Living Sector
Identifying opportunities at every stage of the property lifecycle
Living Trends in 2026
Navigate the UK living market: key trends and opportunities revealed in our 2026 review.
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We are partnered on projects worldwide, providing us with access to tangible data across the living sector. Allowing us to find prospects for you to capitalise on and grow as a business. Our teams implement strategies that maximise the value of your real estate, helping you create innovative places where people want to live, allowing your investment to thrive.
Through access to global capital, we empower clients to fund and secure projects with confidence. Working across multiple dimensions to create the right solutions for you, by utilising strategy, commercial acumen, talent, transformational changes, and more.
London's Future: A Reset for Living
Global resources harnessed to make a local impact
Make real estate your competitive advantage. As the global brokerage leader, we act as your strategic partner across the entire property lifecycle. Our scale provides the platform on which we can optimise delivery at any stage.
With unrivalled experience advising on successful landmark projects across the UK, we offer expert guidance to navigate the significant growth and evolving segmentation within the maturing living sector.
Our Services
Living Capital Markets
CBRE is the #1 ranked Multifamily brokerage firm globally, providing investment sales, debt & structured finance and investment banking services to multifamily clients ranging from small private living sector investors to large public entities.
Our clients receive expert capital markets guidance and data-driven insights from an integrated team of specialists. At every stage of the asset lifecycle, from securing development funding, design consultancy, and scheme optimisation, to trading operational assets, we add value.
Living Property Valuation & Advisory
Our valuation, appraisal, and consulting experts use premier market data and insights to provide accurate multifamily and residential valuation and advisory services across the UK, with over 30 years of experience.
As trusted valuation advisors, our qualified professionals navigate the complexities of the property market with a client-centric approach, ensuring interests and unique business needs remain our focus. Our clients include financial institutions, estate agents, prospective buyer(s), landlords, property owners, and more.
Debt & Structured Finance
Maximise your financing options with deep connectivity to diverse capital sources around the globe and experience across all loan types. Our fully integrated platform provides seamless access to a deep capital network.
Our services include:
- Debt Raising
- Debt Advisory
- Debt Restructuring
- Loan Services
Project Management
Our project management professionals deliver residential projects from consulting, through the design, build-out, and activation of the site, all the way to formal close-out and hand-off to operations, optimising value and minimising risk.
Get Dependable Project Management ExpertiseResidential Agency
Our team helps developers, investors, buyers, tenants, and landlords build, buy, sell, and let homes, with a full range of residential services, including property sales, residential leasing, development consultancy, and domestic and international project marketing.
Our expertise spans:
- New Homes Consultancy
- New Homes Sales
- Lettings
- Built-to-Rent
- Property Management
Living Land
Unlock development value from your land and assets with market-leading advice from transactional experts. We work with the full spectrum of landowners, from private individuals to global living sector investors and institutions, from charities and the public sector to property companies, house-builders and developers.
Affordable Housing
We connect land, developers, investors, registered providers, local authorities, government bodies, and funding solutions to facilitate the delivery of much-needed affordable homes. With a specialist team in Affordable Housing, we have a unique understanding of the public sector, affordable housing, development, funding, and investment markets.
Our services include:
- Affordable Housing Valuation
- Agency
- Capital Raising
- Development
- Financial Viability Assessments
- Investment Strategy
- Planning
- Section 106 Disposals
- Stock Condition Surveys
- Stock Transfers
- Stock Rationalisation
- Strategic Asset Reviews
- Forward Commits / Turnkey Transactions
- Forward Funding / Package Transactions
Property Development & Investment
Stay ahead of market shifts and emerging trends. We build robust, data-driven 3–5 year investment strategies, giving you a clear roadmap for sustainable growth and helping you capitalise on new opportunities early.
We provide a balance of astute commercial and technical advice, enabling decision-making founded on market-facing intelligence substantiated by analytics and data.
Our team will demonstrate the optimum development and delivery solution founded on objective advice. We ensure decisions are future-proofed, creating a clear competitive advantage for you.
Leading in the Living Sector Segment
We provide our clients with specialist support across all living sectors and property types, ensuring you benefit from our deep market knowledge and tailored solutions.
CBRE Impact
With experience working on everything from large, complex portfolios to small private homes for sale or to let, we understand how to provide clear advice that creates value and delivers results across every stage of the living investment lifecycle.
Residential Properties for Sale and to Rent in London
CBRE Residential UK is an expert in prime central London properties, with services spanning sales, lettings and developments.
Our Tools
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Buy-to-Let Stamp Duty Calculator
Calculate Buy-to-Let Stamp Duty payable when purchasing Buy-to-Let property in England and Northern Ireland.
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Mortgage Calculator
Use our UK mortgage calculator to estimate your monthly repayments, including interest.
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Stamp Duty Calculator
Wondering how much stamp duty you owe? Use the updated stamp duty calculator to find out.
Connect with CBRE Living Experts
Achieve your property goals with personalised expertise. Get maximum exposure and realise the full value of your asset using our focused marketing strategies and in-depth market knowledge.
Contacts
Adam Cradick
Head of London Living Land Transactions
Related Insights
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CBRE’s latest UK Property Market Figures show diverging trends: office leasing down, logistics outperforming, retail investment falling, and Living resilient.
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The structural rise of infrastructure capital in commercial real estate
May 20, 2026
Infrastructure capital is reshaping commercial real estate, driving demand for living, healthcare, and data centres.
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London’s sales market was muted in Q1 2026, with values down YoY. Rental markets remain resilient, with supply constraints expected to support future growth.
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UK commercial real estate investment totalled £11.1bn in Q1 2026. Living led volumes, followed by Offices and Retail.
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CBRE’s Multifamily Index shows market rental growth continued while capital values declined in the six months to March 2026.
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UK Living investment totalled £2.7bn in Q1 2026, led by a sharp rise in PBSA activity and a growing pipeline of SFH transactions.
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CBRE’s UK Residential Forecasts Q1 2026 outlines the outlook for rents and house prices as supply constraints persist and affordability improves.
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CBRE’s latest UK Property Market Figures reveals office supply is falling, logistics strengthening, retail investment easing, and living showing recovery.
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Our 2026 Outlook highlights the key opportunities, considerations, and areas where value is expected to emerge. Explore sector‑by‑sector insights to help shape your strategy for the year ahead.
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While sales volumes in Prime Central London eased in Q3 2025, underlying demand remains steady.
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Shared Ownership has seen significant growth in first-tranche sales given the lower monthly payments than renting or buying outright.
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Welcome to our 2025 UK Real Estate Market Outlook Mid-Year Review; in which we look back and evaluate our expectations for 2025 made at the beginning of this year.
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