Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Moda Living and Apache have appointed Richard Smith as managing director of Moda Life Management, the operational arm of the JV’s £2.5 billion BTR portfolio.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: BTR and PBSA developer Watkin Jones has appointed Jeremy Fletcher as CEO of its property management business Fresh Property group.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Student accommodation developer Unite has appointed Richard Huntingford as chairman.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Senior living developer Birchgrove has acquired Banstead Place in Surrey.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Developer Viewranks Estates has been granted planning permission to build a £60 million coliiving schemeon the site of two retail units in Kingston, south-west London.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann has invested $30 million in Alfred Club Inc., a startup that provides apartment buildings with services including concierge staff and software.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: Planning officers from Elmbridge Borough Council have recommended that a planning application for a senior living development in Walton-on-Thames be refused on the grounds that elderly people do not bring “vitality” to town centres.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Nuveen Real Estate will invest up to $400 million through Sparrow, a newly launched vertically-integrated single-family home rental platform.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: San Francisco-based coliving platform HubHaus has ceased trading, citing a lack of funds.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: International Hospitality Media (IHM), the publisher of SAN, has announced it will be postponing the inaugural Urban Living Festival until July next year, and is launching a series of Urban Living Lite online and offline events following a recent announcement from UK prime minister Boris Johnson.
