A Developing Business: Thinking About The Next Wave Of “Built-For-Rent“ Housing

A Developing Business: Thinking About The Next Wave Of “Built-For-Rent“ Housing

Cantabria at Bradenton, a built-for-rent community in Florida planned by Clean Living Communities



Clean Living Communities, a division of Transcendent Investment Management

It's the newest, hottest trend in residential development, so new that it does not yet have a standardized abbreviation, talked about by various players as BFR, B2R, or BTR. The dramatic emergence of “built-for-rent” single-family over the past eight years is supported by voracious demand, but the participants in this space will need to pick their strategies skillfully and think increasingly in terms of diversification, niches, and even new methods of production.

The demand for newly-built rental homes is being fueled in part by the wave of millennials who are finally forming families. Many of them are having kids now, which