EXCLUSIVE: Manchester's Massive New BTR Strategy Will Blow Your Mind
New build-to-rent communities, co-living and deeper private-public partnerships are part of the adventurous package of new measures from Manchester City Council's new director of housing and residential growth.
Jon Sawyer, who took up his post in August, said Manchester City Council will turn up the dial on its housing development partnerships as it prepares to exceed its house-building target by more than 50%.
At Bisnow's Manchester Build To Rent Boom event Thursday — his first public appearance since his appointment — Sawyer gave an exclusive insight into Manchester City Council's evolving BTR strategy.
Things are changing at Manchester City Council. In the months since chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein retired after more than 20 years at the helm, the city's policy framework is beginning to settle into new patterns.
Jon Sawyer takes up…
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Buy To Leave? M&G Warns Manchester Could Follow London As 'Dark Towers' Proliferate
Manchester could follow London's example of dark, unoccupied "Buy to Leave" apartments, M&G Real Estate Head of Residential Investment Alex Greaves has warned.
Speaking at Bisnow's Manchester Build To Rent Boom event, Greaves said he feared Manchester apartments were being sold to…
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BTR Sector: More Plumbing Goes In, As Manchester Management Experts Expand Into Birmingham
A Manchester-based build-to-rent management specialist is to expand into Birmingham in partnership with Legal & General, as the BTR infrastructure begins to fall into place.
Urbanbubble will work with Legal & General on its BTR schemes nationwide, starting in Birmingham…
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The Best Beer Garden In The World Has Just Been Completed, And It Is In Manchester
Roll over Munich. Stuttgartters, put your lederhosen back in the wardrobe. As German cities prepare for the annual Oktoberfest beer binge, developers Allied London have unveilled what they hope is the world's best beer garden in Manchester.
Allied London launched an…
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Northern Gateway Is Now On-Site
One of Europe's largest urban regeneration projects — equivalent to half the size of Manchester city centre — is now underway.
Contractors have been appointed for the £200M MeadowSide residential scheme, part of the 15,000-unit Northern Gateway development in central Manchester.
Developer…
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When Is A Delay Not A Delay? The Puzzling Math Of HS2's Midlands-To-Manchester Extension
Northern rail passengers are used to delays — the introduction of new timetables led to months of disruption, which has yet to be resolved. But an announcement about the future of the £21B HS2 northern spur from Birmingham to Manchester…
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