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By Paul Norman - Friday, August 18, 2017 9:04 Global rental housing company Greystar has announced the appointment of Mark Allnutt to head operations in the UK, replacing Jeff Manno who is returning to the US to lead Portfolio Management for the new Greystar Growth and Income Fund. As UK business lead , Mark Allnutt will oversee 200 plus London-based staff and a property portfolio which includes student housing and multifamily rental accommodation across the country. Allnutt has been tasked with increasing Greystar’s UK multifamily portfolio to 10,000 units within four years and growing its student housing portfolio to position the company as one of the country’s largest owners and operators of rental housing . He joined Greystar in 2014 to launch the company’s multifamily business in London. Subsequently Greystar’s development pipeline has grown to over 2,750 units with a value of £1.5bn and the company has been involved in several of the largest propert...

Amelia Ridge, located in Cary, N.C. Texas & North Carolina —Elco Landmark Apartment Trust Holdings (doing business as Elco Landmark Residential ) has announced a series of transactions. Combined, the firm has added six properties (four in Texas, two in North Carolina ) to its portfolio. On Wednesday the company announced that it had partnered with DeBartolo Development and LEM Capital to acquire four garden- style assets located in San Antonio and Austin for approximately $44 million. Collectively, the Texas portfolio consists of 771 units that are 95 percent occupied. Elco plans to implement a renovation and repositioning program on the assets. “The acquisition of these assets is another example of our unique ability to source attractive investment opportunities in high- growth metropolitan markets located across the South,” says Joseph Lubeck, CEO of Landmark Residential . “We look forward to leveraging our redevelopment and repositioning expertise to improve the quality of e...