Glasgow Cherry-Picked for Legal & General’s First Build to Rent in Scotland

Major Build to Rent provider, Legal & General, are to deliver their first purpose built apartments for the Scottish Private Rented Sector. They will provide funds for Drum Property Group to construct two 18 storey towers, consisting of 324 flats within Glasgow’s new Buchanan Wharf waterside regeneration area, which will also include the new Northern …

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Citylets Sponsors Scottish Build To Rent Forum 2018

Citylets is delighted to sponsor the Built to Rent Forum Scotland conference now in its fourth year, taking place on October 11th 2018. Organised by Movers & Shakers and supported by Scottish Futures Trust, Homes for Scotland and The Scottish Property Federation, this one day event brings together leaders from the public and private sectors, …

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Scotland Lags UK as Build To Rent Races Ahead

The most recent research into the Build To Rent sector in the UK shows that it has grown by 30% in the past year. The study, conducted by Savills for the British Property Federation at the end of Q1 2018, revealed that across the country there were 117 893 build to rent homes either complete, …

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Green Light For Dundee’s First Build To Rent Development

Vox Dundee Project has been awarded planning consent by councillors, which will see the former Dundee College building transformed into 111 build to rent apartments with car parking and 24 serviced apartments. Work will begin this year with a move in date of 2019. Vox Investments have appointed Reigart Contracts to complete the work which …

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Rental Income Guarantee Scheme to Help Build to Rent Growth

Citylets recently sponsored the third annual Build to Rent Forum 2017 which took place in Edinburgh on 12th October 2017. It was also on this day that the Scottish Government launched The Rental Income Guarantee Scheme (RIGS).The initiative is designed to lower risk for investors in the emerging Build to Rent (BTR) sector and reduce …

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For Rental Bliss It’s Got To Be Swiss

Global real estate firm, Savills, recently carried out research on proportions of people owning and renting across different countries around the developed world. Savills discovered that Switzerland was the only country where more people rent their homes than purchase, with 60% of people renting, closely followed by Germany where almost 50% rent homes. Certain factors …

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