Ben is an accountant with hands-on experience of the residential property market. Alongside his professional career he has built his own property portfolio, which means he has sourced, financed and bought homes himself and sat on the buyer's side of the conveyancing process more than once.

Ben is data-driven by instinct and by training. He has worked in the data industry, where he saw first-hand what separates reliable data from the rest: clear ownership, consistent standards, rigorous checks and proper governance over how information is collected, stored and used. He knows that a figure is only as useful as the process behind it.

That combination gives him a clear view of where leasehold transactions lose time and money: service charge figures that arrive late, reserve funds nobody has explained, and planned major works that surface just before exchange. At SimLPE, Ben leads our conversations with conveyancers and solicitors. He brings an accountant's discipline and a data professional's standards to every pack we deliver, so the numbers a buyer, a lender and their adviser rely on are complete, clear and on time.