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The ARL is pleased to announce new member Sentinel.  Sentinel Real Estate is an independently owned residential specialist real estate investment management firm established in 1969, with a longstanding track record of managing institutional-quality real estate assets for global investors. Headquartered in New York City, Sentinel maintains corporate offices in…

For decades, fire compliance has been managed through paper logs, spreadsheets, and tick-box forms, providing comfort rather than certainty. Today, that approach is no longer sufficient. In all sectors covered by the Building Safety Act, there is now a focus on proving every alarm, test, and inspection has actually taken…

Stockport, June 2026: Centrick, a leading independent property solutions partner, has been appointed by regeneration specialist Cityheart to deliver estate management, rentals and build-to-rent operations at Stopford Park, its landmark £140 million mixed-use regeneration scheme in the heart of Stockport. The appointment follows a competitive selection process and marks an…

The UK’s build-to-rent sector has a data problem. Most professionally managed residential schemes already have camera infrastructure covering their amenity spaces, lobbies, and shared areas. However, almost none of it is being used to answer the questions that matter most: which amenities are driving renewals, which communal spaces are underperforming,…

Touchstone’s Chris Blair takes over as Chair from Bidwells’ Iain Murray Native Communities’ General Manager Holly Rodgers will serve as Vice Chair Newly appointed duo will deliver events, advocacy, lobbying and more in support of Scotland’s rental living sector The Association for Rental Living (ARL) – the membership body…

The ARL launched their EDI ( Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) in BTR White Paper at UKREiiF2026. Developed in partnership with Dr Nero Ughwujabo, Senior Strategy Adviser – EDI at The King’s Trust, and the ARL EDI Committee, this white paper responds to…

At the inaugural ARL Tech Conference on 7 May 2026 in London, delegates posed a number of questions during the sessions. Embracing the Conference’s central theme, AI, we asked ChatGPT to answer these questions. Please find the responses for your human consideration below.    …

BusinessLDN, Real Estate: UK, the Association for Rental Living and PriceHubble join forces to call for measures to kickstart homebuilding across the city  Surging construction costs and long delays to regulatory approvals have significantly hampered the future supply of Build-to-Rent (BtR) properties across the capital, with new interventions needed to reverse the trend.   That’s according to the fifth edition of the Who…

We are pleased to announce Luna as a new ARL member.  Luna is a third-party operator across purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA), Build-to-Rent (BTR), and single-family housing (SFH), delivering end-to-end operational services across the UK living sector. We partner with investors and developers from mobilisation through to stabilised operations, translating investment…