While investment in build-to-rent developments has been notably resilient over the past year, we continue to think that the growth of the sector will be slow for two reasons. First, high house prices relative to rents means that build-to-rent investors face strong competition for land from build-to-sell developers, limiting the development pipeline. Second, the historical outperformance of residential property returns over commercial property is unlikely to continue.
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