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.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: Gatehouse Investment Management has acquired 71 homes in Bolton for its UK single-family BTR portfolio, which is backed by the Kuwait Investment Authority.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: BTR provider Placefirst has been granted planning consent for a 146-home suburban BTR scheme in Newcastle’s West End.
Reading Time: 3 minutes UK: Casa by Moda, the SFR arm of developer and operator Moda Living, has acquired a site in Leeds to deliver the brand’s first single family homes development in the city.
Reading Time: 2 minutes UK: New figures from the British Property Federation (BPF) show the number of completed BTR homes in the UK has increased 13 per cent in the past year to 88,100 units despite market conditions slowing development activity.
