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We are pleased to announce the rebranding of Dandara Living to Colby River.  Colby River is an award-winning, fully integrated real estate business delivering end-to-end services across the living sector. We specialise in multi-family, single-family rental, and student accommodation, supporting clients from early-stage strategy through to mobilisation and long-term operation.

We are pleased to announce Findable as a new ARL member. Findable is an AI-powered document intelligence platform built for real estate asset managers. We help investment managers, asset managers, and property companies instantly find, extract, and act on information locked inside their document portfolios — leases, reports, certificates, contracts,…

Newton + Young is an institutionally backed interior design and furnishing company, specialising in flexible solutions for both purchase and rental. We bring together best-in-class industry professionals, united by a shared passion for delivering interior design that is innovative, impactful, and built to last.   Our furniture rental and staging…

By Neelam Saihjpal, Vice-Chair of the ARL Midlands Hub & Operations Director at VervLife The ARL Midlands Hub has started 2026 with a strong sense of direction and, importantly, a willingness across the committee to get involved and make things happen. At the outset of the year, we agreed to…

Colby River has appointed Jackie Robinson as Managing Director of Colby River Property Management, strengthening the leadership of its fully integrated living sector platform. Colby River launched in September following a spin-out of Dandara Living Management from the Dandara Group. The company operates across a wide range of asset classes…

Ark serves as ARL Gold Partner and Risk & Compliance Partner for 2026 Announcement follows successful partnership in 2025 Sponsorship offers continued support for ARL members with risk, compliance and safety expertise Following a successful partnership in 2025, the Association for Rental Living (ARL) – the membership body for all…

by Brendan Geraghty, CEO, Association for Rental Living UKREiiF gives us the stage; what we do with it is up to us. UKREiiF 2026 brings together, in Leeds from 19–21 May, the people who shape whether housing gets delivered: investors, local authorities, policymakers, developers and operators. Its framing –…

Below are the executive summary and detailed notes from the Ministerial Roundtable, which was held during our successful Scotland Study Tour in Edinbugh and Glasgow on the 4th and 5th of February. More details on the Study Tour can be found here. A review…

ARL has been confirmed as a Strategic Partner of the Housed Shared Living Summit, while Housed: The Shared Living Podcast joins ARL as a Silver Partner — reflecting a collaborative partnership focused on advancing insight, dialogue and operational best practice across the BTR sector and wider shared living landscape. The…