Some people don’t know what they want to do with their life until they are well into middle age, if ever. Helen Gordon, the boss of Britain’s biggest residential landlord Grainger, decided to go into property when she was just three.
“My parents built their own house and I just thought it was the most exciting thing,” she says in the lobby of the company’s flagship Argo development in Canning Town, east London. “They spent the next 15 years trying to dissuade me from wanting to be a builder.”
Decades later, sticking with her conviction seems to have paid off. Gordon heads a company at the forefront of what some believe will be a radical shift in the way people live.
