Goldman Sachs rolls into UK build-to-rent with £118m Birmingham deal
A massive development loan to fund Moda Living’s 42-storey residential tower in central Birmingham is Goldman Sachs’ first foray into the UK’s build-to-rent sector
Tag: Property Investor News
Ranked: Britain’s top ten locations for buy-to-let investors
Zoopla has looked into which locations promise the best yields for buy-to-let investors.
CapitalRise smashes crowdfunding target
Over 500 investors have backed the luxury property crowdfunding platform, raising nearly £2m to “accelerate expansion”
Oaknorth triples profits
Challenger bank claims to have bankrolled the creation of 10,000 new homes since it launched in 2015.
12% of HNWIs ‘have been turned down for a mortgage’ in the last ten years
New research by Butterfield Mortgages lambasts ‘tick box’ methods of high street lenders
Westfield teams up with Canadian fund for a 1,200-home ‘new residential quarter’ in East London
The £670m “Cherry Park” scheme, next to Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, will be one of the capital’s biggest single-site PRS developments.
Amsterdam looks to ban new-build buy-to-lets
European city plans to write a rental ban into new-build leasehold conditions.
Tchenguiz ‘plans to invest $100m in proptech’
Property mogul tells reporters at MIPIM that he wants ‘to be at the forefront of when property meets tech’; predicts ‘big growth from companies that can speed up estate agency work’.
Battersea Power Station completes its £1.58bn ‘re-organisation’
Malaysian investors Permodalan Nasional Berhad & The Employees Provident Fund of Malaysia now own the commercial real estate assets at Battersea Power Station in a £1.583bn joint venture.
Homes England offers 148 sites for development; launches interactive plot finding tool
An interactive tool to help match property developers with plots of land that are ready for home-building has been launched, featuring 148 sites available for development in the next 18 months.
Brookfield takes a majority stake in Oaktree
Major real estate investors combine forces in $4.7bn deal.
Surveying the state of the buy-to-let finance market
Buy-to-let investors need to be more pro-active than ever in order to get the most out of a property portfolio, writes Islay Robinson, CEO of Enness Group, in an in-depth survey of the UK’s BtL scene.