Akanksha Soni

3 days ago | estatesgazette.co.uk | Akanksha Soni |Samantha McClary |Evelina Grecenko |Pui-Guan Man

The demand at Allsop’s and Acuitus’s sales indicates that the bottom of the market has been hit

1 week ago | estatesgazette.co.uk | Akanksha Soni

A former west London RAF site has been given the green light to be converted into 356 homes. The final phase of the RAF Uxbridge masterplan by VSM Estates includes 1,341 homes, a 77-bedroom retirement home, a 90-bedroom hotel, 200,000 sq ft of mixed-use commercial development including shops and offices, a primary school, GP surgery and a 45-acre public park. The scheme also includes a site for a 1,200-seat theatre. The plans for the 110-acre site was approved in 2011.

1 week ago | estatesgazette.co.uk | Akanksha Soni

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has announced that City Hall will actively explore releasing parts of London’s green belt for development, marking a radical shift in the capital’s housing strategy. Khan said the scale of London’s housing crisis means “business as usual” is no longer viable. London needs 88,000 new homes annually, and close to 1m by 2035 to meet demand, he said, a figure not seen since the 1930s. The mayor made clear that brownfield land alone “will never be enough”.

1 week ago | estatesgazette.co.uk | Akanksha Soni

The UK’s build-to-rent sector is poised to attract £6bn in investment this year, surging in the face of economic and geopolitical headwinds and reflecting the sector’s growing resilience, diversification and appeal to institutional investors. The number of operational BTR homes has more than doubled in the past four years, according to Lambert Smith Hampton, surpassing 130,000 in the first quarter of 2025.

1 week ago | estatesgazette.co.uk | Akanksha Soni

HUB and Bridges Fund Management have secured planning approval for a mixed-use development at Pines Way in Bath. The plans include 275 build-to-rent homes and 179 shared/co-living homes alongside extensive shared amenity and landscaping. The currently derelict site will also see six new flexible commercial spaces introduced totalling more than 12,000 sq ft, contributing to the Bath Western Riverside local economy.