Dr Bill Nowlan
Dr Bill Nowlan has more than 40 years’ experience investing in Irish property and advising property owners. Following an MBO recently of his old firm, WK Nowlan Real Estate Advisors, Dr William Nowlan established Oracle Real Estate Strategies. This company will offer strategic advice to property owners with complex property situations.
Prior to forming WK Nowlan Property in 1996 Bill was Head of Property Investment at Irish Life Assurance plc from 1985 to 1995. He was a member of the Committee of Management of IPUT (Irish Property Unit Trust, one of the largest institutional property investors in Ireland) from 1997 to 2007.
Bill is a member of the Irish Town Planning Institute. He is also fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a former Chairman of both the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Europe. He was also a member of the RICS Governing council in London and was founding Chairman of the Irish Property and Facilities Managers’ Association.
He was Visiting Professor in the University of Ulster for many years and lecturer in Town Planning at University College, Dublin. He sat on many Government Committees including the “Ghost Estates” advisory group.
In 2011 Bill assembled and led the Irish REITs Forum, a voluntary body of leading property industry practitioners and shareholders who came together in January 2011, to promote the introduction of REITs to Ireland that influenced the introduction of the Irish REIT legislation in early 2013. He was closely involved in the establishment of Hibernia REIT plc (Hibernia) which listed on the Irish and London Stock Exchanges in December 2013 and was a Non-Executive Director of Hibernia until his retirement in July 2017.
Bill is Founding Director of Urbeo Residential DAC, a social and affordable housing platform. As well as advising on commercial property he has advised many different Religious and Institutional clients in preparing property strategies. His clients have included the RDS, The Society of Friends, Representative Church Body, Daughters of Charity, Religious of Jesus and Mary, the Redemptorists Order, Holy Faith Sisters and Focus Ireland’s Housing Charity where he chaired the Property Committee.
In 2018 Dr Bill Nowlan was conferred with a PhD by University of Ulster for his five years research into the development and financing of social and affordable housing.