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Industries & Sectors

Living

A full-lifecycle platform for maximum value
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The living sector is evolving fast, shaped by a rapid evolution in demographic trends, lifestyle demands and investor appetite.

The living sector is one of the most exciting opportunities in UK real estate today. Changing demographics, new housing policies, and investment trends are transforming how we develop, fund, and manage residential properties. We guide investors, developers, and operators across build-to-rent, student housing, and senior living, offering clear advice from start to finish.

Our approach combines deep market knowledge with hands-on expertise. We get the planning hurdles, financial challenges, and operational details that lead to success. Whether you're exploring a new development or assessing opportunities, we provide the insight needed to make smart decisions and achieve great results.

Ready to advance your multifamily strategy? Contact us today.

What Sets Us Apart

Full Lifecycle Expertise

We advise across the entire investment journey, from land acquisition to asset management and exit. This comprehensive perspective aligns tactical decisions with long-term value creation, ensuring strategies adapt to market conditions while maintaining performance.

Living Sector Specialists

Our teams have dedicated expertise across BTR, student housing, senior living, and more. We understand the distinct economics, regulations, and tenant expectations of each sub-sector, delivering strategies grounded in operational reality and market-tested execution.

Data-Led, Human-Centred

We blend proprietary research and market intelligence with a focus on resident experience. This balance of quantitative insight and qualitative understanding helps clients create assets that attract tenants, sustain occupancy, and deliver stable income.

Invested in Performance

We approach every assignment with financial discipline. Whether advising on underwriting, operational efficiency, or disposition, we bring analytical rigour and performance-focused thinking to support strong, risk-adjusted returns across all market cycles.

Sustainability in Practice

ESG integration is key to long-term asset value. We help clients embed sustainability into design, development, and operations, future-proofing portfolios while meeting regulatory requirements and investor expectations in a climate-conscious market.

Services

Our Services

Capital Markets


We offer full-service capital markets advisory for the private rented sector. Our team advises on investment sales, debt financing, and joint ventures, delivering tailored solutions that align capital with opportunity across the UK.

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Agency Leasing


Our specialists drive occupancy and rental growth across BTR, student accommodation, and senior living assets. We combine market positioning, pricing strategy, and tenant engagement to optimise lease-up velocity and stabilise income.

Learn more about our agency leasing services

Asset Services


We provide comprehensive asset management solutions to maximise property performance and tenant satisfaction. Our services include operational oversight, financial reporting, and maintenance, ensuring assets operate efficiently to preserve long-term value.

Learn more about our asset services

Valuation & Advisory


Our UK valuation experts deliver proactive, consultative advice tailored to your investment objectives. We provide valuations, business rates assessments, and due diligence advisory, delivering data-driven insights that reduce risk.

Learn more about our valuation & advisory 

Project & Development Services


We offer end-to-end project management, building consultancy, and cost consultancy. Our specialists ensure value-driven, risk-managed solutions with a strong focus on ESG, combining technical excellence with commercial insight.

Learn more about our project development services

Energy & Sustainability Services


We help clients integrate sustainability into their assets through energy efficiency strategies, ESG compliance, and Net Zero roadmaps. Our approach reduces costs, enhances value, and positions portfolios for long-term resilience.

Learn more about our sustainability services

Specialisation

Industry Specialisations

Single-Family Build-to-Rent


Driven by housing undersupply and shifting renter preferences, the BTR sector is booming. We advise on investment sales, financing, asset services, and valuation for standing stock and development projects. Our teams provide strategic guidance on planning, efficiency, and long-term value.

Student Accommodation


Strong demographics and international student demand continue to fuel the UK's student accommodation sector. Using market-leading data, our teams advise on acquisitions, valuations, and asset management to help clients navigate this maturing market and maximise portfolio value.

Learn more about student accommodation

Senior Living


With the UK's over-75s population set to grow 45% by 2040, demand for senior housing is surging. Our experts provide guidance in investment sales, valuation, and market analysis, helping clients optimise portfolios and navigate trends in this rapidly developing sector.

Learn more about senior living

Land & Development


Land remains a fundamental and scarce asset in the UK property market. Our teams specialise in land acquisition, navigating planning and environmental challenges. We unlock value from development opportunities by evaluating optionality for sites and existing buildings.

Team

James Dunne (image)
James Dunne

International Partner, Head of UK Living
London, United Kingdom

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Amy King
Amy King

Partner
London, United Kingdom

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Anthony Dixon

Partner
London, United Kingdom

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Sarah Coleman

Partner, Head of Specialist Markets Project Management
London, United Kingdom

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Jonathan-Stickells
Jonathan Stickells

International Partner
London, United Kingdom

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Research

Sustainability
Article • Sustainability / ESG

Sustainable Dilapidations – Shifting Trends in The Green Agenda

The real estate industry is slowly shifting more towards retaining and repairing as opposed to demolishing and replacing. Whilst financial pressures continue to drive dilapidations, the real estate industry is on the journey to ensure sustainability is at the forefront of dilapidations.
Alex Charlesworth • 26/02/2024
ESG
Research • Sustainability / ESG

Unlocking Sustainable Success: The Rise of ESG Benchmarks in Real Estate

With benchmarks becoming increasingly prominent, it’s essential to understand what exactly they are and why they’re becoming an integral part of the decision-making process for organisations.
Emily Oldfield • 08/12/2023
Changing Attitudes Towards Greener Homes
Article • Sustainability / ESG

Changing Attitudes Towards Greener Homes in the Face of the 'Cost of Living Crisis'

The residential sector accounted for approximately 17% of all carbon dioxide emissions in the UK in 2021, meaning our homes are key to cutting emissions and reducing our chance of hitting the 1.5℃ global warming threshold. 
Ellie Healy • 04/10/2023
Glass office facade with tree Australia
Article • Sustainability / ESG

Taking Responsibility for our Waste

Waste plays a sizeable part of the UK’s Net Zero goals, disposal and treatment of waste alone (including wastewater) represented 6% of UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, so there is a clear interest in reducing the UK’s waste output and improving the processes in place to handle waste that is unavoidable.
Giles Flaxton • 16/08/2023
20 things to know about sustainability (image)
Article • Sustainability / ESG

The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS): a key step towards Net Zero

ESOS (the Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme) is the UK variant of the EU-wide application of Article 8 (4 to 6) of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU). ESOS was formalised in 2014, is administered by the Environment Agency and is now in its third phase as the scheme renews every four years (2014, 2019 and 2023). 
30/05/2023
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Research • Economy

​​10 Critical Questions for 2023​ EMEA

10 critical questions we’re asking as we look out at the horizon at 2023. 
Sukhdeep Dhillon • 31/01/2023
The New EPC Methodology Calculation
Article • Sustainability / ESG

The New EPC Methodology Calculation: Do you need to re-assess to plan for the new MEES requirements in April 2023?

Accurate Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings will be critical for companies to be able to understand their risk and plan mitigation measures for the next phase of Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) in April 2023. This phase will expand the minimum requirement of EPC to E for all leases. 
Thomas Vazakas • 15/12/2022
Business rates reform could be the early Christmas present our industry needs
Article • Economy

Business rates reform could be the early Christmas present our industry needs

With energy prices skyrocketing, record inflation and dampened consumer spending, many occupiers would benefit from business rates reform ahead of the forthcoming Revaluation in April 2023.
Mike Flecknoe • 16/11/2022
CPO
Insights • Economy

Levelling up

Compulsory purchase has become a term which elicits dread in anyone affected by the potential acquisition of their property. 
21/06/2022
costs
Insights • Investment / Capital Markets

Infographic: Choose Your Next Logistics Hub in Line with Your Business Driver

Understanding the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can help to identify which locations are attractive for corporates’ operations by sector.
Dimitris Vlachopoulos • 30/06/2021
costs
Insights • Investment / Capital Markets

Infographic: Choose Your Next European Tech Hub in Line with Your Business Drivers

Understanding the most recent trends in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can help to identify, by sector, which locations are most attractive for corporates’ operations.
Dimitris Vlachopoulos • 15/06/2021
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

We provide comprehensive advisory services across the full Living sector investment lifecycle, including capital markets, agency lettings, asset management, valuation, project management, and sustainability services. Our expertise spans build-to-rent, student accommodation, senior living, co-living, and residential land development. We advise investors, developers, operators, and housing associations throughout the region, delivering strategic guidance tailored to the unique characteristics and regulatory environment of the UK residential market.

We offer integrated advisory services for BTR investors and developers, including investment sales, debt and equity financing, joint venture structuring, asset management, valuation, and due diligence. Our teams advise on both standing stock and development opportunities, whether portfolio-scale or scattered-site products. We provide strategic counsel on planning viability, operational efficiency, tenant experience, and exit strategy, ensuring BTR investments are positioned for optimal performance and risk-adjusted returns.

We are recognised specialists in the student accommodation sector, providing market-leading proprietary data and strategic insight into changing market dynamics. Our services include investment sales, valuations, asset management, and market analysis. We help clients navigate the increasingly diverse and maturing student housing market, optimising asset performance while addressing the evolving needs of domestic and international students across university cities and towns.

Our senior living team provides expert guidance across investment sales, valuation, and market analysis. We help clients understand the demographic drivers shaping senior housing demand, including the projected 45% growth in the over-75s population by 2040. We advise on portfolio optimisation, development opportunities, and strategic positioning within a sector experiencing significant supply shortages and increasing diversity in product offerings.

Our valuation experts deliver proactive, consultative advice tailored to Living sector investments. We provide valuations for financial reporting, loan security, portfolio management, acquisitions, and refinancing. Our services include business rates assessments, dispute analysis, litigation support, appraisal management, and comprehensive due diligence advisory. We combine market reviews with data-driven analysis to deliver timely, accurate insights that reduce risk and support informed decision-making across all Living sub-sectors.

We help clients embed ESG principles throughout the Living sector investment lifecycle, from design and development through operations and asset management. Our sustainability services include energy efficiency strategies, ESG compliance, Net Zero roadmaps, and regulatory planning. This approach reduces operational costs, enhances asset value, meets evolving investor and regulatory expectations, and positions portfolios for long-term resilience in an increasingly climate-conscious and decarbonising UK property market.

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