The committee, which will be formed as a sub-set of the BPF’s residential committee, will be chaired by Andrew Stanford, UK residential fund manager at LaSalle Investment Management and former head of the government’s private rented sector taskforce.
Adam Russell, acquisitions manager at FizzyLiving, will act as vice-chair.
At a time when the housing crisis is acute and private renting has overtaken the social housing sector as the second largest tenure in the England, the committee will reinforce the role that build-to-rent can play in increasing housing supply and tenant choice.
It will work to ensure that both local and central government continue to support the sector, and create the right conditions to encourage investment and speed up delivery of this new housing product.
Committee chair Andrew Stanford said: “Build-to-rent fits so well with so many of the new government’s priorities, delivering new supply of quality rented homes, accelerating the speed of housing development, making good use of brownfield sites, supporting place-making and meeting customer needs.
“There are many innovators in this new market and I am so pleased we have brought many of them together in this new group to drive that important dialogue with local and national government forward.”
