Michael Dean
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Specialist finance, talked through properly.
The Property Funder Podcast follows Michael Dean through long-form conversations with people working around specialist finance, property lending, brokerage, legal risk, and related business worlds. It is practical rather than polished, with guests talking through how deals, teams, technology, and market pressure actually behave once the paperwork starts moving.
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The Property Funder Podcast is a measured, interview-led show about specialist property finance and the working lives around it. Michael Dean speaks with guests from lending, brokerage, law, property management, fitness in finance, and short-term lending. The format is loose enough to breathe. It rarely feels like a stack of prepared talking points. Instead, the conversation often moves from biography into a practical test of how something works in the market. Does the deal have legs? Can the broker add value? Is the lender solving the actual problem, or just passing friction down the chain? Those are the kinds of questions the show keeps circling. Recent episodes move from AI-enabled property management systems to apart hotels, owner quality control, and the difference between scaling a brand and simply taking on more stock. They also spend time on broker growth, client face time, and the way AI may reduce admin rather than replace relationship work. The finance talk is not sealed off from ordinary life. One conversation about food, stress, and dieting becomes a discussion about what people can maintain once a short-term plan ends. Another uses hospitality, drinking habits, and health-conscious routines as a side door into changing social and commercial behaviour. Legal risk gets handled in the same grounded way, with attention to how lawyers understand business consequence rather than only documents. When the subject is credit process, the show stays close to underwriting, service levels, repeat business, and the importance of filtering the right kind of deals. It is sector-specific, but not cold. Guests are allowed to be anecdotal, funny, cautious, or blunt. The useful thread is always whether the insight helps someone judge a deal, a team, a market shift, or a business decision more clearly.
Made for: For brokers, lenders, property finance professionals, and adjacent operators who want candid trade conversation rather than headline-level market commentary. It also suits listeners interested in how founders, lawyers, and finance leaders think through risk, growth, technology, and client work.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting practical operators talk at working speed, with enough space for digressions, corrections, and detail. Its value is in the way personal experience gets translated back into deal judgment, underwriting discipline, broker usefulness, and market viability.
Michael Dean, Co-Founder and Non Executive of Avamore Capital speaks to prolific figures both inside and outside of the specialist finance sector and delve into their backgrounds and the steps they took to get to the point they are at today.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed interviews connect lending growth, credit judgment and operating discipline inside the specialist property-finance market.
Michael Dean turns guest interviews into practical examinations of how property finance businesses make decisions. Conversations move through short-term lending, underwriting discipline, broker training and European expansion, while an interview about property management tests…
Michael Dean takes you from bridging loans to breakfast habits without making you change podcasts.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Property, brand, and AI meet the same practical test: what actually helps?
The piece looks at property businesses, brand, and where agentic AI might trim some of the routine work around revenue management, cleaning automation, and the other tasks that soak up time for operators. It stays grounded in execution.
A practical conversation about food habits, stress, and why consistency matters after the first push fades.
This episode stays on a plain but useful question: what people think food is doing for them, and why a short burst of discipline so often slips when life gets in the way.
A calm property finance discussion about uncertainty, broker value, and a brief hospitality turn.
The conversation stays calm and a little guarded, with Michael Dean and Adam Stiles circling a plain point: brokers still matter when lenders change their habits and the market feels jumpy. That keeps the focus practical rather than dramatic, and it suits the tone.
A solid look at European short-term lending, though it runs long in places.
Property Funder takes a close look at European short-term lending through Maslow's European franchises, where the real work happens country by country and depends on local judgment as much as origination volume. Mark Posniak is the steady center of it.
A grounded look at lending growth, firm credit standards, and the four pillars underwriters actually weigh.
The episode stays inside the day-to-day grind of property lending: a lender chasing a larger annual target, keeping credit standards intact, and not wasting brokers' time on weak deals. What gives it weight is how little it leans on drama.
Business leaders, market lessons, real operating stories.
Leadership thinking under real pressure.
Calmer leadership, clearer teams, stronger trust.
AI is the opening bet here, but in a boots-on-the-ground way.
Michael Dean sits down with Sam Hutchings for a conversation about food, habits, and what happens after the first burst of discipline wears off.
This episode discusses how Avonmore Capital uses bespoke technology to streamline credit paper processes and improve client service in property funding.
This episode discusses how AI can help brokers and lenders increase efficiency by reducing administrative tasks, allowing more time for valuable client interactions and business growth.
Michael Dean opens by saying he is cautious about 2026, with micro and macro pressures making the outlook unpredictable.
Michael Dean speaks with Mark Posniak about short-term lending across Europe and what it takes to run it across several markets.
Michael Dean opens on the firm's lending target.
This episode features an interview with Jonathan Vandermolen, an experienced real estate agent in London, discussing property development, valuation challenges, affordable housing, and the growth of his business.
This episode discusses leadership, inclusion, and innovation in financial services, focusing on mental health challenges exacerbated by remote work and personal anecdotes from guest Andrew Montlake.
This episode features an interview with Mark Stokes, an experienced entrepreneur and property investor, discussing business strategies, marketing approaches, and his work with energy projects in the NHS.
This episode features an interview with Phil Mabb, an award-winning property finance broker, discussing his career in lending and bridging finance.
This episode features an interview with Stephen Burns, a decorated military veteran who transitioned from the army to become a successful estate agent and then a prominent bridging broker in the specialist property finance industry.