‘Single Family Housing: The Home of Residential Investment’

“It’s hard for those concentrating on Build-to-Rent to believe that they’re only tapping into a relatively small part of the UK market as they are deeply engaged in urban development and regeneration,” says Richard Berridge, Head of Strategy & Enterprise at Howsy “Even the PRS is predominantly houses. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the institutional investor has turned to single-family homes. This is because they have proved to be the most defensible of all real-estate assets during the pandemic.”

The paper has contributions from Mark Farmer, CEO of CAST and the Government’s Modern Methods of Construction champion who discusses MMC’s part in delivering SFH’s sustainably and at scale. Brendan Geraghty offers a deep dive into ESG and design. This provides thought leadership for those entering the sector.

The paper describes the journey BTR and millennials, who turn forty this year have taken together and points out that they are both ten years older. Each have matured and may have grown apart. The maturing of BTR’s principal cohort and their changing desires, wants and needs can now be satisfied by SFH’s ability to offer greater and more flexible space; both inside and out.

Richard Berridge describes the paper as “A platform from which SFH can spring, and a thought piece for further discussion and dissection”. He further commented “This is by no means definitive. This is the beginning. We have covered what we know, where we are and how we think the SFH sector will evolve. We have been rigorous in our extensive research and thought very deeply about the subject but, to paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, there will be unknown unknowns” 

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