Research & Insights

Monthly Single-Family BTR Market Snapshots

From barely existing in the UK ten years ago, single-family build-to-rent (SFR) has become one of the most dynamic and in-demand asset classes in the property industry. As residents have embraced the sector – attracted by high-quality, well-managed, tenure-secure homes – investor allocations have increased in response to the SFR market’s success and undoubted further potential.

But as a young and growing asset class, definitive data is hard to come by.

To address this, Ascend has teamed up with the Association for Rental Living (ARL - formerly the UKAA) to launch a new monthly series of research reports to give real-time insights and serve as a benchmark for the single-family BTR sector.

Ascend is the UK’s largest third-party operator of SFR, overseeing the leasing and property management of some of the sector’s largest and highest-profile platforms. In total, Ascend manages over 7,000 SFR homes, around two thirds of the entire asset class within the UK, which means it holds the largest set of live operational data for this sub-sector.

Drawing on blended data across all of the stabilised SFR schemes under Ascend’s management, each month we will focus on a specific geographic market, taking a look at everything from rental levels and resident profiles to tenancy lengths and occupancy rates.