Archive

The build-to-rent market has long been characterised by providing expensive, urban flats for young adults; but 2021 was a landmark year...

It’s one of the best-known parts of West London, famous for its (now demolished) exhibition centre, its busy Tube station and...

A PropTech start-up launched in 2017 to make property investment less clunky and more inclusive has announced the launch of its...

In this guest piece, Judith Tan, head of capital markets at EstateGuru, looks at how investors can hedge their bets against...

In this mini update, PIT takes a look at the latest in purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) news, with Dominvs’ plans for...

A property developer and operator is aiming to have a major say in the fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector, with...

Property investment will be the best-performing investment asset in 2022, making it the top pick ahead of cash, stocks and cryptocurrency,...

In this mini update, Property Investor Today looks at the latest in purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), from the locations with the...

In this latest Q&A, Property Investor Today speaks to Barry McKeown, real estate partner and head of Shoosmiths' Glasgow office, for...

This week’s auction roundup shows positive results across the board, with Auction House London, Clive Emson, Allsop, Auction House and SDL...

Goldman Sachs made the headlines after announcing a partnership with Urban & Civic to deliver hundreds of rental homes across the...

In this piece, Katherine Rose, managing director of VervLife, explains why Build to Rent (BTR) operators may want to consider switching...

This BTR roundup features an insight into the UK PBSA sector, good news for the London co-living market, and a brand-new...

As the property investment industry becomes ever more complex, it can be difficult for a first-timer to take the plunge and...

UK property finance platform CapitalRise has funded its biggest crowdfunding raise. Investors of the platform have reserved £6.4 million in finance...

Who are you? Peter Grant, founder and CEO of Sandstone Group (formerly Grant Property). Out of hours, my passions include skiing and...

Until recently, the world of buy-to-let investing has traditionally been dominated by men. Current figures, however, reveal women now make up...

In this guest piece, Stuart Williams, director of property investment firm Thirlmere Deacon, outlines the golden rules for armchair investing. Over the...

As a landlord or investor, yield is one of the things you will be most interested in to ensure you generate a...

This May Day Bank Holiday, PIT is running a staycation special series on a range of topics associated with a market...

Like all investments, buy-to-let property comes with many considerations but also plenty of opportunities. Off-plan property is an asset class that...

Over-55s used housing equity to clear more than £612 million of unsecured debt in 2020, new data from Key has revealed. Credit...

The Budget could leave many property investors and landlords ‘between a rock and a hard place’, according to Apropos. The letting firm...

2020 was a tough pill to swallow for Europe’s real estate markets as some segments were forced into extremely disruptive lockdowns...

A joint venture between Audley Group, Schroders Real Estate and Octopus Real Estate has secured a £47 million development loan for...

In this Q&A, Thomas Balashev – who has spoken previously of breaking into the old-money elite of prime London property despite...

Two of Australia’s most popular cities - Melbourne and Sydney - are tipped for a Build to Rent (BTR) boom, according...

In recent years, buy-to-let investors and landlords might feel as if they have been deliberately targeted, with changes to mortgage interest...

In a year of tumultuous uncertainty, where the headwinds of Covid-19 bore a number of new realities and decimated others, some...

In September last year, Hungarian-based property developer Cordia International acquired Birmingham-based, PRS-specialist developer Blackswan Property Limited. The Blackswan acquisition marked Cordia’s first investment in the UK market and is...

Purpose-built Build to Rent (BTR) housing is only a recent concept, with just over 51,000 dwellings completed across the UK as of Q3...

Sometimes even seasoned investors will need guidance, help and assistance, particularly during times of crisis and uncertainty. With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic,...

It’s threatened to be a thing for quite some time, but for one reason or another co-living has failed to catch...

In this guest piece, Max Shenkman, head of investment at Triple Point Social Housing REIT, outlines why social housing REITs are continuing...

DTZ Investors has forward-funded a 310-room co-living project in Earlsfield, in a deal requiring £70 million of total investment. The Collective, which...

With recent reports suggesting there’s been a spike in first-time landlords of late, a property investment expert has outlined why finding your...

Although the last six months have undoubtedly been difficult for many property investors and landlords for others this has been a...

Social and affordable housing provider Funding Affordable Homes (FAH) has secured a £16.5 million loan from Secure Trust Bank Real Estate...

Affordable housing is very often a thorny bone of contention. Arbitrary government targets are regularly missed and this part of the...

Delancey and Oxford Properties’ co-investment platform, Delancey Oxford Residential (DOOR), has raised further commitments of £260 million and £150 million for...

The founder of a property development company believes there is still money to be made in these difficult times, if the...

Now, more than ever, property investors will be seeking safe havens and thriving markets which promise strong and reliable returns. Could...

In one of the biggest signs yet that modern methods of construction (MMC) are going mainstream, NHBC, the leading warranty and...

Before the coronavirus hit, Build to Rent was without question the property market's fastest-growing trend. While, like all parts of the...

A new report has found that the UK’s residential market is missing out on billions of pounds of potential investment from...

As the UK gradually starts to emerge from lockdown, the reflective mood it has created is likely to continue in the...

Despite the uncertainties posed by coronavirus for the higher education sector, new student accommodation developments are showing no signs of slowing...

Since lockdown, we have witnessed an increased focus on overseas properties, with many UK buyers using the extra time at their...

While Covid-19 continues to affect us all in differing ways, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are tentatively lifting lockdown...

With lockdown starting to ease, investors across the country will be considering their next steps and where might represent the best...

A regional property investment firm has released figures which suggest that there is still movement in the property market in the...

Build to Rent (BTR) was undoubtedly one of the property sector’s fastest-growing areas before Covid-19 took hold. But, like all other markets,...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on all of our lives, including those who operate in the property...

Women now account for 47% of the total 2.5 million buy-to-let investors in the UK, up from 46% in the previous...

Experience Invest, a London-based firm which provides property investors in the UK and overseas access to exclusive investments across a variety of...

2019 brought with it much uncertainty, with falling property prices leading many to fear the start of a property price crash....

With an increasing number of mixed-use schemes and developments across the country - which typically combine residential, retail, leisure and entertainment...

Welcome back to Women in Property Investment (or WIPI), where we focus on inspiring women who are making their mark in...

Octopus Real Estate, working alongside Cardiff-based brokerage Pure Commercial Finance, has completed the £28.3 million refinancing of UK Regeneration’s 970-acre development...

Co-living is currently a nascent market in the UK – still highly niche, albeit growing – but there are signs that...

Property Investor Today has previously looked at how Smartlands became the first company to tokenize property in the UK and asked whether fractional ownership and...

In recent weeks we have featured articles on the investment potential of retirement living and care homes. Here, Alex Pelopidas - partner at...

Real estate is set to remain an attractive investment asset in 2020 despite strong political and economic headwinds, the latest research...

Last week we explored whether senior living - a rental model aimed at the over-75s - could be the next major property...

Last month Property Investor Today attended AEW UK’S economic briefing on senior living to find out whether this could be the...

In a further sign of its growing strength as a market, more than £2 billion was invested into the UK’s Build...

Following the official launch of PropElle, the women-centric network for property investment, founder Ayesha Ofori tells Property Investor Today what it...

Global property consultancy Knight Frank recently launched its Prime France Report, which revealed that British buyers now account for one in...

An online auctioneer, BidX1, has announced the launch of its global digital property marketplace. The platform expects to sell 2,000 properties with...

Property Investor Today has covered the work of Smartlands - the first regulated blockchain-based crowdfunding company in the UK, and the...

Property in prime central London (PCL) has outperformed a range of other asset classes (including gold, farmland, antique jewellery and the...

A new, unique platform for crowdfunding investment was recently launched by Smartlands, with the company becoming the first to tokenize property...

Some 73% of buy-to-let investors considered property as the best, least volatile long-term investment when compared to all other asset classes,...

Property investment platform Propio.com is set to launch a property ISA ahead of its April deadline. Part of a new breed of...

A Berlin-based co-living service provider has joined forces with one of Europe’s largest real estate investment managers to assemble a €1...

Buy to let income for landlords living in London reached £7 billion in the last tax year, according to estate agent...

The outlook for property investment in the UK remains positive, despite the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations. That’s according to a...

The latest research from Octopus Choice suggests that Britain’s buy-to-let landlords are divided over their future, due to recent tax and...

The latest Network Auctions event, which took place on July 12 in London, raised a total of £8 million. Sold lots covered...

The number of buy-to-let investors in the UK reached a record high of 2.5 million in the latest tax year, up...

International property consultancy and estate agency Knight Frank has revealed that it has strengthened its Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) business...

Fresh research examining the movement of prime residential prices in the world’s top cities since the start of the financial crisis,...

A number of buy-to-let landlords are turning their attention to student housing, which is regarded by many property investors as a...

LendInvest, the UK online platform for property lending and investing, has listed a £50m retail bond on the London Stock Exchange’s...

The UK will remain a property safe haven despite the upcoming general election and Brexit, new research shows. The study of 1,100...

Investors, landlords and property enthusiasts will descend on London's ExCel on April 28 and 29 for the annual Property Investor &...

There is nothing that markets dislike more than uncertainty and surprises, and the Brexit vote unleashed considerable forces of uncertainty. But...

The average price of a home in central London hit a new high of £1,818,262 in 2016, thanks largely to a rally...

Despite initial concerns that a Brexit vote might lead to significant falls in capital values, the latest research by Savills shows...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of students living in private sector purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in the...

Rental prices are continuing to race ahead across some of Spain’s main cities, led by gains in Barcelona and Madrid, where...

Central London’s office investment market has had another strong year with total turnover for 2016 expected to reach in excess of...

Trevor Abrahmsohn, director at Glentree Estates offers his thoughts on what property market trends we can expect over the coming year.  2016 has...

The surprising political events of 2016 will lead to greater ‘caution and risk aversion’ among property investors in 2017, making secure...

There has been a sharp rise in the number of overseas investors taking advantages of some ‘compelling income returns’ in Scotland,...

There has been a significant increase in the number of property investors acquiring student housing assets in mainland Europe, new research...

International investors accounted for 78% of the commercial property acquired in central London in the last three months, as the fall...

Investor interest in Ireland’s commercial property market is growing, with many investors now looking beyond Dublin to the country’s provincial markets,...

Farmland values in England have stabilised after falling at their fastest pace in at least 12 years, but the long-term direction...

Demand for residential properties unsurprisingly fell in April following the introduction of higher stamp duty for buy-to-let and second home buyers,...

The UK's student numbers have been growing for the past few years, despite an initial slump in the wake of the...

It has been revealed that residential property investment in England and Wales has massively outperformed other major asset classes over the...

London-based property investment consultancy Experience Invest has created a new investment opportunity in Luton. With demand for student accommodation increasing year...

Student property is currently the UK’s best performing asset class, with over £4 billion invested into the sector in the first...