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    Moda Living holds virtual fitness and wellbeing sessions for residents

    The build-to-rent operator and its partner Hero will ramp up monthly wellbeing evening classes to a weekly session, which will be streamed online. Run by a Hero team member, the workshops in the coming three weeks will focus on managing anxiety, nutrition and mental health. The operator is also running a series of fitness classes and streaming […] More

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    Guild Living and Channel 4 professor launch research programme to influence retirement communities

    The partnership is being led by visiting University of Bath professor Malcolm Jonson, who was featured in Channel 4’s BAFTA-winning series Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds. Guild Living, which is working on its first three schemes in Bath, Epsom and Walton-on-Thames, said the research will focus on tackling loneliness in older people. It said […] More

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    New London housing targets fall short of true housing needs

    The latest London Plan, drafted by mayor of London Sadiq Khan, sets a target of 52,000 homes per year. This falls far short of the government’s 72,000 calculation of London’s housing need, and Savills’ 95,000 figure for uncapped housing need – a calculation of the level of housing supply needed to bring down prices to […] More

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    Secure Trust Bank Real Estate Finance refinances £18m for QIP

    Secure Trust Bank Real Estate Finance has refinanced a £18m facility for Q Investment Partners (QIP), on Straits Manor, a purpose built student accommodation complex in Sheffield.  QIP acquired the 11-storey development in 2017, and it currently comprises 284 units. It is managed by Prestige Student Living.  QIP owns just under 1,000 student beds in […] More

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    MyHome.ie to cut agents’ listing subscription fees by 50%

    Fee cut to be backdated to March 1st Initiative to last four months ‘We recognise that property agents have been enormously impacted by the Covid-19 crisis’ MyHome.ie has today announced that it will cut its listing subscription fees for property agents by 50% in light of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. This fee cut will be […] More

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    Covid-19: Government to ban evictions and introduce BTR landlord protections

    The package of measures will mean that landlords cannot start the process of eviction for renters in either social or private accommodation for at least the next three months. The measures also mean that the three-month mortgage payment holiday announced on Tuesday for private homeowners will be extended to landlords whose tenants are experiencing financial […] More

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    PPR Estates given the green light for Old Kent Road redevelopment

    The scheme will involve the demolition of the existing single storey building and construction of two residential towers comprising 13 and 21-storeys delivering a total of 168 flats. The development will also comprise 181,910 sq ft of ground floor retail space, which will be let to budget supermarket Aldi. Stace is providing project management and […] More

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    Eutopia Homes’ £130m resi scheme greenlit

    Eutopia Homes’ 465-home development will comprise 230 BTR units and 122 units for open market sale on a 15-acre brownfield site close to the city centre. Sixty-five of the units will be extra-care homes and 48 will be affordable housing for social rent or shared ownership. The scheme will also feature onsite amenities such as […] More