ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Viking Chats is a UK property podcast featuring candid conversations with the people shaping lettings, property management, estate agency and PropTech.
Hosted by Kristjan Byfield, co-founder of The Depositary and Base Property Specialists, each episode gets beyond the polished company story to explore how people actually build businesses, lead teams, adopt technology, tackle regulation and deal with the realities of working in residential property.
Guests range from letting agents, property managers and PropTech founders to industry leaders, entrepreneurs and the people challenging how things have traditionally been done.
Expect frank opinions, real experiences, occasional disagreements and plenty of unexpected rabbit holes covering UK lettings, property management, estate agency, PropTech, AI, technology, leadership, regulation, customer experience and business.
No scripts. No corporate fluff. Just good conversations with interesting people from across the property industry.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
61 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
61 episodes
since April 4, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What does the future of the property industry look like through the eyes of someone who's only just getting started?
Welcome to Voices of Tomorrow, a new series within The Viking Chats where I sit down with young people aged 25 and under who are building careers in property. The idea is simple…
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of The Viking Chats: Candid Conversations on Property, PropTech & Business.
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
If you’re really good at what you do, there’s a strange problem: you can make it look so easy that people start wondering what they’re paying you for.
That dilemma sits at the heart of this episode of Viking Chats, as Kristjan sits down with Mouna Patel, Enterprise Account Executive at Goodlord, fo…
Lucy Noonan started working in estate agency a week after her 16th birthday. Since then she’s been a negotiator, worked in lettings and franchising, managed the integration of acquired businesses, become an acquisitions director and, eventually, walked away from a secure corporate career to launch …
Rachel Hanniquet-Brooking has had one of those careers that makes considerably more sense when you look backwards than it probably did while she was living it.
She grew up internationally, spending parts of her childhood in Singapore, America and Australia thanks to her father's career as a sh…
The property industry has never had more technology to choose from. CRMs, maintenance platforms, deposit solutions, referencing, inventories, AI tools, automation and an ever-growing collection of integrations all promise to make agents more efficient.
So why do two agencies buy exactly the same pi…
What happens when the processes, systems and structures that helped build a successful agency are no longer the ones it needs to keep growing?
In this episode of The Viking Chats, Kristjan is joined by Sam Olliver, who has spent almost 25 years in agency, including nearly two decades with Michael J…
We collect points when we fly, shop for groceries, stay in hotels and even buy a coffee. Yet for millions of renters, their single biggest monthly expense traditionally gives them absolutely nothing back.
Why?
In this episode of The Viking Chats, Kristjan sits down with Josh Pavis, founder of Brick…
How confident are you that your lettings business is fully compliant?
If your answer is "pretty confident", this episode might make you think again.
In this episode of The Viking Chats, Kristjan is joined by Paul Conway, founder of Yuno, for a fascinating discussion about one of the bigge…
How much has the property industry really changed over the last 50 years?In this episode of *The Viking Chats*, Kristjan sits down with one of the industry's most recognisable figures, Ed Mead. From his early days learning the ropes in London's estate agency scene during the 1970s, throug…
Why do so many businesses keep doing things in ways that no longer make sense?
In this episode of The Viking Chats, Kristjan is joined by SJ Taylor of Greenhouse OS for a wide-ranging conversation about estate agency, lettings, technology, AI and one of the most dangerous phrases in business:
“Beca…
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kristjan Byfield, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.
PODCAST SEARCH ENGINE
You can use our website to search 3,821,503 podcasts and 195,355,449 episodes by people, places, or topics.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest, so I listen to podcasts.
‐ Benjamin "Llamacorn" Franklin
SEARCH PAST EPISODES
Search past episodes of The Viking Chats: Candid Conversations on Property, PropTech & Business.
CLAIM THIS PODCAST
Why to claim podcasts?
If you are a podcaster, the best way to manage your podcasts on Listen Notes is by claiming your Listen Notes
podcast pages.
It is a great, free way to engage the podcast community and increase the visibility of your podcasts.
After claiming your Listen Notes podcast pages, you will be able to:
✓
Manually refresh the RSS feed to sync up
✓
Get a verified badge (
✓
) alongside with your podcast name on Listen Notes
✓
Post classified ads for sponsorship,
guests, co-hosts,
cross-promotion...
✓
Respond to listener comments on Listen Notes
✓
Use speech-to-text techniques to transcribe your show and
edit transcripts
✓
Improve the presence of your podcasts, e.g., self-service
podcaster interview...
✓
If you share your Listen Notes page and at-mention @ListenNotes
on X (formerly Twitter),
our official X (formerly Twitter) account will retweet to promote
your show to our followers.
Coming soon:
◯ Self-service promotion on Listen Notes
◯ Track your podcast stats on Listen
Notes, e.g., listens, page
views...
◯ Manage episodes
EDIT
Thank you for helping to keep the podcast database up to date.
