{"id":215272,"date":"2025-06-26T07:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215272\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T07:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T07:16:13","slug":"work-on-dozens-of-new-apartments-in-birmingham-is-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/215272\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on dozens of new apartments in Birmingham is completed"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of the 58 two-bedroom apartments in the newly completed Mansion House building<\/a> are ready for people to move into now, with 28 available through the government-backed Shared Ownership scheme.<\/p>\n

Shared Ownership enables aspiring home owners to buy a portion of a property while paying a subsidised rent on the remaining share.<\/p>\n

The flats form part of the overall Port Loop neighbourhood in Edgbaston which will see a total of more than 1,000 new homes, a community hub, leisure centre, commercial units and public green space created.<\/p>\n

The apartments have been built by developer Urban Splash in partnership with Places for People after the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) agreed a \u00a313m investment to unlock the land for regeneration.<\/p>\n

\"InsideInside one of the new apartments at Mansion House. PIC: West Midlands Combined Authority<\/p>\n

West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker said he has used WMCA funding for schemes that will provide more than 1,000 affordable houses \u2013 including more than 500 for social rent \u2013 since his election last year.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cToo many families are waiting too long for a safe, affordable place to call home because our region just doesn\u2019t have enough houses that people can actually afford.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany are left with no choice but to live in private rentals that are often poorly regulated. For them, the prospect of owning their own home is nothing but a distant dream.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey deserve better, and that\u2019s why I have committed to building thousands of new social and affordable homes. Already we have funded over 500 social homes in the region \u2013 more than we\u2019ve ever grant funded before.<\/p>\n

\u201cPort Loop shows how we can work with private partners like Urban Splash and Places for People to build high-quality, affordable homes that also create vibrant new communities that people feel connected to and proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guy Ackernley, managing director (development and residential) at Urban Splash, said: \u201cOur vision for Port Loop has always been about inclusivity \u2013 creating a neighbourhood where people from all walks of life can find a home that suits them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether through outright sale, rental, or shared ownership, we want to offer customers real choice. It\u2019s brilliant to now be able to offer even more affordable options in this growing community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All of the 58 two-bedroom apartments in the newly completed Mansion House building are ready for people to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,8823,379,12,2516,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-215272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-ldrs","13":"tag-local-hubs","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-property","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}