Tired of living in hotel rooms whilst on extended business trips, Guy Nixon launches Native to offer business travellers a serviced apartment accommodation alternative offering the best of hotels & long term rental apartments.

The largest private sector housing contract in the UK is awarded, worth £8m p/a, illustrating the scale of demand for serviced apartments.

Following the award of further corporate housing contracts by IBM, PWC, Goldman Sachs & JP Morgan.

Savills commissioned to write first ever report on the serviced apartment market & Deloittes Real Estate Corp Finance appointed to raise awareness of sector amongst Institutional Investors and Developers.

Native takes over the operation of 3 central London assets from Unite to operate as Serviced Apartments.

Native is appointed to launch 300 rental apartments, possibly the first BTR asset to launch in the UK since Dolphin Square in 1937.

The first licensed Aparthotel Assets are launched on behalf of Grosvenor & Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Native signs contract to operate the first ever BREAM EXCELLENT rated aparthotel in the UK.

Ares acquires a significant stake in Native to fund expansion of BTR and Aparthotel Platforms.

Native signs first management agreement on aparthotel in Scotland.

Native’s BTR platform begins period of exponential growth with No. 26 (Croydon), Dalston Works (London), Kampus (Manchester) and The Marches (Woking).

Native’s first full service aparthotel launched offering 20k sq. ft. of restaurant, bar, cinema, café, terrace, fitness and meeting rooms. It is the first ever aparthotel to receive the award.

Native Residential (BTR Platform) and Native Places (Aparthotels) created as independent platforms within the Native Group Holding Co and Olivia Immesi ex-Hoxton, Ace & Curtain GM, appointed as MD of Native Places.

Biggest ever year of growth for Native Residential supported by the launch of US BTR operating system, Realpage.