Inside Housing Management Podcast wins top award at IBPs
The Inside Housing Management Podcast has been crowned best podcast at this year’s International Building Press (IBP) Awards.
The Inside Housing Management Podcast has been crowned best podcast at this year’s International Building Press Awards. Listen to the winning episodes here #UKhousingThe podcast, which is co-hosted by Inside Housing Management editor Anna Highfield and Inside Housing deputy features editor Katharine Swindells, and produced by digital production editor Lucy Brown, was named 2025’s Podcast of the Year at the awards in November.
Announcing the winner, the IBP judges said the Inside Housing Management Podcast “included a great deal of important, interesting and exclusive content, was snappy, very well-researched and clearly had a targeted focus”.
They added: “It demonstrated very strong original journalism and felt like a great conversation between knowledgeable presenters who clearly knew their stuff. A really good listen.”
The podcast was launched as part of Inside Housing Management in April 2025, with new episodes recorded every fortnight.
Each episode delves into a different challenge facing housing management staff and explores best practice for tackling it, with an exclusive interview every episode.
Inside Housing Management editor Anna Highfield said: “We’ve worked incredibly hard on the Inside Housing Management Podcast since its launch in April, with hours going into every episode to secure exclusive content and interviews, so it was amazing to see the IBP judges recognise what a valuable resource it is for our housing management audience.”
Listen to the winning episodes
The Inside Housing Management Podcast scooped the top prize based on three episodes, which respectively covered the issues of anti-social behaviour, rent arrears and assaults against resident-facing staff.
Listen to the award-winning episodes below.
Anti-social behaviour
Anna and Kath discuss the challenges that housing management staff face when dealing with ASB, and different approaches to managing it.
Listen to “Inside Housing Management Podcast: Anti-social behaviour” on Spreaker.
Rent arrears
Anna and Kath talk about the scale of the issue that is rent arrears, and how to take a different approach that might result in better outcomes for organisations, staff and residents.
Listen to “Rent arrears” on Spreaker.
Assaults on the rise
Anna and Kath discuss the results of a major investigation by Inside Housing Management into assaults against housing staff – which gathered data from 188 councils and 40 housing associations across the UK.
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