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What’s driving the surge in Build-to-Rent?

Record demand for rented homes, rock-bottom interest rates and an unusually low spread between commercial and residential property income returns have triggered a surge in build-to-rent activity this year. The squeeze in relative income returns may yet be reversed, but the outlook for interest rates and tenant demand is favourable. And with other forms of new supply weak, the foundations for further BTR growth look solid.

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