Could Do Better: Birmingham Has to Up Its Build-To-Rent Development Game
June 27, 2018

Could Do Better: Birmingham Has to Up Its Build-To-Rent Development Game

How is Configuration of The City Centre Changing in Birmingham? Hear More 20 September

Birmingham's 5,000-unit pipeline of build-to-rent and build-for-sale apartments is in danger of producing low-quality homes, as developers rush to capitalise on a hot market.

And that has got to stop, one influential global architecture business said.

Ahead of the Bisnow Future of Beds in Birmingham event on 20 September, Bisnow spoke to Gensler's Birmingham boss, who is presiding over a 1,000-unit development pipeline. Automated vehicles and solving Birmingham's perennial cracked-pavement problem are part of their answer to the design dilemma.

On Monday this week Birmingham's tallest residential tower reached practical completion, another landmark in the city's residential renaissance. The £35M Bank residential development, owned by Aprirose, comprises 189 studio, one- and two-bedroom properties and has already sold 90% of its…

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Stakes in two Midlands shopping centres are for sale at a combined price of £469M as investor interest grows in an under-appreciated sector. The potential sales — by intu at its 1.3M SF Derby mall, and Hammerson at the 1M…

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Cube Sells At Second Attempt

Tristan Capital has sold Birmingham's 500K SF Cube mixed-use development at the second attempt. The sale — to an unnamed buyer at an unnamed price — was announced by Tristan's European Property Investors Special Opportunities 3 (EPISO 3) Fund. A sale…

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Revealed: Who Are The Chinese Investors In Birmingham Real Estate?

For three years Chinese investors have been checking out the opportunities for investment in Birmingham real estate — and now we know who they are. As flows of Chinese outbound investment into Birmingham real estate promise to pick up, Bisnow can…

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