Bricks & Mortar: Ex-Wasps player James Cannon on how he’s preparing for a career in real estate post-rugby

James Cannon - rugby union player for English Championship club Ealing Trailfinders and previously Wasps and Connaught Rugby - joins Sarah Jackman in the EG studio to discuss why real estate is the future career for him.

Conscious that his time as a rugby professional will, at some point end, Cannon has decided to pursue real estate as a profession after being introduced to it during his time at Wasps. To enable himself to study alongside his current commitments, he signed up to the MSc Real Estate programme at UCEM, which he anticipates that he’ll finish in 2020.

He discusses what attracts him to the industry, parallels between the real estate industry and rugby and what he hopes to get out of a future career.