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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Joanna Hodgson

Size of UK build to rent sector has scope to swell, but firms face challenges in London

London’s private rental sector is going through a long overdue transformation. One company that has played a major role in that is Southwark-headquartered Get Living, which recently marked the 10-year anniversary since beginning to turn the former Athletes’ Village at the Olympic Park into a new large-scale neighbourhood that is today home to more than 6,500 residents and a raft of independent shops and restaurants.

CEO Rick de Blaby is in a reflective mood as he recalls the progress over the past decade: “We really set about making the transaction of renting a home so much more easy than it was before.”

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