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and a healthy pipeline of single family BTR
developments.” BUILD-TO-RENT UPWARD TREND SUBSTANTIATED
Industry BY CHANGING specialists
SOCIETY SAYS join
WISE the
LIVING Crest sales team
Crest Building Products are one of the UK’s leading suppliers of high-quality
As the industry grows this will inevitably
increase the number of BTR specialists who
Allan said: “I have helped all sorts of
will enter sites the from market
too, however
this needs
prestigious developments
to to be approached
with providing
caution, materials
explained refurbishments,
and Paul. offering solutions to Architects, House
the predictions
that single family
RESEARCH by the tiles British
Property Federation success, “Therefore,
bricks and roofing
and due
to its continued
Crest are excited
to homes
and Savills,
huge managers:
expected Kevan Williams
welcome two predicting
experienced a sales
and are
Allan expected
Orsborn to grow to 18% of all BTR
stock from its 12% today is not a surprise.

growth of build-to-rent (BTR) homes in the
to their team.

Builders, Contractors and Self Builders. I am
More people, right across the UK – not just in
UK over the course of the next decade – from
Kevan Williams
joined the – is business
following spell with
very “The
excited industry
to be joining
Crest currently, with
cities – want
to rent a family home.”
Paul said:
has grown
76,800 to more recently
than 380,000
a product
of a nine-year
a a roofing
merchant in
Swindon, previously
Kevan has
worked with
roofing already
one of
the best
brick considerably over the last decade, and but tile its ranges
changing Britain says Paul Staley, director
manufacturers selling both concrete and clay tiles, giving a total of over 25 year’s
on the market and the upcoming addition of
This change in the UK housing landscape is
success is dependent on the knowledge
at Wise Living.

experience in the roofing industry.

the new V10’s and Schermbecker Plain Tiles”.

also influencing the behaviours of property
of the BTR specialists who need to guide
stakeholders who are of responding to these
investors, and local
in Paul
“With the with
ongoing housing
crisis, tiles, one
Due to said:
his experience
both clay
and concrete
of the attractions
Crest developers
managing director
Stuart authorities
King said: “We
trends, according to Paul.

making have
the seen
best significant
decisions. sales Everything
interest hikes on
mortgages and high-quality
an joining the rate company
is Crest
Nelskamp’s roofing
tile range.

growth in from
recent location, years housing
types range
must and be
increased pressure on raising housing
with our layouts
excellent and product
Kevan said: “I that
first are
became aware of private
the Nelskamp
Kevan specifications
and Allan’s experience
they to will
Allan Orsborn has over
Paul said: “For investors and housing
looked with
at and
developed standards
squeezing twenty year’s experience
products 5 years
ago and can managed
honestly say BTR that their
further oversee
and develop the
developers, this has meant a shift in the types maximise
return on investment,
while business.”
also landlords,
professionally concrete tiles are the best I have ever come across.

of portfolios they are creating. It makes sense
providing housing that is both high quality
homes are becoming more essential in the
Having sold plenty of their tiles during my merchant
The company is now entering a new phase of its roofing business, with
to diversify and spread both the risk and
and value for money.

UK as the buy-to-let industry struggles to
days, in my new role, I now have a chance to
the introduction of a new clay plain tile range and a plain tile look-a-like
opportunity. They
are doing
this by
looking keep
up with
demand as
home ownership
introduce them to all the construction industry which
product, called the V10 which is due for release in the Autumn. Crest will
outside of the more established be BTR busy markets
“The products
earlier the over conversation
when ready
it comes
becomes more and unattainable.

is very exciting,
I’m very happy to be part of it.

promoting these
the coming months,
to start
and into SFH in suburban towns. supplying before the to end coordinating
of the year. value for BTR opportunities
Allan Orsborn
over twenty
makes the process more efficient, less risky
“People need has a place
to call years’
home experience
and it in
many roles
within the like
Builders To find trends
out more about
“In fact, as the UK follows European
and Crest’s
speeds brick up return on investment.”
looks increasingly
BTR Merchant
homes are Industry,
poised various the
Jewson branches
in Kent and and and continues to change from a and
roof tile range call Kevan on
buying to mostly
fill the spent gap at within
housing market
prior to that in central London. Allan brings extensive
975 675 or Allan on 07539 036
generation into a renting culture, 07951
it is highly
To find out more about Wise Living, visit
will take a leading role. So, while the origins
product knowledge in bricks and roof tiles and has
622 for further details.

www.wiselivinghomes.co.uk/ of BTR were student accommodation and city likely that SFH will outpace other types of
built lasting relationships with customers, colleagues
Kevan Williams
roofing specialist
BTR housing
eventually. At
Wise Living
we centre
apartment schemes,
this will
expand and suppliers over many years.

www.crest-bst.co.uk into the rise of BTR single family homes (SFH). have seen this demand in-action, with over
15 schemes delivered in the past few years
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