An evening with Ashley Church.

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Ashley is a well-known media commentator with views on property and politics and is frequently quoted on radio and in print. He writes a weekly column for the Herald and appears regularly as a guest commentator and industry expert in national media and television programmes.

He has an extensive background in the property industry, going back more than 30 years and had established his first portfolio of 7 properties by the time he was 23.

As the CEO of the Property Institute between 2015 and 2019, he transformed that organisation into a highly visible property advocacy body. Prior to that he was CEO of the Newmarket Business Association and the Auckland Property Investors Association.

He served as an elected Councillor, in Napier, between 1989 and 1998 and remains the youngest person ever elected to that Authority.