Heimstaden Bostad AB has agreed to fund and acquire PLATFORM_’s 464-home residential project in Edinburgh for SEK 1.5 billion (£124.4 million). A build contract was placed simultaneously and practical completion is scheduled for mid-2024. The development is in the Bonnington regeneration area, 2 km (1.2 miles)...
PLATFORM_, the Build-To-Rent (“BTR”) investor, developer and operator, has acquired a site in the centre of Milton Keynes for a future BTR and office redevelopment. This takes the gross development value (GDV) of PLATFORM_’s development pipeline to over £1 billion. Milton Keynes has a total population...
PLATFORM_, the BTR developer and operator, has exchanged contracts to purchase a large city centre gateway site in Leeds from a subsidiary of Burberry. The eight-acre site, which is located on Sweet Street, has a lapsed planning consent for a 935,000 sq ft residential-led mixed...
PLATFORM_ and Northwood Investors have formed a new joint venture to develop and operate Build to Rent apartments across UK regional centres in England, Scotland and Wales. The venture will initially develop a portfolio of 1,039 apartments including: PLATFORM_ Glasgow, comprising 498 apartments, located at Central...
It won't come as a great surprise to anyone reading this that the UK is currently experiencing a housing crisis, but the true scale of the issue can still be daunting. A report in January from Shelter argued that 3 million homes needed to be built...
£100m Clydeside build-to-rent development gets green light Published 21 January 2019 Detailed planning permission has been granted for a 498-apartment build-to-rent development on the banks of the River Clyde. The £100 million scheme, which sits on the Broomielaw, one of Glasgow’s major thoroughfares, is being delivered by developer and...