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17 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Deposit alternative provider flatfair says it’s set to make big announcements soon - and in the meantime it’s attracted a key...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent completions are estimated to double by 2025, a property company forecasts. Between 2017 and 2018, the number of new...
03 February 2021
From: Breaking News

London lettings network Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has been appointed to manage and let a huge new portfolio of around 3,000...
02 February 2021
From: Breaking News

A series of leading lettings agents have warned that the rental sector is set for significant change as the Coronavirus pandemic...
25 January 2021
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent scheme of 322 flats will include a 34 storey tower, it’s been revealed. Developer and property management firm...
19 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent giant Grainger has purchased the rights to a 231-home development in Bristol for around £63m. In a statement to...
12 January 2021
From: Breaking News

Major players in the Build To Rent sector are joining forces to see if they can give the industry a more...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s started work on 6,000 residential units in...
08 January 2021
From: Breaking News

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says it’s to have a second significant...
17 December 2020
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One of the biggest commercial property operators in the country is to build 338 apartments to rent on the site of...
09 December 2020
From: Breaking News

The rental market is recovering fast from the Coronavirus crisis and still has a strong ‘offer’ for investors - but it’s...
07 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A property entrepreneur critical of the quality of traditional buy to let says the government should create a Minister for Renting...
02 December 2020
From: Breaking News

A late-year surge in the number of Build To Rent applications has been forecast by a market commentator. Alex Blagden, senior researcher...
01 December 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the largest Build To Rent operators in the country is reporting that the pandemic has had relatively minor effects...
23 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The first part of a massive Build To Rent scheme from developer Lendlease is nearing completion at Elephant Park in the...
20 November 2020
From: Breaking News

A lettings agency specialising in managing Build To Rent developments says it’s collected 99 per cent of all invoiced rent during...
18 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The latest Build To Rent snapshot up to late summer shows the number of BTR homes in stages of planning across...
12 November 2020
From: Breaking News

The announcement of the Renters’ Reform Bill in the Queen’s speech last December caused a collective groan across the country from...
29 October 2020
From: Legislation & Compliance

The team behind Glasgow’s first major city centre Build to Rent housing development has announced another multi-million-pound BTR project. Kelvin Properties, which...
28 October 2020
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Pressure appears to be building for more pet-friendly lettings properties with two Build To Rent operators promoting animal-friendly tenancies. BTR operator Fizzy Living...
26 October 2020
From: Breaking News

John Lewis Partnership, until now best known for its department stores and ownership of Waitrose, is to build homes for rent. The...
19 October 2020
From: Breaking News

A major player in the Build To Rent sector has announced another large scheme - 346 units - on a major...
01 October 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s first specialist residential property fund managers has named the agency to handle its latest Build To Rent...
25 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The decline of the high street - which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic - is forcing commercial investors to...
17 September 2020
From: Breaking News

The Build To Rent specialist operator Wise Living has announced a new scheme in Lincolnshire being built in partnership with developer Seagate...
11 September 2020
From: Breaking News
31 July 2020
From: Breaking News

Property consultancy CBRE claims that Build To Rent is likely to be the most resilient sector of the UK property industry...
10 July 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest names in the Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, says all of its new housing stock...
01 July 2020
From: Breaking News

A PropTech platform claims to allow agents to generate a fully-compliant tenancy agreement with a standardised pet-friendly clause which includes a...
19 June 2020
From: Breaking News

Grainger, one of the biggest forces in the UK’s Build To Rent sector, says it has proved the resilience of the...
15 May 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent players, Legal & General, says it’s to construct another 350 homes as part...
29 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A new automated lettings platform is launching next week and promising to ensure agents and buy to let investors stay compliant. PlanetRent...
27 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A pro-Build To Rent online platform is hosting a webinar to discuss whether the sector will emerge from the Coronavirus crisis...
24 April 2020
From: Breaking News

There’s been a 12 per cent increase in the number of Built To Rent homes across the UK that have been...
23 April 2020
From: Breaking News

The commercial arm of Countrywide is urging landlords currently facing huge void periods because students have been ordered home, to reconfigure...
07 April 2020
From: Breaking News

A massive £250m has been raised from a Swedish pension fund towards UK Build To Rent projects. Property development firm Oxford Properties...
17 March 2020
From: Breaking News

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent, has agreed to buy a proposed 348 home-scheme in central Nottingham. The...
21 February 2020
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s largest Build To Rent developers says it is specifically targeting certain tenant types for one of its...
19 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Grainger, one of the biggest names in Build To Rent in the UK, says its current BTR pipeline stands at 24...
07 February 2020
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent developer has revealed plans to construct over 10,000 units in just five years. Wise Living, part of SDL,...
05 February 2020
From: Breaking News

Manchester lettings agency Ascend says it’s had a record year in 2019, bolstered by its new Build To Rent involvement. The company...
21 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Investment into the purpose-built Build To Rent sector in the UK dropped significantly last year. Some £273.8m was invested in the fourth...
17 January 2020
From: Breaking News

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...
09 January 2020
From: Breaking News

Here it is - the start of a new decade, a moment for resolutions and remembrance, and the last Bank Holiday...
31 December 2019
From: Breaking News

Atlas Residential - a Build to Rent developer with over 75,000 international properties - is partnering with deposit alternative supplier flatfair...
19 December 2019
From: Breaking News

More details have emerged of the long-term scheme to site Build To Rent homes at Transport for London tube stations and...
29 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...
20 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Canary Wharf is the latest prime area of London to secure a Build To Rent scheme. 10 George Street, by Canary Wharf...
14 November 2019
From: Breaking News

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...
30 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A leading agent has repeated his controversial belief that the proposed scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers should be seen as...
25 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Countrywide’s high-end Hamptons International brand says it’s growing its lettings business “ethically and sustainably, regardless of market conditions.” It has ended the...
22 October 2019
From: Breaking News

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...
03 October 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...
01 October 2019
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent developer Simple Life has launched 28 new BTR family homes in Newhall Harlow, Essex. Part of a larger development of...
30 August 2019
From: Breaking News

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...
22 August 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...
16 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Manchester-based agency Ascend has revealed it’s now taken over the management of a Build To Rent fund’s portfolio of almost 1,000...
08 August 2019
From: Breaking News

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...
01 August 2019
From: Breaking News

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...
31 July 2019
From: Breaking News

London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...
29 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...
26 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...
25 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...
22 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...
19 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Work has started on a new 216-unit Build To Rent project in Leeds; it’s to be known as Fabrik. Grainger is the...
16 July 2019
From: Breaking News

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...
12 July 2019
From: Breaking News

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...
09 July 2019
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Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells. The...
03 July 2019
From: Breaking News

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...
24 June 2019
From: Breaking News

As competition hots up between different deposit replacement scheme providers, three new Build To Rent sign-ups have been announced by one...
13 June 2019
From: Breaking News

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...
29 May 2019
From: Breaking News

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...
16 May 2019
From: Breaking News

The Build To Rent sector continues to grow, albeit slowly - now volume house builder Crest Nicholson has teamed up with...
12 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...
11 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...
09 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...
08 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A PropTech lead generation app that dubs itself the ‘Uber for Lettings Agents’ has launched in Manchester. The app, from Movebubble, already...
04 April 2019
From: Breaking News

A regional property developer and investment firm has unveiled a Build To Rent division with a target of building 2,500 homes. The...
03 April 2019
From: Breaking News

Legal & General is to develop a Brighton industrial estate into the town’s first Build To Rent scheme. The work will go on...
29 March 2019
From: Breaking News

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...
13 March 2019
From: Breaking News

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...
12 March 2019
From: Breaking News

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...
20 February 2019
From: Breaking News

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...
13 February 2019
From: Breaking News

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...
06 February 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...
01 February 2019
From: Breaking News

A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...
25 January 2019
From: Breaking News

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...
23 January 2019
From: Breaking News

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector has snapped up a site in a major city centre...
22 January 2019
From: Breaking News

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...
18 January 2019
From: Breaking News

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...
04 January 2019
From: Breaking News

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...
20 December 2018
From: Breaking News

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...
14 December 2018
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A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector. Two new...
16 November 2018
From: Breaking News

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...
14 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...
02 November 2018
From: Breaking News

Rettie & Co is the first agency north of the border to offer a no-deposit scheme to tenants - although it’s...
11 October 2018
From: Breaking News

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...
08 October 2018
From: Breaking News

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...
13 September 2018
From: Breaking News

A landmark report on private renting provides the opportunity to stop blaming letting agents and landlords for the sector’s problems, a...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having...
12 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...
11 September 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...
04 September 2018
From: Breaking News

SDL Group is celebrating its 2,000th tenant in the new but fast-growing Build To Rent sector. SDL works with developer Sigma Capital Group...
22 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on the West Tower in Manchester’s Deansgate, bringing the firm’s total of BTR units in...
21 August 2018
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...
20 August 2018
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Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...
14 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector, says it has pre-let 50 per...
02 August 2018
From: Breaking News

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...
25 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...
12 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...
09 July 2018
From: Breaking News

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...
09 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...
05 July 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...
03 July 2018
From: Breaking News

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...
29 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Another Build To Rent scheme has been unveiled, this time in Berkshire. Crest Nicolson and M&G Real Estate have joined forces to...
27 June 2018
From: Breaking News

Buy to let landlords are on the way out and Build To Rent will dominate the sector in the foreseeable future. That’s...
26 June 2018
From: Breaking News

One of the biggest and earliest companies investing in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector has expanded its partnership with one...
20 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...
12 June 2018
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent company that scrapped deposits for tenants a year ago says it has saved renters almost £3m in...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Telford Homes says some of its massive 35 per cent growth in pre-tax profits over the past year is down to...
31 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The Build To Rent provider Grainger has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits and says it is looking for...
18 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...
14 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, has snapped up a 132-flat Build To Rent scheme in Southampton for £27m. The project...
10 May 2018
From: Breaking News

A newly built, boutique development of eight luxury Build To Rent apartments has come to the market in uber-fashionable Shoreditch, east...
04 May 2018
From: Breaking News

Midlands-based SDL Group has announced the sale of a Birmingham residential lettings portfolio to Lomond Capital. SDL Property Management now focuses on...
03 May 2018
From: Breaking News

The chief of a PropTech firm says letting agents should consider participating in the growing Build to Rent sector. Until now, many...
19 April 2018
From: Breaking News

New figures show a 30 per cent rise in the past year in the number of Build To Rent units planned,...
13 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...
13 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...
05 April 2018
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...
29 March 2018
From: Breaking News

A new Build To Rent scheme being launched shortly in Greenwich offers tenants an on-site concierge-style ‘host’, a lounger, co-working space...
20 March 2018
From: Breaking News

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...
08 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...
07 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...
05 March 2018
From: Breaking News

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...
27 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...
09 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to acquire land in the centre of Brighton in order to deliver the city’s first...
01 February 2018
From: Breaking News

Legal & General - one of the country’s largest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector - has made a...
11 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, is reported to have acquired an under-construction Build To Rent scheme...
04 January 2018
From: Breaking News

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...
08 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Grainger - Britain’s largest listed residential landlord, which has pledged to invest £850m in Build To Rent - says the rental...
01 December 2017
From: Breaking News

Legal & General, one of the largest operators in the growing Build To Rent sector, has acquired a 272 acre site...
28 November 2017
From: Breaking News

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...
22 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Latest figures suggest that there are almost 100,000 Build To Rent units either completed, under construction or awaiting planning permission across the...
15 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has been appointed joint agent and sole lettings manager for Britannia Point, a 182 unit Build To Rent...
10 November 2017
From: Breaking News

The managing director of LSL’s Corporate Client Department has been appointed as National Lettings and Franchise Director for Your Move and...
01 November 2017
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent developer Be says it is moving to a no-fees model for its development at Hayes in west London....
24 October 2017
From: Breaking News

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...
28 September 2017
From: Breaking News

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...
15 September 2017
From: Breaking News

LSL Property Services’ new consultancy and management service for the Build To Rent sector - PRSim - has teamed up with...
12 September 2017
From: Breaking News

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...
08 September 2017
From: Breaking News

SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...
31 August 2017
From: Breaking News

A new Build To Rent scheme from specialist developer Get Living is to charge from £410 a week for units at...
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News

New figures compiled by the British Property Federation chronicle the continuing growth of Build To Rent across the country. The BPF says...
22 August 2017
From: Breaking News

LSL Property Services has unveiled PRSim, its new brand offering services to the burgeoning Build To Rent sector. PRSim offers “data, consultancy and...
07 August 2017
From: Breaking News

New government figures reveal that there are 80,855 Built To Rent homes either completed or planned. It says investment in this element...
04 August 2017
From: Breaking News

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...
27 July 2017
From: Breaking News

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...
20 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...
12 July 2017
From: Breaking News

Rents in prime central London are down 4.8 per cent in the past year according to Knight Frank - a slightly...
20 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The boss of 300 branch agency Belvoir has called on the government to appoint a cross-party housing tsar to work with...
19 June 2017
From: Breaking News

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...
13 June 2017
From: Breaking News

A Build to Rent scheme in Salford is launching this week with tenants moving in to purpose-built rental accommodation at 'The...
08 June 2017
From: Breaking News

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...
30 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...
26 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Research experts at high-end agency Savills say a total of £5.3 billion is expected to be invested in the student accommodation...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Legal & General has announced that its fifth Build to Rent scheme will be in Leeds. The site, Mustard Wharf, has permission...
15 May 2017
From: Breaking News

Tenant referencing and insurance provider Van Mildert has secured private equity funding from a private family office and the principals of...
09 May 2017
From: Breaking News

A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...
05 May 2017
From: Breaking News

The British Property Federation says it is doing all it can to urge the fledgling Build To Rent sector to fall...
26 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets. On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...
25 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent operator L&Q has delivered another 68 homes in part of a drive which it says will eventually produce...
20 April 2017
From: Breaking News

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...
10 April 2017
From: Breaking News

L&Q has launched 59 Build To Rent units on the site of the former Walthamstow greyhound racing stadium in London. The operator...
23 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Bath is to have a major Build To Rent scheme from Legal & General, believed to be the first development of...
22 March 2017
From: Breaking News

LSL’s corporate client department, a subsidiary of LSL Property Services, is beefing up its offer to Build To Rent institutional investors...
17 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Bristol council has given consent to a 255 unit city centre Build to Rent scheme to be constructed and managed by...
02 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...
01 March 2017
From: Breaking News

Smart repair reporting software Fixflo is teaming up with Qube Global Software to allow letting agents and property managers to handle...
28 February 2017
From: Breaking News

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...
27 February 2017
From: Breaking News

L&G, one of the biggest firms involved in Britain’s Built To Rent sector, has named the agency it is appointing to...
23 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The government has stepped in to clear up misunderstandings emerging from the Housing White Paper following its high profile call for...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...
09 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...
08 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper. Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News

The Residential Landlords Association has made a last-minute plea for buy to let investors to remain central to the government’s plans...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Sigma Capital, one of the earliest investors in the UK Build To Rent sector, is creating a new brand called Simple...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News

Imperial College London has paid £30m to acquire half of London’s largest Build To Rent scheme at The Perfume Factory in...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News

It’s been a long time coming but the government’s White Paper on Housing - tipped to contain major reforms affecting the...
26 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...
23 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Cushman & Wakefield has added a partner and an associate director to its Residential Investment & Private Rented Sector team. Fergus Jack,...
13 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Qube Global Software and PropTech start-up Engage have combined forces to deliver self-service portals to residents within the growing Build to...
12 January 2017
From: Breaking News

Mark Clare, the former Barratt Developments chief executive, is to be the next chairman of Britain’s current largest listed landlord, Grainger,...
05 January 2017
From: Breaking News

The fast-growing Build To Rent sector has seen another boost in investment from a major player - Legal & General. Earlier this week...
08 December 2016
From: Breaking News

One of the UK’s largest local government pension schemes has committed £100m to invest in the fast-growing Build To Rent sector. The...
06 December 2016
From: Breaking News

Financial results from Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, reveals the potential profits to be made by...
02 December 2016
From: Breaking News

The largest Build To Rent deal in Bristol has been announced. Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, will forward fund, acquire...
29 November 2016
From: Breaking News

Sigma, a Build To Rent developer, has completed and let its 1,000th rental home - a symbol of this fast-growing part...
25 November 2016
From: Breaking News

In a sign of how prominent Build To Rent has become, this niche sector has now triggered a company to set...
23 November 2016
From: Breaking News

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...
22 November 2016
From: Breaking News

A British Build To Rent management company has merged with a long-standing US firm in the same field to create a...
11 November 2016
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Specialist Build To Rent developer Moda has announced a large scheme on the site of a former police headquarters in Scotland...
03 November 2016
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Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London. Legal & General’s plans for...
26 October 2016
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London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...
25 October 2016
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The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...
18 October 2016
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The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...
05 October 2016
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Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...
05 October 2016
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LGIM Real Assets has announced the appointment of a former Countrywide fund manager as part of its Build to Rent (BTR)...
26 September 2016
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The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services. The firm, which...
23 September 2016
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One of Britain’s burgeoning group of Build To Rent operators has struck a deal for 249 of its new homes to...
26 August 2016
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There are now 60,139 Build To Rent units constructed or in the pipeline across the UK according to the British Property...
17 August 2016
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Legal & General has appointed a former Savills residential capital markets expert as it beefs up its team ahead of greater...
09 August 2016
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A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has been given the go-ahead for Manchester city centre. Moorfield, a UK real estate private...
03 August 2016
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Savills is the only organisation with an agency wing represented on the first board of the UK Apartment Association, a new...
01 August 2016
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One of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector says this new segment of the lettings market is...
28 July 2016
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Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme. Vantage Point...
26 July 2016
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The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...
19 July 2016
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The Select Property Group has won planning permission for 506 residential apartments in a prime Manchester city centre location. The two buildings...
15 July 2016
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In one of the first signals that new London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs Build To Rent, his deputy responsible for housing...
14 July 2016
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The UK Apartment Association - the umbrella group of Build To Rent suppliers, including some developers and operators - is starting...
13 July 2016
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Housing association Radian is to build a £27m scheme of 113 Build To Rent homes in Bournemouth - its fourth BTR...
07 July 2016
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The chief executive of a new organisation servicing the fast-growing British Build To Rent sector says he hopes in time BTR...
01 July 2016
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Chainbow, the specialist block management company that has recently taken a high profile approach to the Build To Rent sector, has...
30 June 2016
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SDL Bigwood - owned by Century 21 UK franchise parent company Shepherd Direct Limited - has been selected as the lettings...
15 June 2016
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Developers and investors have written to housing minister Brandon Lewis proposing a three-point action plan that could see more than 250,000...
06 June 2016
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The burgeoning Build To Rent sector has received another shot in the arm with news that regeneration specialist Sigmas is setting...
06 June 2016
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The number of Build To Rent homes planned across the UK has doubled in just six months to 45,000, according to...
20 May 2016
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Michael Green has been appointed the first chief executive of the UK Apartment Association, a new trade body focusing exclusively on...
16 May 2016
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The Association of Residential Letting Agents has signed up its first institutional member from the Build To Rent sector. Get Living London...
13 May 2016
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Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...
21 April 2016
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Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...
18 April 2016
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One of the leading investors in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector says this new tenure will lift the lettings sector’s...
18 April 2016
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Legal & General Capital, which is set to be one of the biggest names in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector...
14 April 2016
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International development firm Westrock has given details of what it calls “the first homes designed specifically for rent in a key...
08 April 2016
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The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...
05 April 2016
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The UK Apartrment Association - which describes itself as the first organisation exclusively servicing this country’s Build To Rent sector -...
31 March 2016
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One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...
10 February 2016
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Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...
09 February 2016
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Transport for London - which last year admitted it may enter the fast-emerging Build To Rent sector - has listed 13...
05 February 2016
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The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...
03 February 2016
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New figures from the British Property Federation show that there are now over 30,000 Build To Rent units with planning permission...
03 February 2016
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Grainger - which last week committed to spend £850m on the burgeoning UK Build To Rent sector - has announced that...
02 February 2016
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The UK’s new Build To Rent initiative, where institutions fund and manage purpose-built rental accommodation, has received £1.45 billion in investment...
29 January 2016
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The UK’s new Build To Rent initiative, where institutions fund and manage purpose-built rental accommodation, has received its second big investment...
28 January 2016
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Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...
28 January 2016
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The new chief executive of Grainger has started setting out her company’s Build To Rent strategy. Helen Gordon has told the Sunday...
25 January 2016
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L&Q has launched its programme to create 5,000 new homes for the Build To Rent sector in London and south east...
21 January 2016
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Knight Frank says Britain’s fast-developing Build To Rent sector may be worth £50 billion by 2020. BTR - which is an umnbrella...
13 January 2016
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Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...
07 January 2016
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Construction has started on Grainger’s latest Build To Rent development in Kensington in central London. The development will include 53 one, two...
06 January 2016
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Grainger is reported to have sold its equity release division to two private equity companies for £325m. Patron Capital Partners, which owns...
05 January 2016
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Funding by large-scale investors into Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector is set to triple by 2020 according to Knight Frank. The...
09 December 2015
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Former Conservative housing minister Mark Prisk says the recent clampdowns on the traditional buy to let sector may end up helping...
04 December 2015
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The National Apartment Association, the organisation that represents the Build To Rent sector in the US, has just hosted a UK...
13 November 2015
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JLL is forecasting that average rents across the UK will rise by 4.5 per cent next year, followed by a 4.0...
04 November 2015
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Transport for London is to release more than 300 acres of land to help create more than 10,000 new homes across...
28 October 2015
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Build to Rent development in London is over double that in the rest of the UK with over 14,276 units in...
20 October 2015
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Atlas Residential - a US Build To Rent company which operates 18,000 rental units across 13 states valued at a total...
01 September 2015
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Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...
13 August 2015
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The Build To Rent movement, whereby financial and other institutions fund the construction of purpose-built rental accommodation and go on to...
06 August 2015
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One of the biggest investors in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, has appointed a land manager from Barratt...
27 July 2015
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This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...
19 June 2015
From: Features

Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...
19 June 2015
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The House of Commons library has issued a 30 page guide on the private rental sector, covering everything from the current...
17 June 2015
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Legal & General Capital (LGC) has announced that it is close to securing its second investment in the Build to Rent...
08 June 2015
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Savills says the Build To Rent sector is set to enjoy a surge of new investment as a result of the...