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RPs are operating in a landscape where financial pressure is no longer a background constraint, but a defining factor shaping strategy, risk appetite, and long-term viability.

Rising costs, evolving regulation, and significant statutory programmes, including building safety remediation, Awaab’s Law, EPC Band C, and the anticipated new Decent Homes Standard, are forcing leadership teams to make difficult, high-stakes decisions. In many cases, these decisions extend beyond cost control and into fundamental questions about portfolio composition, capital structure, and the role of external investment.

This Chatham House rule roundtable will bring together senior housing leaders to openly explore how organisations are navigating these pressures in practice. The focus is not on theory or policy aspiration, but on the real decisions executives and boards are having to land, and the trade-offs those decisions involve.

We hope you can join us as we look to explore:

- Asset disposal, acquisition, and portfolio re-shaping
- How organisations are deciding what remains viable within their portfolios — balancing financial performance, safety, decarbonisation, resident experience and regulatory expectations — and how disposals and acquisitions are being used as a strategic, long-term lever rather than a short-term tool.
- Capital, partnerships and alternative routes to delivery
- Insights from Savills on FPRPs, investor partnerships and emerging transactional structures, and how attitudes to third-party capital are evolving across the sector.
- Navigating real-world trade-offs
- How executive teams are prioritising between competing pressures — from development ambitions and investment programmes to repairs and organisational capacity.
- Decision-making under pressure
- Reflections on how boards and executives are landing difficult, high-stakes decisions in uncertain conditions.