Peter Everest is a Senior Managing Director at Rothschild & Co. He has been with Rothschild & Co for 20 years, focused on the real estate sector. Peter is based in London and is currently responsible for the Residential sector coverage comprising Housebuilding, Residential Development, PRS / Build-toRent, Strategic Land, Affordable Housing, Retirement and Student Accommodation in addition to broader UK Real Estate coverage. Major recent transactions that Peter has advised on include the merger of Capco and Shaftesbury, to create Shaftesbury Capital, sales of St Modwen Homes, Barwood Land, Cala, Miller Homes (2021 and 2017), Quintain Ireland, L&Q Estates, London Square (2014 and 2023), Hopkins Homes, Kier Living, McCarthy & Stone, Beechcroft, Galliford Try’s housebuilding businesses of Linden and GT Partnerships; the disposal of Capco’s Earls Court Development site and the acquisition of Capco’s c.26% stake in Shaftesbury. PRS and BTR work has included capital raises for Sigma Capital, defence work for PRS REIT and the sale of Sigma to Pinebridge Benson Elliot, formation of a £330m JV between Places for People and USS to fund the Picture Living PRS platform and the sale of a £430m portfolio of BTR assets for Dandara to ECE. Peter is currently working on the sale of Sigma Capital and Regal. Peter has a first class BSc in Management and Economics from the University Manchester.

Dr Steven Devaney is a Senior Director in the UK research team at CBRE with responsibility for research on real estate investment and capital markets. He joined CBRE in 2022 after spending 15 years in academic positions at the University of Reading and the University of Aberdeen.

David is the CEO of CompassRock International, a London-based investor, asset manager and property manager focused on the Living Sector. CompassRock owns and manages properties in the UK and Europe. David is also the CEO of Global Apartment Advisors (GAA), a London-based advisory firm focused on the Living Sector globally (student, co-living, multifamily / build-to-rent, single-family, senior / retirement). GAA has worked with clients in 20 countries around the world. David was previously the Global Head of Residential for Brookfield, one of the largest real estate investors in the world with AUM of $900 billion. Prior to Brookfield, David was the CEO of CompassRock USA, a platform founded in partnership with Fortress to oversee an apartment portfolio of 40,000 units. Most notably, CompassRock was responsible for the repositioning of Stuyvesant Town in New York City – the largest multifamily property in the U.S. with over 11,000 units and 25,000 residents of Manhattan. CompassRock’s turnaround of “StuyTown” culminated in a sale to Blackstone for $5.4 billion, the largest single-asset real estate transaction in U.S. history. Prior to CompassRock USA, David was the CEO of Laramar Group where he assembled a portfolio of owned and third-party managed properties totaling 40,000 apartment units with a focus on “value add” investments, repositioning older assets through strategic renovation. Prior to Laramar, David was Senior Vice President at Security Capital Group and its affiliate, Archstone Communities, one of the largest and best regarded publicly traded U.S. apartment REITs with a portfolio of 75,000 units. - Board of Directors of National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) - Executive Forum of National Apartment Association (NAA) - Global Outreach Committee of NAA - Sustainability Committee of NMHC - Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at U.C. Berkeley - Board of Directors of Shelters to Shutters, non-profit focused on housing for homeless veterans - Young Presidents Organization (YPO) - Senior Advisor to Quintain, subsidiary of Lonestar, which is developing one of the largest rental apartment projects in the UK with over 7,000 units - Named Multifamily Executive of the Year by Multifamily Executive - Named Multifamily Executive of the Year by MultiHousing News - B.S. degree in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley

Kelsea Crawford is the founder and CEO of Cutwork, a next-generation architecture studio pioneering new living concepts—intergenerational, senior, hybrid-hospitality, and coliving typologies—alongside flexible, new ways to live and work. From modular buildings to intelligent furniture systems, her Paris-based team delivers end-to-end solutions for forward-thinking clients such as Station F, Flatmates, and Bouygues Immobilier’s PolyRoom. Cutwork’s projects have earned the Red Dot Design Award and Coliving Awards (2022), the FRAME Societal Innovation of the Year award (2020), and a place among Europe’s Top 30 Cleantech Companies. Beyond design, Cutwork is also a platform for research and thought leadership, with in-depth studies on the future of urban living, emerging housing typologies, and the intersection of architecture, technology, and social impact. Through public talks, academic collaborations, and industry partnerships, Kelsea and her team contribute to shaping discourse on how architecture can respond to evolving lifestyles, demographic shifts, and climate imperatives. An American-British entrepreneur, Kelsea shared her vision in the TEDx talk “The Future of Shared Architecture” and serves as the French Ambassador for Co-Liv, the world’s largest network of coliving professionals. At the upcoming ULI Living Product Council session in London—where the Council explores how evolving lifestyles are reshaping the future of living—Kelsea will show how new living typologies, digital fabrication, and community-driven design can create resilient buildings and neighbourhoods for the next urban era.