When the Labour party came to power in the summer of 2024 in the United Kingdom, it announced a raft of changes to the country’s planning system. It also committed to addressing housing shortages, by delivering 1.5 million homes, including build-to-rent (BTR) properties, and provided £2 billion (€2.4 billion) of additional guarantee capacity towards delivery of more than 10,000 more BTR homes.

The UK government’s plans have been a fillip to the UK’s BTR sector — and its single-family homes (SFH) subsector in particular, which had already been booming before the 2024 UK general election.

A 2025 report from Knight Frank on the SFH segment reveals that 2024 saw a record 31 SFH deals complete nationwide in the United Kingdom, up 24 per cent year-over-year and more than double the level in 2022. It also showed investment into SFH reached £1.8 billion (€2.1 billion) in 2024, and that the total invested since 2020 has now reached £4.4 billion (€5.3 billion).