Native Communities

Last week, the SLT at Native Communities gathered at Station Hill for a transformative two days, with key leaders from across the business taking time away from the everyday to focus on how we perform as a highly effective team, how we collaborate and how we continue to drive the business forward. The biggest takeaway? The importance of curiosity. Asking questions, checking perspectives, challenging viewpoints and staying open to new ways of doing things to fuel our next chapter. We’re committed to building a future-focused, people-driven culture, where each of us leads by example in our industry and supports each other in meaningful ways. A huge thank you to Simon Crampton Leading-Edge-Performance for guiding us on this adventure!

The Castings turned 1 in July and what an incredible year it's been 🎉 and boy do we celebrate in style. The on site team have created a community that I could not be more proud of, the hard work my team put in on a daily basis is no less than outstanding. It would not be possible without the dedication they show me, Native and most importantly our residents. This is what it is all about. Thank you to my INCREDIBLE team for making my life a lot easier. Being The Castings Community Manager has been a dream. Roshni S. Dean Strudwick Christopher Stevens Denzel Arubayi Ste Curley Nick Elms ❤️🎉🙏🎯

BTR News spotlights Alma, British Land's first Build to Rent development, operated by Native Communities and designed in collaboration with Woods Bagot   In the heart of Aldgate, Alma sets a new standard for modern rental living. The scheme offers 159 thoughtfully designed apartments with standout amenities, all created with sustainability, longevity and resident experience at their core.   Our Living team was proud to deliver a fully integrated FF&E solution, from early concept through to final styling. Working closely with British Land, Native and Woods Bagot, we combined robust design, circular materials and operational insight to realise a cohesive, future‑ready living environment.   Read the full feature in BTR News to see how FF&E helped bring British Land’s vision to life → https://lnkd.in/ejiKCZp8   #AlmaLondon #BritishLand #BTR #BuildToRent #ModernRenting #TFPPeople #BTRNews #WoodsBagot #NativePlaces      

It's shaping up to be another fantastic summer at Kampus! With the return of KampusFest for the third year running, we saw over 3,000 attendees across the Glastonbury weekend. The Native team at Kampus collaborated with Nell’s, Rainy Heart, Untold Orchestra, Black Milk and Born to be Wild Child to bring a three-day festival to the neighbourhood, including a live stream of the headline sets from Glastonbury as well as an outdoor margarita bar, face paint, hair tinsel and a pop-up market. In August, we're looking forward to The Beeswing's Rose Festival and to our August Bank Holiday extravaganza raising money for local LGBTQIA+ charities. This is the kind of placemaking that Kampus has become known for and is made possible not only by our fantastic commercial tenants, but also the local independent businesses who join us for events and the support of the wider community. Photo Credit: Natalia Castillejo and Nell's Pizza

We're pleased to announce that Alan Benson has joined Native Communities as Director of Mixed Use. Alan brings extensive experience across mixed-use portfolios at Montagu Evans’ Property Management team and Savills, having worked on major retail assets including Victoria Leeds. With over 900,000 sq. ft of commercial real estate and public realm under Native's operation, we're excited to welcome Alan to our senior team as we continue to deliver a market-leading experience for our communities and clients.

A landmark launch for a landmark destination. Native’s mixed-use team delivered the official launch of Station Hill - and Reading showed up! On behalf of Lincoln Property Company and MGT Investment Management, Native deployed its full-service capability to activate Station Hill at scale, with over 7,500 attendees across the day. As the gateway to Reading, Station Hill demanded a community-first approach: over 30 local vendors and partners, 20 live performers, and curated programming with grassroots groups helped deliver a truly multi-generational event. From placemaking to programming, residential and events, facilities to marketing, congratulations to the team for launching an exceptional destination with momentum and meaning.

Mental Health Awareness Week 🧠🍏 The Corkfield team wore green today in solidarity with Mental health awareness week. It’s an ever expanding topic which affects all of us in one way or another, so it’s great to be able to highlight mental health and develop the support that we can provide to our teams and each other. In light in this, we also held an open session at site for our team to talk through any and all topics that they’re comfortable with which was incredibly useful and insightful. For us, this isn’t just a day or wearing green, it isn’t just a week of thoughtfulness, this has to be a constant in our day to day to support each other and further promote our own mental health development. So proud of this team 💚 James Bell Reah Gibson Wesley Williams Alexandra Enea Native Communities

📢 NEW COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Signal Box Yard – Bath’s largest BTR community - has achieved practical completion and will be operated by Native Communities. Key asset attributes: 🌃 316 studio, 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments with extensive amenity spaces 🛍️ 3 ground level commercial F&B units totalling 5,264 sq. ft 🚂 15 minute walk from Bath’s historic city-centre 🏗️ Owned by DWS Group and developed by Watkin Jones Group 💁 Steve Lemmon will lead the onsite team   Alec Newton, Director of Origination at Native, says: “We’re thrilled to see Signal Box Yard reach practical completion and proud to be operating this landmark development on behalf of DWS. As Bath’s largest Build to Rent community, it aligns closely with what we stand for at Native – thoughtful design, best-in-class placemaking, with a positive social impact. We look forward to welcoming residents and bringing this new neighbourhood to life.” Check out the asset's website here: https://signalboxyard.com/ #communitieswithsoul

Introducing... our new Manchester HQ! 🌟   One of our core values at Native is 'In It Together', fostering strong relationships and collaboration. As such, to accommodate the growing head office team based in Manchester and reflecting our move back to a predominantly office based working culture which allows those relationships to thrive, we’ve moved to a significantly larger, higher quality office in Central Manchester.   Our new space is triple the size of our previous office, housing our central operations, facilities, finance, IT, marketing and people teams, and was chosen to allow for more collaboration and a greater employee experience.    We look forward to welcoming our clients and partners in due course, but here's a sneak peek in the meantime...

Guy Nixon will be discussing how rental living is reshaping our cities at ALT/RESI today alongside industry leaders Danielle Bayless (Quintain Living ) and Johnny Caddick (Moda Living), chaired by Damien Sharkey (HUB Living). They'll be diving into: >> The rise of resi-led regeneration >> BTR as the catalyst in mixed-use schemes >> Why 99% of the public still doesn’t know what BTR stands for — and what we can do about it As an operator of large BTR-led communities, we’ve played our part in supporting the transformation of Reading’s Station Hill to the resurgence of central Manchester. We're firm believers that the right mix of rental, retail, office and public realm can breathe life into city centres. We're looking forward to seeing many of you there.