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Manchester lettings agency Ascend says it’s had a record year in 2019, bolstered by its new Build To Rent involvement. The company...

Investment into the purpose-built Build To Rent sector in the UK dropped significantly last year. Some £273.8m was invested in the fourth...

A former director at LSL’s Build To Rent division has today been named as head of business development at a London...

Here it is - the start of a new decade, a moment for resolutions and remembrance, and the last Bank Holiday...

Atlas Residential - a Build to Rent developer with over 75,000 international properties - is partnering with deposit alternative supplier flatfair...

More details have emerged of the long-term scheme to site Build To Rent homes at Transport for London tube stations and...

Flat-sharing website Ideal Flatmate has raised £2m in a funding round in order to expand to seven new cities in the...

Canary Wharf is the latest prime area of London to secure a Build To Rent scheme.  10 George Street, by Canary Wharf...

Zoopla is beefing up its customer relationship management programme with the appointment of RAPP UK to evolve the portal’s data infrastructure...

Rent controls similar to those demanded by Labour in London and other major cities in the UK do not work, and...

A leading agent has repeated his controversial belief that the proposed scrapping of Section 21 eviction powers should be seen as...

Research by the British Property Federation shows that there are now 148,046 build-to-rent homes complete, under construction or in planning across...

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...

An independent letting agency has reported its success in helping two large Build to Rent (BTR) developments to successfully let properties...

A PropTech platform devised by Build To Let specialist Grainger is to be used in a bid to differentiate the company from...

Build To Rent developer Simple Life has launched 28 new BTR family homes in Newhall Harlow, Essex.  Part of a larger development of...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors wants the government to implement recent recommendations to regulate the agency industry, starting with the...

One of the key players in the ultra-competitive deposit alternative sector has announced a massive and new $11m investment. Flatfair says that...

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...

An investment company has revealed that it’s acquired land in the north of England to create a Build To Rent scheme. Godwin...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to complete the largest privately funded development in Wales, Cardiff Central Square, which will include...

London is growing in its importance as a Build To Rent market according to new research released today. International property consultancy JLL...

Legal & General, one of the largest specialist builders of so-called retirement communities for the over-55s, is now going to let...

A platform which works with independent lettings agents and Build To Rent operators says it is linking them to provide mutual...

Calls by Labour’s London Mayor Sadiq Khan to secure powers to implement private sector rent controls are facing increasing opposition. Business organisation...

Data from Rightmove suggests that demand from tenants looking for a new home has soared seven per cent since the Tenants...

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

The chairman of Hunters estate agency, who is also a Conservative MP, has hit out at the government over its handling...

A trade association has called for a 'moratorium' on any further government intervention in the buy-to-let sector in order to stop...

Institutional investment in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector reached a record high last year, according to fresh research from Bidwells.  The...

Savills says some 120,000 buy to let mortgages have been redeemed since the launch of the additional homes stamp duty surcharge...

A European law firm has set out a critique of the driving forces behind Build To Rent - and it says...

As competition hots up between different deposit replacement scheme providers, three new Build To Rent sign-ups have been announced by one...

The head of a firm that seeks investors to put money into residential property funds rather than individual homes for tenants...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on two adjacent sites in south London to deliver its largest Built To Rent scheme...

The Build To Rent sector continues to grow, albeit slowly - now volume house builder Crest Nicholson has teamed up with...

Savills has launched a new residential lettings service in one of the country’s most successful buy to let and investment locations...

Agents and prospective buy to let investors keen to grab a slice of the capital’s growing lettings market now have a...

Flatfair, which describes itself as the UK’s fastest-growing tenancy deposit alternative, has been shortlisted in the Best Newcomer category of the...

A PropTech lead generation app that dubs itself the ‘Uber for Lettings Agents’ has launched in Manchester. The app, from Movebubble, already...

A regional property developer and investment firm has unveiled a Build To Rent division with a target of building 2,500 homes. The...

Legal & General is to develop a Brighton industrial estate into the town’s first Build To Rent scheme. The work will go on...

One of Britain’s most experienced lettings experts has condemned the government for “almost singlehandedly destroying the traditional lettings market.” Lisa Simon -...

The London-focussed rental app Movebubble has revealed major new investment from Build To Rent developer Quintain, which is taking a 10...

Over 250 new units constructed by Telford Homes are to be used for Build To Rent according to a deal announced...

The latest property completed in the ever-growing Build To Rent sector is a 44 storey tower standing at 141 metres tall. The...

High-end lettings agency Knight Frank is predicting that £75 billion of investment will be committed to the Build To Rent sector...

One of the country’s major Build To Rent providers has signed a deal to deliver 324 flats in a major city...

A new Build To Rent developer brand, Core Living, has been launched by development and investment company Godwin Group. Godwin is targeting...

A software platform has been launched which allows Build To Rent units to be short-let on the likes of Airbnb during...

One of the largest players in the Build To Rent sector has snapped up a site in a major city centre...

There has been a massive surge in the volume of lettings properties under construction for the burgeoning Built To Rent sector. Data...

There’s been a strong start to the year for Build To Rent with news that a real estate investment trust dedicated...

JLL has been appointed by Aberdeen Standard Investments to manage Aireside, a Build To Rent scheme of 107 apartments in Leeds. The...

With 2019 almost upon us, letting agents are finally unburying their heads from the ignorant bliss of the sand pit and...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it...

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five...

Rettie & Co is the first agency north of the border to offer a no-deposit scheme to tenants - although it’s...

Plans have been unveiled for a 23-storey development comprising 307 Build To Rent units, located overlooking Cardiff Bay. IM Properties and its...

An investment trust has been launched and looks likely to be competing for individual investors who may see it as an...

A landmark report on private renting provides the opportunity to stop blaming letting agents and landlords for the sector’s problems, a...

Some industry observers say letting agents and Build To Rent are daggers drawn, but one agency in the Midlands is having...

The National Landlords Association is the latest trade body to back what is being described as a landmark review of the...

The chief commercial officer of PropTech startup Canopy says that letting agents and Build to Rent landlords need to accommodate the...

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...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on the West Tower in Manchester’s Deansgate, bringing the firm’s total of BTR units in...

A Build To Rent operator is marking its 2,000th new-build home - an indication of how the sector is starting to...

Agents and others wishing to respond to the official consultation on government proposals for longer tenancies have only until late evening...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector, says it has pre-let 50 per...

Britain’s most controversial landlord, Fergus Wilson, says the recent changes in buy to let legislation means that if he was starting...

A trade body says the country faces a net loss of 133,000 homes for private rent over the next year -...

The British Property Federation says there are now 124,037 Build To Rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the...

A Tory activist has made an outspoken attack on the government’s policies towards the private rental sector on the pages of...

Legal & General, one of the biggest players in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent market, has exchanged contracts on its largest...

Buy to let landlords are welcoming proposals being considered by the government to provide financial incentives for those offering longer tenancies. In...

The government should scrap the tax on new homes which is punishing those in need of a home to rent, the...

Another Build To Rent scheme has been unveiled, this time in Berkshire. Crest Nicolson and M&G Real Estate have joined forces to...

Buy to let landlords are on the way out and Build To Rent will dominate the sector in the foreseeable future.  That’s...

One of the biggest and earliest companies investing in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector has expanded its partnership with one...

A Build To Rent business says investors in the private rental sector should be more flexible in their approach to private...

A Build To Rent company that scrapped deposits for tenants a year ago says it has saved renters almost £3m in...

Telford Homes says some of its massive 35 per cent growth in pre-tax profits over the past year is down to...

The Build To Rent provider Grainger has reported a 23 per cent rise in profits and says it is looking for...

Grainger says it’s ready to respond to the growing need for longer tenancies for families and older renters - the latter...

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

A newly built, boutique development of eight luxury Build To Rent apartments has come to the market in uber-fashionable Shoreditch, east...

Midlands-based SDL Group has announced the sale of a Birmingham residential lettings portfolio to Lomond Capital. SDL Property Management now focuses on...

The chief of a PropTech firm says letting agents should consider participating in the growing Build to Rent sector.  Until now, many...

New figures show a 30 per cent rise in the past year in the number of Build To Rent units planned,...

Build To Rent operator and long-term volume landlord organisation Grainger says it is pioneering five-year leases “in a bid to overhaul...

Foxtons is warning that the private rental sector - traditionally a strong earner for the company even in times of challenging...

Build To Rent provider Get Living has revealed plans to invest up to £180m in 756 units in Leeds. Acquired by Get...

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

The British Property Federation is calling upon more councils to support Build To Rent following the government’s recognition of the sector in...

Reaction to the government’s call for developers and planning authorities to be more flexible in their approach to increasing the housing...

Tax increases on the rental sector are leaving young people unable to access the homes they need, an industry body claims. The...

Experts suggest that Build To Rent is likely to be heavily promoted when the government announces its latest revamp to the...

Grainger plc, the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, has launched a scheme of 29 two, three and four bedroom houses aimed...

Build To Rent developer and operator PLATFORM_ has announced its first scheme in Scotland and an expansion of an existing development...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts to acquire land in the centre of Brighton in order to deliver the city’s first...

Legal & General - one of the country’s largest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector - has made a...

Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, is reported to have acquired an under-construction Build To Rent scheme...

Larger scale landlords with 10 properties or more appear to be the most confident about the private rental sector, and are...

Grainger - Britain’s largest listed residential landlord, which has pledged to invest £850m in Build To Rent - says the rental...

Legal & General, one of the largest operators in the growing Build To Rent sector, has acquired a 272 acre site...

One of the senior figures in the UK’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector has called on the Chancellor to help this...

Latest figures suggest that there are almost 100,000 Build To Rent units either completed, under construction or awaiting planning permission across the...

Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward has been appointed joint agent and sole lettings manager for Britannia Point, a 182 unit Build To Rent...

The managing director of LSL’s Corporate Client Department has been appointed as National Lettings and Franchise Director for Your Move and...

Build To Rent developer Be says it is moving to a no-fees model for its development at Hayes in west London....

A trade body says the expanding Build To Rent sector will never be large enough to meet tenant demand and as...

Some 61 per cent of chartered surveyors believe there will be a net exodus of landlords over the coming year thanks...

LSL Property Services’ new consultancy and management service for the Build To Rent sector - PRSim - has teamed up with...

A respected letting agency research head says Build To Rent could be a significant step towards solving the overall shortage of...

SDL Group - owner of the UK franchise for Century 21 lettings and estate agency branches - has been named as the...

A new Build To Rent scheme from specialist developer Get Living is to charge from £410 a week for units at...

New figures compiled by the British Property Federation chronicle the continuing growth of Build To Rent across the country.    The BPF says...

LSL Property Services has unveiled PRSim, its new brand offering services to the burgeoning Build To Rent sector.   PRSim offers “data, consultancy and...

New government figures reveal that there are 80,855 Built To Rent homes either completed or planned.    It says investment in this element...

It is being reported that one of the major providers of purpose-built student accommodation to let - Unite - could temporarily...

The findings of the most recent English Housing Survey, an annual report published by the Department for Communities and Local Government,...

Purpose-built and professionally-managed Build To Rent - until now seen as a primarily London phenomenon - appears on the march in Scotland...

Rents in prime central London are down 4.8 per cent in the past year according to Knight Frank - a slightly...

The boss of 300 branch agency Belvoir has called on the government to appoint a cross-party housing tsar to work with...

The proportion of households living in the Private Rented Sector (PRS) will rise to 24% over the next four years, according...

A Build to Rent scheme in Salford is launching this week with tenants moving in to purpose-built rental accommodation at 'The...

Uber and a Build To Rent developer have announced a PropTech deal which will see the transport company getting involved in...

A Build To Rent operator with properties in London and Glasgow is scrapping tenants’ deposits from the middle of next month,...

Research experts at high-end agency Savills say a total of £5.3 billion is expected to be invested in the student accommodation...

Legal & General has announced that its fifth Build to Rent scheme will be in Leeds. The site, Mustard Wharf, has permission...

Tenant referencing and insurance provider Van Mildert has secured private equity funding from a private family office and the principals of...

A Liberal Democrat spokesman has used a lettings sector trade body website to outline his party’s support for a range of...

The British Property Federation says it is doing all it can to urge the fledgling Build To Rent sector to fall...

Scotland’s rental market swings to extremes, suggests the latest figures from website Citylets.   On the one hand the Scottish average rent has...

Build To Rent operator L&Q has delivered another 68 homes in part of a drive which it says will eventually produce...

Build To Rent operator Essential Living has won planning consent for 221 new homes in Brentford - part of the firm’s...

L&Q has launched 59 Build To Rent units on the site of the former Walthamstow greyhound racing stadium in London.   The operator...

Bath is to have a major Build To Rent scheme from Legal & General, believed to be the first development of...

LSL’s corporate client department, a subsidiary of LSL Property Services, is beefing up its offer to Build To Rent institutional investors...

Bristol council has given consent to a 255 unit city centre Build to Rent scheme to be constructed and managed by...

Letting Agent Today’s Conor Shilling was in the audience of The Great Buy To Let Debate - always one of the...

Smart repair reporting software Fixflo is teaming up with Qube Global Software to allow letting agents and property managers to handle...

A new report suggests that institutional investment in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector could see the creation of 240,000 new...

L&G, one of the biggest firms involved in Britain’s Built To Rent sector, has named the agency it is appointing to...

The government has stepped in to clear up misunderstandings emerging from the Housing White Paper following its high profile call for...

Shelter - the campaigning charity many feel has had influence on government policies for the lettings sector - has now turned around and...

Wembley Park in north London is to host Britain’s largest Build To Rent scheme yet after Quintain revealed a programme for...

The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper.   Introducing in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...

The Residential Landlords Association has made a last-minute plea for buy to let investors to remain central to the government’s plans...

Sigma Capital, one of the earliest investors in the UK Build To Rent sector, is creating a new brand called Simple...

Government leaks to the Observer newspaper suggest that the Housing White Paper will show a huge policy shift towards renting - and may...

Imperial College London has paid £30m to acquire half of London’s largest Build To Rent scheme at The Perfume Factory in...

It’s been a long time coming but the government’s White Paper on Housing - tipped to contain major reforms affecting the...

Housing minister Gavin Barwell says recent changes to buy to let mortgage interest relief and stamp duty will only affect a...

Cushman & Wakefield has added a partner and an associate director to its Residential Investment & Private Rented Sector team.  Fergus Jack,...

Qube Global Software and PropTech start-up Engage have combined forces to deliver self-service portals to residents within the growing Build to...

Mark Clare, the former Barratt Developments chief executive, is to be the next chairman of Britain’s current largest listed landlord, Grainger,...

The fast-growing Build To Rent sector has seen another boost in investment from a major player - Legal & General.    Earlier this week...

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

Financial results from Grainger, which is already the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, reveals the potential profits to be made by...

The largest Build To Rent deal in Bristol has been announced.  Grainger, the UK's largest listed residential landlord, will forward fund, acquire...

Sigma, a Build To Rent developer, has completed and let its 1,000th rental home - a symbol of this fast-growing part...

In a sign of how prominent Build To Rent has become, this niche sector has now triggered a company to set...

New research suggests the UK is on the brink of a large-scale, commercially developed, owned and operated Build To Rent sector. A...

A British Build To Rent management company has merged with a long-standing US firm in the same field to create a...

Specialist Build To Rent developer Moda has announced a large scheme on the site of a former police headquarters in Scotland...

Another 400 purpose-built Build To Rent apartments have been given the green light by planners in London.    Legal & General’s plans for...

London mayor says the private rental sector will play an increasing part in solving the capital’s housing shortage - but insists...

The British Property Federation is urging Chancellor Phillip Hammond to bring in tax measures to help the purpose-built Build To Rent...

The government must urgently deliver 1.8m new rental homes as new figures from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveal a...

Grainger, the UK’s largest residential property owner and manager listed on the London Stock Exchange, has set out an argument to...

LGIM Real Assets has announced the appointment of a former Countrywide fund manager as part of its Build to Rent (BTR)...

The SDL Group says it is on course to become the UK's largest provider of Build to Rent services.  The firm, which...

One of Britain’s burgeoning group of Build To Rent operators has struck a deal for 249 of its new homes to...

There are now 60,139 Build To Rent units constructed or in the pipeline across the UK according to the British Property...

Legal & General has appointed a former Savills residential capital markets expert as it beefs up its team ahead of greater...

A new £40m Build To Rent scheme has been given the go-ahead for Manchester city centre.   Moorfield, a UK real estate private...

Savills is the only organisation with an agency wing represented on the first board of the UK Apartment Association, a new...

One of the biggest players in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector says this new segment of the lettings market is...

Hamptons International and Day Morris have been appointed as joint lettings agents for London’s first bespoke Build To Rent scheme.   Vantage Point...

The Residential Landlords Association has welcomed a report by the House of Lords that institutional investors behind the Build To Rent...

The Select Property Group has won planning permission for 506 residential apartments in a prime Manchester city centre location.   The two buildings...

In one of the first signals that new London Mayor Sadiq Khan backs Build To Rent, his deputy responsible for housing...

The UK Apartment Association - the umbrella group of Build To Rent suppliers, including some developers and operators - is starting...

Housing association Radian is to build a £27m scheme of 113 Build To Rent homes in Bournemouth - its fourth BTR...

The chief executive of a new organisation servicing the fast-growing British Build To Rent sector says he hopes in time BTR...

Chainbow, the specialist block management company that has recently taken a high profile approach to the Build To Rent sector, has...

SDL Bigwood - owned by Century 21 UK franchise parent company Shepherd Direct Limited - has been selected as the lettings...

Developers and investors have written to housing minister Brandon Lewis proposing a three-point action plan that could see more than 250,000...

The burgeoning Build To Rent sector has received another shot in the arm with news that regeneration specialist Sigmas is setting...

The number of Build To Rent homes planned across the UK has doubled in just six months to 45,000, according to...

Michael Green has been appointed the first chief executive of the UK Apartment Association, a new trade body focusing exclusively on...

The Association of Residential Letting Agents has signed up its first institutional member from the Build To Rent sector. Get Living London...

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has backed the raft of measures seen by many as anti-buy to let, including the restriction on...

Countrywide - which has already acquired a string of letting agencies in recent months - continues to demonstrate its emphasis on...

One of the leading investors in Britain’s fast-growing Build To Rent sector says this new tenure will lift the lettings sector’s...

Legal & General Capital, which is set to be one of the biggest names in the burgeoning Build To Rent sector...

International development firm Westrock has given details of what it calls “the first homes designed specifically for rent in a key...

The British Property Federation says George Osborne’s stamp duty surcharge will threaten the success of the Build To Rent sector, which...

The UK Apartrment Association - which describes itself as the first organisation exclusively servicing this country’s Build To Rent sector -...

One of the country‘s leading rental sector analysts is warning that tax changes for landlords’ mortgage interest relief, and the imminent...

Legal & General Capital, which last week announced its intention to work with a Dutch pension fund manager to build 3,000...

Transport for London - which last year admitted it may enter the fast-emerging Build To Rent sector - has listed 13...

The government’s initiatives to try to increase house building and owner occupation will not stop demand for rented homes rising by...

New figures from the British Property Federation show that there are now over 30,000 Build To Rent units with planning permission...

Grainger - which last week committed to spend £850m on the burgeoning UK Build To Rent sector - has announced that...

The UK’s new Build To Rent initiative, where institutions fund and manage purpose-built rental accommodation, has received £1.45 billion in investment...

The UK’s new Build To Rent initiative, where institutions fund and manage purpose-built rental accommodation, has received its second big investment...

Legal & General Capital - which has recently made clear its intention to become a major Build To Rent player in...

The new chief executive of Grainger has started setting out her company’s Build To Rent strategy. Helen Gordon has told the Sunday...

L&Q has launched its programme to create 5,000 new homes for the Build To Rent sector in London and south east...

Knight Frank says Britain’s fast-developing Build To Rent sector may be worth £50 billion by 2020. BTR - which is an umnbrella...

Investment advice company London Central Portfolio says the proposed three per cent stamp duty surcharge on the purchase of buy to...

Construction has started on Grainger’s latest Build To Rent development in Kensington in central London. The development will include 53 one, two...

Grainger is reported to have sold its equity release division to two private equity companies for £325m. Patron Capital Partners, which owns...

Funding by large-scale investors into Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector is set to triple by 2020 according to Knight Frank.  The...

Former Conservative housing minister Mark Prisk says the recent clampdowns on the traditional buy to let sector may end up helping...

The National Apartment Association, the organisation that represents the Build To Rent sector in the US, has just hosted a UK...

JLL is forecasting that average rents across the UK will rise by 4.5 per cent next year, followed by a 4.0...

Transport for London is to release more than 300 acres of land to help create more than 10,000 new homes across...

Build to Rent development in London is over double that in the rest of the UK with over 14,276 units in...

Atlas Residential - a US Build To Rent company which operates 18,000 rental units across 13 states valued at a total...

Urban regeneration specialist Sigma Capital is the latest firm to announce it is entering the Build To Rent sector, seeking to...

The Build To Rent movement, whereby financial and other institutions fund the construction of purpose-built rental accommodation and go on to...

One of the biggest investors in Britain’s burgeoning Build To Rent sector, Legal & General, has appointed a land manager from Barratt...

This month has marked a real change in the way the private lettings sector is perceived - and it’s a perception...

Three multi-million pound deals will provide over 1,000 new homes specifically for private rent in London, under the government’s Build To...

The House of Commons library has issued a 30 page guide on the private rental sector, covering everything from the current...

Legal & General Capital (LGC) has announced that it is close to securing its second investment in the Build to Rent...

Savills says the Build To Rent sector is set to enjoy a surge of new investment as a result of the...

Around 40 developers, property consultants and block managers have sent an open letter to the new government - being elected today...