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East & Green is a striking modern development just a 5-minute walk from The Custard Factory and Smithfield, the beating heart of Digbeth’s regeneration scene. The building is comprised of high specification one- and two-bedroom apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking views of the City Centre. With the new tram stop to the HS2 Curzon Station on its doorstep, East & Green is strategically situated in a prime location for the growing young demographic moving to Birmingham from London and other parts of the UK.
The advent of High-Speed Rail will make a considerable difference to Birmingham, which will be amongst the first British cities to benefit. Plans are now well advanced for the new, £1 billion Curzon Street Railway Station, which is due for completion in 2026. Once operational, it is expected to reduce journey times to London to just 49 minutes.
East & Green is in a prime location to benefit from the new eagerly awaited transport improvements.
With a population of over a million, Birmingham is the second-largest city in Britain. It’s also one of the most productive and economically successful growing faster than any other city region outside London, with output up by 35 per cent over the past five years. There's a 20-year, £1.5 billion City Centre Masterplan, which seeks to build 1.5 million square metres of new office space, create over 50,000 new jobs and add £2.1 billion to the economy each year. It's estimated that by 2030 there will be 250,000 private-sector jobs.
Large employers in the area include BT, Deloitte, Lloyds Bank, Jaguar, KPMG, PWC, RBS, Rolls Royce, Sainsbury's, Whitbread PLC. This year should also see HMRC moving into new premises in Birmingham, bringing with it 3,500 jobs.
The Midlands is home to 20 universities, producing 112,000 graduates per year.
Located in a prime trend-setting area of Birmingham, all amenities are just steps away.
Birmingham is a prime city for buy to let property investment. The city is rising as a leading UK business location which has coincided with the blossoming property market making Birmingham an attractive place to live, work and invest in.
Due to a vast amount of regeneration taking place in Birmingham and continued demand from movers to the area, the city’s future looks bright. Because of the high levels of regeneration, it is expected that the city will become a property investment hotspot, offering strong opportunities for capital growth. This means now is the perfect time to look at Birmingham for a buy to let property investment.
Birmingham Smithfield is a £1.5 billion project that will see the development of the area south of the city into a new urban quarter. Set to take 15 years to complete, the project will bring a boost for the whole city and include a new home for Birmingham’s historic Bull Ring Markets, leisure, and cultural facilities and more than 2,000 homes around a new public square. A project demonstrating the city’s future and how regeneration is helping to shape the city’s prospects, it is set to bring in 2,000 new jobs upon completion. This project along with many others in Birmingham, is set to make the city an even more desirable place to live. Therefore, more people will look at relocating to the city for the better lifestyle, more job prospects and better connectivity. With an increase in the population, tenant demand will increase which will drive rental prices generating stronger returns for buy to let property investors.
Eastside is known as Birmingham’s ‘knowledge hub’ and is home to a thriving community of researchers and businesses focusing on technology, learning and innovation. Once a major industrial quarter, the area is now home to Birmingham Science Park Aston, The New Technology Institute, Millennium Point, and a new Engineering Academy.
HS2 Curzon Street Station. Putting London just 45 minutes away and bringing financial and commercial opportunities even closer, huge growth is expected from the number of commuters coming in and out of the capital and Londoners looking to relocate to a more budget-friendly city with affordable housing that still offers all the conveniences of cosmopolitan living. HS2 is set to bring 30,000 new jobs and play a key role in rejuvenating the area.
There's a 20-year, £1.5 billion City Centre Masterplan, which seeks to build 1.5 million square metres of new office space, create over 50,000 new jobs and add £2.1 billion to the economy each year. It's estimated that by 2030 there will be 250,000 private sector jobs. Large employers in the area include BT, Deloitte, Lloyds Bank, Jaguar, KPMG, PWC, RBS, Rolls Royce, Sainsbury's, Whitbread PLC. This year should also see HMRC moving into new premises in Birmingham, bringing with it 3,500 jobs. The Midlands is home to 20 universities, producing 112,000 graduates per year.
The number of employment opportunities that the regeneration and investment schemes are creating will boost the increasing population and thereby increase housing demand. This increase in demand will create a further lack of supply so rental prices will increase to match the high levels of demand. This creates the perfect buy to let property investment opportunity in the city of Birmingham so now is the best time to consider a buy to let property investment in Birmingham.
Birmingham has more businesses than any other regional city and has previously been awarded the UK’s regional start-up capital for the seventh year running in 2020 with more start-ups than any other city outside London with 18,394 in 2020.
Birmingham will soon be home to a large number of businesses which are relocating to the city; Goldman Sachs soon to have a new office in Birmingham; BT, HSBC, KPMG, Deutsche Bank, Deloitte, and PWC have also opened offices in the city. With a variety of major employers setting up in the city, you can expect to see a surge in housing demand from young professionals and post-graduates looking for great employment prospects. This increase in population and thereby tenant demand will create a great property investment opportunity.
Birmingham is widely known as the West Midlands' regional centre of business, retail, leisure, and culture, and ranks highly for future investment opportunities; the main reason for this is the huge working population, with almost half a million people working in Birmingham.
Birmingham’s increasing number of businesses and employment opportunities means a growing demand from young professionals looking to work in Birmingham. Young professionals are a great tenant demographic for buy to let property investors and with a bright economic forecast suggesting Birmingham's property market will continue to deliver strong yields and increasing property value over the years; Birmingham is a great choice for buy to let property investment.
If you’re looking for a top UK city for buy to let property investment in 2021, Birmingham should be your first choice. The city consistently benefits from a healthy property market, between 2016 and 2020, property growth prices in Birmingham have been the highest in the UK, and, compared with 2009, property values on average have increased 45%. While property prices and rental values are likely to remain flat in 2021, house prices are expected to increase around 4% and rental value by 3.5%. In 2022, it’s expected that Birmingham will see some of the strongest house price growth through to 2025 of between 14.2% – 17%.
With these attractive figures in mind, how does Birmingham fare as an investment property destination compared to other UK cities? The Birmingham property market is one of the most affordable in the country relative to its size and in 2020, the average property price in Birmingham was around £202,000 – over three times lower than the average property in London (£653,965).
While the population of the city itself sits at around 1.1 million people, a total of 5.57 million live in the wider catchment area in a West Midlands economy worth £80 billion. The city’s population is on the rise too, set to reach 1.3 million by 2039.
In the last decade, Birmingham’s regeneration projects and growing businesses have attracted a surge of young professionals. The city itself boasts a population of one of the youngest in Europe; with 40% of its population is under the age of 25. With such a large number of the population being working professionals, Birmingham is a clear option for buy to let property investment. The clear tenant demographic and increasing tenant demand is a prime reason why many buy to let property investors are looking to Birmingham for their next property investment.
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