{"id":2841,"date":"2016-01-27T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/legal-general-to-build-and-rent-out-3000-new-uk-homes\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T17:41:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T10:41:53","slug":"legal-general-to-build-and-rent-out-3000-new-uk-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/legal-general-to-build-and-rent-out-3000-new-uk-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal &amp; General to build and rent out 3,000 new UK homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nInsurance and pensions firm will be landlord of thousands of flats, starting in Bristol, Salford and London, in partnership with Dutch PGGMBritish insurer Legal &amp; General has teamed up with a Dutch pension fund manager to construct 3,000 flats in the UK under a \u00a3600m \u201cbuild-to-rent\u201d plan.L&amp;G and PGGM will initially invest in building private rental housing in Bristol, Salford and Walthamstow, north-east London, to help tackle the housing crisis. Only about half of the 250,000 new homes thought to be needed every year are being built. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2016\/jan\/27\/legal-general-to-build-and-rent-out-3000-new-uk-homes\" target=\"_blank\">Legal &amp; General to build and rent out 3,000 new UK homes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Insurance and pensions firm will be landlord of thousands of flats, starting in Bristol, Salford&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-JP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":112498,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/legal-general-to-build-3000-affordable-homes-per-year\/","url_meta":{"origin":2841,"position":0},"title":"Legal &amp; General to build 3,000 affordable homes per year","date":"November 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r UK insurer agrees tie-up with 14 housing associations in attempt to ease property crisisThe UK insurer Legal & General has teamed up with 14 housing associations to build 3,000 affordable homes annually, as official figures show a 22% rise in the number of affordable homes delivered in England in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":84990,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/build-to-rent-how-developers-are-profiting-from-generation-rent-tim-white\/","url_meta":{"origin":2841,"position":1},"title":"Build-to-rent: how developers are profiting from Generation Rent | Tim White","date":"April 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r More than \u00a32bn was invested in purpose-built rental flats last year \u2013 but this is no way to solve the UK housing crisis The number of UK residents renting privately has doubled over the past decade, with some 20% of households (30% in London) now in private rented accommodation.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":159844,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-build-to-rent-hardly-a-solution-to-the-housing-crisis-editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":2841,"position":2},"title":"The Guardian view on build-to-rent: hardly a solution to the housing crisis | Editorial","date":"August 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Labour is hoping that big investors will build more homes. 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