Real Estate - UK Housing investment

Mike joined Gresham House in February 2023.

Mike co-founded MedicX Group in 2005 and grew it to become one of the leading UK healthcare investors with over £1.5bn under management when it was sold to Octopus Capital in 2014. Mike then became CEO of Octopus Healthcare before becoming Chairman in 2018. In 2019 he led the £2.5bn all share merger between MedicX Fund and Primary Health Properties.

Mike is a qualified chartered surveyor, holds a BSc in Land Management from the University of Reading and has over 30 years of experience in real estate investment and fund management.

Mike is also the Chairman of Shoreline Partners, a specialist asset manager in the healthcare sector.

Elizabeth joined Gresham House as part of our acquisition of TradeRisks in March 2020.

Elizabeth supports the Housing and TradeRisks teams, covering Local Authority debt transactions and Housing Association business plan analysis.

Prior to joining, Elizabeth spent four years at EY in the audit department, with a focus on asset management and private equity companies. Elizabeth has four years of professional experience and is a Chartered Accountant.

She holds a first-class honours degree in Mathematics from Durham University and is currently studying towards the CFA qualification.

Andrea joined in March 2024 as a Associate Finance Director in the Housing division.

Prior to Gresham House, Andrea worked for BDO as an Audit Trainee after graduating in 2019.

In 2023, Andrea obtained the ACA Chartered Accountant qualification.

Danny joined Gresham House in September 2024 as a Financial Controller within the Housing team. He brings over nine years of experience in the real estate industry. Before joining Gresham House, Danny served as Group Fund Controller at Frogmore Real Estate Investment Managers Limited, where he specialised in fund accounting for commercial, residential, and hotel properties.

Earlier in his career, Danny was an Audit Manager at BDO LLP, overseeing audits of varying sizes, including SMEs and FTSE 250 companies within the real estate and construction sectors.

Danny is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and holds a degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Durham.

Benjamin is an Asset Manager within the Housing team and he joined Gresham House in June 2025.

Benjamin has over 7 years experience in property management and affordable home ownership with a proven track record of strategic leadership and innovative problem solving. With extensive expertise in managing diverse leasehold, homeownership and commercial portfolios, he has excelled at driving efficiency and enhancing customer outcomes. During his tenure at Incommunities Group Limited he was able to deliver transformational projects that lead to exceptional financial results with a customer centric approach.

Benjamin is an active member of the National Leasehold Group (NLG) and currently sits on the service charge committee.

William joined Gresham House in July 2024 as an Asset Manager working in the Housing team, with a focus on the Build to Rent portfolio.

William has over 3 years’ experience in the real estate industry. Previously William was a Junior Asset Manager at PLATFORM_, a build to rent investor and operator, and was responsible for a JV portfolio backed by Invesco.

William holds a BA (Hons) in Politics and MSc in Islamic Finance (with Management) from Durham University.

Burak joined Gresham House in February 2023.

Burak has nearly two decades of experience in the residential investment sector, both as a principal and advisor. During his career, he has completed over £1.5bn worth of investment transactions in wide ranging residential asset classes with particular focus in affordable housing. Burak was responsible for Assettrust Housing Limited’s corporate finance activities in the mid-2000s and instrumental in deploying circa £250mn investment capital in affordable housing assets without using public subsidy. Burak spent over eight years in the advisory sector with director level roles held at JLL and Avison Young before co-founding Crescom Partners Ltd. in 2021.

Burak holds a BSc in Statistics, and a MSc in Investment and Finance. Latterly, he earned his MBA from Warwick Business School in 2015.

Ross joined Gresham House in July 2021 as Financial Controller within the Housing team.

Prior to starting with Gresham House, Ross was the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at a Wealth Planning and Investment Management company.

Ross is an ACA qualified Chartered Accountant and graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Physics and Forensic Applications in 2015.

Michael Woodman is Director of Structuring, Housing at Gresham House following the acquisition of  TradeRisks in March 2020.

Michael had been legal counsel at TradeRisks since 2012 and joined with experience in debt capital markets from an international law firm, having advised clients on a range of capital markets and banking transactions. Michael works closely with client managers and has been responsible for structuring, legal and settlement elements on all financing transactions arranged by TradeRisks. For ReSI Capital Management Limited, Michael has worked closely with the origination team, ensuring deployment of funds, and the investment management team, tasked with borrowing against fund assets in accordance with the investment objective.

Michael is a dual-qualified solicitor active in corporate finance since 2005 and holds an LLB (Hons) from University College London.

David is an experienced leader in both executive and non-executive roles. He has over 30 years’ experience in Chief Executive roles, most recently at the National Housing Federation. He is Chair of Clarion Housing Association, is a previous President of Housing Europe and previous Chair of Reall, an international development housing charity. He is also chair of The Good Home Inquiry, co-chair of #Housing 2030, a joint project for Housing Europe and UNECE, and a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Housing, Church and Community Commission. David frequently speaks on the challenge of optimistic leadership and the critical importance of governance. He has wide ranging media experience, is a well-regarded commentator and blogger and has extensive expertise navigating the world of politics and government. In June 2018 David was awarded a CBE.

Sandeep joined Gresham House in December 2022 and leads the finance function for the Housing strategy, encompassing the full suite of financial reporting and analysis.

Sandeep has over 15 years of senior finance experience spanning financial control, valuations, product control and finance business partnering, to board and executive committee level, playing an active role in the delivery of strategic objectives.

During 10 years on the sell-side, Sandeep led and worked in teams which realised significant income opportunities and cost savings. In five years on the buy-side, Sandeep led a finance team implementing a finance operating model to facilitate the scale of a listed commercial real estate investment trust from IPO to a £1.2 bn market capitalisation.

Sandeep is a Fellow Member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Mark is the Executive Director of ReSI Housing and ReSI Homes.

He joined Gresham House in March 2020 following the acquisition of TradeRisks. Before joining ReSI Housing, Mark spent 12 years as a Chief Executive of Circle Housing Group, a 65,000-unit housing association, before merging it into the Clarion Group, the largest housing association in the UK. Prior to that, Mark held Chief Executive roles at Anglia Housing Group and Nene Housing Society.

He has 38 years’ social housing experience and has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Housing since 1986.

Gillian brings to ReSI Homes over 30 years of housing and housing finance expertise, with a focus on policy development within the framework of regulatory standards.

She served as the Non-Executive Director for The Housing Finance Corporation from 2006 – 2012, where she was heavily involved in business strategy, financial policy and governance. This overlapped with her role as the Head of Private Finance at the former social housing regulator, the Homes & Communities Agency, where for 13 years she was responsible for relationships with lenders, investors, advisers, and credit rating agencies operating in the social housing sector. She has also been an authority on all aspects of social housing finance policy, including advising government departments, focusing on areas of regulatory standards, and being responsible for social housing sector guidance on treasury management.