Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The UK living sector racked up £2.5 billion in investments in Q1 2026, an increase of 74 per cent over Q1 2025.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Vanessa Hale has been confirmed as Real Estate:UK’s first chief executive, ahead of its official launch on 30 April.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The government has unveiled the locations of seven New Towns, which are expected to deliver at least 10,000 new homes each.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Development finance lender Atelier has surpassed £1 billion of gross lending having funded projects across residential, purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and the care sectors over the past seven years.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: The Association for Rental Living has appointed Chloe Sachikonye, senior account executive at Yardi as chair of the Northwest Hub, with Bex Hetherington, head of operations at Native Communities as vice chair.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSentinel Real Estate has hired Ben Sanderson as managing director, to lead the firm’s entry into the UK living sector.
Reading Time: 13 minutesULN editor George Sell revisits a significant industry news story from each month of 2025.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: David Montague, the former chief executive of housing association L&Q, has been appointed chair of later living developer Inspired Villages. Montague led housing association
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFrance: Insurance giant AXA has completed the sale of AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM), a major worldwide living sector investor, to BNP Paribas.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Yorkshire-based Assent, one of the country’s largest building control firms, has ceased trading, placing hundreds of Gateway 2 applications in limbo.
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