front exists to build a bridge between the deaf community and the architecture industry, to encourage more deaf people into the sector, ensuring that the deaf community has a larger stake in the development of the built environment.
London Property Alliance (Associate Partner)
London Property Alliance is the joint name for City Property Association (CPA) and Westminster Property Association (WPA): two not-for-profit membership bodies that represent and advocate for more than 400 companies.
Mentoring Circle
Mentoring Circle is a UK Real Estate industry initiative established to increase and promote female talent retention in the built environment through mentoring, networking, and leadership development.
Real Estate Balance (Associate Partner)
Real Estate Balance is a membership organisation working to improve equality, diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry.
Women in Estate Agency
Women in Estate Agency is an organisation devoted to helping women succeed in the estate agency sector.
Women in Property (Associate Partner)
Women in Property (WiP) is a 1,500 strong, national membership organisation, formed in 1987 when a woman working in the industry was a rarity.
