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As part of our sustainability framework 'People, Planet, Progress' we pledged to become accredited by PlanetMark, and we are very pleased to announce that we have just been signed-off!

Earlier this month HUB received 'Highly commended' in the Love to Rent awards for BTR sustainability

HubCap has acquired 150 Minories for £39m, in partnership with Bridges Fund Management, to repurpose the existing commercial building into a sustainably built residential scheme

HubCap has received planning consent to convert a listed building in Edinburgh’s Thistle Street into a new aparthotel.

We have submitted plans for a new timber office building at the heart of our major town centre regeneration project, One Maidenhead, designed by Waugh Thistleton

We've reconfigured our office to accommodate our growing team, and create more meeting spaces and booths for remote meetings. We moved back in earlier this month

Our Managing Director talks with David Taylor in this week's NLW to share his thoughts on HubCap's strategy of repurposing 'stranded assets' to living spaces, and employing the ideas of engineers like SImple Works in the process

We are seeking a forward-funding partner for Shore Station, our 632-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Leith, Edinburgh.

HUB and HubCap were pleased to attend the recent BTR Forum, participating in two panels to share our thoughts on the challenges of repurposing buildings to create new homes, and creating, developing an sustaining a brand

We were thrilled to be crowned BTR Developer of the Year in this year's BTR360 awards

Transport-linked regeneration can deliver prosperity, but must not price out locals. Our MD Damien Sharkey shares his views, and the story behind our recently completed scheme in Abbey Wood, in React

HUB is very proud to be sponsoring Side by Side, a Ukrainian film festival organised by the Ukrainian Institute London presenting five screenings of feature, documentary, and short films about life in contemporary Ukraine

HSBC’s plan to leave its Canary Wharf tower for a smaller site shows the global challenges ahead in repurposing unwanted office space for a post-pandemic world. Our CEO Robert Sloss comments in this Bloomberg article

We have submitted our latest HubCap planning application for the refurbishment of a super-central London project on Ludgate Hill, a striking building that dates back to the late 1800s, located a stone’s throw from St Paul’s

"Birmingham is getting one of the UK's tallest skyscrapers outside of London". Our Snowhill project in Birmingham which we're delivering in partnership with MARK, is in Time Out!

Our MD Damien Sharkey reflects on the success of the co-living sector in Scandinavia, and what the UK can learn from it.

By ignoring BTR and co-living, and paying little attention to the climate crisis, Michael Gove’s recent speech was a missed opportunity. Damien Sharkey, our managing director, comments on the recent speech by Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

With so many struggling to buy or rent, it’s clear housebuilding activity alone is not the answer. We need a more diverse housing offer to deliver suitable options for all needs, budgets and life stages in our cities. And while the country clearly needs more social and affordable housing, the provision of better, more secure private rental homes is also vital. Our CEO Robert Sloss shares his thoughts with Property Week

Simple Works has won the Archiboo Engineer Pitch, the competition created by HUB to shine a light on the important role engineers play in decarbonising the built environment, especially when it comes to repurposing buildings to avoid unnecessary demolition and waste.

This week we hosted a cohort of 20 young people from the Regeneration Brainery, talking them through the development process from start to finish

We have received planning approval from Birmingham City Council for a Build to Rent development at 2 Snowhill Plaza in central Birmingham, in partnership with pan-European real estate investment manager MARK

HUB and Smedvig are proudly supporting the sponsorship of the 'Campaign Against Living Miserably' (CALM) for Maidenhead United FC 2023/24 kit

Our judging panel for the first ever 'Engineer Pitch', focused on repurposing commercial buildings to provide low-carbon living spaces, has been announced

"Bringing together people who will challenge us and each other, allowing different disciplines to step up and lead a project, making sure that we’re taking full advantage of diverse talent"

We have selected a shortlist of seven engineering practices to participate in the Engineer Pitch, a take on Archiboo’s popular Architect Pitch which will see the finalists pitch an engineering design solution for a low-carbon building conversion.

Wembley Link sits on a prominent junction on the Wembley High Road and houses associated retail space, a new public square and community facilities - completed 2020

HubCap has received planning permission for the conversion of a warehouse on Water Street, Leith, into a 45-room aparthotel.

Retrofitting existing buildings is vital to tackling both the climate emergency and housing shortage – but effective collaboration between architects and engineers is essential, says our Managing Director Damien Sharkey

As part of this year's London Festival of Architecture, HUB is pleased to be supporting "Third Space: Craft Not Carbon Pavilion" by Webb Yates Engineers

Our managing director talks about making the leap from architect to client and delivering quality within the build-to-rent sector.

As UKREiiF started to wind down, we celebrated a major construction milestone with our contractor John Sisk & Son (Sisk) and funding partners Bridges Fund Management and Realstar, with a topping out ceremony at UNCLE Leeds, our Build to Rent development in Leeds city centre (also known as Latitude Purple).

We've teamed up with Archiboo to deliver the first Engineer Pitch, a new take on the Architect Pitch, exclusively for structural engineering practices - with a focus on repurposing commercial buildings to provide living spaces, which is at the heart of our new venture HubCap

HUB has acquired 45 Beech Street in the City of London for £30m, in partnership with Bridges Fund Management, for low carbon refurbishment by HubCap.

"Estate agentism" is getting the underestimated sector nowhere fast. Our CEO Robert Sloss shares his thoughts in React News

We invited a group of NLA members on a study tour of our Croydon regeneration project Queen's Quarter, designed by AHMM

Regional cities across the UK have historically struggled with ‘brain drain’, where graduates leave once they have finished studying, often heading for London. Can BTR help reverse this trend? Our MD Damien Sharkey discusses

Join HUB and AHMM, for a tour and exclusive insight into Queen’s Quarter a key regeneration project in central Croydon. Organised by NLA, this is taking place on Thursday 13th April 2023

The HUB team took part in a leadership workshop delivered by the team at The World Reimagined, the ground-breaking, national art education project to transform how we understand the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on all.

Our CEO interviewed in Place North West, following our recent £108m forward-funding deal in partnership with Bridges, with Canadian real estate investment company Realstar. As part of the deal, Realstar, the owner of the UNCLE residential rental brand, will deliver nearly 1,000 units in Leeds.

HUB has set its sights on adding £500m GDV of sites to its pipeline this year, across its core build-to-rent offer and new low-carbon urban living arm HubCap. Article in EG...

We have awarded RG Group an £82m contract to deliver Latitude Blue, our 488-home build-to-rent project in Leeds. Construction will now start at the Whitehall Road scheme consisting of two towers rising to 26 and 31 storeys.

First Look at Wembley Link Phase 1 in Architects' Journal, a project designed by Maccreanor Lavington which we developed in partnership with Bridges Fund Management and completed during lockdown.

We have signed a forward funding deal with Canadian real estate investment company Realstar, which owns residential rental brand UNCLE, to deliver a significant residential-led regeneration scheme in Leeds comprising 488 build-to-rent homes, the second Leeds development from the partnership.

Our new venture HubCap has recently launched with three retrofit projects in Edinburgh and London, and we've been pleased to see it getting a lot of press attention

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Victoria Manston to the role of Development Director, to oversee the full development process across several of HUB’s major projects.

This week we hosted a roundtable to discuss co-design: its opportunities, challenges, best practice and how it might evolve. We had a lively discuss on this wide-ranging and very topical subject with some excellent guests.

HubCap is a wholly owned subsidiary of HUB, set up to deliver low-carbon urban living projects in key UK cities, with a focus on retrofit. HubCap’s first projects are emerging models such as aparthotels and co-living. Carbon budgets will be kept low by prioritising the re-use of existing buildings, as well as optimising operational carbon savings.

Has the levelling-up agenda stalled? Looking back on this year, including thoughts from our CEO Robert Sloss

The day we celebrated the opening of The Queen's Gardens with Croydon Council, our partners, residents and the community co-design team, we spoke to some of the people involved in this project

Collaborative BTR schemes can benefit investors, residents and the wider community - our MD Damien Sharkey explains how in this article

HUB managing director Damien Sharkey discusses our two planning consents in one week for schemes in London and Edinburgh - and how we're bringing forward third generation BTR

Our MD Damien Sharkey joins Louise and Rachel on the virtual couch to share his career story, how he came to join HUB, and how this shapes the way he views the leadership role

Planning permission received for our residential-led development on Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh, from Edinburgh City Council. The scheme will provide 205 Build to Rent homes, including 52 affordable homes, as well as creative workspace and a new publicly accessible courtyard.

Consent granted for our proposal for Wood Lane in West London, which will deliver 60 new high-quality affordable homes for single women alongside a new head office for Women's Pioneer Housing, and a substantial new co-living building with 209 apartments.

Plans submitted for a residential-led development at 2 Snowhill Plaza in Birmingham. The proposed scheme would deliver 462 Build to Rent homes as well as new public realm, ground-floor commercial space and on-site residents’ amenities.

Victoria Manston, senior development manager at HUB, on how she got started in property, her top TV and music picks, her best and worst purchases and the celebrity she’d most like to meet.

The project team gathered to celebrate the topping out of Wembley Link Phase 2

Queen’s Quarter comprises four blocks of 35, 21, 19 and 13 storeys and is centred around Queen’s Gardens, a community-designed public park by landscape architecture practice Grant Associates.

To create a community space like a public park that will genuinely serve a wide range of local people, close collaboration between local authorities, developers and the community itself is required.

The chancellor’s announcements last week were no mini-budget but rather a mega-budget, with potentially radical implications for the UK economy. Yet, for property, it was littered with missed opportunities.

Members of the HUB team joined our contractor in Maidenhead JJRattighans to complete a nine-mile fundraising walk to raise nearly £3,000 for Alexander Devine Children's Hospice

The Queen’s Gardens, Croydon's most central park, officially re-opened to the public, following major renovations as part of HUB's regeneration of the area.

We are very proud to be sponsoring a ground-breaking art trail in two of the cities that are home to new HUB projects.

HUB has joined the British Property Federation's residential working group on ESG.

We're proud new members of UKGBC, as we build our People and Planet roadmap 'Towards 2030'

Back in September 2020, we ran a competition to find interesting new architectural talent. We're really pleased to be working with O'Donnell Brown on some early stage projects.

We have submitted plans for a residential-led development on Beaverhall Road, Edinburgh, providing homes, some of them affordable, creative workspace co-designed with locals, and a new publicly accessible courtyard.

Great connectivity is the hallmark of a Hub project, and we've been busy at both ends of the new Elizabeth Line!

Our MD Damien Sharkey explains, in Building, how HUB's recent design competition set out to help the next generation thrive.

Last December the government announced ambitious plans to boost the country’s high streets and build more homes.

More than three-quarters of the public lack confidence in the property sector to deliver schemes that genuinely benefit communities, according to the Urban Land Institute and YouGov.

We have secured a forward funding agreement with investors Realstar and Quadreal for our Latitude Purple development in Leeds.

The purchase of a site on Beaverhall Road in Canonmills, Edinburgh, is our first deal in the Scottish capital and ninth in partnership with impact investor Bridges Fund Management.

We are excited to announce that we have received planning approval for our residential-led Leeds project, Latitude Blue, in partnership with Bridges Fund Management Ltd.

HUB Capital is an investment vehicle focused on overlooked sites with short to medium term residential redevelopment potential, which we launched early 2022.

Build to rent (BTR) is a booming sector, but to win work you need to really show you are making the social and environmental impact that investors are demanding.

We're pleased to share that we are collaborating with MARK for the first time on an exciting BTR scheme in the city of Birmingham.

We are proud to present Queen’s Quarter, the new name for our redevelopment of Taberner House…

We are building decent homes for decent people. Everyone deserves a good quality space where they can just close the door and relax, and we are helping make that happen each day.