Money. Power. Business.
And the absurd systems
holding everything together.
Important subjects · Inappropriate levels of honesty
The bits people send each other. On YouTube and Instagram.
Ashley Osborne
Max Brandt
Jan de Quay
James Levy-Newman
Steve & Samantha Benmor
Max Brandt
Octavian Pilati
Steve & Samantha Benmor
Paris Has Fewer People Than in 1968. So Why Are Rents Up?
Tasnim Khalid
Octavian Pilati
Octavian Pilati
Jan de Quay
Tasnim Khalid
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Christopher Hütwohl
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Caleb Parker
Jan de Quay
Christopher Hütwohl
Christopher Hütwohl
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Caleb Parker
Jan de Quay
Jan de Quay
Caleb Parker
Caleb Parker
Damon Healey
Damon Healey
Caleb Parker
Caleb Parker
Caleb Parker
Paul Habert
Christopher Hütwohl
Christopher Hütwohl
Damon Healey
Paul Habert
Christopher Hütwohl
Christopher Hütwohl
Christopher Hütwohl
Paul Habert
Paul Habert
Christopher Hütwohl
Damon Healey
Paul Habert
Christopher Hütwohl
Damon Healey
Christopher Hütwohl
Damon Healey
Damon Healey
Damon Healey
Damon Healey
11 · Ashley Osborne
Is the UK pushing small landlords out of renting? Ashley Osborne, founder of PRSim and former head of UK residential at Colliers, on who will own the homes people rent, and why investors are leaving London for Abu Dhabi.
10 · James Levy-Newman
Governments never repay their debt, they roll it over. James Levy-Newman, ex-Merrill Lynch, on why the bond market matters more than stocks and what that means for your money.
09 · Max Brandt
Europe invented much of the technology and China scaled it. Max Brandt, author of the SPIEGEL bestseller China Speed, on what that means for German carmakers.
08 · Steve & Samantha Benmor
What happens to the family home when one household becomes two, told by a divorce lawyer and a realtor in Toronto.
07 · Octavian Graf Pilati
Forests held since 1730, pledged for someone else’s bank loans, and sold to repay three banks.
06 · Tasnim Khalid
Why heirs fight more than ever, and why the wealthy are moving money abroad.
05 · Jan de Quay
A market nobody can get into, and a tax on money you never made.
04 · Caleb Cicek
Robot soldiers, the war for energy and cognitive surrender.
03 · Paul Habert
Paris at 4% when the bond pays 4%.
02 · Christopher Hütwohl
Politics, rent control and student housing, from Frankfurt to Barcelona.
01 · Damon Healey
Leaving the big institutions, AI in daily life, and who backs you when you do.
I’m Sheelam Chadha.
I’m an investor, a commercial real-estate executive and relentlessly curious about technology, business and why supposedly intelligent systems so often make absolutely no sense.
I’ve spent my career buying and selling very large buildings. Hooray. And some small ones. Not to discriminate.
I also run Dry Capital, teach private equity and raise two small children — which is substantially less predictable than any investment market.
And, in case you haven’t realised, I’m a woman.
But Load Bearing is not a real-estate podcast. The world is not just about bricks. It’s about money, power, technology, ambition and the strange systems holding everything together.
I speak to investors, entrepreneurs, technologists and other interesting people about what they’re building, what is going wrong, and what they actually think when nobody has given them an approved corporate answer.
There will be serious ideas, inappropriate levels of honesty and, occasionally, useful information.
Welcome to Load Bearing.
Full episodes on video and audio. Shorts wherever you scroll.
Notes from the recordings, the questions guests refused to answer, and the occasional expensive mistake of her own. Weekly when the show is running. Never more than that.
Want to be on Load Bearing?
If you have done something in money, business or property that nobody has asked you about on the record, that is the conversation we want. Guests are people with a story, not a job title.
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