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.
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UK Single-Family Housing: Capital Goes Back to Basics
In his latest opinion piece with Institutional Real Estate, Inc, Charles Allen, Head of European Real Estate at Fiera Real Estate Europe, sets out why UK single-family housing represents a natural evolution of institutional investment in living sectors. Against a backdrop of structural undersupply, he highlights the sector’s robust market fundamentals, growing demand and role in delivering new housing supply, with scalable income, professional management and local execution increasingly key to performance - driving single-family housing higher up the agenda for long-term investors.