Build-To-Rent Development Hot Spot Southampton

Southampton is a key city on Kosy Living’s radar to deliver our BTR developments. Famous for its vibrant atmosphere, Southampton is a coastal city with lots to offer and beautiful green spaces enjoy. 

Home to one of the leading and busiest ports in the UK, Southampton manages millions of vehicles, passengers, cruises and containers every year. Renowned for its maritime heritage, Southampton’s maritime and logistics industry contributes on average £2.5bn to the UK economy. It also has an established health and research sector, education, and financial/professional services to name a few. Build-to-rent is well suited to professionals working in these areas that are seeking modern, quality and cost-effective rental apartments, as many bills and amenities such as gym membership and co working are included in the rent. 

Southampton is a city packed with culture and has a great arts and music scene, plenty of entertainment on offer and sports/hobbies, particularly water sports. There is over 320 acres of fields and wetlands, making it one of the greenest cities in the UK. 

Build to Rent Works in Southampton Because of its Students

Southampton has approximately 43,000 students across two universities and the city does well in retaining graduates due to its nice lifestyle, rich culture and job opportunities available. Build-to-rent and co living has strong appeal to graduates that are starting out in their careers and looking for a quality apartment to call home. 

The city has a thriving nightlife scene from traditional pubs to trendy bars and nightclubs. There are festivals on throughout the summer (many flock to the Isle of Wight Festival every year), and other entertaining events on all year around. Its southern location means it gets pleasant summers, and it’s easy to travel to other major UK cities from the train station such as Brighton, London and Cardiff, as well as fly to the likes of Portugal, France and Spain from Southampton Airport. 

Build to Rent is not just for Students

It’s easy to see the lifestyle appeal for families, professionals, students, graduates and newcomers to stay in or move to the city. 

Kosy Living is keen to deliver modern BTR rental homes with quality, community, convenience and location as top priorities. We even welcome pets in our build-to-rent developments, ideal for cat and dog owners. Such build to rent developments add value to the city, local communities and businesses who also benefit from the addition to the neighbourhood. 

We know our BTR communities will go down a treat with a variety of Sotonians seeking rental properties from small families to single people, couples and friends. 

Build to Rent (BTR) Opportunities in Southampton

Build to Rent is fast becoming an ever growing sector and Kosy Co Living will be within the heart of it. We launched our portfolio in early 2022, unveiling a £1billion development pipeline. Our portfolio is growing rapidly and we are now welcoming new funding partners for our BTR developments across the UK. Our projects are currently in Bath, Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Guildford, Leeds, London, Oxford, Reading and Surrey. 

Currently researching and creating proposals for the following areas;

Bournemouth, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester.

As our pipeline grows we are looking to forward fund our larger schemes within the build to rent sector. We have commercial property investments build to rent opportunities for forward funding, equity partners, joint ventures, unconditional funding partners and planning uplift partners. We have opportunities for joint ventures with equity partners as we obtain planning permission with a view to sell or re-finance at PC. We are also sometimes presented with great opportunities for developers where the land owner needs an immediate sale and we are looking to partner with investors who would fund this type of project.