Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Savills’ latest report on the UK BTR sector reveals a total investment of £4.5 billion in 2023, £1.9 billion (42 per cent) of which went to single family rentals.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Asset manager Waypoint has launched an SFR fund which will be seeded with an initial £150 million.
Reading Time: < 1 minute UK: The UK Single-Family Association (UK SFA), a sector specialist non-profit membership organisation, has announced its official launch event on 22nd February and has opened its call for members.
Reading Time: 3 minutes UK: The last week has seen two major acquisitions of SFR homes from housebuilders in the north and Midlands.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Packaged Living and Aviva Investors have completed a deal to forward-fund 174 new homes in Bordon, Hampshire with a GDV of around £60 million.
Reading Time: < 1 minute US: Cushman & Wakefield has appointed its first US head of single-family rentals as it looks to strengthen its presence in the sector.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Urban Living News editor George Sell talks to Jonathon Ivory, chief investment officer at Packaged Living. Their wide ranging conversation touches on Ivory’s wish list for a new housing minister, cultural friction between housebuilders and BTR investors, the company’s move in to coliving, and much more.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Casa by Moda, the single family homes division of developer and operator Moda Group, has reached completion on the first phase of its new rental homes in Springboig, Glasgow – its first residential neighbourhood to open in the UK.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Nuveen Real Estate and Apache Capital have formed a JV to fund SFR housing across the UK, with sites to be developed and operated by Present Made, Apache Capital’s SFR platform.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Real estate investment manager Moorfield is extending its presence in the UK BTR sector by launching a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) to buy rental homes.
