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Tenants at a Newcastle-upon-Tyne Build To Rent scheme are being offered deposit alternatives by the developer-cum-management firm, The High Street Group. The...

A property development firm says it’s to spend up to £500m in land acquisitions over the next three years, as part...

Some tenants will spend years living in temporary Airbnb-style short let accommodation after the Coronavirus crisis ends, a lettings platform claims. The...

Private renting is now “a future-forward choice, seen by many conscious consumers to be a cool and connected way of accessing...

Technology colossus Samsung has teamed up with a Build To Rent provider to create what it calls “next generation neighbourhoods” of...

Build To Rent, which has predominantly focussed on secondary sites in major city centres, is branching out to the suburbs. One of...

A Build To Rent operator claims to be promoting what it calls “socially conscious renting” as people seek to live more...

A new Build To Rent brand - Kooky - has acquired 208 units in High Wycombe from a developer, Inland Homes. The...

Sigma Capital has joined forces with Swedish investment firm EQT to create a £1bn housing joint venture, with a view to...

Plans to develop 460 build to rent flats next to Southall train station in west London have been given the go-ahead.  The...

A planning application has been submitted by DPP for a Build to Rent scheme at Flax Place in Leeds, on behalf...

Love to Rent is teaming up with the UK Apartment Association (UKAA) to host a webinar focusing on Covid-19 and the...

Grainger plc is targeting primarily key workers and recent graduates for their latest Build to Rent scheme in Salford.  Clippers Quay, the largest...

Wise Living has announced plans to build more than 10,000 Build to Rent (BTR) homes by 2025.  The BTR arm of property...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on a new Build-to-Rent (BTR) site in Chelmsford City Centre, on behalf of its UK...

Build-to-Rent remains a fast growing sector with thousands of developments currently under construction, and this trend looks set to continue in...

The next government should urgently reduce VAT on maintenance and improvement works to people’s homes to help boost investment in the...

FirstPort, one of the largest managers of residential property in the UK, has taken over the operational management of an additional...

Moda Living has welcomed Boris Johnson’s pledge to introduce government-backed “lifetime rental deposits” to reduce the cost of moving from one...

Grainger PLC has submitted detailed planning consent for a Build to Rent scheme in Lewisham.  The project on Besson Street, SE14, which...

The number of Build to Rent homes completed, under construction or in planning across London has increased by 35% in the...

More than £2bn has been invested into the UK’s Build to Rent (BTR) sector in the first three quarters of 2019, according...

CBRE has completed the purchase of Telford Homes in a £267m deal. The acquisition of the housebuilder will enable the company to...

SES Engineering Services has been appointed to provide mechanical, electrical and plumbing design and installation services on the Mustard Wharf Build...

The Build to Rent development pipeline has grown dramatically in recent years and there are clear signs of the sector becoming...

Phases one and two of the Clippers Quay and Salford Quays Build to Rent (BTR) developments in Manchester have now been fully...

Build to Rent (BTR) continues to go from strength to strength with record levels of investment in the sector, which explains...

Ascend Properties continues to expand its reach into the Build to Rent sector after securing significant investment from Gatehouse Bank last year. The...

There is no such thing as 'no-fault' eviction under Section 21, according to evictions specialist Paul Shamplina. The founder of Landlord Action insists...

Legal & General will develop 318 Build to Rent flats as part of a £400m regeneration of Cardiff’s Central Square district...

There was £359.4m of institutional investment into the UK private rented sector in second quarter of the year, according to CBRE...

Construction has been completed on the first major city centre Build to Rent development in Glasgow. With young professionals flocking to the...

Investment into the Build to Rent sector reached a record high in 2018, as corporate landlords continued to tap into healthy...

Investor demand from corporate landlords, often backed by institutional finance, is growing and that is pushing up rental values across some parts...

BLP Insurance has been awarded a new contract with Legal & General to underwrite the Mustard Wharf Build to Rent (BTR)...

More than a third of renters across the UK report being stuck in poorly maintained homes with landlords who refuse to...

The UK Build to Rent sector continues to go from strength to strength, with record levels of investment in the first...

The government’s announcement earlier this week that there will be radical reforms of the PRS will not just create open-ended tenancies...

Property search data from Zoopla over the past 12 months has been analysed to reveal the most sought-after areas for a...

The average rent across England and Wales has increased by 0.4% in the last 12 months, hitting an average of £861...

Legal & General has been granted planning permission to develop the Longley Industrial Estate into Brighton’s first Build to Rent (BTR)...

Buy-to-let landlords believe that today’s Spring Statement provides the chancellor Philip Hammond with an opportunity to bolster activity in the buy-to-let...

When property experts gathered at the Bristol office of Colliers International in June 2016 to discuss Bristol’s potential for Build to...

Viventi Capital Management has announced plans to invest £100m in the UK’s Built to Rent sector. The company says that it is...

Many people invest in property or sign up to investment club arrangements, which are not uncommon in the industry, but sometimes it...

Demand from new tenants in London’s private rented sector is rising at a time when the number of homes available to...

PLATFORM_ has been awarded planning consent to build just over 200 homes on the site of the former Browning Jones &...

Anaconda Cut, standing at 131 metres tall, making it the tallest building in Salford, has been officially launched. The 44-storey tower, which...

With a growing number of Build to Rent (BTR) developments increasing, broadband and utilities provider, Glide, has put together the top...

Legal & General has unveiled its first Build to Rent (BTR) scheme in Scotland to help meet the increasing demand for...

Legal & General has exchanged contracts on a new Build To Rent (BTR) site in Chelmsford City Centre, on behalf of...

Canopy, the UK property rental market app has teamed up with Rettie & Co. to trial RentPassport and DepositFree insurance at...

The Multifamily Housing REIT, a regional UK private rented sector (PRS) property group, is planning to compete against buy-to-let landlords in...

Buy-to-let landlords potentially interested in investing in the Midlands may wish to check out a new PRS investment scheme being launched...

The government’s private rented sector policies are failing tenants, mainly because they are ‘not joined up or thought through’, a new...

Property developers are looking to profit from the growing number of private renters by investing further in purpose-built rental accommodation. The Build...

Rents are forecast to see strong growth over the next five years, according to the latest residential property forecast from the...

Construction work is progressing well on a new ultramodern, multimillion pound Build to Rent development on Forth Banks in Newcastle, which...

Many buy-to-let landlords may have reacted angrily to government proposals that will give tenants a minimum three year contract, but one...

Celebrate the shows 5th Birthday and 57th event to date in the Landlord Investor Lounge with a glass of prosecco with...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of build-to-rent homes complete, under construction and in planning across the UK,...

Buy-to-let landlords are currently in retreat in the housing market, leaving many tenants struggling to find suitable rented accommodation, new analysis...

A new development featuring the first family houses built exclusively for rent in Hampshire has been launched by Grainger, the UK’s...

Legal & General has announced that it will be creating 200 new Build to Rent (BTR) homes in Brighton as part...

Legal & General has announced that it will be creating 220 new Build to Rent (BTR) homes in Birmingham, as part...

Plans have been unveiled for a development of 375 new Build to Rent (BTR) homes, as part of the proposed redevelopment...

With significantly more new homes urgently needed to help plug the housing shortage in this country, the government views the Build...

Rents in Scotland have hit a record high as demand from renters continues to exceed supply, fresh figures show. The latest quarterly...

Legal & General has announced that it will be creating over 250 new Build to Rent (BTR) homes in Leeds, as...

A new Build to Rent (BTR) development featuring over 170 homes will be built in Bath city centre by Legal &...

Construction work on the largest fully funded Build to Rent scheme in Manchester is set to get underway in August after...

Waltham Forest Council’s planning committee has awarded planning consent for the construction of a 440-home build-to-rent scheme in Walthamstow on the site...

One of UK’s leading developers of homes for private rent is calling on the government to exempt the build-to-rent sector from...

The housing minister’s call this week for significantly more homes “of every single type” to be built, including significantly more homes for...

Construction of a unique south London housing scheme has got underway in a factory in Shropshire. The modular construction by Elements Europe,...

Professional investors should be exempt from the recently introduced 3% stamp duty surcharge, according to the Better Renting for Britain campaign. Some of...

Get Living London has become the first Institutional Investor backed organisation to become a Licensed Member of the Association of Residential...

Affordable housing provider Rentplus has secured up to £70 million funding to support the delivery of thousands of new rent-to-buy homes   The...

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

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

Some 60% of London landlords would reduce the size of their property portfolios in the event of a rent freeze.  This is...

Chancellor George Osborne is presenting the “summer budget” tomorrow with rumours circulating that he will give in to calls to close...

The British Property Federation (BPF) has announced the creation of a new committee that will focus on promoting the emerging build-to-rent...