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.
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.
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
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.
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.
| Scheme | Units ↓ | Share of pipeline | Value ↕ | Storeys ↕ | Stage ↕ | Completes ↕ |
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Planning dataset as of 21 August 2026. Values are stated construction value, not GDV. Schemes without a published programme show a dash.
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.
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.
Bars show single-earner households. The vertical rule marks the conventional 30% affordability threshold; the paired figure is a dual-earner household.
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.
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.
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.
Everything above used six of them. Highlighted tools are the ones this page actually called.
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.