Main image: If the UK housing market comes out of this week's 'fiscal event' largely unscathed, it would certainly calm nerves...at least until this autumn’s Budget
The first 100 days: Oona Collins' seven action points for a new leader
As Keir Starmer gears up to make his first moves as PM, top executive coach Oona Collins explains how leaders in the property sector can successfully navigate the early days of a new role.

Oona is a Global Executive Coach & Consultant. She specialises in coaching leaders and senior executives through transition periods, typically pre and post promotion, restructures, mergers or in new roles. She has over 20 years’ experience incorporating board level positions in sales and management and has coached over 25 different nationalities. Oona has lived and worked in Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto, Sydney, Europe and USA and holds a Non-Executive Directorship.
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