Penny Hacking, Principal, Member of the European Executive team, and Managing Director of European Capital Markets at Avison Young. Penny has over 25 years’ experience in EMEA Capital Markets having transacted in excess of 3bn Euros in all the major markets in Europe including the UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain, Nordics and CEE. She has experience across all sectors but has a predominant focus on industrial, logistics and offices. She has worked with clients such as Tristan Capital Partners, UBS, CBRE GI, Prologis, Evans Randall and WP Carey, adding value to investors and owner occupiers on dispositions, acquisitions, joint ventures, forward funding and forward commits. Penny has worked at King Sturge, JLL, Victorios and GVA during her career and is at the forefront of delivering change and driving diversity, equity and inclusion across our industry. I sat down with Penny to discuss a broad range of subjects, which covered some of the following topics:   * How she got into real estate  * European market recovery * What makes a good agent * Female representation in investment agency * How the industry has evolved * Sale & leaseback  * Buyside & Sellside mandates   Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Penny invest should she have £500m of capital at her disposal.   Catch the full episode, which is live on Spotify, Apple and Youtube NOW!   The People Property Place Podcast 🎙 is powered by Rockbourne - the team recruit Leadership & Future Leadership hires for Real Estate Funds, Owners, Investors & Developers.   #podcast #rockbourne #realestate #peoplepropertyplace #property Podcast produced and edited by Matt Cook at https://mattcookproducer.com