Whitepapers   |   12 February 2025

Single-Family Housing is Leaving its Sandbox

If I had to draw a line separating a ‘before’ and ‘after’ of UK real estate, it would be early in the 2010s. That feels recent for what is often described as the world’s oldest asset class, but back then the investable universe available to institutions was a slither by both scale and sophistication, to what it has now become.

Photo Charles Allen
Head of European Real Estate

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