BUILDING SOLUTIONS

We hear so often that there is no “silver bullet” for fixing our housing shortage – and I totally agree. But there are untapped opportunities that, if not silver, at least provide shinier prospects to make significant and more immediate inroads than other more heralded ventures. I believe Build To Rent, or BTR as I’ll refer to it, is one such opportunity.

Over the last few years I have been directly involved in the rapid development of the sector in the UK. In fact to call the growth ‘rapid’ is to apply a more typically Kiwi understatement. Growth has been