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New retail and leisure research has revealed a boom in commercial real estate activity over 2023.  The latest report by the Local...

In Q4 2023 the overall commercial vacancy rate was stagnant at 14.0 per cent - but there is good news for prospective...

Retirement Villages Group (RVG), owned by AXA IM Alts, has revealed the concept for its future collection of Integrated Retirement Communities,...

2022 was a year that presented an assortment of challenges for the commercial real estate (CRE) market; the aftermath of Covid-19,...

Andy Jones, Group Director, Corporate  & Build to Rent, Leaders Romans Group (LRG) Build to Rent (BTR) and more specifically, its regional...

Untold Living, a new later living developer and operator, has received backing from Matter Real Estate to acquire and develop multiple...

Native Group has announced the creation of Native Residential as a new business entity, as well as announcing a range of promotions and new...

The UK’s leading provider of retirement villages, Audley Group, has recently announced that, following extensive consultation with the local community and...

One of the Build to Rent (BTR) sector’s leading developer operators has announced plans for its first Sheffield scheme. Moda Living has...

The UK's Build to Rent (BTR) sector continues to grow and evolve, which arguably makes the role of the market's trade...

In a week of blazing weather, PIT shines a light on the latest auction news, from a new property auctioneer coming...

The seemingly endless growth of Build to Rent continues unabated, with the new partnership of Moda Living, Osborne + Co and MRP recently...

A PropTech firm says it recently saved one of its premium Build to Rent (BTR) clients more than £160,000 by preventing a US-based...

Investment into the UK’s fast-growing property technology (PropTech sector) has reached record levels in 2021 and more than quadrupled since last...

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

As a property investor, you are more than likely to require building work at some point – whether you are flipping...

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...

Some believe co-living as a concept has only grown in significance as society has had a chance to reassess its priorities and...

In this development roundup, ilke Homes gathers significant funding in a pledge to deliver 10,000 homes in the next five years,...

In this ongoing series, PIT will explore whether commercial to residential conversions – one of the biggest trends during the pandemic as...

Shopping centres have taken a hit in recent years thanks to changing shopping habits, the growth of online retail, a decline...

One of the biggest trends during the pandemic from a property development point of view has been a dramatic increase in...

Property investment firm Advantage Investment explores why the UK staycation boom is providing the best opportunities for investors. The travel restrictions and...

It’s one of the biggest issues facing countries and leaders across the world and has been brought into starker focus than...

Fresh data from one of London’s largest co-living operators has revealed the positive impact of lockdown restrictions lifting on tenant sentiment...

A rising problem in the Build to Rent (BTR) sector is tenant fraud. The busiest time of year for renters is...

Quintain Living, formerly known as Tipi, is the Build to Rent (BTR) brand of well-known developer Quintain and has made a...

The Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) sector is an incredibly exciting industry to be in right now with a very promising future...

The City of Helsinki – the local authority for Finland’s attractive coastal capital city – recently announced a competition that invites...

Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester have seen the largest year-on-year rental increase across the Build to Rent (BTR) sector, the latest...

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

In this guest piece, Jitesh Patel from Kajima Partnersips discusses why later living investment will become so important post-pandemic and represents an...

As a once in a lifetime event, the response to the pandemic has taken precedence over other global issues, including our...

With restrictions starting to ease as part of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, and the vaccine rollout going well, there...

Early next month, Londoners will head to the polls to elect the capital’s next Mayor, in a vote that has been...

Real Estate Capital Holdings has agreed to sell a prime PBSA development opportunity in Leeds for £18.5 million to global living...

Property investment can be very profitable over time and is seen as one of the safest forms of investment during times...

In this guest piece, Jess Brookes - content & research executive at Home Made, a London lettings company specialising in Build to...

In this bumper development roundup, PIT explores regeneration projects in Sheffield, office to residential conversions in high-end Bloomsbury and schemes providing...

Grant Seaton, senior business lending manager at The Cumberland, discusses how the holiday let sector can prepare for a spring like no...

A London-based property development company, founded by two young local entrepreneurs, managed to post record sales over the last two quarters...

In 2019, senior housing – also known as retirement housing or senior living – seemed to be developing into one of...

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

At the start of this year, you would have got very, very long odds on the prospect of UK-wide lockdowns, mandatory...

One of the biggest property investment trends of the year, driven by the pandemic and the devastation this has caused for...

As we get ever closer to leaving 2020 behind (and many might be happy to write this year off entirely), thoughts...

Despite the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, interest in overseas property remains strong, even if international travel and tourism are currently very much...

The fast-growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector continues to generate plenty of news, even as we live through Lockdown 2.0. The week-long...

A trio of hotels in Scotland which once catered for a significant number of coach tour guests are now up for...

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

For over two decades, The Cumberland has been offering specialist lending to the hospitality sector, and 10 years ago, it became...

The high street was already struggling before the pandemic, but Covid-19 has perhaps sent it into terminal decline. High streets in major...

Online searches for pet-friendly UK rental property have jumped to the highest level since available records began in 2004, according to...

Rental data has revealed a marked increase in young renters heading to the capital throughout September 2020. The data released by co-living...

Earlier this year, we explored the often-underreported scandal of timeshare mis-selling and asked how easy it is for people to escape...

Last week, Build to Rent (BTR) trade body UKAA and design and consultancy firm Arcadis hosted a Zoom webinar focused on...

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is becoming increasingly flexible, accommodating different course lengths and formats, as well as the uncertainty...

Few would disagree that it has been a difficult year for the residential lettings sector. With the market effectively frozen for...

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is showing signs of recovery following market disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...

A new Manchester-based student accommodation start-up is using the latest tech to deliver five times faster booking. Housemates, founded by tech entrepreneur...

Businesses involved in the retail sector – either as corporate occupiers leasing space for stores, warehousing and distribution, or as property...

For a time, not so long ago, timeshares were the in-thing – something many invested in or considered investing in. It...

It would be hard to deny that the UK housing market isn’t in desperate need of reform. The government has acknowledged...

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

Several months ago, on March 23, Boris Johnson made a televised address to the nation with the unprecedented call for the...

Who are you? My name is Benjamin Hall and I’m the Founder and Managing Director of LOFT. What services does LOFT provide? LOFT delivers...

In parts one and two, we looked at the investors and developers with a large stake in the fast-emerging Build to...

In part one, we looked at the major institutional investors ploughing money into the rapidly growing Build to Rent (BTR) sector. Here,...

The purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) sector is continuing to grow despite the huge impact on universities from the coronavirus pandemic, which...

Covid-19 is a generational event that will impact the way people live, work and behave long after the pandemic has been...

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 knock-on effects of the coronavirus – widespread panic, quarantine, falling oil prices, and weakening oil-dependent currencies like the Russian ruble – are...

With lockdown measures in place until at least May 7, and possibly for much longer than that, the new normal is...

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has had a particularly stark effect on the short-term rental market, given its reliance on travel, business,...

The coronavirus pandemic has put all aspects of normal life on hold for the time being, and has affected each and...

Residential property consultancy Ringley has launched a new operational management platform for property owners to monetise services and spaces within their...

We are all facing incredibly challenging times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, and when it comes to the Build to...

With the number of major modular housing providers in the UK increasing, and calls getting ever-louder for more modern methods of...

With Build to Rent the private rented sector’s fastest-growing marketplace, and a major consideration for an increasing number of institutional investors...

The UK population is growing by more than 500,000 people each year, yet only about half the homes needed are built...

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

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

The increasing amount of lettings regulations is making it difficult for letting agents and landlords to remain compliant and protect the safety of...

New research from online mortgage broker Property Master has revealed that the cost of the majority of fixed-rate buy-to-let mortgages appear...

On April 1 2019, the rental sector shifted into a new era of even greater professionalisation with the introduction of mandatory...

An industry first ‘Student Accommodation’ podcast was released last week by City Room Rentals, a leading online marketplace for student housing. The...

How can effective fire risk management help protect the value of your property investment?   When investing in property, potential ROI or yield...

Serviced office take up across the UK has more than doubled in the first half of this year, reaching 1.07 million...

Residential property prices continued to increase across most parts of Ireland in the year to the end of February, led by...

If you are planning to invest in the retail property sector any time soon, it may be wise to check out...

Allsop’s final commercial auction of the year will see 237 properties located throughout the UK go under the hammer, with guide...

Property developer Sigma Capital has launched a £39m regeneration scheme in Liverpool city centre after securing funding for the project. The development...

YT Realty Group Ltd, the Hong Kong-based investment company, has purchased the Travelodge Hotel close to Liverpool Street Station in London...

UK demand for offices providing flexible workspace has increased by 21%, according to a study carried out by workspace specialist Instant. The...