Introduction to Property

Introducing your Course Presenters

Sarah Sayce

Sarah Sayce is part-time Professor in Sustainable Real Estate at the University of Reading- from where many years ago she gained both her undergraduate degree and PhD. She is also a visiting professor at the Royal Agricultural University and Emeritus Professor at Kingston University, where for many years she was head of the School of Surveying and Planning. She is also a visiting academic to Cass Business School. Sarah is a well-known researcher, writer and speaker across many aspects of sustainability in the built environment but notability valuation aspects. She has recently co-Edited and contributed to the Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate, published in 2018 and she is now working on her next book: Resilient Building Retrofits:  combatting the climate crisis. Her current research is concentrated primarily on energy efficiency and the housing stock and she recently co-authored RICS advice to valuers on Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards. An active RICS member, Sarah sits on the Global Valuation Professional Group Board and is an occasional assessor for entry to membership.  She is also trustee to a three property related charities and advisor to both the Coalition for Energy Efficient Buildings and the Property Working Group of the United National Environment Programme’s Investment Commission.

Derek Bruce

A graduate of Edinburgh University, Derek qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in
1984 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
(RICS) in 1993. He gained a post-graduate Diploma in Arbitration from the College of Estate Management and, via examination, became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 1996 and the National Association of Estate Agents in 2004. He has an LLM from Northumbria University in Advanced Property Law specialising in landlord and tenant and service charge matters. Derek commenced his surveying career in Scotland in the District Valuer’s Office spending much time abroad in Shetland. Subsequently he worked for Prudential and as a partner in a regional firm of Chartered Surveyors in south England. He then took on the position of Associate Professor in Real Estate at Kingston University and has spent some time at the University of Westminster where he was responsible for business development in real estate external programmes. 

Throughout his career he has dealt with a wide range of property from residential to commercial real estate, forestry and agricultural interests to valuing fishing and seabed rights, mast sites, open cast mines and schools. He regularly sits as an assessor of those seeking chartered status and is an external examiner to two national professional societies. He has recently been made an Honoured Fellow of the National Association of Estate Agents. He also presents training programmes for a number of major international surveying practices in the UK and at other international destinations including Bahrain, the Bahamas, Russia, Europe and Scotland. In October 2014, he was made an Honoured Fellow of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) for services to property education.

David Carlisle

David is a chartered planner with 10 years’ public sector experience and over 7 years’ in consultancy. Prior to joining AECOM, he was a member of Croydon’s
spatial planning team and worked on the Local Plan from inception through to examination and adoption. He has worked collaboratively with Government departments and non-departmental public bodies on site promotion, viability, flooding, marine planning, climate change and green/blue infrastructure projects. Clients at AECOM include: the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government; Homes England; Housebuilders; Local Planning Authorities; and Neighbourhood Planning groups. David specialises in plan making and planning for large-scale new communities.