Reading Time: < 1 minuteFinland: Housing investor and operator SATO has bought 602 rental homes across eight apartment buildings from OP Vuokrakoti Ky for an undisclosed sum.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: New research from Savills shows a strong start to the year with UK build-to-rent (BTR) investment in Q1 2026 reaching £795 million, dominated by acquisitions of operational assets.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Funds managed by US investment house Apollo have acquired Gatehouse Living Group (GLG), a vertically integrated UK residential investment and management platform, from Gatehouse
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Oaktree Capital Management is considering bringing its UK and Ireland build-to-rent (BTR) platform to market.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has acquired Ebb & Flow, a fully let 598-unit build-to-rent (BTR) development in Reading.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeveloper Cavan Companies has acquired a site for The Bungalows at Prairie Hills, a planned 154-home single-story build-to-rent (BTR) community in Papillion, Nebraska.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: Knight Frank’s UK Multifamily Market Outlook 2026 report has highlighted the potential of low-to mid-rise schemes to boost developer pipelines.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: United Trust Bank (UTB) Structured Property Finance has completed a £35 million structured stabilisation facility for an office-to-residential conversion near Heathrow Airport.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK/India: VerbaFlo, the conversational AI platform, has raised a $7 million seed round, led by Pi Labs, with participation from Haatch, Navigate Ventures, Old College Capital – the University of Edinburgh’s in-house venture investment fund, and a group of global family offices, alongside follow-on commitments from anchor investors.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUK: As the largest tenancy reform in decades looms on 1 May 2026, build-to-rent (BTR) operators must shift their focus from occupancy to revenue protection and long-term yield resilience, says Merilee Karr of UnderTheDoormat Group.
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