Build to Rent

Our specialist inhouse team are experts in providing a range of services across the entire lifecycle of Build to Rent (BTR) and Private Rented Sector (PRS), from inception through operation, and disposal.

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Our solution services consist of three main areas:

Funding and Land Transactions

Property Consultancy

Property Management

Meet the Team

Lee Richards – Head of Living Sectors has over 12 years’ experience in property, having previously worked at Orchard and Shipman Group as Managing Director. He joined Carter Jonas in September 2021 and heads up our Build to Rent and PRS offerings, utilising his experience of providing consultancy and management services across a wide range of BTR offerings, from having management responsibility for the UK’s largest BTR scheme at Wembley, advising high street names and investment funds, to introducing new styles of BTR offer to market. Lee is passionate about the opportunity for the BTR sector in the UK and has assisted new market entrants as well as advising on refining and growing existing offerings.

Why Choose Us?

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We manage over 1.3m acres of land

1.3m

The average price of homes sold by us in the last year was £740,648

We are advising on 23,000 acres of potential development land with the capacity for up to 100,000 new homes

In the last year, we have sold over £1.5bn worth of property

£1.5bn

Our largest portfolio valuation is £137m

We acquire over 400k sq ft of office space annually in London alone

of central London residential property sold by us last year was off-market

30%

Our firm is made up of 1,000 property experts

1,000

We work for 154 local authorities

154

Carter Jonas was established in 1855

1855

33 offices, including 9 in Central London

We have over 50 chartered building surveyors and project managers

50+

100+ RICS registered valuers

We advise 12 of the top 25 housebuilders

Average Google review rating is 4.7/5

80% of our business is from repeat clients

80%

Take a look at our case studies

In 2020, Carter Jonas was appointed to provide lettings and management services on a Hearthstone portfolio of 113 new build residential properties across four sites in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire. Our role involved the full cycle of letting and management services, from marketing the properties and securing tenants on the best terms, to property management.

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Inland Homes

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Carter Jonas has been appointed as letting and managing agent for the Granada House development in Southampton, delivering build-to-rent services for Inland Homes. Initially conceived as a build to sell development, Inland Homes trialled a small number of units within the Southampton lettings market as part of their aspiration to launch their own build to rent platform. Carter Jonas has successfully let all available homes within the second block of mixed accommodation, alongside the open market leasehold properties.

Our Services

Funding & Land Transactional Support

• Agency and transactional support across build to rent and lettings portfolios

• Fund-sourcing and structural support for BTR Platforms

• Land, planning and development advice

• Feasibility reporting

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Property Consultancy

• Local area market analysis and demographic modelling

• Rental and absorption analysis

• Operational Expenditure modelling

• Competitor and gap analysis

Property Management

• Integrated BTR management – full- service solution

• Building, asset and property management

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The specialist services we offer are individually tailored to suit the varied requirements of our unique clients and their diverse portfolios. We provide bespoke support solutions to suit individual requirements and we appoint a lead contact to oversee all aspects of the service. The end-to-end nature of our service offering leverages our extensive office network and inhouse expertise across multiple disciplines, coupled with real build to rent management experience to deliver a market-leading capability.

Working closely with the Carter Jonas planning and development division, our BTR team have a clear understanding of the latest occupier trends and, importantly, the key issues that are driving demand for Build to Rent tenants.

They types of assets we look after include:

Suburban single-family housing

Mixed use residential schemes

Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

9/10 of our sellers and landlords would recommend our services to a friend.

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We can cover all your needs within the BTR lifecycle. Our services are broadly divided into 3 main areas, but we offer tailored service packages bespoke to each client’s needs.

225,000

BTR homes have now either been delivered or are in planning in the UK

46,000

BTR homes are under construction

of current BTR homes are Suburban BTR

52%

of UK rented households are in suburban areas

87%

of predicted UK BTR not yet identified, financed, planned or constructed

65%

of first-time buyers struggled to find a deposit

-year average saving for deposit for first time buyers

of UK rental properties listed as pet friendly, compared to 50% of BTR schemes

£1.7bn

of investment in UK BTR in Q1 2022 – up 50% on Q1 2021

• Scheme operational management design and feedback

• Mobilisation management

• Lease-up, lettings and tenancy management

• Customer experience, placemaking and community management