Manchester City Council has opted to subsume its arm's length management organisation Northwards Housing and deliver social housing itself, in a move estimated to save the authority £77m over the next 30 years.
The financial giant's merchant banking division, working with operating partner Pitmore, has acquired a 918-home portfolio of North West rented houses from Gatehouse Bank.
Developer McCauls has submitted proposals including 89 homes and 8,000 sq ft of workspace at a site including the grade two-listed 32-34 Laystall Street, just off Manchester’s Great Ancoats Street.
Contractor Westfields Construction has reached the highest point at The Gate and The Stile residential buildings at developer Far East Consortium’s £200m Meadowside development in Manchester.
Six parcels of development land at Poland Street and New Islington could deliver hundreds of new homes and a range of business and community facilities, under plans from Manchester City Council, Manchester Life and Great Places.
The housing association wants to redevelop the 47-acre site of the former Jackson’s Brickworks, east of Ten Acres Lane in Manchester, into housing.
Developer ECS Capital is to build a 40-unit residential scheme in the Manchester suburb, designed by the architecture studio Falconer Chester Hall and approved after the original application was tweaked.
Caddick Construction has completed work on the £154m Moda Angel Gardens build-to-rent scheme in Manchester.
The build-to-rent developer has acquired the second phase of the redevelopment of the former Stagecoach depot in Moss Side from contractor Rowlinson for around £9m, after buying the first phase last year for £16m.
House prices and rental values in Manchester could increase by 3.5% in 2022 after a flat 2021, but low housebuilder confidence will impact starts on site for years to come, according to JLL’s UK Residential Forecast Report.
