The Association for Rental Living, the membership body for all institutionally backed, professionally managed purpose-built rental living sectors, has announced the extension of the entry deadline for its prestigious 2026 ARL Awards to 30 September. Designed to honour key contributors across the rental living sector, the free-to-enter…

In my last blog I defined the sense of community as “the perception of similarity to others, an acknowledged interdependence with others, a willingness to maintain this interdependence by giving to or doing for others what one expects from them, and the feeling that one is part of a larger…

BoConcept, the leading Danish furniture brand, has launched a new website dedicated to its B2B side of the business. With over 65 years experience, 300 retail outlets worldwide in more than 60 countries, BoConcept have for a long time been leaders in the retail furniture sector. Over recent years…

Womble Bond Dickinson have provided UKAA members with an article relating to the extension to the possession/eviction moratorium. Read: Extension to moratorium on evictions…

From career changes and re-evaluating relationships to moving home and makeovers - a new study by UKAA member Movebubble reveals that lockdown is leaving Brits longing to shake up their lives.   New research has found that nine…

It’s been 2 months since the UK instituted its lockdown restrictions. Judging by increased activity on the streets, and other public spaces it appears the British public’s restlessness of staying at home has fuelled their appetite for socialising in public spaces. Increasingly we are also aware that residents are frustrated…

A few words this week (and in my next couple of blogs) on a topic that has filled more airtime on BTR webinars over the last two months than almost anything else – Community.  We have spent a lot of time promoting community as crucial to successful BTR schemes, both…

Welcome to my mid-May blog amid an industry that seems to be opening up again – my daughter went back to her Mayfair agency office this week (and as a parent I must admit to mixed feelings about her travelling on public transport) and there has been lots of talk…

The UKAA has been holding a bi weekly Supplier forums. Please see below for the meeting notes from each session: 9th March 2021 17th June 2020 15th April 2020  …

Its Mayday – I had forgotten the date until I came to write this blog and I could say that like Proust I was immediately taken to my childhood and to ceremonies involving flowers and friends named after a cake. But it would not be true and all I remember…