Co-Founder | ProperPR & Housing Market Commentator

Russell Quirk is well known in the property industry as both an estate agency boss and PR guru.

He’s been round the block a few times having run traditional and online businesses in the sector for over 25 years and is infamous for his opinionated and straight-talking stance on anything and everything property. He takes no prisoners.

He’s a regular pundit on housing matters for Talk TV, LBC and the BBC and is a founder panellist for TalkRADIO’s 'Plank of the Week’ on YouTube, a wry critique of media types that "are just asking to have fun poked at them", says Russell.      

Founder | Propenomix

Adam Lawrence's corporate career was in Wealth Management for boutique investment firms in Switzerland and also included a role as a cross-business consultant for one of the UK’s top 10 lenders. He also ran a betting syndicate for 5 years between 2006 and 2010.
Adam’s property career started in earnest in 2011 and since then he has been involved in over 550 UK properties, from flats purchased for £23k to portfolios of 91 properties at a time, and everything in between. The goal has been to buy at good value, add value, and then refinance and hold on - there has been some development, and sale, along the way but 90% has been to retain.
Interesting fact - he once defeated “Egghead” C.J. De Mooi in the tv quiz show “Revenge of the Egghead” (season 1 episode 29 if anyone wants to find it!).

Director of Planning | DLBP Planning Consultants

Andrew Ryley is a Chartered Town Planner with nearly 20 years' experience in both local planning authorities in London and the Midlands, and in private planning consultancy practice.  He provides expert town planning advice to a range of clients, including the UK’s leading house builders, airspace developers, investors, homeowners and landowners. 

Andrew devises and implements planning strategies to help his clients in securing planning permission to extract additional value from constrained sites.  This could be through adding additional storeys and other extensions, changes of use from commercial to residential, infill development, re-development and new build on politically challenging greenfield sites.  To date, Andrew and his team have secured planning permission for over 7,500 new homes across the UK since 2010, and have over 800 new homes in the pipeline.  

Development Director | XP Property

Ben Richards is responsible for the design and delivery of our projects, ensuring our schemes are designed and built-out successfully, on time, and to budget. Ben has spent over 13 years in the construction industry working for Architects, Structural Engineers and as a Technical Manager for the Berkeley Group and brings technical prowess that lives for the detail.

His project experience ranges from £50k refurbishments to £1Bn mixed-use schemes in central London and home counties.
Ben is also the owner of an award-winning design-led architectural design studio in London, AURA Architecture & Interiors. He utilises his team and extended network of design professionals to get the most value from all XP projects.

Alongside business partner, Jack Jiggens, Ben also co-launched a sister company, XP Surveys, in 2019.