BREE Construction
Sector

Build to Rent.

Overview

Build-to-Rent has matured from an asset class into an architectural discipline. The product, the operating model, and the building fabric all have to align: floor plates must hand over to a single operator and stay efficient under one tenancy management regime; amenity spaces must earn their square footage; and the public-facing realm must do the work that a private mews never has to.

By the numbers · Build to Rent
1,255
BTR homes delivered
£218m
Combined contract value
5
Schemes across 4 cities
432
Largest scheme · Anchor Works
Featured in Build to RentLargest scheme

Anchor Works, Dumballs Road.

CardiffBuild to RentCompleted 2024
432
Homes
£55m
Contract value
2024
Completed
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Anchor Works, Dumballs Road, Cardiff: 432-home BTR tower wrapped in scaffolding mid-construction, site hoarding and tower crane in view
Largest scheme · Build to Rent

Anchor Works, Dumballs Road

Cardiff · Build to Rent
Why BREE Construction for Build to Rent

Designed for a 25-year hold.

We design and build rental product that institutional landlords can operate efficiently from day one and own confidently for decades. Operator-led floor plates, amenity that earns its keep, public realm that does the work, and the cost discipline a 25-year hold demands, delivered to programme so the next forward-funding decision lands on time.

  1. Programme institutional landlords can finance against

    Forward-funding decisions land on stage-gated certainty. Monthly reporting + cost-impact documentation through delivery, with the operations team sized to mobilise on the contracted handover date.

  2. Operational efficiency built into the fabric

    Single-operator workflows, standardised maintenance routines and fabric-first specification protect operating margins across the 25-year hold. Long-term cost-of-ownership weighed at the brief table.

  3. Amenity that earns the rent multiplier

    Co-working, residents’ lounges, rooftop terrace, gym, specified to the rent uplift they unlock and the resident base they attract. Each square metre of amenity has a job to do.

How we deliver

The 6-pillar method.

How build to rent actually moves through the practice, from brief to handover, scheme after scheme.

  1. Pillar 1 / 6

    Operator-led design

    Floor plates, lobbies, amenity and back-of-house designed around the appointed operator's day-one workflow. Single-key access regimes, standardised maintenance routines, predictable tenancy turnover.

  2. Pillar 2 / 6

    Amenity that earns its square footage

    Co-working, residents’ lounges, rooftop terrace, gym, parcel rooms, specified to the rent multiplier they unlock, not as ornament. Operator and investor sit at the brief table from day one.

  3. Pillar 3 / 6

    Public realm that does the work

    Ground floors and street frontages designed to extend the building’s usable territory into the city. Active edges, shop fronts, generous arrivals, the realm institutional landlords need to attract a long-term resident base.

  4. Pillar 4 / 6

    Cost certainty over a 25-year hold

    BREE Construction’s cost team works the brief alongside the architect, not after them. Forward-funded BTR is sensitive to capex assumptions, we de-risk the cost early and stay accountable to the funded number.

  5. Pillar 5 / 6

    Sustainability beyond the badge

    Solar PV, EV charging, fabric-first specification and renewable-ready services, BREEAM Excellent on the schemes that target it, and the operational efficiency that protects long-term operating margin.

  6. Pillar 6 / 6

    Programme institutional landlords trust

    Forward-funded BTR depends on certainty that handover lands on time so the operator can mobilise. BREE Construction’s delivery cadence, measured, monthly-reported, stage-gated, has earned repeat work from institutional rental clients.

The portfolio

4 schemes in Build to Rent.

Outwood Wharf Phase 2, Salford: render of a 23-storey red-brick BTR tower above a podium block, with grid-pattern balconies and crown frame against a sunset sky, Ridgeback / ila scheme
North West

Outwood Wharf Phase 2

2024
Build to Rent · 296 homes · for Ridgeback Group / ila
1NQ, Tariff Street, Manchester Northern Quarter: render of the completed 9-storey red-brick mid-rise BTR block at dusk with windows lit up, neighbouring towers behind, Marco Living / Axis RE / CDL scheme
North West

1NQ, Tariff Street

2026
Build to Rent · 261 homes · for Marco Living + Axis RE / CDL
Solstice Apartments, Milton Keynes: completed eight-storey BTR block on Silbury Boulevard in pale and warm-tan cladding with grid windows, surface car park in the foreground and rooftop "Rent Now" signage, Grainger plc scheme
East Midlands

Solstice Apartments (Silbury Boulevard)

2020
Build to Rent · 139 homes · for Grainger plc
Middlewood Plaza, Liverpool Street, Salford: completed seven-storey BTR block in tan brick with anthracite-clad vertical balcony columns and "Linkwood Plaza" entrance, viewed from a wide road with cycle lane, Rodus / UL + High Street Group JV
North West

Middlewood Plaza (Liverpool Street, Salford)

2019
Build to Rent · 127 homes · for Rodus Developments (UL + High Street Group JV)
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