REalyse MCP  ·  21 tools  ·  UK residential  ·  Build to Rent

A week of BTR
analysis, in eleven
tool calls.

Connect any LLM to REalyse and it can interrogate HM Land Registry, the planning pipeline, live listings, EPCs and demographics directly — in the same conversation, with no dashboard in between.

Every figure below is live server output Manchester · Birmingham · Leeds Nothing illustrative
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Tool calls run in sequence. Values shown are what the server returned.

The consensus is a year out of date

Manchester BTR asking rents have compounded for five years. Birmingham’s have rolled over in the last twelve months. You cannot see that in a quarterly agency report.

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Manchester BTR rent£1,47612-month rolling average asking rent, July 2026
Growth since Jan 2021+39.7%From £1,056 · 67 months of monthly readings
Gross yield, flats6.82%Up from 6.42% eleven months ago
Listings behind July1,224Sampled units in the yield calculation alone

Manchester BTR asking rent

12-month rolling mean, £ per calendar month
Hover the line to read any month
BTR asking rentMonthly sample size

Yield is widening

Gross rental yield on Manchester flats, rolling 12 months. Rents are outrunning capital values — the underwriting case for BTR entry.

Sep 2025 → Jul 2026 · sample 1,224–3,027 listings per month

Twelve months, three cities

Indexed to August 2025 = 100
Manchester +2.8% Birmingham −3.9% Leeds +1.4%
What this changes

Birmingham looks cheap on a screen. It isn’t — it’s falling.

Birmingham’s rolling BTR rent peaked at £1,530 in November 2025 and has fallen every month since, to £1,445. Manchester ran the other way, from £1,435 to £1,476.

A £150m mandate underwritten on a Birmingham rent taken from a 2025 report is underwritten on a number that no longer exists. The model catches that in one call, because it reads the series, not the summary.

Every competing scheme, by name

Fourteen build-to-rent schemes in Manchester, 10,116 units, £2.1bn of construction value — with stage, storeys, site area and programme dates. Sort it however your committee thinks.

search_planning_applications
Units in pipeline10,116Across 14 BTR-flagged schemes, 2023–2026
Construction value£2.13bnSum of stated scheme values
Detailed plans granted53,289 units past the decisive gate
Peak delivery2027–2913 of the 14 schemes complete in this window
Scheme Units Share of pipeline Value Storeys Stage Completes

Planning dataset as of 21 August 2026. Values are stated construction value, not GDV. Schemes without a published programme show a dash.

Who is going to live there

Tenure mix, resident income by age band, and rent-to-income at every unit size — the demand test that decides whether your rent roll holds through a soft patch.

get_demographics_summary
Household tenure · Manchester · 2021 census

Nearly a third of Manchester households already rent privately — 71,110 households. That is the addressable base a BTR scheme is competing for, before a single new resident moves to the city.

Rent-to-income · July 2026

Bars show single-earner households. The vertical rule marks the conventional 30% affordability threshold; the paired figure is a dual-earner household.

Resident income · age 25–34
£2,482Median gross monthly income

Upper quartile £3,121 · lower quartile £2,014. The 25–34 band is the BTR core renter, and its median income has risen 9.3% since August 2023.

Population 2022569,002Up 21.3% from 469,053 in 2012
Private rented share31.4%Against 38.6% owner-occupied
2-bed, single earner59.2%Of gross income — dual earner 29.6%
1-bed, dual earner22.7%Comfortably inside the 30% threshold

All the way down to one flat

The same conversation that sized a national mandate can land on a single unit — its floor area, EPC, agent, and every rent it has been marketed at since 2018.

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Comparable · Manchester M1

Montmano Drive

One of 390 two-bedroom units asking £1,400+ in Manchester between May and August 2026. The MCP returns all of them; here is one.

Asking rent
£1,500 pcm · £347 pw
Type
2 bed / 2 bath flat
Floor area
667 sq ft
£ / sq ft / yr
£26.99
EPC
B · lodged 27 Jun 2018
Days on market
25
Agent
Philip James Manchester
Rent events
40, from May 2018
Every marketed rent, 2018 → 2026
£900 in May 2018 → £1,500 in August 2026. Hover any point.

Twenty-one tools, one connection

Everything above used six of them. Highlighted tools are the ones this page actually called.

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The pitch, plainly

Analysts don’t lack data. They lack the eleven hours it takes to assemble it.

This page was built from a single conversation with the REalyse MCP server. No exports, no dashboard clicks, no analyst chasing a planning portal. Ask the question in the language your committee uses, and the model does the assembly.

Datasets7Land Registry, planning, listings, EPC, POI, demographics, policy rates
Finest resolution1 titleDown to a single UPRN or HMLR title number
CoverageUKPostcode, ward, borough, ITL3, or a polygon you draw
IntegrationMCPWorks with any MCP-capable assistant, no rebuild
Sources: HM Land Registry · Barbour ABI planning · listings feed · EPC register · ONS. Dataset currency shown in the header ticker. Asking rents, not achieved rents. Rolling averages stated as such.