Meet your pin host
Hello everyone. My name is Alan Edwards and it’s my pleasure to welcome you to the Portsmouth pin meeting which is held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
I am a Chartered Construction Manager who has been a Member of the Institute for more than 40 years and was appointed a Fellow in 2012. I am a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
I started converting flats for myself in the 1980´s in London and carried out a few house refurbishments in Portsmouth. The financial meltdown of the early 1990´s stopped these efforts to make progress as a small developer, so I focused on my full time career and managing large infrastructure projects for corporate clients.
Around 2005 I came back to property investment and carried out a refurbishment in the Midlands which reminded me of the hassles of trying to get work done by small builders. So I changed strategy and chose to buy new flats and houses at a discount with some success, buying and renting as BTL´s then selling for profit and retaining some properties.
I now focus on UK property development mainly in Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex, and the Home Counties, especially commercial to residential conversions and small hotels suitable for development as aparthotels, holiday lets and Serviced Accommodation.
I am a Chartered Construction Manager who has been a Member of the Institute for more than 40 years and was appointed a Fellow in 2012. I am a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
I started converting flats for myself in the 1980´s in London and carried out a few house refurbishments in Portsmouth. The financial meltdown of the early 1990´s stopped these efforts to make progress as a small developer, so I focused on my full time career and managing large infrastructure projects for corporate clients.
Around 2005 I came back to property investment and carried out a refurbishment in the Midlands which reminded me of the hassles of trying to get work done by small builders. So I changed strategy and chose to buy new flats and houses at a discount with some success, buying and renting as BTL´s then selling for profit and retaining some properties.
I now focus on UK property development mainly in Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex, and the Home Counties, especially commercial to residential conversions and small hotels suitable for development as aparthotels, holiday lets and Serviced Accommodation.
