We are honoured to have won the Real Estate Manager of the Year award at this year's Insurance Investor Awards. It is a reflection of the team's commitment to creating a clearer and more supportive path to homeownership. At Kettel, we have seen how closely our work aligns with the social impact priorities of many insurance organisations. There is a growing interest in approaches that support families and strengthen communities. We look forward to building on this in the year ahead and exploring opportunities to collaborate with partners who share our focus on positive social outcomes in housing.
Kettel Homes
Real Estate
The UK's first open market rent-to-own programme that helps first-time buyers achieve their goal of homeownership
About us
Kettel Homes is the UK's first open market rent-to-own programme that helps first-time buyers achieve their goal of homeownership. Learn more at www.kettelhomes.com. The growth in house prices, the tightening of lending criteria and the stagnation of wages have led to young people across the UK being left behind when it comes to homeownership. The average age of a first-time buyer outside of London has gone up by almost 3 years since 2006, contributing to a 25% decline in homeownership for this age group. We're backed by supportive and socially minded investors at the Fair by Design Fund (Ascension), Nationwide Building Society (NBS Ventures) and Entrepreneur First. Follow us on Twitter at @we_are_kettel
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http://www.kettelhomes.com
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- Industry
- Real Estate
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
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London, GB
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Our partnership with Cornovii Homes in Shropshire is a clear example of how local investment can directly support local people. By creating a new path to homeownership through our rent to own programme, we’re helping residents build stability while backing those who make the community run every day. The impact is already visible. 50% of the households that have joined the programme include someone working in the local NHS, demonstrating how targeted investment can strengthen the foundations of the community itself. Thank you to Dr. Julia Buckley, the MP for Shrewsbury, for your commitment to supporting new local housing initiatives in Shropshire and across the country.
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We’re honoured to be nominated for two awards at the Property Week Tech Innovation Awards for our recent partnership with Cornovii Homes. Through this collaboration, we’ve been able to support families in the squeezed middle to take their first steps onto the homeownership ladder in Shropshire. This recognition is encouraging, but for us it’s just the start. The housing market needs new approaches, and we’re committed to working with partners across the ecosystem to create more pathways to homeownership for families right across the UK. #PropertyWeek #TechInnovationAwards #HousingCrisis #Homeownership #PropTech #RealEstate #Innovation #Housebuilding #Partnerships #UKHousing
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We are proud to share that our CEO and Co-Founder, Trevor Stunden, has been nominated for Proptech Leader of the Year at Property Week’s Tech Innovation Awards. The UK housing market has all but ground to a standstill. Solving this will take more than policy change; it requires action from across the entire ecosystem. At Kettel, we are committed to playing our part by unlocking new routes to homeownership and working hand in hand with institutional capital and housebuilder partners. This nomination is recognition of the work our whole team is doing to move the needle, but there is much more to come. #Proptech #HousingMarket #Innovation #Homeownership #KettelHomes
Honoured to be nominated for Proptech Leader of the Year by Property Week as part of their Tech Innovation Awards. At Kettel Homes, our mission is to help unlock the UK housing market by giving people with aspirations to buy their first home a clear and achievable path to ownership. This work would not be possible without the support of our institutional capital partners, our housebuilder partners, and, above all, the incredible team at Kettel. The opportunity to help hundreds of thousands of families across the UK is immense — and it is this opportunity that inspires and drives me every day. We have only just begun.
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We’re proud to share that Kettel’s Investment Management business has been nominated for Real Estate Manager of the Year at the 2025 Insurance Investor Awards. It’s an honour to be recognised alongside some of the most respected names in the industry. Looking forward to the awards evening in September and celebrating with peers across the sector. #Kettel #InvestmentManagement #RealEstate #InsuranceInvestorAwards #PropertyInvestment #Housing
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We’re excited to announce our newest partnership between Kettel Homes and Cornovii Homes, to deliver Kettel’s rent to own programme at the Charles View development. Charles View is a beautifully designed development with all-electric, energy efficient homes, attractively located in the popular town of Shrewsbury. Focused on supporting first-time buyers in the squeezed middle, the programme will enable local households who have yet to save their deposit to live in the home they want to own while they build up their savings with confidence. With first homes ready from August 2025, this marks the beginning of a scalable delivery model that supports regional growth ambitions while addressing deposit savings challenges in a commercially sustainable way. Big thank you to Harpreet Rayet, Debbie Hancox and the rest of the Cornovii Homes team. Also, a special thanks to Dr. Julia Buckley, the MP from Shrewsbury, who campaigns tirelessly to support housing delivery across all tenures in her community. 🔗 Read about the launch here in the Shropshire Star: https://lnkd.in/eiiPdE6m #HousingInnovation #RentToOwn #InstitutionalCapital #Partnership #CommunityDevelopment #KettelHomes #CornoviiHomes #ImpactInvestment #Proptech #UKHousing #Homeownership #Shropshire
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In a new Q&A with PropertyWire, Trevor Stunden and Lars Kreutzmann, Partners at Kettel Homes, discuss how the Rent to Own model provides a real pathway to homeownership, while creating new opportunities for investors and developers. 🏡 Trevor and Lars discuss the practical, scalable solutions that Rent to Own provides and how this benefits investors, developers, and aspiring homeowners alike: 🔹 For investors: A faster, derisked path to scale in single-family residential portfolios 🔹 For developers: A new buyer segment that drives demand and accelerates sales 🔹 For aspiring homeowners: A structured, realistic pathway to ownership, without the barriers presented by other schemes 📖 Read the full Q&A here: https://lnkd.in/eEnqU7_9 #RentToOwn #Homeownership #PropertyInvestment #singlefamilyrental
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The UK single family housing (SFH) residential real estate market is attracting growing investor interest, but when it comes to accessing the UK SFH residential sector at scale, current investment strategies often fall short… Our partner Lars Kreutzmann shares his views on the innovative solutions needed with Funds Europe. Read the article and discover more about where the rent-to-own model is emerging as a highly scalable investment strategy that can also help drive positive impact through socially responsible investment – by improving the overall quality and energy efficiency of residential stock, contributing to solving the housing crisis and, last but not least, helping people into home ownership. https://lnkd.in/e8HUDQBX #SingleFamilyHousing #RealEstateInvestment #RentToOwn
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Keeping the homeownership dream alive is not only the right thing to do but is also a win-win for a thriving economy and society.” Our Partner Lars Kreutzmann shares with Property Week his views on private real estate investment opportunities in the single family housing sector and how homeownership can fit in. Read the full article here➡ https://lnkd.in/eAY6KD9r #RentToOwn #SingleFamilyHousing #ImpactInvestment
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We’re back in the press sharing with BTR News how the rent to own model can significantly increase the size of the single family housing (SFH) market. Read how rent to own is helping to drive the ‘additionality’ of much needed energy efficient new build homes across the UK, and feed into the quality of investment profiles to secure strong, risk-adjusted returns. ➡ https://lnkd.in/ehNybAH4 #RentToOwn #SingleFamilyHousing #RealEstateInvestment #MHCLG