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The Property Podcast

TPP347: Build To Rent: The biggest competitor you didn't know you had

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last week Rob & Rob were joined on the Property Podcast by Build To Rent expert, Richard Berridge. Well, he’s back again this week for a second episode on the new craze that is Build To Rent.  In last week’s episode, The Robs covered what Build To Rent actually is, and this week they’re discussing why it matters for you and what the future of Build To Rent might look like. Here’s some of what you can expect The Robs and Richard to cover in today’s episode: What will Build To Rent look like in 10 years time? What’s going to slow it down? How will Build To Rent properties react to market cycles? What marks an area as suitable or unsuitable for Build To Rent? There’s plenty more to be covered in this week’s episode too. So, should you be afraid or optimistic about Build To Rent? You should have a clearer picture after this episode. So tune in to listen.   This week’s news story is possibly one of Rob B’s favourite headlines, ‘Welcome to Manc-hattan: how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers’. It comes from The Guardian, and whilst the headline is actually pretty clever, it’s not very complimentary to the city.  The article is talking about the ever-changing Manchester skyline and the number of skyscrapers that are appearing. They even touch on the homeless issue that we have here in Manchester.  If you ask us, we’re really struggling to see how the amount of investment and regeneration that’s currently being ploughed into the city centre is a bad thing. If anything, it allows the council to use the additional higher rate council tax payments to put into schemes around homelessness. But have a listen and let us know what you think via email or social media.     And for our Hub Extra this week, we’re bringing you another podcast. No, it’s not from Rob & Rob sadly, this one is called ‘Startup’ by a company called Gimlet. It’s been going for five years and sadly it is coming to an end.  The purpose of the podcast at the beginning was to document their process of starting their business. And now, the podcast has come full circle as they are ending their podcast due to the fact that they have been purchased - by none other than Spotify! It’s really interesting to listen to how the deal came about, so it’s definitely well worth a listen. And while you’re there, why not subscribe to our podcast over on Spotify and be notified every week when our new episodes are released?   We’d love to hear what you think of this week’s Property Podcast over on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. You might even have a topic you’d like us to cover in the future - if so, pop us a message on social and we’ll see what we can do.   Make sure you’ve liked and subscribed to our YouTube channel where we upload new content every week! If that wasn’t enough, you can also join our friendly property community on the Property Hub forum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So you've got a new competitor in town.

0:04.8

No, it's not those pesky landlords, Bob and Mary.

0:07.6

It's someone much bigger and they've got much deeper pockets.

0:10.8

Should you be afraid?

0:12.4

Or actually weirdly optimistic.

0:17.0

Welcome to the Property Podcast where every Thursday morning property investors come to be informed and inspired.

0:26.0

This week we're continuing last week's conversation about built to rent and giving you an insight into what its future looks like and what that means for you.

0:34.6

And make sure you stick around to the end for Hub Extra where we're recommending another

0:38.1

podcast that you should definitely be listening to.

0:40.3

Okay so for our news story of the week, this is possibly my favorite headline of the year so far.

0:47.6

And it reads, and it's from the Guardian,

0:49.6

Welcome to Manchatan, how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers.

0:55.7

And this is an article by the Guardian that have said, which talks about Manchester,

0:59.5

but Manhattan Rob. Genius.

1:01.2

I don't know if they came up with it, I'd not heard of that before but obviously from the title

1:06.3

it's not complimentary to the city or what it's doing now I do love the headline I also love the caption where there's a photo of

1:14.3

axis tower, Betham Tower, Dean's Gaye, all looking beautiful and the headline is

1:18.7

Truly Shameful and in the first paragraph it suggests that it might be described as

1:22.4

hell upon earth.

1:23.7

Which is quite dramatic.

1:26.1

They'd obviously not been surreal.

1:28.1

Sorry for all this is real.

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