UK INVESTMENT PROPERTY OVERVIEW

Scholar’s Quarter is a UK investment property opportunity, a collection of 100 apartments in the heart of Birmingham’s vibrant historic district, the Jewellery Quarter. Choose from one and two bedroom apartments across six interconnected buildings with lush-planted private residents’ courtyards and views of the city skyline from the top floors.  

The JQ has seen rapid population growth increasing by 103.5% between 2001-2011. Today, 68% of its tenants are aged between 18 and 29. Within the neighbourhood over a third of residents walk to work (compared with a city average of 17%), thus showing its popularity as a desirable place to live for working professionals, close to the CBD. It’s also perfectly placed to capitalise on the post-pandemic changed lifestyle choice of desiring a lesser commute time into the office. 

JLL has forecasted Birmingham to have the strongest rental growth of any UK city; predicting a 3.5% rise in rents in 2022 and a further 3% rise in 2023 with a 5-year rental growth prediction of 14%.

These figures are underpinned by:

• A growing number of corporate relocations to Birmingham including most recently Goldman Sachs and HMRC, the latter alone creating 6,300 professional high earning jobs in the city.

• The 2022 Commonwealth Games and its legacy of investment for the city on top of Birmingham’s visitor economy which is worth £5.98bn annually.

• HS2 progression, cutting journey times between Birmingham and London to 45 minutes and bringing £724million of investment with it.

• Birmingham’s academic reputation; the University of Birmingham is one of the UK’s largest civic universities and most targeted by graduate recruiters. The city is home to five universities in total with a resident student population of 100,000, many of which are foreign students.