From Research to Resident: Guiding the BTR Consumer Journey

How are consumers searching for, and finding, their Build to Rent homes? What does this tell us about how we can best explain and market the BTR product? This joint HomeViews / Rightmove study includes findings from a brand new survey of UK BTR residents, as well as insights from Rightmove’s unmatched insights into property search journeys.

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From Reseach to Resident: Guiding the BTR Consumer Journey

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The Build to Rent sector is now firmly established in the UK but is still an unfamiliar housing format for many UK consumers, representing only 1.9% of PRS stock. As a result, many questions remain about how best to define, explain and market BTR. We wanted to explore how residents were talking about BTR and compare this with messaging being used by operators.

Resident demographics are now better understood, but we also wanted to know how BTR residents found their homes. How long did they stay? Where did they move, and why?

We were able to answer such questions by surveying our database of BTR reviewers and combining the results with Rightmove’s unmatched insights into users’ property search journeys.

Our thanks to our sponsors for supporting this study, as well as our good friends at the ARL for allowing us to present this data for the first time at the Annual BTR Conference.

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We believe the best information about a residential development comes from the people living there. Owners and tenants have a lot of useful information to share with their prospective neighbours, not just on the property itself and its locality, but also on the development and building management.