The head of the government’s PRS Taskforce, Andrew Stanford, has confirmed there will be a full-time build-to-rent champion in the Department for Communities and Local Government when the PRS Taskforce is disbanded in March 2015.
Stanford announced that recruitment for this champion was under way at the Bristish Property Federation’s residential conference, which focused on the success of the PRS Taskforce.
The taskforce was set up in 2012 to promote and improve the sector and the new champion will be continuing the work of this group.
Ian Fletcher, director of real estate policy at the BPF, said: “The PRS Taskforce has been instrumental in getting both the property industry and government to commit to creating a sustainable build to rent sector, and it is great that they want to maintain the momentum that the sector has gained over the past few years.”
