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Are you Golden Thread ready?

12 July 2021

The publication of the Building Safety Bill, this week, marked, what SAY hope will be an important step to ensuring the safety of residents in apartment blocks. The Building Safety Bill targets two transformational and interlinked areas; prioritising the residents’ voice and The Golden Thread. The latter is the digitally recorded details of a building’s design intent, construction and amendments passed from the duty holder in the design and construction phases to the responsible person during occupation.

SAY Funds Scholarship for Accumulate Students

1 July 2021

Accumulate are a wonderful charity providing creative workshops to young, homeless people who are living in hostels or temporary accommodation in London. SAY’s co-founder Debra is a proud Trustee of Accumulate and we are delighted to announce that the first SAY Scholarships have been awarded to its participants.

Meet the Team: Yasmin Booker

3 June 2021

We’re delighted to introduce our newest team member, Yasmin Booker. Yasmin joins the growing SAY team as a Build to Rent Consultant and Financial Analyst. We’re very excited to have her in the team and hope you enjoy finding out more about her.

Meet the Team: Caspar Courage

21 April 2021

Caspar is an Associate at SAY and joined the team in 2016. Caspar works across several sectors, but has a particular interest in housing with care. Here we find out more about Caspar’s career, his dream mentor and his view on the biggest housing challenge today.

The Inaugural Spirit of Barry Award awarded to Kemi

1 April 2021

Barry Yudolph, Debra’s father and SAY’s credit controller sadly passed away from COVID on the 1^st May 2020 at the age of 82. He disliked ‘boring’ retirement and thrived on having a purpose and therefore took a role as SAY’s credit controller. When chasing payments, he charmed our clients, always interested in their businesses and the latest happenings. Barry showed the importance of embracing life. He will be missed by all at SAY and our clients.

BSF Cladding Remediation Fund: We’re here to help

1 April 2021

With an extra £3.5 billion and applications extended to 30th June 2021 now is the time to apply for the Building Safety Fund cladding remediation grant.

Meet the Team: Rory Merchant

22 March 2021

Rory is the newest member of the SAY team, joining in February 2021 as a consultant. We spoke to him for this speedy Q&A to find out more about his career to date and his thoughts on what the biggest housing challenge is today.

A Connection to Tomorrow: Are you ready for the post-pandemic home?

16 March 2021

We’re excited to be launching our whitepaper on the ‘post-pandemic’ home in collaboration with Hyperoptic, developed with qualitive and quantitative research of 311 property experts, as well as a survey of 2,000 Brits. This follows our hugely successful ‘A Connection to Tomorrow’ white paper, which explored the future of technology and communications in real estate.

The SAY Women discuss their Dream Mentors #IWD2021

8 March 2021

An Introduction from Debra Yudolph, Founder and Partner

As a female business leader I am proud to support International Women’s Day and Choose to Challenge.

We have been thinking about mentors following SAY supporting the launch of Mentoring Circle founded by Vanessa Murray – a free cross sector mentoring scheme designed to connect senior female professionals within the property industry with young women with 18 months or less experience. I wanted to hear from the women in SAY who they would pick as their dream mentor.

#OurSAY Collaborators: Phillippa Hardman, Founder & CEO of Educated Body

4 March 2021

We’re delighted to be kicking of our new #OurSAY Collaborator series with Phillippa Hardman. Phillippa started her career as a professional dancer and personal trainer before founding Educated Body, a specialist spa and gym consultancy for residential and commercial clients across the UK. SAY and Educated Body have collaborated on many projects because there is a natural synergy in our approach. They have become an extended part of the SAY team because we can always rely on them to give our clients sound, sensible advice. We sat down with Phillippa to ask her about the journey to founding her business, her time as a Hot Gossip dancer and who her dream mentor would be.