THURSDAY 7 JANUARY 2027 · BIRMINGHAM

Planning, Systems + Financial Control

You're in the room if you recognise any of these:

- A property you think is making money, without the numbers to show it

- A plan for the year that's gone quiet by March

- Property spread over several companies and no single view of how the group did

- Books that work for the tax return and not much else

Adam Lawrence and Rod Turner:

- 1000+ UK property deals between them

- Eight figures of joint-venture funding deployed, portfolios they still hold.

One working day in Birmingham to set the year up properly. Eleven sessions, with real case studies throughout.

See the full agenda below ↓

January is when most property businesses set intentions and then carry on exactly as before. The goals go in a notebook, the systems stay as they were, and by March nobody is measuring anything. This is the planning day, then the bookkeeping and financial reporting that tell you whether any of it is actually working. An interactive day, not death by PowerPoint.

Who This Is For: You are already running a portfolio or a property business, and you want the coming year to be deliberate rather than reactive. You file accounts, you probably have a bookkeeper, and if you are honest with yourself you could not confidently say which asset is genuinely performing. That is exactly who this room is built for. If you are brand new to property, this is not the day to start.

The Agenda

Part I · Planning, productivity and systems

1. Productivity: what's worth doing

Productivity: hacks and methods, built for resetting at the start of the year.

2. Where your hours go

Time tracking and management. A critical and routinely ignored part of success.

3. Setting goals you can measure

Goal setting and planning with our own framework, written and digital.

4. What makes a good metric?

Time, effort and risk versus reward. Investment versus trading. Active versus passive.

5. What to systemise and what to leave alone

Best practice, and how to review what you already have.

Part II · Bookkeeping

6. Setting up your Chart of Accounts

Bookkeeping 1: the correct setup. Garbage in, garbage out.

7. Using the numbers and checking your bookkeeper

Bookkeeping 2: how to use the data effectively, and how to audit the bookkeeping.

Part III · Financial accounting and group reporting

8. Reading the P&L and Balance Sheet

Financial Accounting 1: reading the statements correctly.

9. What the accounts don't tell you

Financial Accounting 2: first pass, deeper digging, full financial health check.

10. Reporting across a group of companies

Group accounting: reporting across multiple companies and assets, and measuring individual asset performance.

11. Case studies and open Q&A

An example Chart of Accounts and reporting, sized to the company. Q&A with Rod and Adam, no holds barred.

Your Hosts

Adam Lawrence

Co-founder of The Boardroom Club. Adam has spent over a decade working with UK property investors, developers and traders as their businesses scale and become more complex. Directly involved in 800+ UK property deals, deploying eight figures of joint-venture funding while retaining a substantial long-term portfolio, with first-hand exposure to how structure, funding decisions and risk management play out over time.

Adam analyses the macro forces shaping the UK property market through the Sunday Supplement and the Propenomix platform, helping operators understand how to grow, protect and retain optionality as portfolios mature. He holds an MBA from Warwick Business School (Dean's List prize winner) and an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford, and brings international experience in wealth management and strategic consulting to the practical realities of running a property business at scale.

Rod Turner

Co-founder of The Boardroom Club, working with SME property businesses at board level on strategy, risk mitigation and long-term decision-making as portfolios and complexity grow. Alongside this advisory role, Rod is the founder of ITP Group, a UK property investment and development business with a diversified portfolio spanning residential developments in London and Manchester, residential investments across England and Scotland, and commercial assets including offices, healthcare and leisure.

His work is underpinned by disciplined risk management, asset management, and financial structuring: capital is deployed efficiently, and returns are not driven by excessive risk. Rod also co-founded 978 Finance, helping businesses secure and structure funding appropriately, and hosts The Rodcast, a podcast focused on asset-backed investments and the realities of running property businesses at scale.

Tickets

VIP · 12 spaces only. Full-day access. Lunch, teas, coffees and refreshments. Dinner with Rod and Adam after the event at a local restaurant. Smaller group, direct access, off-the-record conversation. The room where the real questions get asked.

Delegate. Full-day access. Lunch, teas, coffees and refreshments included.

Super Early Bird: over 20% off the standard delegate price, on sale now. Limited allocation. When they are gone, they are gone.

Venue: The BCEC at Holiday Inn Birmingham City, Hill Street, Birmingham, B5 4EW